• Pre-heat your oven to 350 degrees.
• Whisk together your eggs, sugar, vanilla and anise in a medium bowl.
  3 eggs, ¾ cup of sugar, 1 ½ teaspoon of vanilla, ½ tablespoon anise extract
• Now add your flour, salt and baking powder and mix it well until there are no lumps and it looks smooth.
  1 ¾ cups of all purpose flour, ¼ teaspoon kosher salt, 2 teaspoon of baking powder
• Now add your melted butter and mix that in to your mixture.
  ½ cup melted unsalted butter

Making the cookie shapes

• Grease cookie sheets.
• With a cookie press, add your dough into the cookie press and make your shapes on to the cookie sheet. If you do not have a cookie press, you can scoop a heaping teaspoon full of dough onto your cookie sheet and gently press the tops down with your fingers before baking.
• Bake for 8-10 minutes or until your cookies begin to get light golden in color.
• Let cool on a cooling rack completely.
• Optional: you can dust them lightly with powdered sugar once cooled.