🧆 Granny's Fig Cookie (Cucidati) Recipe

Watch our 99 year-old Granny bake her annual Fig Cookies. Always the favorite.

Granny’s Version of Fig Cookies (Cucidati)

I think there is someone in everyone’s family that does most of the holiday baking. In my wife’s family it’s 99 year-old, Great Granny Ann Cavaliero. She has been making holiday cookies probably for over 80 years. She makes a variety of cookies but her fig cookies are everyone’s favorite and they go fast.

My wife, Christine, did this of video her preparing the cookies for so we could preserve it for posterity, and I’m sharing it with you. To see this woman at her age so active and alert and productive is wonderful.

The recipe is in the beginning of the video, but here it is if you want to copy it.

Granny’s Fig Cookie Recipe (Cucidati)

Dough ingredients

• 4 cps All Purpose flour

• 1 cup sugar

• 1 ½ tsp baking powder

• 3 eggs

• 5 tbspns Crisco

• 1/2 cup milk

Fig filling

• 2 packages of figs

• 1 lb. jar of mince meat/with rum or brandy

• ½ tsp vanilla

• ½ cup orange peel

• Honey – enough to make soft mixture

• ½ tsp cinnamon

• ¼ tsp nutme

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I am also includinf another fig cookie recipe from Tricia from savingdessert.com. Plus she has many cookie treats for the holidays.

Photo is from website: Savingdessert.com

(From Tricia) We’ve completed our annual holiday cookie tour! Pictured above are Vanilla Pretzel Cookies, Roczki Cookies (Kolacky), chocolate dipped Tuile Cigar Cookies (Pirouettes) and finally, these wonderful Italian Fig Cookies.