"This is a tasty filled cookie in a cake-like pastry. The filling is mostly figs, with some nuts and raisins, chocolate and ...

It isn’t an Italian-American celebration without a pile of Italian wedding cookies. It’s called an Italian wedding cookie because you’ll see a pile of them on the cookie table at weddings (yes, an ...

Like many of us, Rossella Rago has taken cooking lessons from her grandmother. Her grandmother is such a wealth of culinary knowledge that Rago hosts a show with her called "Cooking With Nonna" on ...

The stereotype of the Italian nonna, or grandmother, attempting to feed you until you burst holds true — especially at the holidays. No sooner had any family member walked through her door than my own ...

Cookie season is here, and we’re practicing our best bakes in hopes of impressing at all the holiday cookie parties to come. The cookie can be humble, like the simple sugar cookies plus mix-ins that ...

I have a secret. Every year, I bake Christmas cookies for my loved ones and receive rave reviews, but 90 perecent of the time, I use fail-safe boxed mixes. Like Remy hiding under Linguini’s chef hat ...

Christmas means cookies, right? My family makes gingerbread cookies — sometimes in the shape of a pitched roof and walls that we attempt to glue together with frosting for a complete (if wonky) house, ...

There’'s something so cheerful about a platter full of little Christmas tree cookies! This dough holds its shape wonderfully, so all those zigzags and ornaments stay crisp once the icing goes on. They ...

Italy's famous Christmas bread is a true labor of love. Chef John's version is studded with rum-soaked dried fruit. "It takes three days to make this panettone, which I thought was otherwise a pretty ...