In Verona, Italy, you can buy bags ofI baci di Romeo e Giulietta巧克力和杏仁饼干纪念莎士比亚's mythical, star-crossed lovers. I prefer to sandwich these two types of cookies together by sealing the "sighs" and "kisses" with a sweet filling. You will need two sets of mixer bowls and paddle attachments for this recipe.
Ingredients
sandwich cookies.
Romeo's Signs
Juliet's Kisses
Filling
Romeo's Sighs
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line two half-sheet pans with parchment paper.
Step 2
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar. Add the almond extract. Add the salt and flour, beating just until each addition is incorporated.
Step 3
Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto one of the prepared pans. Set aside until you prepare Juliet's Kisses.
Juliet's Kisses
Step 4
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream the butter and sugar. Add the vanilla. Add the salt, flour, and cocoa powder, beating until each addition is incorporated.
Step 5
Drop by level teaspoonfuls onto the second prepared pan. (These cookies spread more than the Romeos.)
Step 6
Place the pan of the Romeos and the pan of Juliets in the center of the oven. Bake 8 to 10 minutes, or until the Romeos just start to brown at the edges. Cool completely on wire racks.
Filling
Step 7
Spread the filling onto the flat side of a Romeo and sandwich together with a Juliet. Repeat this process with the remaining cookies.
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Reviews (6)
Back to TopI recently made this recipe and took note of the reviews. I am a pretty experienced baker and had the same problems people described. The chocolate cookies came out brittle and flat. The almond cookies had more shape but were very greasy. I even refrigerated the dough to see if they would hold the shape better after reading the reviews and the chocolate ones still spread out too thinly. I did use raspberry jam for some of the them. I made a chocolate filling (4 oz of semisweet choice + 3 tbsp of butter, melted together and added finely ground chocolate cookies that were too thin use)to use for the others. A good combination was a smear of raspberry on one side and chocolate filling on the other and then press the cookies together. I don't think I'll make this again though based upon the end result. Cookies had good flavor after sitting for a day.
moche2
North Carolina
8/15/2016
This has become a favorite cookie in my baking repertoire! I did a taste test with the first batch I made to determine which of the three recommended fillings was the best. I thought it would be the Nutella (what's not to love about Nutella?!), but people were pretty evenly divided between the semisweet chocolate and raspberry preserves the best. My order of preference is semisweet chocolate, preserves, and then the Nutella. I am surprised by the two resoundingly negative reviews posted for this recipe. Yes, the cookies are hard, but I never got the impression they were supposed to be anything else - not all cookies are soft. I'd recommend using the raspberry preserves as the filling in that case, as the moisture from the preserves softens the cookies after a day or so. As for the reviewer who thought they were too buttery/ greasy, perhaps the butter was too warm when you tried to prepare these. I also think this would be a great recipe to try with kids, since there are no eggs in the batter (no need to worry about exposure to salmonella) and can be very hands-on (I don't use a teaspoon - I use a kitchen scale and my hands to roll them into consistently-sized dough balls).
kcbranaghsgirl
Tacoma, WA
8/20/2014
A horrible disaster! I think there are a few key ingredients missing here. I followed the recipe exactly and the almond cookies were hard and not edible. The chocolate variety was edible but not much better.
brbelle
Athens, ga
2/1/2014
The cookies were delicious, but need a slight change. We used the same cookie scoop for both the cookie doughs, but the chocolate dough spread out more, making the cookie halves mismatched in size. Next time I will add a little more flour to the chocolate dough so they don't spread as much. We tried plain nutella and plain raspberry jam as fillings, but far preferred the cookies that we filled with both the nutella and the jam (just spread nutella on one side and the jam on the other and sandwich together). This recipe is a definite keeper!
sussrum1
NJ
12/19/2013
I followed this recipe exactly but the chocolate cookies came out brittle and lacy and the almond cookies were just greasy. I think something is missing. They taste good but they leave your hands too buttery and they don't look like the pictures I found on the internet.
Anonymous
Indianapolis
12/12/2012
This may be the best cookie I have ever eaten
Anonymous
Tallahassee, fl
6/13/2012
