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Spicy Italian Cookies
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 cups butter
- 4 tbsp anise seed
- 4 tbsp anise extract
- 5 cups flour (sifted twice)
- 3 tbsp bourbon
- 2 cups almonds or walnuts
- 6 eggs
- 1 tbsp baking powder
Instructions
- Mix sugar, butter, anise seed, anise extract, bourbon and nuts together.
- Beat in eggs.
- Sift flour twice, measure, add baking powder and sift again, adding to sugar mixture.
- Blend thoroughly.
- Cover and chill dough for 2-3 hours.
- On a lightly floured board shape dough into flat loaves 1/2" thick, 2" wide and the length of your cookie sheet.
- Place only 2 loaves per cookie sheet.
- Bake in 375º F oven for about 20 minutes.
- Remove from oven.and let cool to touch.
- Slice diagonally in 1/2" slices
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