My Christmas fantasy always involves dispensing with gifts, stopping the music and replanting all those doomed trees. But there’s no way I would pass up baking cookies with ginger, doctoring eggnog ...

Easy-bake cookies with an aniseed twang and a soft, citrussy icing Aniseed is one of those flavours you either love or hate. It’s similar to liquorice (which I can’t stand), but a little aniseed ...

Aniseed is a spice with a liquorice-like taste normally associated with the intoxicating whiff of Sambuca and absinthe. And a cavalry of cringeful teen-memories outside the tennis-club disco. This ...

The other day, a food-in friend was sharing with me the pleasures of eating Guyanese-style Aniseed Biscuits. I have to confess that my memory of the biscuit was not as vivid as his; I vaguely remember ...

Aniseed tastes like Christmas to me because I grew up in a Mexican neighborhood in Arizona where bizcochos were the real gingerbread men. Everyone’s mother baked these little diamonds, flecked with ...

Cookies: In a large bowl, use a mixer to beat the butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add anise extract. One at a time, add eggs, mixing and scraping the sides of the bowl after each ...

The other day, a food-in friend was sharing with me the pleasures of eating Guyanese-style Aniseed Biscuits. I have to confess that my memory of the biscuit was not as vivid as his; I vaguely remember ...