''Cuccidati'' (also known variously as ''buccellati'', Italian fig cookies or Sicilian fig cookies) are fig-stuffed

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, traditionally served at Christmas time. The outer cookie is pastry dough, covered with icing and typically topped with rainbow

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. The filling generally consists of some combination of walnuts, dates, figs, honey, spices and orange or apricot jam.Joannie Zisk
“Cuccidati - Sicilian Fig Cookies”
The Today Show, 9 November 2015 The pastry is rolled around the filling, and rolls are either cut into short tubes, or curved around to form a "bracelet".

Variations

When ring-shaped these may be known as ''buccellati'', meaning 'little bracelets', and are a diminutive form of '' buccellato'', a larger fig-filled ring cake. The ingredients are as varied as the names the cookies are called by, apparently a function of the town or region in which they are made. Other towns call them ''nucciddati'' (nut cookies), ''zucciddati'', ''ucciddati'', ''vucciddati'' and, as in Serradifalco, ''pucciddati''. That town's version includes ground figs and dates, nuts, and orange rinds.

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Cuisine of Sicily Stuffed desserts Christmas food Fig dishes Italian cookies {{Italy-dessert-stub

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