Occhi di Bue – Italian Jam-Filled Shortbread Cookies
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Italy's answer to the Linzer cookie: a flower of shortbread, a window cut clean through the top, and a pool of cherry or apricot filling glowing in the center. Occhi di bue — "ox eyes."
They come from the Bristot bakery in San Gimignano, Tuscany, where the same artisan craft has been practised since 1957. The shortcrust is worked by hand, the fruit filling is spooned into each cookie by hand, and the whole tray leaves the oven under a light snow of powdered sugar.
Crisp, crumbly and fruity — the kind of cookie that vanishes from the plate when guests arrive, and that Italians dunk without apology into morning coffee.
At a glance
- Type: Fruit-filled shortbread cookies (pasta frolla)
- Filling: Cherry and apricot fruit filling
- Finish: Dusted with powdered sugar
- Method: Dough worked and filled by hand
- Bakery: Bristot, San Gimignano, Tuscany · since 1957
- Format: 200 g tray (7.05 oz)
Crumbly shortcrust, bright cherry and apricot fruit, light sweetness, clean fruity finish.
Serve at room temperature. Traditionally dunked in morning coffee; equally good with black tea in the afternoon.
Ingredients: Shortcrust pastry (wheat flour, margarine [palm oil, rapeseed oil, sunflower oil, water, concentrated butter, whey powder (milk), mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, sunflower lecithin, salt, honey, flavorings, potassium sorbate (preservative), citric acid, tocopherols and ascorbyl palmitate (antioxidants), carotenes (color)], sugar, eggs, rice flour, leavening [sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium bicarbonate, wheat starch, calcium carbonate], whey (milk), honey, salt, soy lecithin, flavorings), cherry filling (glucose-fructose syrup, cherry purée, sugar, elderberry purée, pectin, citric acid, potassium sorbate [preservative], flavorings), apricot filling (glucose-fructose syrup, apricot purée, sugar, pectin, citric acid, potassium sorbate [preservative], flavorings).
Contains: wheat, milk, eggs, soy.
May contain tree nuts (almonds).
Nutrition Facts
| Amount per servingCalories | 110 |
|---|---|
| % Daily Value* | |
| Total Fat 4g | 5% |
| Saturated Fat 2g | 10% |
| Trans Fat 0g | |
| Cholesterol 25mg | 8% |
| Sodium 110mg | 5% |
| Total Carbohydrate 16g | 6% |
| Dietary Fiber 0g | 0% |
| Total Sugars 8g | |
| Includes 8g Added Sugars | 16% |
| Protein 1g | |
| Vitamin D 0.1mcg | 0% |
| Calcium 10mg | 0% |
| Iron 0.2mg | 0% |
| Potassium 20mg | 0% |
* The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a serving of food contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
Store in a cool, dry place away from heat and direct light.
Bristot S.r.l.
Via di Fugnano 20, 53037 San Gimignano (SI), Tuscany, Italy
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