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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For several years, I worked with a woman who, every Christmas, brought in a large tray of springerle cookies. Well, I'd been making springerle cookies for years, as my mother had before me, and they ...

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 ...

In this video, traditional Springerle cookies are made from start to finish. The process focuses on the detailed dough preparation, molding techniques, and careful baking required to preserve the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...