Nonna Romana Sciddurlo’s Italian Peach Pastries

If you peer into the windows of many bakeries in Italy, you will see these gorgeous peaches staring back at you. Italian-Americans have taken to naming them peach cookies, and while some of them are indeed cookies, here, they are little half spheres of cake with velvety Pastry Cream sandwiched between them. These peaches are soaked in a sweet, bitter, red liqueur called Alkermes, which is used in many desserts. A final coating of granulated sugar gives the