bought saltwater taffy but several of them so far have been aniseseed flavor 😭

Black licorice is my favorite licorice; like the black spice gumdrops too- but then, I love aniseseed.

Bad man's plaything
pervasive yarrow - just
another liquorice.

#DailyHaikuPrompt (yarrow)
#haiku

Today I learned that yarrow tastes like aniseseed.

Buuuuut I don't have any mace, so we're going to use 5 tsp of five-spice and add 1 tsp nutmeg and 1 tsp cardamom, so we'll end up substituting fennel for the mace ans star anise for the aniseseed.

The dry ingredients are 2 and 1/2 cups flour, 1tsp black pepper, and 2 tbsp of something called Lebkuchengewurz, which is a spice mix of cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon, mace and aniseseed. The spice mix has 6 ingredients and 6 tsp (2 tbsp) is called for, so we could just use 1 tsp of each.

amused how all the bottles in this duty free variety pack of akvavit brands have assorted tasting notes on em

they all taste like nothing but aniseseed because of course they do

Dessert Plate for Boos & Brews

Spiced Ganache Macaron- Joanna
Toasted Anise Cream Puff- Wyatt
Candy Corn Cake
Witch Fingers (Mexican Wedding Cookies)

#bleudoorbakery #vancouverwashington #uptownvillage #halloween #plateddessert #macaron #candycorn #aniseseed #blacklicorice #creampuff