Tuesdays with Dorie BWD: Coffee-Anise Stars

December 13, 2022 at 11:15 pm | Posted in BWD, cookies & bars, groups, sweet things, tuesdays with dorie | 7 Comments
Tags: baking, cookies, holiday

Are we all in full holiday baking mode yet? I have so many new things I want to try: babka (of course!), a chocolate-rosemary roulade, two different sticky toffee puddings, a mint-chocolate cake, a gingerbread layer cake, a rum raisin bundt, some baked apple thing and approximately ten thousand cookies. I don’t know how many I’ll actually wind up getting to, but I can tick one of those cookies off the list with these Coffee-Anise Stars.

These crisp roll-out cookies are gingerbread-adjacent, flavored with molasses, cinnamon, espresso powder and ground star anise. The anise is the “star” of the show here, but if you aren’t a fan of that licorice thing, you can certainly swap it out for any other warm spice that’s nice, or go full-gingerbread with a blend. I bet you can even cut them out into trees or snowmen or little dudes, and they will still work. Haha. I wanted to give my stars a coffee glaze, so instead of Dorie’s egg white-based one, I mixed a tiny bit of soft butter, powdered sugar and coffee till I had a coat-able consistency. These are a nice spicy bite with coffee, natch.

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We preferred these naked but your glaze sounds good. You have quite the list to bake, enjoy.

Comment by Diane Zwang— December 14, 2022 #

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What a lovely flavor combination!

Comment by Dorothy's New Vintage Kitchen— December 14, 2022 #

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Knowing that you don’t really love making the cut out cookie thing…makes me appreciate yours even more! 😂😍 I love that you did a different icing and I like your shooting star shape!

Comment by isthisakeeper— December 16, 2022 #

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- thank you! and i made a small batch to keep myself sane! haha
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— December 16, 2022 #
  
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The different shapes of stars are so joyous to see, like looking into the night sky with a sense of awe. Yes, the coffee flavor glaze must be amazing too. How come I didn’t think of that earlier?

Comment by Shirley @ EverOpenSauce— December 22, 2022 #

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- i love this comment- thank you!
  
  Comment by steph (whisk/spoon)— December 23, 2022 #
  
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A coffee glaze sounds nice. I think any shape cutter would work just fine, so they’re not just for Christmas.

Comment by Cakelaw— December 23, 2022 #

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