Anise Cookie Slices

Ingredients

110 gr butter
85 ml cream cheese
4 eggs
400 gr all purpose flour
14 gr baking powder
1 gr salt
4 gr anise seeds

Instructions

Cream together butter and cream cheese. Add sugar and beat until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. (Mixture might look curdled.) Add remaining ingredients; mix well. Chill dough 3 hours. Divide soft dough in half. On a 17 by 36 cm cookie sheet, form each half of dough into a roll 1- half inches wide and the length of the cookie sheet. Bake in 350 degree oven 30 to 35 minutes. Remove from oven and cut rolls into 2 cm slices. Place on cookie sheets, cut side down, return to oven and bake 10 minutes or until toasted and crisp. Makes about 48 slices. Reprinted with permission from _From our Private Collection_ From the C and H Sugar Kitchen Electronic format by Karen Mintzias