Clothespin Cookies aka Lady Locks, Fingers, Cream Horns

Melt-in-your-mouth, super delicious sweet buttercream filled, flaky, yet buttery soft pastry, covered with confectioners powdered sugar. These heavenly treats embody a labor of love, deeply rooted in the cherished traditions of Eastern European, Italian, German, and Greek families, especially throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania. Most notably served alongside the kolachi cookies and large kolachi rolls at Wedding Cookie Tables in Youngstown and Pittsburgh, and wildly popular for Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, as well as showers, birthdays, graduation, and everyday indulgence. Try them cold – right out of the freezer – you’ll never switch back.

“Clothespin Cookies” are named by the wooden clothespins once used by home bakers as the pastry shell molds (disclaimer: please don’t try this at home, wooden clothespins are treated with chemicals, stains, etc and are not food safe). Americanized names vary by region such as lady locks / ladylocks, lady fingers, clothes pin cookies, or simply clothespins. Variations of dough and fillings such as buttercream, whipped cream and custards are Italian cream horns are called cannoncini in Italy, Greek κορνεδάκια or Kornedakia in Greece, Austrian Schaumrollen or Schillerlocken, Polish Rurki Z Kremem, Romanian Rulouri, Funiiki s krem in Bulgaria, Russian Trubochki or Трубочки с Кремом, Külah tatlısı or Torpil tatlısı in Turkey – many of which are known now as simply “torpedo desserts” for their funnel shape.

What You Get: Sold by weight as a 10 oz box with roughly 14-18 handmade cookies which vary in size. Like snowflakes, no two are alike. Filling may spill out, or not quite reach the ends.

For your safety, this item contains preservatives.