Here in Portugal we also have a tradicional cookie called s.
I think Portuguese and Italian cooking, have a few things in common.
I love these cookies!

I was brought up on the StellaD’oro brand “s” cookies

They look very tempting and delicious! Really snake-like too…

Cheers,

Rosa

They look delicious. I lived in Italy last year and sampled many different kinds of biscuits while there, but never saw these S biscuits! I’ll have to give them a try and test them out on my Italian friends!
Rebecca

Oh…there is nothing like cookies from childhood no matter how tempting the others are. I am sure my cookie monster is going to ask for a batch as soon as I show you what you guys baked…because he always wants to know what my other woman is up to!

I remember these! My Grandma used to make them. We always had Oreos at our house, but at Grandma’s it was Stella d’Oro all the way!

how fun! these would be particularly easy to eat, and not just because they’re covered with cinnamon sugar–the width gives a perfectly-sized bite! i love it!

these are simply fab. there is a german version similar to this. but i remember eating these in italy - the bakeries would have them fresh early in the mornings. lovely ivonne. btw i’ll be off to austria for a week next month - wanna come?

When I was a kid, I would only eat Oreos and Chips Ahoy –not even real chocolate chip cookies! Then again, my mother didn’t bake. And neither do I….. now if only I’d had a Mama Cream Puff, I might have learned to bake. I’m sure I’d love S Cookies!

Mama Cream Puff did a great job with those ‘S’ cookies - they’re not creepy, they’re delicious-looking!! :0D

There was an Italian lady (now deceased) who used to make these S cookies and no matter how everybody tried, nobody could replicate her recipe properly. I need to try these to see if they come close. They were amazing cookies. Apparently the same recipe comes out different for each person. Go figure.

Ivonne, those are so pretty :o) when I was a kid, I didn’t like getting maria cookies or plain digestives in my lunchbox because I loved (and still do) the chocolate!!! I wanted a chocoliebnitz or a chocolate covered digestive :o) Now, however, I can appreciate their sweet simplicity, and I like how they remind me of home-packed lunches. Have a happy Sunday.
xox, Linnea

I know exactly what you’re taking about! When I was a kid, all I wanted was packaged cookies and Ragu spaghetti sauce, which I now realize is insane! Reminds me of the scene in My Big Fat Greek Wedding, when she’s a kid w/ the ethnic lunches at school. My growing up wasn’t even too foreign or strange, but I still wanted bad, packaged american food. Thank God I grew out of that!

I grew up in an Italian neighbourhood and these cookies remind me of summer when I used to hang out with my Italian friends at their house and their mom’s S cookies would be our afternoon snack! yum!

In my house they were called (still are) Sarah cookies because my youngest sister thought they were shaped like that in her honour!! We’re all in our 30’s now and we still call them Sarah cookies!

they are so beautifully shaped, Ivonne!

Well done Mama Cream Puff!

“Once I was old enough to assert a certain level of cookie independence, I turned my nose up at S Cookies deeming them far too simple and rustic for my refined 9-year old tastes. I still didn’t get my Oreos, but I sure as hell wasn’t going to give anyone the satisfaction of eating an S Cookie.”

Hahaha…I probably would have felt the same way. Love it! But now…the S cookie sounds good!

‘S’ biscuits are not readily available in NZ as they are in most Toronto area supermarkets. Hardly a substitute, these look perfect! I’ll be spoilt, preferring these to the storebought original! Grazie Mama Cream Puff!

I have never had an S cookie and I declared in 2005 after feeding a family for 25 years that I would never cook again. This little cookie has inspired me! Thank you for sharing the recipe.

i love how you were asserting cookie independence at the age of 9

those are really cute cookies, they don’t remind me of snakes at all! (though after you mentioned it, i do kind of see the resemblance)

No, no, no, is not such things like Italian “S” cookies
Right now I understand that they are Very International cookies
I was born 59years ago in Poland and as far I remember my Mom between many, many wonderful meals and bakings, was making this S cookies.
The only difference in recepie was that at this time nobody in Poland had and know brown sugar so she wasn’t using it.
All my friends from early childhood, through High school and Polytechnic (University) loved my Mom’s S-es
Any time we have been going for any country trips they always were asking may Mom to prepare tin box full of this S cookies to make this trip fully enjoyable
Big thanks for reminding me this fantastic cookies.

Hi! Long time reader, maybe a month. I don’t usually comment on things like this, first time posting a reply on a blog. ^^ Anyway, I was wondering how long can I store them, and how? I am making them for a Christmas party but I want to make them beforehand because I don’t have much time. If you could please answer before the week ends, that’d be wonderful! Thanks for reading this.

Sorry, I didn’t mean a month, maube half a year.