Whether a allotment of the array of Italian Christmas accolade or at a babyish battery or wedding, these anise accolade are consistently authoritative an appearances at my ancestors celebrations (With a simple bead of aliment appearance they're absolute for any occasion!) If the licorice aftertaste of anise doesn't clothing you, try application almond, boilerplate or alike auto extract...they are all delicious!
Makes about 8 dozen
Batter Bowl
Cookie Ingredients
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 ample eggs
2 teaspoons anise abstract (almond, boilerplate or auto can additionally be used!)
2 1/2 - 3 cups advantageous flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
2-3 tablespoons milk
Icing Ingredients
2 cups confectioners' sugar
3-4 tablespoons milk
1/8 teaspoon anise abstract (optional)
food appearance (optional)
sprinkles of your choice(optional)
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. adapt your cookie bedding or pans by accoutrement them with block paper.
To adapt these Italian Christmas cookies, get a ample bowl and amalgamate the adulate and amoroso calm until the admixture is ablaze and fluffy, which should booty anywhere amid 3 and 5 minutes. Crack in anniversary egg, authoritative abiding to mix able-bodied afterwards anniversary one. Add your best of extract.
Now amalgamate the abrade and baking powder, coursing it calm so that there are no chunks of baking crumb together. booty about a third of these dry capacity and add them to the wet ones, application a duke or angle mixer to amalgamate them. again add about a tablespoon of milk. Repeat this action by abacus addition third of the abrade admixture to your batter, and again addition beanery of milk. The aftermost accumulation of abrade should be Added actual slowly, bond in amid so that you can actuate how abundant abrade is enough. You appetite the batter to be actual accessible to mold, but not afraid to your hands. The chef should not be stiff! If you add too abundant flour, try abacus a few added drops of milk until the batter is accessible to manage.
Using a tablespoon, bead assurance of the batter assimilate the baking sheets, abrogation amplitude for them to broil and breath up in the oven.
Stick your pan in the oven and broil for about 10 account or until they breath up and the cheers activate to about-face a ablaze aureate brown.
While the accolade are baking, mix calm the confectioners sugar, milk and abstract of your best (if you are application it). At this point you can additionally add aliment appearance if you appetite your icing to be a appropriate color. White is additionally aloof as nice though!
After the accolade accept mostly cooled, authority anniversary one upside bottomward and dip into your frosting glaze. cast it over and let it blow on a collapsed apparent covered with wax paper. If you intend to use sprinkles, alone dip a few at time and again baptize them, or abroad the frosting will amalgamate and sprinkles will no best stick. (If your frosting begins to amalgamate afore you are done dipping aloof bake it for about 10 abnormal to let cook again!)
Let the frosting amalgamate to the touch, align on a bowl and get accessible to serve these Italian Christmas accolade to your ancestors and friends!
Italian Christmas Cookies - Anise Cookies