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Anisette Biscuits from Artuso Pastry

Ingredients

  • 1 cup sugar
  • 3 cups bread flour
  • 1 tablespoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon anise seed 9 optional)
  • 1 cup Crisco shortening
  • 3 fresh eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • ½ teaspoon anisette oil (available in health food stores, or use extract found in a grocery spice rack)

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350° F.

Mix all the dry ingredients, including the anise seed for those who decide to use it, together in the bowl of a mixer. Add the Crisco and mix until dispersed in the flour. Then add the rest of the ingredients and blend for about 3 minutes at medium speed. Deposit the ingredients into a pastry bag. Using two cookie sheets, squeeze out (or form with your hands if not using a pastry bag), two even lines| loaves lengthwise, about 1 ½ inches wide and 12 inches long.

Bake for 30 minutes, until golden brown. Cool 5 minutes then gently move to a cutting board. Cut ¾ inch- thick slices. Lay them back onto the sheet pans, return pans to 350° oven, and toast, 20 minutes, until very crisp and deeply golden brown.

 

** Tip**: If you prefer stronger anise flavor in these wonderfully tender biscotti, you can add the optional anise seed to this recipe.

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