Biscuits

Biscuits, simple and tasty recipes

Region you go, cookies you find. The great variety that characterizes Italian cuisine is also evident in this large chapter of Made in Italy. The renowned cantucci Tuscans are just one example - very eloquent - of the goodness resulting from recipes of delicious biscuits e simple. Made of a few ingredients - flour, sugar, butter or oil, milk, eggs - which in all regional specialties are enriched with the aromas and flavors of the typical products of each territory.

In the countless recipes of Italian biscuits, an almost always present ingredient is dried fruit, although used in different ways in the different climatic zones that characterize Italy. Raisins, pine nuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, pistachios, almonds, as for the famous Cantucci and many other desserts traditionally present on the table on holidays, but now indispensable companions during breaks in the cafeteria.

Particular biscuit recipes flourish at every latitude of the Peninsula. Extremely simple, in the style of the delicate Lagaccio biscuit, the rusks are easy to store in the galley of Genoese boats. Or rich and well stuffed, in the manner of Baci di dama.