Baking With Julia

Italian Cookies with Nick Malgieri

Season 1 Episode 12 | 24m 8s

Author and master teacher at Peter Kump's New York City Cooking School, Nick Malgieri, bakes a cornmeal-currant biscotti, amaretti or Italian almond macaroons, and waffle-like cookies named pizelles or little pizzas because of their round, flat shape. He demonstrates the two ways to work the biscotti dough to form zaleti (diamond shape cookies). He also shows how to pipe out the amaretti dough.