Anise Christmas cookies. These soft, cake-like cookies have a pleasant anise flavor that's distinct but not overpowering. I add red and green sprinkles for Christmas, but you could decorate them to suit any occasion.—Janice Eanni, Willowick, Ohio Directions. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Combine the flour, aniseed, salt, baking powder and baking soda; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. If you love traditional Christmas cookies, and you enjoy a bit of anise (some would describe it as a mild licorice flavor - think a mild Ouzo or Sambuca,) then please bake up a batch of these for your family and friends and neighbors and co-workers and mailman and Santa.
Santa's Favorites are Anise flavored cookies in fun holiday shapes such as bells, trees and stars.
This regional favorite will deliver smiles this Christmas season!
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You can have Anise Christmas cookies using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Anise Christmas cookies
- Prepare 2 of eggs, m.
- Prepare 150 g of confectioner's sugar.
- Prepare 170 g of flour.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of anise.
I actually just tried Italian anise cookies this past Christmas and fell in love! It's such a unique, distinctive flavor! Thanks for sharing your recipe so I can make these at home! A very delicious and easy version of this cookie.
Anise Christmas cookies instructions
- In a small pan roast anise until fragrant. Put them on a cutting board and cut a little smaller..
- Mix eggs and confectioner's suger in a bowl over a bain-marie (medium heat) for 10 (!) minutes until white and foamy. Make sure the water is not too hot since you don't want a very sweet scrambled egg....
- After 10 minutes remove the bowl from the bain-marie and gently fold in the flour and the anise..
- Line two baking trays with baking paper. Put the batter in an icing bag with round tip (not too small). Pipe 3-4 cm (1-1.5 in) blobs on the paper. Let sit and dry for 2 hours..
- 20 min before cookies have dried preheat the oven to 150° C (300° F). Bake the cookies for c. 15 min. Make sure they don't turn dark. Remove the tray(s) and let dry completely. If you remove the cookies too early the bottom will come off..
- In a cookie box they can be kept for up to 4 weeks..
Once Christmas in America meant chopping down a tree, caroling door-to-door and baking holiday cookies with Mom. But at this time of year boomers like me feel the same kind of holiday nostalgia for unpacking a fake, boxed tree while watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and nibbling on packaged holiday cookies, specifically, in my case, anise-flavored Noel sugar cookies from the. In large bowl, mix flour, baking powder and white sugar. Mix together until dough is sticky. Whether you choose to make these cookies with anise or without, they always seem to be a crowd-pleaser.