Italian Creme Cookies

This cookie recipe is a versatile one, it can be anisette, vanilla, or lemon by simply adding the extract you desire into the icing. Be bold and use food coloring to make your cookies festive and sprinkle with decorations like sprinkles or colored nonpareils.

Ingredients

1/2 lb margarine
2 c sugar
1 lb ricotta cheese
2 eggs
2 tbs vanilla
4 c flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt


Icing
1/2 box confectioners sugar
2 tbs milk
1 tsp anisette extract, or ..one of your desire

Cream together margarine and sugar. Add cheese, eggs and vanilla and mix well. Sift 4cups of flour and add the baking soda and salt and combine well. Slowly add flour mix to the butter and cheese mixture. Mix until it is mixed well, the batter should be soft.

Place on ungreased cookie sheets by teaspoonfuls. Bake at 350 degrees for 12 -15 minutes.
Cool completely, Meanwhile make up your icings when the cookies are cooled ice them and sprinkle them, place them on a rack to drip of excess icing and let them dry before storing them in an airtight container. This recipe should yeild about 4 dozen cookies.