Baked Tricolor Cookies

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Preparation info
  • Yield:

    20

    Cookies
    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Baked: New Frontiers in Baking

By Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Published 2008

  • About

The tricolor cookie, or rainbow cookie, is a nearly ubiquitous part of the traditional american-italian dessert platter, and it happens to be renato’s favorite snack. Our version of the cookie incorporates our bakery’s colors (brown, white, and orange) instead of the red, white, and green used to evoke the Italian flag in the original cookie. We’ve also tweaked the amounts of marzipan and added some orange zest for a citrus zing. The layers are sandwiched together with an apricot-amaretto j