Cooking Italians - Ugly But Good Cookies, or Brutti ma Buoni, are a classic Italian confection that proves looks aren’t everything. Despite their rustic, irregular

Brutti ma Buoni (Ugly but Good Cookies) are delicious Italian cookies typical of Northern Italy, especially Piedmont. They are free of yeast, milk and butter and also gluten-free because they don't contain wheat flour.The recipe is very easy and quick to make with very few ingredients: egg whites, sugar and hazelnuts, nothing else! It takes a few minutes to make a meringue with the egg whites and sugar, then add the chopped hazelnuts, finally bake for about 40 minutes.This brutti ma buoni recipe get its name from their rough and therefore ugly "irregular" appearance, but absolutely delicious to the palate.