Italian Easter Cookies: “frosted Dove”

For this Easter holidays we prepare Frost Dove, because in Italy “Dove Cake” (la Colomba) is a special traditional dish. In this case we don’t prepare cake but cookies.

• Ready In: 50 mins
• Serves: 4-6
• Yields: 24 cookies

Ingredients

• 500  g flour
• 300  g butter
• 200  g sugar
• 1  egg
• 2  egg yolks
• 1  lemon
• 5  g  yeast

Directions

1. Peel scratched lemon, put all together and when you have an uniform dough put in the fridge for 2 hours.
2. Than you can lay down your dough, doing cookies with an apposit cutter, and cooked for 20 minutes at 180°.
3. For the frosting, we use powdered sugar and water, and than we put almond scale or granule sugar.