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These peach cookies may be found throughout many places in Europe. They are most commonly found in Italy, but you will also find them in other countries, often at Russian weddings or similar events.

Peach cookies seem to be the center of attention at a festive table, attracting so many eyes for their look and most definitely for their taste. Soft and crumbly cookie shell, filled with delicious dulce de leche and walnut filling.

With so many pictures and their wonderful look, it may seem that they are too complicated to make. But don’t fall for it!

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Recipe

3 peach cookies in a small glass decorative bowl

Peach Cookies

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Servings
50 Units
Prep Time 50 mins
Cook Time 30 mins
Total Time 1 hr 20 mins

Ingredients

  • 6 cup Flour
  • 2 1/2 cup Unsalted Butter
  • 1 1/2 cup Sugar
  • 4 Eggs
  • 2 tsp Vanilla
  • 1 tbsp Baking Powder

Filling

  • 16 oz Dulce De Leche
  • 1/2 cup roasted crushed Walnuts
  • 1/2 cup Cookie Crumbs

Topping

  • 2 cup Sugar
  • 2 drop Pink Food Coloring
  • 1 drop Green Food Coloring
  • 2 cup Milk

Instructions

  • First, mix butter, eggs, sugar and vanilla. To the mixture, add flour together with baking powder. Mix until all ingredients are well combined.
    Butter, eggs, sugar and vanilla all being mixed in a KitchenAid mixer
  • Preheat oven to 350F. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Make small, round balls, the size of a small-ish walnut. 
    Baking sheet that is lined in parchment paper with balls made of dough spaced evenly on it
  • Arrange them on a baking sheet, about an inch apart, and bake for about 15-20 minutes. They should still remain white.
    Baking sheet that is lined in parchment paper with cooked dough spaced evenly on it
  • Cut out a small hole in the center of each cookie. 
    A cookie in which the bottom center area is being cut out of it using a knife
  • Fill in each hole with filling. Press the two sides together.
    2 cookies with filling attached to make one peach shaped cookie

Filling

  • Combine dulce de leche, together with cookie crumbs and crushed walnuts.
    Dulce de leche, together with cookie crumbs and crushed walnuts mixed together in a bowl

Decorate

  • Pour a cup of milk into each of the two bowls. Color milk in each bowl, pink and peach, using food coloring. To create a peach color, combine an equal amount of pink and green colors.
    On a cutting board are 2 peach cookies, green and red food coloring, and 2 bowls of milk one colored peach and the other pink
  • Dip each side of the cookie, into a different color, followed by sugar. Let the cookies dry overnight, on a baking sheet. 
    Peach Cookie being dipped into sugar
  • Garnish with any small leaves you may have.
    3 peach cookies

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Natalya Drozhzhin

Natalya founded Momsdish to demonstrate that placing a homemade meal on the table is not hard at all. Natalya makes cooking easier and approachable, by simplifying the ingredients, while still producing the same great taste.