Cookie Recipes
Clothespin Cookies with Ricotta Filling
These are sometimes called Cream Horns or Ladylocks. Dough is wrapped around a wooden clothespin, thenbaked. After baking, the clothespin is removed, and they are filled. Sometimes they are filled with Marshmallow Creme.
Yield: 14
Ingredients
Cookie Dough
- 1 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast (1/2 package)
- 1/4 cup warm milk
- 3/4 cup butter
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 beaten eggs
- 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Ricotta Filling
- 1/2 cup chopped candied red cherries
- 1/2 cup chopped candied green cherries
- 1 pound smooth ricotta
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1/2 cup chocolate chips
- 2 egg whites, beaten until stiff
Instructions
- Soften yeast in warm milk; set aside.
- In a large bowl cut butter into flour until mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Add yeast mixture, eggs, sugar, and salt. Mix well.
- Form into a ball and place in a greased bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight.
- The next day prepare the ricotta filling by blending all the filling ingredients together.
- Heat oven to 300 degrees F.
- Divide dough in half. Roll out each half on a floured board to make a 10 inch square. Cut into 14 strips, each 10 inches long and 3/4 inch wide. Wrap each strip in a spiral around the length of a well-greased clothespin.
- Place clothespins on an ungreased cookie sheet and bake about 20 minutes, until light brown.
- Remove clothespins carefully; cool cookies on a rack.
- Using a pastry bag with a wide opening, pipe the Ricotta Filling into cookies.
Notes
Use well-greased peg-type wooden clothespins with no metal.
Note that the dough is chilled overnight.
Attribution
Photo credit: https://flickr.com/photos/krismartin20 /
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