Anise Sesame Cookies

Name: Anise Sesame Cookies
Prep time: 4 h
Cook time: 4 h
Total time: 4 h
Yield: 36
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp whole anise seeds; 0 teaspoons baking soda; 2 larges eggs; 473 milliliters all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons salt; 59 milliliters sesame seeds, lightly toasted; 158 milliliters sugar; 177 milliliters 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened; 2 Tbsps boiling-hot water

Anise Sesame Cookies is a vegetarian dessert. One portion of this dish contains around 1g of protein, 5g of fat, and a total of 84 calories. This recipe covers 2% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe serves 36. A mixture of anise seeds, sesame seeds, eggs, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. This recipe is typical of Southern cuisine. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 4 hours.

Instructions

Soak anise seeds in boiling-hot water until most of water is absorbed, about 15 minutes.

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Water

Whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt in a bowl.

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All Purpose Flour

Salt

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Whisk

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Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 2 minutes in a stand mixer (preferably fitted with paddle attachment) or 4 minutes with a handheld. Beat in 1 egg and anise seeds with any remaining soaking liquid until combined. Reduce speed to low, then mix in flour mixture until just combined.

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Anise

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

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Divide dough into 4 balls and flatten each into a 4-inch disk. Chill disks, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, about 3 hours.

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Wrap

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Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F.

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While oven preheats, roll out 1 piece of dough (keep remaining dough chilled) on a well-floured surface with a well-floured rolling pin into a 7-inch round (slightly less than 1/4 inch thick; if dough becomes too soft to roll out, chill on a baking sheet until firm).

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Roll

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Cut out as many cookies as possible from dough with cutter and transfer to 2 ungreased large baking sheets, arranging cookies about 1 inch apart. Beat remaining egg in a small bowl with 1 tablespoon water to make an egg wash.

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Water

Egg

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Brush each cookie lightly with egg wash, then sprinkle with some of sesame seeds.

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Sesame Seeds

Egg

Bake cookies, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until bottoms are golden, 10 to 12 minutes total, then transfer with a metal spatula to racks to cool completely.

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Gather scraps and chill until firm enough to reroll. Make more cookies with remaining dough, scraps (reroll only once), and sesame seeds, then bake on cooled sheets.

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Sesame Seeds

Dough

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Oven

Cookies keep, layered between sheets of wax paper or parchment, in an airtight container at room temperature 1 week.

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Servings:

1Tbsp

whole anise seeds 0teaspoons

baking soda 2larges

eggs 473milliliters

all-purpose flour 1teaspoons

salt 59milliliters

sesame seeds, lightly toasted 158milliliters

sugar 177milliliters

1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened 2Tbsps

boiling-hot water

Recommended wine: Riesling, Sparkling Wine, Zinfandel

Southern on the menu? Try pairing with Riesling, Sparkling Wine, and Zinfandel. In general, there are a few rules that will help you pair wine with southern food. Food-friendly riesling or sparkling white wine will work with many fried foods, while zinfandel is great with barbecued fare. The Brundlmayer Steinmassl Riesling with a 4.3 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 39 dollars per bottle.