Italian Food Recipe for Recipe Lovers Italian Food Recipe : Italian Cookie Learn to cook this Italian Cookie Recipe and a multitude of other Italian Cuisine Recipes with the online information provided by indianrecipes.com and enjoy the flavour of wonderful italian recipes! Ingredients: 6 large eggs 2 cups sugar 1 cup (1/2 lb) melted butter 2 tsp. anise extract or 1 tsp. anise oil 1 tsp. anise seed 7 cups all purpose flour 4 T. baking powder Method : In bowl of mixer, beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add cooled butter, anise extract or oil, and the anise seed. Stir in the flour and baking powder. Beat the batter until well combined and a dough-like consistency. Form the dough into 1" round balls. Heat the pizzelle baker. Place 2 balls of dough on pizzelle baker, close lid and bake for 35-45 seconds, just until very light brown and crisp. Remove from baker, form into desired shape or leave as is. Continue with remaining dough. Makes about 75 cookies. Various shapes: Place a cooked and warmed pizzelle over a small glass to form a "bowl" of dough to fill with ice cream or berries. Roll a cooked and warmed pizzelle into a tube to stuff with cream. Roll a cooked and warmed pizzelle into a cone to fill with ice cream