Grandma Palmieri's Italian Anise Cookies

By Rurec95

Ingredients

• Cookies Ingredients
• 1/2 lb Butter
• 4 cups Sugar
• 9 each Eggs
• 6 cups Flour
• 1 tsp Baking Power (heaping)
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 tsp Vanilla
• 1/2 tsp Anise Flavoring
• Filling Ingredients
• 1/2 lb Ground almonds
• 4 each Rind of 4 oranges, ground
• 2 each Egg whites
• 3/4 cup Sugar
• 1/2 tsp Anise Flavoring
• 1/2 cup Juice of orange to right consistency

Preparation

Step 1

Mix cookie ingredients together and make dough.
Roll out dough and cut out cookies into various shapes
- Mix the first five Filling ingredients together,
- Then add the orange juice slowly to get a firm mixture (not runny or will not stay on cookie).
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Put a half-teaspoon of filling in center of each cookie.
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Cut small strips of cookie dough and partially cover filling making an X with the dough.
Bake
Bake cookies in a medium oven at 375 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes (Cook until done - do not brown).