Italian spice cookies

These are absolutely melt in your mouth, how did I ever live without them scrumptious! Dense chocolate flavor and texture. Filled with chewy Raisins and crunchy nuts and spiced just right. I'm sure they will be added to your list of Christmas " must haves!" Pre-Heat Oven 350° and lightly grease cookie sheets.

I recently found this old family recipe in my mom’s kitchen. I made a few adjustments to streamline the process, and the cookies turned out wonderfully. —Shawn Barto, Winter Garden, Florida

Tetù or Sicilian Chocolate Spice Cookies are rich, dense chocolate cookies flavored with cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and orange zest. Traditionally prepared for All Saint's Day (November 1st) in Sicily or during the Christmas holidays in North America.

A chocolate cookie unlike any other.

I recently found this old family recipe in my mom’s kitchen. I made a few adjustments to streamline the process, and the cookies turned out wonderfully. —Shawn Barto, Winter Garden, Florida

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Maybe some of you follow me on social media (@radicisiciliane) and I quickly shared a little story about how when I was little I took some raw cookie balls while my mother and my zia were making them — and threw them at the ceiling. They stuck (that is how perfectly moist they are) and left a little