Hi Guys! Today we have some little Italian cookies for you, called Baci Di Dama, literally translating to “Lady Kisses”. People all them this because they tend to look like dainty little pairs of lips, cute right? They also kind of resemble two people kissing, the way they’re all sandwiched together…again, precious. These cookies might originate from the Piemonte region of Italy, but you can really find them all over the country. I had these little cookies specifically when I was in Florence, although they were filled with a hazelnut flavored chocolate and made using almond meal/flour. Since sweet chestnuts are so common in Florence, and my only memory of these cookies are from that city, I decided to make these little cookies with a 50/50 blend of all purpose flour and chestnut flour. The chestnut flour works great in this recipe and totally imparts a lovely and slightly unique [chest]nuttiness to the cookies. Can’t find chestnut flour or don’t want to order it online? Not a problem, 100% all purpose works just fine, although you’ll lose the chestnut flavor and the texture of the cookies will be slightly more “biscuit” like. These are great with coffee and tea, but my favorite is serving them as apart of a mix dessert platter with tall glasses of champagne. Yum! These little cookies are tasty, super cute and really easy to make…so do it! ) Enjoy! xx, Jenny
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Baci Di Dama Cookies (“Lady Kisses”)
INGREDIENTS
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- ½ cup chestnut flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, softened and divided
- ⅓ cup superfine sugar granulated will work fine
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 ounce dark chocolate
INSTRUCTIONS
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- In a mixing bowl, sift together the flours and salt. Set aside.
- Place all but 1 tablespoon butter in a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment (or use a mixing bowl with a hand mixer) and cream until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes.
- Scrape down sides of the bowl and continue to cream, gradually adding the sugar until fully incorporated. Add the almond extract and continue to beat together for about 30 seconds.
- Gradually add the flour mixture to the butter mixture until fully incorporated and the dough comes together.
- Roll ½ teaspoon balls of dough and place onto a parchment lined baking sheet, gently pressing on the top to barely flatten the surface. Bake cookies for 10 to 12 minutes or until the cookies barely begin to brown. Allow cookies to cook completely.
- Melt chocolate and stir in remaining tablespoon of butter until smooth.
- Dab a small amount of chocolate onto the bottom center of a cookie and sandwich together with another. Repeat until all cookie sandwiches have been made.
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I want to try to make it
Very tasty. I just made the cookies, didn’t do the chocolate.
I also made my own chestnut flour–so that changes the recipe a bit: because there is more moisture in the flour and because I cannot get it as fine as bought flour would be probably because I am using just roasted chestnuts. So, I had to add more regular flour to stiffen it up and stop it from spreading out (though my husband really liked the flat cookies)
They remind me of a sesame cookie I used to make.
yum.. nice i like
I just made these yesterday. They’re fantastic. Thanks!
I spent a semester in Milan, and could never resist buying these when I passed a bakery! They’re completely addictive. That makes me scared to bake a batch at home… they’ll be gone in an embarrassingly short period of time.
hi Jenny
Thanks for your recipes, i like it, i will try at my home.
i was looking for this cookies name
thanks for recipe
Ya’ll are doing an awesome job!!! Your food looks WONDERFUL–can’t wait to try out some of these (actually I’m drooling while looking thru your posts LOL) & looking forward to your new posts. Thanks for the tasty treat ideas : )
These are so beautiful! And so perfectly rounded. Lovely!
I so loooove baci di dama! They are so deliciously crumbly!
These are absolutely adorable. And they don’t seem too difficult to make too. Such a great idea for a party dessert!
I’ve never had these before, but they’re so darned cute and round and perfect that I know these would be a favorite of mine.
Very nice, thanks for sharing.
Pretty little bites! Looking for more flour-alternative recipes. Thank you for sharing!
I’ve never even heard of these–but I certainly want some now! :)
These look amazing, are there any substitutes for chestnut flour? we can’t find it in Mexico
You can use all purpose flour for the whole recipe instead of a blend!
These are so pretty! Love it!
these could not be any cuter!
Wonderful recipe! they’re my favourite ones!
Those are so cute!!
I love the styling and the photos, and these cookies look fun and easy to make. They also look like they would melt in your mouth!
These look so tasty! AND they’re just pretty and basically Valentines.
baci di dama are delicious, i love them. You ate them in Florence? They actually come traditionally from Piedmont, which is a region where there is an abundance of high quality hazelnuts –that’s why all cakes from there are hazelnut-based, including baci di dama. the hazelnut flour give them that unique crumbly texture and classic flavor that matches perfectly with the hazelnut cream filling, called crema alla gianduja.
i like your chestnut version though, fascinating, a good twist for next fall!
Yes, I had them in Florence! The bakery shop owner I bought them from was actually from Piemonte and told me a brief history about the cookies, mostly about the name…not so much about the hazelnuts…neat! I switched it up to chestnut flour for more of a Florentine twist! :)
these look and sound amazing! I wonder if I can’t find chestnut flour if I could use hazelnut flour or some other kind of pure nut flour.
Hazelnut flour and almond flour should work fine! Not sure about other ones, but I don’t see why not!
adorbs! and i kind of love the name “lady kisses”
Woah! These look fantastic! I’ve never used chestnut flour – I’ll have to try it!