Preparartion
Sprinkle flour on board, add baking powder (or take half tsp of soda, slaked with vinegar), butter and stir it.
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Add half of sugar to egg, and, stirring well, add to flour with butter.
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Grate orange zest, peel nuts and stir all together.
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Grind in a coffee grinder into powder the second half of sugar with anise stars and add aromatic powder to dough. Add a little more flour — if necessary. Flour here in general «by eye» — how much will take, most importantly that dough isn`t tight, but soft and elastic. Roll to 2-3 mm and cut off stars (or other shapes — but not very detailed — dough is quite delicate and during baking spreads slightly).
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Bake on parchment for 10 min at 180℃, but not longer! Once they become brown – take out.
If you want to make glaze — melt chocolate with some water and tsp of anise -sugar powder in water bath.
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Smear cookies after they cool a bit and sprinkle, if desired colored sugar toppings for baking.
At first I made holes in them, to hang on Christmas tree. Then decided, that can eat them without holes, and skip that fun
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