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Italian Anise Cookies With Icing and Sprinkles Recipe

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Italian Anise Cookies With Icing and Sprinkles
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Ingredients
12
Count
Nutrition
107
Calories
Total time
70
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (may need up to 3 cups)
  • 2 -3 tbsp milk
  • 2 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 3 tbsp milk
  • 1/8 tsp anise extract
  • food coloring
  • decorative candy sprinkles

Directions:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line cookie sheets with parchment paper.
  2. 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.
  3. 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).
  4. 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.
  5. Bake cookies 10-12 minutes (they won't be brown but the insides will be soft and cake-like).
  6. 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).
  7. 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.
  8. Allow icing to harden overnight; then store in air-tight containers or freeze.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 107.08 Kcal (448 kJ)
Calories from fat 24.76 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2.75g 4%
Cholesterol 20.09mg 7%
Sodium 7.16mg 0%
Potassium 55.67mg 1%
Total Carbs 19.59g 7%
Sugars 13.17g 53%
Dietary Fiber 0.24g 1%
Protein 1.36g 3%
Iron 0.2mg 1%
Calcium 22.8mg 2%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 351.37 Kcal (1471 kJ)
Calories from fat 81.26 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9.03g 4%
Cholesterol 65.93mg 7%
Sodium 23.51mg 0%
Potassium 182.67mg 1%
Total Carbs 64.27g 7%
Sugars 43.21g 53%
Dietary Fiber 0.79g 1%
Protein 4.46g 3%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 1%
Iron 0.6mg 1%
Calcium 74.8mg 2%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 2.3
    Points
  • 3
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • very low sodium

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