When Marie Durante was just 5 years old, she said she remembers making and rolling traditional anise cookies with her grandmother Santa, a native of Sicily.  "Us kids would sprinkle the sprinkles on and frost," she said with a smile. 

Decades later, she and her own daughter Francesca would spend time in their Duxbury kitchen crafting the traditional Italian delicacy, and now her 10-year-old granddaughter is a master of frosting, sprinkles and packaging.