Anise Pound Cake Recipes

SWEET ANISE POUND CAKE

Steps:

• With a mixer, beat 3/4 cup butter and sugar until well blended. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating to blend well with each addition. Beat in lemon peel and anise extract.
• Mix 1 1/4 cups flour with baking powder and salt. Add the flour mixture to batter, mixing slowly to incorporate dry ingredients, then beat at medium speed until well blended.
• Scrape batter into a buttered and flour-dusted 4 1/2- by 8-inch loaf pan. Spread level.
• Bake in a 325° oven until cake is golden and just begins to pull from pan sides, about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack about 15 minutes. Invert cake onto a plate and serve warm or cool, cut into thin slices.

CHOMBOLINI (ITALIAN ANISE CAKE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a fluted tube pan (such as Bundt®) with shortening and dust with flour.
• Sift flour, baking powder, and salt together in a bowl.
• Mix sugar and butter in a bowl with a spoon until creamy. Mix in eggs.
• Combine orange juice and milk in a separate bowl; pour into the sugar mixture. Stir in the flour mixture, anise, and lemon extract until well combined. Fold in dates and walnuts. Pour batter into the prepared pan.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the top of the cake springs back when touched and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Cool in the pan for 20 minutes. Transfer cake to a rack for final cooling, 15 to 25 minutes.

ANISE CAKES

Steps:

• Beat eggs until light.
• Add sugar gradually, beating till creamy.
• Add vanilla; add anise oil now if using it.
• Sift flour with baking powder; add to mixture beating it well.
• If you use anise seeds instead of anise oil, add it now.
• Drop by teaspoons onto greased cookie sheets.
• Allow them to dry 12 hours or overnight.
• Bake for 12 minutes in 350 degree oven. Check to see if golden around edges. Do not allow them to get brown. Makes 50 1-1/2" cookies.
• Note: I use cooking spray or silicone sheets on cookie sheets---nothing sticks and no clean up.
• Cooking time included overnight drying time.

LITTLE ANISEED CAKES

Steps:

• In a mixing bowl sift together flour, sugar,and salt.
• Add anise seed.
• Blend in softened butter, then eggs.
• Roll out dough to half-inch thickness and cut into rounds or other desired shapes.
• Bake in 350 oven 18-20 minutes.