Name that cookie

[LaMiaCucina]

What type of cookie do you think this is? The Villabate bakery says they are "vanilla" cookies, but it seems to me more like a "cherry rosette" type dough.

[Badiane]

Looks like a vanilla spritz cookie with a cherry on it.

Either way...I could eat a dozen of them

[baroness]

I don't think they are Spritz. The bottom portion appears to have been rolled in granulated sugar, and the part over the cherry looks piped, not cookie-pressed. Tempting in any case!

[fooey]

I'm guessing they're just thumbprint sugar cookies with a cherry, the piped dough is the same dough used to make the cookie.

I hereby name them cherrythumbs!

Creative, huh?

OK, perhaps not.

Edited September 15, 2009 by fooey (log)

[annecros]

I want some!

My aunt used a pastry bag and piped her spritz.

My imagination is probably running wild, but I am fantasizing that it is vanilla sugar those puppies are rolled in. What is the texture like? Tender? Butter cookie or sugar cookie?

[LaMiaCucina]

I've never tasted them since I'm allergic to the maraschino cherries. I'd like to try to make something similar, though. I asked about them and was told they are a vanilla cookie. If they are a spritz, they'd have to be pretty sturdy to be able to be rolled in sugar.

[pastrygirl]

If they are a spritz, they'd have to be pretty sturdy to be able to be rolled in sugar.

From the sugar all over the parchment, it looks like the sugar was just sprinkled on. Would especially make sense if they had been piped in place.

[schneich]

to me the cherries look more like griottines ?!

t.

Edited September 16, 2009 by schneich (log)