What cookies do you look forward to most on your holiday cookie platter? For me, it’s always the anise cookies. Okay, that’s not true. I also look forward to chocolate crinkle cookies ...

I hope you like the flavor of anise,” I said to our news editor, Liz Baumeister, earlier this week as I held out plate of ...

Whether it’s baked goods or full meals, holiday traditions call for unique dishes that make wonderful gifts for those very ...

At the holidays, I always think of my great-grandmother's hands rolling pasta and baking anise crescents. They looked like powdered sugar-coated Italian wedding cookies, but with a secret: anise ...

That’s when Dreyer, 43, introduced her Aunt Tilly’s Christmas recipe, a “biscuit-y” anise cookie she said have appeared on the show “for the 12 years I’ve been here.” After some of ...

Perhaps surprisingly, there was one standout search in the U.S.: "Italian Christmas cookies." The anise-flavored treats were the most uniquely searched for cookie in seven states, ranging from the ...

The bizcochito, or biscochito is a thin, crisp butter cookie made with lard, sugar, cinnamon, and anise. The cookie is shaped like a fleur-de-lis, the Christian cross, a star, or a circle ...