Ricotta cookies recipe
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The soft, delicate taste of Italian Ricotta Cookies are made with cheese, butter, and vanilla extract. You'll love how thick and flavorful they turn out.
This is the best recipe for Italian Ricotta Cookies. These cookies are light and cakey in texture, super soft, not too sweet and packed with fresh ricotta cheese. You'll love this version of the traditional Italian cookie for everyday baking and holidays!
12 ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs
Baking & Spices
- • 3 3/4 cup All purpose flour
- • 2 tsp Baking powder
- • 2 cup Granulated sugar
- • 1 Non-peril sprinkles
- • 3 cup Powdered sugar
- • 1 tsp Salt
Dairy
- • 1 cup Butter, unsalted
- • 6 tbsp Milk
- • 15 oz Whole milk ricotta cheese
Liquids
- • 1 Bowl of water, small
Other
- • 1 tsp Extract if desired (anise, vanilla, almond and lemon are good choices!)
Teresa Gorka saved to Italian recipes dessert
lemon ricotta cookie with lemon glaze on a white plate with a crumbs from one cookie eaten
Heidi Hughes saved to dessert
1447 · 20 minutes · These Italian Ricotta Cookies are super soft and absolutely delicious. Topped with an almond glaze and sprinkles! They are sure to become a family favorite!
1447 · 20 minutes · These Italian Ricotta Cookies are super soft and absolutely delicious. Topped with an almond glaze and sprinkles! They are sure to become a family favorite!
11 ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs
Baking & Spices
- • 4 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 tsp Almond extract
- • 1 tsp Baking powder
- • 1 tsp Baking soda
- • 1 3/4 cup Granulated sugar
- • 1 1/2 cups Powdered sugar
- • 2 tbsp Vanilla extract
Dairy
- • 2 stick Butter
- • 4 tbsp Milk
- • 1 container Ricotta cheese
heather fusco saved to Cookies
30 · 37 minutes · Italian Ricotta Cookies are a fluffy treat that begs to be eaten! Top them with your favorite seasonal sprinkles for an irresistible cookie perfect for the holidays!
11 ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs
Baking & Spices
- • 4 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- • 1 Nonpareil sprinkles
- • 2 cups Powdered sugar
- • 1/2 tsp Salt
- • 1 3/4 cups Sugar
- • 1 1/3 tbsp Vanilla
Dairy
- • 1 1/16 cup Butter, unsalted
- • 4 tbsp Milk
- • 15 oz Ricotta cheese

Holly Tucker Good saved to Cookies
1 · 20 minutes · This soft vanilla ricotta cookie is a holiday classic. Make these if you want a soft cake-like cookie with a simple, sweet glaze.
13 ingredients
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs, large
Baking & Spices
- • 1 tsp Baking powder
- • 1 tsp Baking soda
- • 4 cups Flour
- • 1 3/4 cups Granulated sugar
- • 4 cups Powdered sugar
- • 1/2 tsp Salt
- • 1 2/3 tbsp Vanilla
Dairy
- • 1 cup Butter
- • 2 tbsp Butter, salted or unsalted
- • 15 oz Ricotta cheese
- • 1/4 cup Whole milk
Other
- • 3 Tablespoons sprinkles (optional)

KatrinasKitchen saved to #BringtheCOOKIES
Italian ricotta cookies taste like sweet little cakes! They are soft and moist from the ricotta cheese but do not taste like cheese at all!
Patricia Pollock saved to Cookies
Cannoli Cookies, easy Italian Christmas Cookies with chocolate chips, orange, cinnamon pistachios, and ricotta! Good year-round! So popular!

Lu Scala saved to Italian christmas cookies
RICOTTA COOKIES RECIPE- Quick and easy Italian ricotta cheese cookies, homemade with simple ingredients. Great for Christmas cookie exchange, dessert or snack! They are soft and moist on the inside but crispy on the outside! Loaded with chocolate chips. Can also just top with sugar icing/ glaze or mix in lemon zest, orange zest or pistachios, almond. From CakeWhiz.com
Ludovica Wiwi saved to Cookies!!!
Giada De Laurentiis' famous lemon ricotta cookies are so well-known for a reason - soft, fluffy cookies with a deliciously tart glaze!
10 ingredients
Produce
- • 2 Lemon, Zest of
Refrigerated
- • 2 Eggs
Condiments
- • 6 tbsp Lemon juice, freshly squeezed
Baking & Spices
- • 2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- • 1 tsp Baking powder
- • 1 1/2 cups Confectioners' sugar
- • 2 cups Granulated sugar
- • 1 tsp Salt
Dairy
- • 1/2 cup 1 stick unsalted butter, unsalted
- • 1 15-ounce container Whole-milk ricotta cheese

shari walsh saved to Cookies