Spelt Anise Shortbread

Ingredients

• 200 g soft butter
• 75 g sugar
• 2 tbsp vanilla sugar
• 0.5 tsp ground anise
• 1 tsp grated organic orange zest
• 3 eggs
• 0.5 tsp Baking powder
• 300 g spelt flour
• milk (as needed)

Instructions

1. 1.

   Cream the soft butter in a bowl. Add the sugar, vanilla sugar, anise, orange zest and eggs and continue to cream. Mix the baking powder into the flour and fold it into the egg mixture until a spreadable dough forms. If the dough is too stiff, add a little milk. Cover and chill for about 30 minutes.

2. 2.

   Preheat the oven to 180°C fan.

3. 3.

   Fill a piping bag with a star tip and pipe dollops onto a parchment-lined baking sheet. Chill again for another 30 minutes.

4. 4.

   Bake in the oven for about 12 minutes until golden brown and let cool.