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 ...

4 large eggs2 cups granulated sugar1 1 / 2 tablespoons butter, room temperature1 teaspoon baking powder 1 / 2 teaspoon anise oil or 1 teaspoon anise extract4 cups all-purpose flour Line cookie sheets ...

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 ...

Every once in a while a recipe request comes along and I get flooded with letters. Springerle cookies seem to be the hit this year. Although I ran a recipe about a month ago, I couldn't resist adding ...

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 ...

"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 ...

BISMARCK - Lore Hornung recalls with fondness her childhood in Germany. The 88-year-old Jamestown woman was 10 when World War II began. She grew up in Bad Rappenau and remembers counting airplanes ...

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 ...

Christmas and cookies are synonymous for many people. And, for many Tucsonans, finding yummy Christmas cookies means a trip to Ilsa's Konditorei and Cafe. Since Ilsa Bechert opened the doors of her ...

This recipe came from friends of my parents who were first-generation German. Every Christmas they would make several kinds of cookie for our family, and these were our favorite. Line 4 baking sheets ...