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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
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• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 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. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
butter	1/2	cup	softened	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
sugar	1/2	cup		402.99	100.79799999999999	0.0	0.0
egg	3			214.5	1.08	18.84	14.265
anise extract	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
purpose flour	2 1/2	cups		-	-	-	-
baking powder	1	tablespoon		7.314	3.8226	0.0	0.0
milk	2 -3	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
confectioner ' sugar	2	cups		-	-	-	-
milk	3	tablespoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
anise extract	1/8	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
food coloring				-	-	-	-
candy sprinkle				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.