November 30, 2017

Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies |Traditional Christmas Treat

Name: Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies |Traditional Christmas Treat
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 48
Ingredients: 3 1/4 cups 406.25 grams All-Purpose flour; 1 1/2 cups 300 grams sugar; 1 Tablespoon baking powder; 1/4 cup 21.5 grams unsweetened cocoa; 1 1/2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper (not too coarsely ground); 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1/2 teaspoon salt; 3/4 cup 153.75 grams solid vegetable shortening; 1/2 to 2/3 cup 122-162 2/3 grams milk; 1 teaspoon Fiori di Sicilia (Orange and Vanilla flavoring); 2/3 cup 78 grams chopped walnuts; 1 cup -- grams mini-chocolate chips; GLAZE:; 1 1/2 cups 180 grams confectioner's sugar, sifted; 1 Heaping Tablespoon of Cocoa; 3 to 3 1/2 Tablespoons milk; Colored sprinkles for decorating; 1 teaspoon Fiori di Sicilia flavoring (orange and vanilla flavor)

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Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies are spicy balls made with walnuts, mini chocolate chips, cocoa, and orange flavoring. These Christmas cookies aren’t overly sweet. Instead, the sweetness comes from the chocolate orange glaze and rainbow sprinkles. The treats are so popular you’ll find them on cookie trays for every special occasion.

Chocolate Toto – an Italian cookie by many names

Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies by any other name still taste as good. Many know them as Dudu’s or Tetú’s. If you ask for Meatball Cookies, they’ll know what you mean.

Inquire about an Italian Christmas Cookie recipe, and you’ll get directions for Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies. Ask for Ball cookies? You’ll get the same. Chocolate Wedding Cookies? Ditto.

Every nonna and mamma will swear that theirs is the only traditional recipe. It doesn’t matter. They all taste delicious.

It’s a Chocolate Christmas

But before I continue with these holiday cookies I have to tell you about our #GlobalFoodies. Our group wants to share a Chocolate Christmas with our wonderful readers.

We’ve put together some wonderful chocolate recipes for you to try and they’re all delicious!

Check out the links below — you won’t be disappointed!!

After all, doesn’t chocolate pop into your head when you think of Christmas? 🎄

Italian Toto – Black Pepper and Chocolate Cookie

Germany has a tiny spice cookie, Pfeffernüsse, that is a lot like Toto. They both have pepper in the ingredients as well as a gingerbread aroma and taste. The German biscuit, though, does not have cocoa or walnuts in it.

Mamma didn’t make cookies. Our Christmas treats were fritole, strucolo, or pan dolce. Desserts were for special occasions only.

Helen, my mother-in-law, was a human cookie factory. She would start her cookie baking right after Thanksgiving and not quit until the week before Christmas. She wouldn’t see or hear from “friends” all year long, but they did show up at her doorstep after all the cookies were made. 😋

Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies — quick and easy holiday cookie

I thought that the Christmas cookies would be hard to handle, but I was wrong. The dough is not sticky, and it’s easy to roll out.

Forming the balls is a breeze! Honey and I were able to get four dozen made in no time. Once they cooled, we dipped the spicy cookies in a chocolate orange flavored glaze. The flavoring I used was Fiori di Sicilia from King Arthur Flour.

I put Fiori di Sicilia in my pinza. The aroma and taste is a combination of vanilla and orange. It’s fantastic in any sweet bread or cookie recipe that calls for either vanilla or orange.

This Christmas include Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies on your dessert tray and prepare yourself for heaps of compliments!

Be sure to try out the other delicious chocolate goodies that our #GlobalFoodies made.

Butterscotch Chocolate Pecan Squares — (Veena – Veena Azmanov)

Chocolate Peppermint Blossom Cookies — (Arlene – Flour on My Face)

Boozy Bourbon Chocolate Fudge — (Gloria – Homemade & Yummy)

Italian Chocolate Toto Cookies — (Marisa Franca- All Our Way)

Chocolate Christmas Tree Mousse Cups — (Denise – My Life Cook Book)

Chocolate and Cranberry Snickerdoodles — (Helen – Fuss Free Flavor)

Snickerdoodle Truffles — (Michelle – Honest and Truly)

I’m going to make every one!! 💝😋

Tutti a tavola è pronto!

Un caro saluto e alla prossima.

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