The best Italian cookie recipes include highly rated recipes at Taste of Home and Saveur websites. These sites feature recipes for soft butter cookies with ricotta cheese, classic almond biscotti cookies and rainbow cookies in the colors of the Italian flag.

Italian cookie recipes are available on the websites Italian-Dessert-Recipes.com, CookingWithNonna.com and ExperienceSardina.com. These websites include a wide variety of traditional, authentic and adapted Italian cookie recipes.

For an authentic Italian pizza, prepare your dough mixing 3 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 cup of water, 1 package of active dry yeast and a pinch of sugar. Garnish with tomato sauce, mozzarella, basil, olive oil and a hint of salt.

Some good authentic Italian pizza recipes are Authentic Pizza Margherita, Pizza Marinara and La Napoletana. The dough for the Authentic Pizza Margherita recipe requires 3 3/4 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 cup of water, 1 package of active dry yeast and 1 pinch of sugar.

The Food Network’s holiday biscotti and Martha Stewart’s crisp anise cookies are two recipes for Italian Christmas cookies. The first recipe is a twice-baked sweet dough cookie, while the second is a piped anise-flavored cookie.

Biscotti cookies and pignoli cookies are popular types of Italian cookies. Biscotti cookies are twice-baked with added fruit or nuts and normally eaten with coffee, while pignoli cookies are almond macaroons with pine nuts.

Martha Stewart's recipe for classic Italian meatballs calls for combining 8 ounces each of ground chuck beef and ground pork with 1 minced garlic clove, 1/2 cup grated Pecorino Romano cheese, 3 tablespoons of parsley, 2 beaten eggs, salt and pepper, 1 cup fresh white bread broken into small pieces a

A recipe for Italian almond cookies calls for blanched whole almonds, sugar, egg whites, almond extract and glacéed cherries. Another good recipe uses almond paste and flour.

To make Italian almond cookies, either ricciarelli or amaretti, ingredients needed include blanched whole almonds or almond paste, sugar, large egg whites, salt, baking powder, almond extract, and vanilla extract. Garnishes include whole almonds, candied cherries and grated orange zest. Equipment ne

Old World Italian Spaghetti Sauce and Traditional Osso Buco by PICKLEDPOSSUM are both old Italian recipes. The Osso Buco recipe also goes well with Italian sausage or meatballs.