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Recipe for Anise Cookies

This recipe for anise cookies is so easy to make, it only takes a few ingredients. The results: soft, buttery, chocolaty cookies.

What is anise?

Anise - or in Latin, Pimpinella Anisum - is an herb whose leaves, seeds and/or flowers are used for flavoring foods or at times medicine and natural products.

Anise comes from the same family as fennel, dill, caraway, and cumin.

The anise seeds are used in baking such as in Italian biscotti or German springerle. They are also used in breads and sometimes sausages. You will also find anise seeds in some liquors such as French anisette and Greek ouzo.

Anise seeds can also be used in herbal remedies such as tisanes or teas. It is recommended for nursing moms to increase their milk supply.

So go ahead try these anise seed cookies and then please take the time to come back and leave review.

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Chocolate Anise Cookies: Ingredients

2 cups of all-purpose flour

1/2 cup of butter - 1 stick

1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

3/4 cup of sugar

2 large eggs

1 teaspoon of ground anise seed

1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips

Chocolate Anise Cookies: Method

In a medium size bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, ground anise seed and salt. Set aside.

Cream the butter and the sugar together. Add the eggs one at a time and cream until your batter is light in color and texture.

Slowly add the flour mixture to the butter/sugar mixture. Blend until well combined. Add the chocolate chips and again mix until well combined. Divide your dough into two portions.

On a floured surface, roll each portion of dough into a log. Cut into 1/2 to 3/4 inch disk.