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 ...

As a young boy in Germany, Herb Schwartz worked dough into intricate, hand-carved wooden molds to create a shortbread-type cookie called springerle. The crisp, anise-flavored cookies depicting St.

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 ...

A dedicated cookie baker with a highly wrought sense of aesthetics might try his or her hand at German springerle -- the Christmas cookies of Swabia. The pale, embossed cookies are formed with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

German Springerle cookies are not only delicious but beautiful to look at with their intricate designs pressed into the dough. Gable House Bakery in Miffinburg is one of the few bake shops who make ...

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 ...

A Strasburg business that deals in ancient images will undergo changes in upcoming weeks. Heather Botchlet, owner of the The Springerle House at 15 E. Main St., is moving the business closer to the ...

The Springerle House bakery and cafe will shut its doors next month in Strasburg and then continue as a bakery-only business in Conestoga. Owner Heather Botchlet said the bakery and cafe at 11 E. Main ...