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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a cool December day a few years ago, I was roaming the Kristkindl Markt in Hermann, admiring the hand-crafted holiday decorations in the Festhalle, when I happened upon Letha Misener and her ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

So what does a Christmas cookie from centuries ago look like? This time of year, a bakery in Pennsylvania Dutch country is busy making cookies the same way they were made in medieval Germany, and ...

It's one of the oldest cookies know to woman. Called springerle, this cookie has been around since the 14th century according to a Web site I found offering the history of this According to the site, ...

CARMEL, Ind. (WISH) — Christmas lovers who adore Döner kebab, Kartoffelpuffer and Springerle cookies can get their fill at Carmel Christkindlmarkt starting in November. Organizers announced Thursday ...