Maple-star anise cookies (sandwiched) from Dorie's Cookies (page 264) by Dorie Greenspan

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  • et12 on May 13, 2023

    These were excellent cookies with subtle but complex flavours. I would have loved to make the cream cheese frosting and create sandwich cookies but I ran out of time and the cookies were devoured before I could make the frosting.

  • hillsboroks on May 04, 2020

    These cookies have a lovely delicate flavor that is wonderful with a cup of tea or coffee. I rolled them cookie balls in coarse demera sugar which gave them a nice crunch. I don't think they would stand out on a holiday cookie tray as clcorbi wrote in her note but alone they are delightful. The texture is soft and a bit cakey and the spices are subtle. When combined with the cream cheese frosting they really start to shine. Be sure to take Dorie at her word and keep each dough ball small. They do spread and I found I had to bake them an extra 3-5 minutes to get them to brown properly.

  • clcorbi on December 19, 2017

    Made these for my Christmas cookie tray--I don't want to say these were BAD, but I don't think they lived up to other, more excellent cookies I have made from this book. To be fair, I didn't make my own cream cheese frosting--I used store-bought and doctored it with the requisite spices. Still, the cookies themselves were just okay, and their texture became unpleasantly chalky by the second day. I thought the star anise flavor was a bit weird, and didn't mesh well with the orange zest and maple (which I couldn't taste at all despite using a very nice, dark maple syrup). All in all, these still got happily eaten up, but my bar for this book is set so high that I'd rather try other recipes than make these again.

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