Best 6 Italian Anise Cookies Recipes

ITALIAN ANISE COOKIES

Steps:

• Beat eggs together in a large bowl. Gradually stir white sugar into beaten eggs until smooth. Slowly pour vegetable oil and anise oil into sugar mixture until incorporated. Mix flour and baking powder together in a separate bowl; slowly add to sugar mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon until dough is dry.
• Refrigerate dough, 30 minutes to overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a baking sheet.
• Roll dough into walnut-size balls and arrange on the prepared baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until cookies are crisp around the edges, 12 to 15 minutes. Cool cookies on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack.
• Mix confectioners' sugar and milk together in a bowl until desired consistency is reached. Dip a fork into the icing and drizzle over cookies. Allow icing to harden.

ITALIAN COOKIES WITH ANISE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Beat butter and sugar for dough together in a bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, vanilla extract, and anise extract and blend. Combine flour and baking powder in a separate bowl; stir into butter mixture until blended.
• Take a ping pong-sized ball of dough and roll between your hands to form a rope. Connect the ends and twist into a figure 8 shape. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough.
• Bake in batches in the preheated oven until edges are golden, about 10 minutes. Cool on the baking sheet for 1 minute before removing to a wire rack to cool completely.
• Mix milk into confectioners' sugar for icing, stirring slowly. Add the anise extract and vanilla extract.
• Dip cooled cookies into the icing face-down and lay on wax paper or a wire rack.

ITALIAN ANISE COOKIES RECIPE - (4.1/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F and line 2 baking sheets with parchment. In a large bowl, beat together the eggs, sugar, extract and baking powder. Add vegetable oil and milk, then the flour, one cup at a time, blending well after each addition. Pinch off walnut-sized pieces of dough and roll smooth between your palms. Flour your hands if the dough is too sticky. Arrange the balls of dough 2 inches apart on prepared baking sheets. Bake 10 to 12 minutes, or until bottoms of the cookies are a light golden brown. The tops will still be pale. Remove from oven, then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Glaze: Combine glaze ingredients in a bowl until just smooth. You want it more thick than thin, but still runny. Dip the tops of the cooled cookies into the glaze, then return them to the wire rack, allowing the glaze to drip down the sides of each cookie. Top with sprinkles.

ITALIAN ANISE CHOCOLATE WALNUT COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. melt the butter and the chocolate in a double boiler stir until smooth
• 2. whisk the eggs Sambuca and the 2 1/2 tablespoons of sugar together. Add walnuts to the egg mixture and mix. set bowl aside
• 3. In another bowl sift the baking powder,salt,and flour together
• 4. whisk the melted chocolate in to the egg mixture. Stir flour in to the mixture and blend well.Refrigerate dough until it stiffens up enough to make cookie balls with
• 5. make balls out of dough about an inch wide. Roll in confection sugar,and place on greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 until centers crack (about 10 minutes)Remove and cool.

ANISE ITALIAN COOKIES

Steps:

• 1. Cream sugar, eggs, butter and Crisco together. Then add anise extract, gradually add the flour and Baking powder (I end up using more than 2 cups, til I get a cookie dough consistency and no longer sticky)then roll into balls (around 1 inch in size) Press down a little on top.
• 2. Place balls on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
• 3. I also glaze with confectioner sugar & milk,when completely cooled, then sprinkle with nonpareils.

ITALIAN ANISE COOKIES WITH ICING AND SPRINKLES RECIPE - (5/5)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper. For cookies, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing after each addition. Add anise extract. Blend flour and baking powder. Start by adding about 1/3 of these dry ingredients to the butter/sugar in your mixer, then add 1 T. milk. Add another third of the flour and another 1 T. milk. Finally, mix in enough of the remaining flour until your dough is like a brownie batter (it should be softer than a drop cookie dough). Use a 1 T. cookie scooper to make simple round drop cookies - use wet fingers to pat any rough edges OR for an Easter-Egg look, roll 1 T. dough into an elongated ball. Bake cookies 10-12 minutes (they won't be brown but the insides will be soft and cake-like). For icing: mix sugar, milk and extract to make a sugar glaze. HINT: When I make the icing, I make it thick but then I microwave it for 10 seconds so it is thin enough for dipping. Also, I like to divide the mixture in thirds, and then add ONE DROP of food coloring to each batch (pink, green, yellow). Hold cookie in your hand and turn upside down so you can dip the top half in the glaze; turn over and immediately top with sprinkles so they will stick. Allow icing to harden overnight; then store in air-tight containers or freeze.