Recipe: Yummy Baci di Dama - Italian Dessert

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Baci di Dama cookies are a traditional dessert from the Piedmont region of Italy. Homemade Baci di Dama hazelnut cookies. [cc] Ciccio Pizzettaro, via Flickr. Baci di Dama or Lady's Kisses are Italian buttery hazelnut cookies filled with a dollop of dark chocolate. You can cook Baci di Dama - Italian Dessert using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Baci di Dama - Italian Dessert

1. Prepare 100 g of flour.
2. It's 100 g of almond flour.
3. You need 100 g of softened butter (not melted).
4. It's 100 g of sugar.
5. You need 150 g of dark chocolate.
6. It's of salt.
7. You need of vanilla extract.

Baci di Dama or Lady Kisses are authentic Italian treats prepared with almonds or hazelnuts shaped as lips united by chocolate. These beautiful little hazelnut biscuits are famous all over Italy, often packaged in beautiful tins and boxes for giving as gifts around Christmas. The Kitchen with Great Italian Chefs is where you'll find all the recipes from our very own team of Italian specialists. My mother-in-law has come to the age where she can't do as much as she used to.

Baci di Dama - Italian Dessert step by step

1. In a bowl mix butter and sugar until you have a soft cream.
2. Add flour, almond flour, vanilla extract and a pinch of salt and knead. **if the dough is too dry you can use a little bit of egg yolk to keep it together**.
3. Shape many spheres without adding any flour..
4. The cookies have to be flat on one side, so just put your finger over them and press a little bit..
5. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes at 160°C.
6. Let the cookies cool. Then place half of them upside-down.
7. Melt chocolate and put 1/2 teaspoon of it on each cookie. Let it cool for a couple of minutes and 'seal' the cookie with its upper part..
8. Wait for the chocolate to cool completely and turn solid before moving the cookies.
9. Buon appetito!.

So my sister-in-law has taken over the vegetable garden. Just a little update, I did make a traditional Baci di Dama which I included in my book "Authentic Italian Desserts". Maybe I will try that next time. This is a list of Italian desserts and pastries. Gelato al cocco con salsa mou.