Italian Wedding Cookies

By Maverick19

Ingredients

• 6 1/2 cups A/P flour
• 6 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup sugar
• pinch salt
• 2 1/2 sticks butter, softened
• 6 eggs
• bottle of anise
• 1 cup milk
• For Icing:
• 4 cups powder sugar
• 5 Tbsp milk
• Food Coloring
• sprinkles

Details

Level of difficulty Average
Cost Average budget

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.

Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add the eggs, one at at time, mixing after each addition. Add the Anise extract.

Step 2

Blend flour, salt and baking powder. Start by adding 1/3 of dry ingredients to butter/sugar mix, in the mixer. Add 1 Tbsp milk. Add another 1/3 of dry ingredients and another 1 Tbsp milk. Finally, mix in enough of the remaining dry ingredients until dough is like a brownie batter (softer than drop cookie dough)

Step 3

Roll out the dough like a rope. Cut into pieces and twist each into a love knot. Bake 10-12 minutes, brown on bottom

Step 4

For the icing:
1. Mix sugar, milk and food color to make sugar glaze. 2. hold cookies in your hand and turn them upside down so that you can dip the top 1/2 inch into the glaze. Turn over and immediately top with sprinkles.

Step 5

Allow icing to harden overnight, then store in an airtight container, or freeze