It wouldn’t be Christmas without CUCCIDATTI!

The second weekend, every December we make the Cuccidatti (fig cookies).   We would watch my Grandmother Beatrice (Sinagra) Frontiero make them with no real measuring but they would always come out the same…delicious!   These cookies are and will always be a flavor and smell that I’ve associated with Christmas time at Grandma’s house.   My Mom and I still do it the same way as my Grandma used to, using hand ground fig, citrus, walnuts and honey and now my daughters are part of the tradition.   We could change the recipe, we could use store bought fig, change the shape, or add choc chips like some families do, but it just wouldn’t be our family cookie recipe if we did.   Every family has their own cookie that brings them back to everything they remember as a child and this is it for me!   So almost 600 cookies later…they are done!