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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sarah Karnasiewicz on Lunch Break has a baker's guide to classic molded holiday cookies - springerle, gingerbread and frankfurter brenten - that are drop-dead gorgeous and deceptively easy to make.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here's a refreshing double recipe from Heather Botchlet, known to generations of Strasburg residents as "The Springerle Lady." She's an owner of that historic town's Springerle House, which pays ...