Recipe: wine cookies

The Mediterranean diet is said to be one of the healthiest in the world. Olive oil expert Wilma van Grinsven-Padberg unravels its secret in her new cookbook The Mediterranean Diet. And delicious too: she also shares a number of wonderfully tasty recipes, such as these Italian wine cookies.

Wilma: “This is a recipe my grandmother and mother taught me. I love simple recipes because they take me back to my childhood!”

How to make the wine cookies

• Preheat the oven to 190°C.
• Mix all the ingredients except the flour. Then gradually add the flour until you have a smooth cookie dough.
• You can give them your favorite shape. Traditionally, Italians make small, irregular doughnuts (approximately 7 to 8 cm in diameter), coat them with white sugar and bake them on a baking tray lined with parchment paper in a preheated oven for 15–20 minutes.
• They like to eat these cookies for breakfast, with a glass of milk or tea, or dipped in wine at the end of lunch or dinner (like cantucci or something similar)!

Title: The Mediterranean Diet
Author: Wilma van Grinsven – Padberg
Price: €24,99
Publisher: Lannoo

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