Serve with milk or hot chocolate, and offer some to your departed ancestors, so they may breathe in its essence and be nourished, before you gobble it up yourself!

• 2 cups flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 1/4 t. salt
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1/4 cup vegetable oil
• 10 drops anise extract

Mix all of the above until smooth. Heat the oven to 400 degrees and grease a cookie sheet. With clean hands, mold the dough into a round shape with a knob on the top (which will be a skull) or into smaller round shapes, animals, faces or angels. Place dough on cookie sheet.

• 1/4 cup brown sugar
• 1 T. flour
• 1 t. ground cinnamon
• 1 T. melted butter

Mix together brown sugar, flour, cinnamon and melted butter for the topping. Sprinkle topping on dough and bake for 20 to 25 minutes. When cool, decorate the skull shaped knobs, animals or faces with icing sugar to make eyes, nose and mouth.