Baci di Dama (Italian Hazelnut Cookies)

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2019, America's Test Kitchen TV

These Lilliputian Italian hazelnut-chocolate sandwich cookies are utterly charming—but only if they're perfect. Our approach makes it easy to get them just right.

SERVES Makes 32 sandwich cookies

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 1 hour cooling

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

These tiny Italian hazelnut-chocolate sandwich cookies are typically made from a very rich, fragile dough that easily softens and crumbles when you roll it. Reducing the amount of butter and nuts in the dough made it firmer but still plenty...

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