BISCOCHITOS- A CUT OUT SUGAR COOKIE

      Title: BISCOCHITOS- A CUT OUT SUGAR COOKIE
  Categories: Biscuits
       Yield: 1 Servings
  
       1 c  Sugar
       1 c  Margarine or butter
       3 tb Sweet sherry
       1    Egg
       3 c  Flour
       2 ts Baking powder
       2 ts Anise seed crushed
     1/4 ts Salt
     1/4 c  Sugar
       1 ts Cinnamon
  
   Heat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar and margarine, sherry and egg in a
   large bowl. Stir in the remaining ingredients except the 1/4 cup
   sugar and the cinnamon. Divide dough into two balls. Roll out each
   ball to 1/4 inch thick and cut into any shape with cookie cutters.
   Place on ungreased sheet. Mix together the sugar and cinnamon and
   sprinkle on the cookies before baking. Bake 10-12 minutes until
   golden.
   
   These cookies are cute made into a cactus shape. Pinch off balls of
   dough, one larger than a quarter and 2 the size of a nickel. Roll
   each of the balls between your palms to make cigar shape. Flatten the
   large one to make the main stem of the cactus. Bend one third of each
   of the two smaller ones to make a J shape and attach them at uneven
   intervals on each side to make the "arms". Flatten them to match the
   trunk and bake.
   
   Let you daughter taste the anise first.  Often children do not like
   it as much as adults.  If your daughter does not like the anise
   flavor simply substitute cinnamon oil or flavoring.  It is very
   popular in Mexico.
   
   Nancy Lee Collins bcollins@students.wisc.edu
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