Looking for a unique and delightful cookie recipe to add to your repertoire? Biscochitos, a traditional New Mexican tr ...

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

“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 holiday cut-out cookies, fresh from the Times Leader test kitchen.

The cookies are made by combining butter, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, baking powder and anise extract, then refrigerating the dough for an hour. After the dough is done chilling ...

Google Trends compiled data from across the United States to determine which Christmas cookie is the most uniquely searched ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christmas cookies are among the most enjoyed treats of the holiday season. With so many choices and varieties, though – not to mention food allergies, special diets and other sensitivities ...

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 ...

The hosts of the Today show got together for an old-fashioned Christmas cookie swap, but one of the holiday treats didn’t sit too well with Craig Melvin. After some of her co-hosts weren’t so ...

The sweetest part of the holiday season is, of course, the cookies. Whether it’s a treasured family recipe, or a newly-invented tradition, just one bite can bring back so many memories.