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| Here we have some of the items you need to get started. The two important tools in this photo are the hand blender and the egg beater. |
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| This is the hand blender. You use it to blend the butter and sugar together. You keep cutting into the butter while trying to get the butter and suger to become one blended mixture. |
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| After blending you may need to switch to using a fork to continue blending and then go back to using the hand blender. I usually use both to get the mixture just right. |
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| Then you add eggs and mix well with a fork. |
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| Then you pour in the anise extract. This is where it starts to smell good!!! |
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| Now you use the handheld eggbeater to continue mixing everything together. I prefer the handheld eggbeater over an electric hand mixer because it's to easy to over mix with an electric hand mixer. |
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| Here you can see the dry mixture being added to the wet mixer. Be sure to do this in this order, do not add the wet to the dry. This step is different than most cookie recipes. |
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| When you are done mixing up the dough your finihsed product should look like this. The dough will be pretty thick and sticky. When you get to the end of your mixing with a fork you are going to have to use some muscle. |
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| You will need a nice double-wall insulated cookie sheet. Spread some butter onto the sheet and then sprinkle and spread some flour on top of that. |
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| ...then drop your dough onto the cookie sheet like yo see here. If you want small cookies use a teaspoon, if you want large cookies use a tablespoon..-) |
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| Auh, the icing! This stuff is deliciouse! It's a simple mixture of powdered sugar, milk and vanilla. Here you see me adding the vanilla to the mixture. |
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| ... then mix it up well with a fork. You may have to add more milk and or more powdered sugar as you go to get the mixture just right. When you add the milk, just add one drop at a time. A little goes a long way with powdered sugar. |
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| The consistancy of your icing should be like you see here in this photo. You see how the icing just drips off of the fork? That's what you want, but it still needs to be thick enough to not drip totally off the cookie. You will get hang of this after doing it a few times. |
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| ...so now your cookies have cooled on the cookie rack and you have your icing all ready to go. Now you want to start icing your cookies. You are almost done???!!! |
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