Instead, she cited the special place in her heart reserved for her own mother's recipe for Pizzelle, snowflake-shaped cookies for Italian brides, and Eli Zabar's mother's butter sugarcookies.
It has the texture of a slightly melted Cadbury Creme Egg, with a shell made of crumbled cookies instead of chocolate and filled with refreshing lemon-bergamot sorbet instead of oozing sugar.