How America's Oldest Italian Bakery Makes 40,000 Rainbow Cookies Every Day | Delish

Ferrara Bakery has been making rainbow cookies for the holidays for over 100 years. These iconic seven layer cookies are scented with almond and coated with a luxurious double layer of chocolate to create that iconic Italian flag look. These are the best rainbow cookies around and Ferrara Head Baker Ernest Lepore is here to tell us why!
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PRODUCER: JUSTIN SULLIVAN
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: CHELSEA LUPKIN
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EDITOR: IAN MUNSELL
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[@emilywynstra]

I love the dedication to tradition! What a sweet video. They deserve all the support 🤗

[@tonyawykle4966]

First yay!!!!!!!! Hello there delish, beautifully done rainbow cookies. 🌸🥂🤩🤩🦋🍥👍🙂🙂💖

[@AwokenEntertainment]

Iconic Bakery! I'm so happy that places that hold so much culture and tradition like this still exist..

[@peoniesandbrunch]

A must visit when in NYC! My favorite cookies ❤

[@nataliebaas4479]

Omg, I gotta make a trip just to go here.. I was just in NY in Sept.. but didn't make it to little Italy. Now I really wann go!! I love the old traditional bakeries ❤

[@juliebransfield529]

These are a lot of work. Props to you 👏

[@taraschmidheini4674]

Magnifica‼️ 🇮🇹

[@jellybean6778]

Will visit on my next trip!

[@lexb1075]

I make these every Christmas, and spreading that sticky dough is a nightmare for me! You make it look so easy. ❤

[@mmoretti]

I love Ferrara panettone (the best panettone!), it’s been a Christmas breakfast tradition for so long.

[@Annie59Oakley]

It all looks delicious! I've never been to New York.

[@pinksugarfluff]

This man looks like a carbon copy of his great grandfather, wow!

[@Deadseelife]

My family always had these for Christmas….however they’re nowhere to be found in Italy lol

[@nadineru]

I never put chocolate on the bottom. What's the best way to do this?

[@cheriebenjamin0315]

You all who keep calling it a cake. 🤦🏽‍♀️ Rainbow cookies were first introduced by Italian-American bakeries in the late 19th or early 20th Century, and have since spread to other Italian-American and mainstream bakeries. The way it’s stacked is like a cake but it doesn’t have the same sizing as a cake. It’s cut into cookie size bites.

[@jennglow4647]

😋

[@richsiwes]

👍🏼👀✨

[@joanneganon7157]

Your store is Gorgeous. I love your work🎉 JO JO IN VT 💞

[@adrienneshouse9742]

2nd ❤

[@skywobleross5203]

Thats a mini cake slice. Delicious but no cookie

[@FrannieBabes]

Yes👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 A proper rainbow cookie has apricot, not raspberry, marmalade.

[@summerrose1545]

I thought apricot kernel is toxic because of the high amounts of amygdalin that will break down into cyanide??? They are sometimes used as a cheap almond replacement, but really shouldn't be consumed.

[@sharonhill2602]

How do you turn 3 cakes into a cookie? It’s still just 3 cakes sandwiched together. A biscuit will soft when old. A cake will harden when old.

[@krystine6946]

They’re so moist an delicious. With the layers of jam in between they stay so soft. I make them to sell and they really aren’t that hard just a little time consuming. Give them a try!

[@FrannieBabes]

He just showed you how & clearly stated it was a cake, it's just smaller, so they call it a cookie. It's not that hard a concept

[@sharonhill2602]

@@FrannieBabes it is as it’s flawed, a cake cannot be turned into a biscuit

[@christinecash9562]

Simple - cookie is from the Dutch language meaning little cake "early 18th century: from Dutch koekje ‘little cake’, diminutive of koek". Not a biscuit from the Latin for twice baked like mandelbrot or biscotti.

[@justmejenny7986]

Not the brightest are you?

[@dresden123456]

I'm loling at her pronunciation of espresso and I'm not even Italian. Also that's a sliced cake, why are you calling it a cookie?

[@delish]

we don't question the queen of Ferrara

[@ra_jcat6607]

It is a cookie baked in a sheetpan, no leaving was used..