Christmas - Biscochitos

Jack Scalfani and his buddy Joe are making a New Mexico favorite dessert. Here is the recipe:
Ingredients
! 1/2 Cups Sugar
! 1 Tablespoon Cinnamon
! 6 Cups! Flour
! 1 Tablespoon Baking Powder
! 1 Tablespoon Anise
! Pinch Salt
! 2 Cups Very softened butter (4 sticks)
! 1 3/4 Cups Sugar
! 2! Eggs
! 1 Cup of Orange Juice

Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 375.
In a small bowl, make a mixture of cinnamon and 1/2 sugar. Use more or less to taste.
Set aside.
In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, anise, and salt together.
In a second bowl, mix the softened butter, sugar, eggs, and orange juice.
Mix half of the flour mixture together with the butter, sugar, eggs, and orange juice.
Then add remaining flour.
Kneed dough thoroughly until all ingredients are mixed. Don't over kneed. (Use Kitchen Aid mixture with dough hook if available.)
On a floured counter top or cutting board, roll small golf ball-sized dough balls into 6 inch ropes. Bend the ropes into a design that looks like the Christian fish symbol or any design you wish.
Place on an ungreased cookie sheet.
Using the cinnamon/sugar mixture, sprinkle over the cookies.
Bake at 375 for 20 minutes (check at 15 minutes).
Yields: about 85 cookies.
New Mexico-Style Biscochitos

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[tippylovesdaniel]

What does the anise seed do?

[jakatak69]

@tippylovesdaniel it smells like black licorice. it's a spice on the baking or spice aisle.

[liltiff90]

I'm sorry but I think you should have creamed the sugar and butter together first because that batter looked gross at the beginning and that "funny looking thing" is called a paddle attachment

[jakatak69]

@liltiff90 thanks. I will refer to it by it's proper name next time. :D

[sacraficialangel7]

pfft! measurements? not in my cakes!!!

I do all my cakes by eye these days, and they pretty much always turn out soft and fluffy and delicious :)

[jakatak69]

@sacraficialangel7 I wish I could do that. :D

[jakatak69]

@badmedusa if your going to criticize my spelling, please use proper grammar in your comment. :D

[JamieSangret00]

Jack, are you just really short or is Joe just really tall? Lol. Sorry ^-^ It was just something I really noticed :P

[klpkckaryn]

Can you leave out the orange juice... I'm allergic :(

[datpimpinboy]

Actually, Biscochitos has different meanings in other parts. In Colombia, it means buscuits :)

[Sonofblaster]

If you brush the top of the cookies with melted butter before you put the cinnamon on, the cinnamon will stick and the cookie will become a nice, golden-brown.

[MrButterworth24]

@skoshy you sad sad man

[seanya9989]

@StarbrightxStarlight But it's in the U.S....

[StarbrightxStarlight]

A girl in my class didn't know that New Mexico was in Mexico.... She thought it was is Germany...

[unitedpeanutsgurl]

dear jack i was wondering if you could do me a HUGE favor and make baklava? thank you

[jamesalan10]

the funky looking thing is a paddle

[mickymike1000]

Using Lard is better then using the butter, it gives the cookies a better melt in your mouth consistency. Thats the New Mexico way