Anise Christmas cookies.

You can have Anise Christmas cookies using 4 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Anise Christmas cookies

1. Prepare 2 of eggs, m.
2. It's 150 g of confectioner's sugar.
3. Prepare 170 g of flour.
4. It's 1 tbsp of anise.

Anise Christmas cookies instructions

1. In a small pan roast anise until fragrant. Put them on a cutting board and cut a little smaller..
2. Mix eggs and confectioner's suger in a bowl over a bain-marie (medium heat) for 10 (!) minutes until white and foamy. Make sure the water is not too hot since you don't want a very sweet scrambled egg....
3. After 10 minutes remove the bowl from the bain-marie and gently fold in the flour and the anise..
4. Line two baking trays with baking paper. Put the batter in an icing bag with round tip (not too small). Pipe 3-4 cm (1-1.5 in) blobs on the paper. Let sit and dry for 2 hours..
5. 20 min before cookies have dried preheat the oven to 150° C (300° F). Bake the cookies for c. 15 min. Make sure they don't turn dark. Remove the tray(s) and let dry completely. If you remove the cookies too early the bottom will come off..
6. In a cookie box they can be kept for up to 4 weeks..