Springerle are one gift that work just as well as ornaments or holiday decorations as they do as edible cookies. If you’re a dedicated cookie baker with a highly wrought sense of aesthetics, you might ...

Here at Recipe Swap, we’re never quite sure which reader request is going to light up the switchboard, or to use a more modern metaphor, crash the e-mail inbox. A few weeks ago, reader “JR,” of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Traditionally made with almonds and cinnamon, these star-shaped cookies are both cute and spiced. To give ...

Dear Lisa: I am looking for a recipe for springelse (this may be misspelled) cookies. They are baked in a German bakery in New Braunfels. - Ann Rice Dear Ann: Chances are the cookie you are thinking ...

Blame it on the nutmeg. Of course it’s a holiday staple, a sprinkling grated over eggnog, half a teaspoon for mulled cider, a quarter teaspoon in a pumpkin pie. But when a recipe calls for grating one ...

I have always associated the holidays with baked goods. The weeks leading up to Christmas at my house are marked with floured counters and dough balls in the back of the refrigerator. I remember ...

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2000-- A closeup of Springerle (Anise Cakes) as prepared by Mrs. B. Lou Ann Card. The rolling pin is used to set the unique shapes on the cookies, and is also Mrs. Card's mothers.

One of the most famous holiday exports from Bavaria, Switzerland and Alsace is the beautifully embossed or pressed anise-flavored cookie called springerle. Accounts of the cookies date back as early ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Coming home to the scent of cookies baking was a sure sign Christmas was coming when Michelle Herberger was little. Her mother ...

Mary Jo Baas of Brookfield said she always liked the look of springerle but not the “hard, dense anise cookies made from traditional recipes.” A shortbread recipe from King Arthur Flour brought her ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Traditionally made with almonds and cinnamon, these star-shaped cookies are both cute and spiced. To give them a different spin, ...