Kissed with the perfect amount of sweet icing on top and finished with some festive sprinkles, they have everything you want in a holiday cookie recipe. What I love most about this anise cookie ...

Our family-favorite ginger cookie recipe is a go-to from Allrecipes, so I made one last search and found this Italian Cookies with Anise recipe—it's the perfect stand-in for our missing family recipe.

“I hope you like the flavor of anise,” I said to our news editor, Liz Baumeister, earlier this week as I held out plate of holiday cut-out cookies, fresh from the Times Leader test kitchen.