Best 7 Neapolitan Cookies Recipes

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Neapolitan cookies, also known as Italian wedding cookies, are a classic Italian cookie that is often served at weddings, holidays, and other special occasions. These delightful cookies are made with simple ingredients like flour, sugar, butter, eggs, and vanilla extract, and they are typically flavored with lemon zest or almond extract. Neapolitan cookies are known for their delicate, crumbly texture and their sweet, buttery flavor. They are often coated in powdered sugar, which gives them a snowy appearance.

This article features three different recipes for Neapolitan cookies:

* The first recipe is for a traditional Neapolitan cookie made with lemon zest.
* The second recipe is for a chocolate Neapolitan cookie made with cocoa powder.
* The third recipe is for a pistachio Neapolitan cookie made with ground pistachios.

All three recipes are easy to follow and can be made with ingredients that are readily available at most grocery stores. With their classic Italian flavors and elegant appearance, these cookies are sure to be a hit with your family and friends.

Check out the recipes below so you can choose the best recipe for yourself!

NEAPOLITAN COOKIES



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My sister shared the recipe for these tricolor treats several years ago. The crisp cookies are fun to eat one section at a time or with all three in one bite. -Jan Mallo, White Pigeon, Michigan

Provided by Taste of Home

Categories     Desserts

Time 30m

Yield about 11 dozen.

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 cup butter, softened
1-1/2 cups sugar
1 large egg, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
6 drops red food coloring
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1 ounce unsweetened chocolate, melted

Steps:

  • Line a 9x5-in. loaf pan with waxed paper, letting ends extend up sides. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, 5-7 minutes. Beat in egg and vanilla. In another bowl, whisk flour, baking powder and salt; gradually beat into creamed mixture. , Divide dough into 3 portions. Mix almond extract and food coloring into 1 portion; spread evenly into prepared pan. Mix walnuts into another portion; spread evenly over first layer. Mix melted chocolate into remaining portion; spread over top. Refrigerate, covered, overnight. , Preheat oven to 350°. Lifting with waxed paper, remove dough from pan. Cut lengthwise in half; cut each half crosswise into 1/8-in. slices., Place 1 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake until edges are firm, 10-12 minutes. Remove from pans to wire racks to cool.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 35 calories, Fat 2g fat (1g saturated fat), Cholesterol 5mg cholesterol, Sodium 25mg sodium, Carbohydrate 4g carbohydrate (2g sugars, Fiber 0 fiber), Protein 0 protein.

NEAPOLITAN COOKIES I



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This cute refrigerator cookie resembles the popular ice cream flavor. There are chocolate, pink and white stripes.

Provided by missy

Categories     Desserts     Cookies     Refrigerator Cookie Recipes

Time 5h30m

Yield 72

Number Of Ingredients 11

1 cup butter, softened
1 ½ cups white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 ½ cups all-purpose flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon almond extract
5 drops red food coloring
1 (1 ounce) square unsweetened chocolate, melted
½ cup chopped walnuts

Steps:

  • In a medium bowl, cream together the butter and sugar. Stir in the eggs and vanilla. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture. Divide dough equally into three small bowls. Add almond extract and red food coloring to one portion; stir until thoroughly mixed. Mix chocolate into second bowl, and walnuts into the third bowl.
  • Line a 9x5 inch loaf pan with waxed paper, and spread almond dough evenly in the bottom of the pan. Spread the walnut dough evenly over the almond layer, and top with chocolate dough layer. Cover layered dough with waxed paper, and place in the refrigerator until firm, about 4 hours.
  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Turn out chilled dough by inverting pan; peel off waxed paper. With sharp knife, cut dough lengthwise in half. Slice each half of dough crosswise into 1/4 inch slices. Place slices on cookie sheet one inch apart.
  • Bake 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, until light brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 63.1 calories, Carbohydrate 7.7 g, Cholesterol 9.4 mg, Fat 3.4 g, Fiber 0.2 g, Protein 0.7 g, SaturatedFat 1.8 g, Sodium 45.6 mg, Sugar 4.2 g

NEAPOLITAN COOKIES



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Walnuts add crunch while dried cranberries offer a tart bite and a chewy texture to these layered cookies.

Provided by Martha Stewart

Categories     Food & Cooking     Dessert & Treats Recipes     Cookie Recipes

Yield Makes about 8 dozen

Number Of Ingredients 4

1 cup dried cranberries, roughly chopped
1 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped
Orange Sable Dough, room temperature
Chocolate Espresso Dough, room temperature

Steps:

  • Line an 8-inch-square baking pan with plastic. In a large bowl, stir cranberries into orange-sable dough. In another large bowl, stir walnuts into chocolate-espresso dough.
  • Press orange mixture into bottom of pan. Using an offset spatula, smooth top evenly. Spread chocolate mixture over orange mixture and smooth evenly. Cover pan with plastic; chill at least 2 hours.
  • Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line two baking sheets with parchment paper. Unmold dough; remove plastic. Cut into 2-by-8-inch bricks; cut bricks into 1/4-inch-thick slices. Place slices on sheets, spaced 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake until firm to the touch, 12 to 15 minutes. Transfer cookies to a wire rack to cool. Bake or freeze remaining dough. Store in an airtight container up to 2 weeks.

NEAPOLITAN COOKIES



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Colorful and very tasty Italian-style cookies, wonderful all year round but especially nice during the holidays! :) Prep time includes chilling for the dough.

Provided by Julesong

Categories     Dessert

Time 4h10m

Yield 60 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 11

2 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup butter, softened
1 large egg
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon almonds or 1/2 teaspoon hazelnut extract
red food coloring
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or 1/2 cup pistachios
1/4 cup good cocoa powder

Steps:

  • Line the bottom of a loaf pan with waxed paper.
  • With an electric mixer combine flour, sugar, butter, egg, baking powder, vanilla, and salt; beat for 3 minutes.
  • Divide the cookie dough into 3 equal parts.
  • Part 1: mix in the almond or hazelnut extract and 5 drops red food coloring (this is the pink/red dough).
  • Part 2: mix in the chopped walnuts or pistachios (this is the white dough).
  • Part 3: mix in the cocoa (this is the brown dough).
  • Preheat the oven to 350°.
  • In the loaf pan, spread each part of the dough one on top of the other, pink, white, and chocolate; cover the pan and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
  • After chilling, turn out the dough from the pan and cut loaf lengthwise in half, then crosswise, then cut pieces of dough to make about 15 cookies from each piece.
  • Bake each batch for 8-10 minutes.
  • Makes about 60 cookies.

REAL NEAPOLITAN COOKIES



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These are the kind of cookies you'd spend a fortune on in an Italian bakery. They are made with almond filling, not almond extract. Very rich, cake-like cookie with chocolate topping. This recipe came from my mom. Store in the refrigerator.

Provided by nella marley

Categories     World Cuisine Recipes     European     Italian

Time 9h11m

Yield 96

Number Of Ingredients 11

8 ounces canned almond filling
5 eggs, separated
1 cup margarine
1 cup white sugar
2 ¼ cups sifted all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon baking powder
3 drops green food coloring, or to taste
3 drops red food coloring, or to taste
¼ cup apricot preserves
¼ cup seedless raspberry jam
6 (1 ounce) squares semisweet chocolate

Steps:

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease three 13x9x2-inch pans; line with waxed paper and grease waxed paper.
  • Mix almond filling, egg yolks, margarine, and sugar together in a bowl using an electric mixer until light and fluffy.
  • Combine flour and baking powder in a bowl. Stir into almond mixture.
  • Beat egg whites together in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until soft peaks form. Fold into almond batter.
  • Divide batter equally among 3 bowls. Add green food coloring to 1 bowl; add red food coloring to another. Leave the third bowl uncolored. Pour the contents of each bowl into the prepared pans.
  • Bake in the preheated oven until edges are golden brown, 10 to 12 minutes. Invert onto wire racks, remove waxed paper, and turn right-side-up on a baking sheet.
  • Spread apricot jam onto the surface of the green cake; top with the plain cake. Spread raspberry jam onto the plain cake; top with the red cake. Cover with plastic wrap; set a heavy cutting board or flat pan on top. Refrigerate 8 hours to overnight.
  • Place chocolate in a microwave-safe bowl; heat in the microwave until melted, 1 to 2 minutes. Spread melted chocolate onto the surface of the cake. Allow to set, about 15 minutes.
  • Cut off all 4 sides of the cake to make the edges clean and even. Cut the cake into 1-inch strips; cut strips into bite-size pieces.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 63 calories, Carbohydrate 7.6 g, Cholesterol 9.7 mg, Fat 3.4 g, Fiber 0.3 g, Protein 1 g, SaturatedFat 0.8 g, Sodium 28.7 mg, Sugar 4.8 g

NEAPOLITAN COOKIES



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I have made these cookies every Christmas since 1977, which qualifies them as a Family Tradition. They require two separate doughs, but it's well worth the effort. The yield is very large -- 70 cookies -- I usually bake half and leave the other half in the freezer until Christmas Eve. They also taste best if they've been left to age a day or two. This recipe requires one large loaf pan, two small loaf pans, or a square (8x8) cake pan with straight sides. I prefer the square pan. Whatever you use, you need to line the pans with aluminum foil or waxpaper so that you can lift the dough out after it freezes.

Provided by greenery

Categories     Dessert

Time 1h10m

Yield 70 cookies

Number Of Ingredients 23

3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon powdered clove
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup chocolate chips
1/2 lb unsalted butter
2 teaspoons instant coffee
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, firmly packed (dark or light)
2 eggs
1 cup pignolis
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 lb butter
1 -2 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup granulated sugar
2 tablespoons water
1 egg
3/4 cup golden raisin
1 lemon (the rind only, finely grated)
24 candied red cherries, cut into quarters
1/2 cup pistachios, shelled

Steps:

  • This dough chills overnight. On the day you're ready to bake, preheat oven to 400.
  • For the dark dough: sift together flour, salt, baking soda, cloves, and cinnamon and set aside.
  • Grind or cut chocolate until it is fine (otherwise it will be hard to slice the dough). Set aside.
  • In the large bowl of an electric mixer, cream the butter, add the coffee and brown sugar and beat well.
  • Add the eggs and beat to mix. Beat in the ground chocolate.
  • On low speed gradually add the sifted dry ingredients, scraping the bowl regularly. Don't overblend! Then stir in the nuts. Set the dough aside (not in the fridge) and make the light dough.
  • Light dough: Sift together flour, salt, baking soda. Set aside.
  • In a large clean bowl of the electric mixer with clean beaters, cream the butter. Add the vanilla, the sugar, water and beat well. Add the egg, beat to mix. On low speed gradually add the shifted dry ingredients. Don't overmix.
  • Mix in the currents, lemon rind and cherries.
  • Layer dough in the pans: one half the dark dough (carefully pack down and smooth), all the light dough (do the same), then the rest of the dark dough. Press down to make a compact loaf.
  • Chill overnight (or for about twelve hours) in the freezer.
  • To bake: preheat to 400. You'll need unbuttered cookie sheets, lined with foil if possible.
  • Turn the pan over so that the cake of dough slides out, and peel off the foil or waxpaper. With a long and heavy knife, cut the cake in half the long way (if you used loaf pans); if you used a square 8x8 pan, cut it in three equal strips. Work with one piece at a time (wrap and freeze the others). Now slice the long piece you've got into individual cookies, about 1/3 of an inch thick. Place them 1 1/2 inches apart on the cookie sheets -- they will spread!
  • Bake 10 minutes, watching carefully. The white dough should be lightly browned, but the dark dough will burn if you're not careful. If they come out of the oven seeming slightly underdone, that's good. They'll be chewy instead of brittle.

NEAPOLITAN COOKIES II



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Refrigerator roll and slice cookie, a variation of the Spumoni Cookie (without pistachio and green food color). Almonds can be used in place of the walnuts.

Provided by Skeeter

Categories     Desserts     Cookies     Refrigerator Cookie Recipes

Yield 36

Number Of Ingredients 9

1 cup butter, softened
½ cup white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 egg
2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup chopped walnuts, toasted
1 (1 ounce) square unsweetened chocolate, melted
2 tablespoons maraschino cherries, chopped

Steps:

  • Mix together butter or margarine, sugar, vanilla and egg.
  • Stir in flour and salt. Divide dough into 3 equal parts.
  • Mix nuts into one part. Mix melted and cooled chocolate into the second part. Mix cherries into remaining part.
  • Line bottom and ends of loaf pan (9 x 5 x 3 inches) with aluminum foil; allow ends of foil to extend 5 inches over end of pan.
  • Press nut dough evenly in bottom of pan. Press chocolate dough on top of nut dough. Press cherry dough on top of chocolate dough. Cover dough with the extended ends of foil.
  • Refrigerate at least 2 hours but no longer than 6 weeks.
  • Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
  • Remove foil and dough from pan and remove foil from dough. Cut dough crosswise into 1/4 inch slices and cut each slice across the dough layers into half so that each half contains three layers. Place 1 inch apart on ungreased cookie sheet.
  • Bake until set (about 10 minutes). Immediately remove from cookie sheet.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 97 calories, Carbohydrate 9.4 g, Cholesterol 18.7 mg, Fat 6.3 g, Fiber 0.4 g, Protein 1.3 g, SaturatedFat 3.6 g, Sodium 70.9 mg, Sugar 2.9 g

Tips:

  • Make sure to use high-quality ingredients, especially the butter and flour. This will make a big difference in the final product.
  • Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. This will help to incorporate air into the dough, making the cookies light and airy.
  • Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. This will help to prevent the dough from curdling.
  • Stir in the flour and salt until just combined. Do not overmix, as this will make the cookies tough.
  • Divide the dough in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 30 minutes, or up to overnight.
  • When you are ready to bake the cookies, preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  • Roll out the dough to 1/4-inch thickness. Use cookie cutters to cut out shapes. Place the cookies on the prepared baking sheet.
  • Bake the cookies for 10-12 minutes, or until the edges are just beginning to brown. Let the cookies cool on the baking sheet for a few minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely.

Conclusion:

Neapolitan cookies are a classic Italian cookie that are perfect for any occasion. They are easy to make and can be customized with your favorite flavors. Whether you like them plain or decorated, these cookies are sure to be a hit with everyone who tries them. So next time you are looking for a delicious and easy-to-make cookie, give Neapolitan cookies a try.

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