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 ...

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 ...

Springerle (pronounced Sprin-ger-le) often refers to a German biscuit or cookie with an image stamped on it. Springerle molds date back centuries into the Middle Ages and the really old ones can only ...

Surprisingly, crafting elaborately detailed cookies made with cookie stamps, springerle molds and springerle rolling pins is not as difficult as it appears. Like other well done works of art, a good ...

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, ...

Unfortunately you've used all of your gifts this month. Your counter will reset on the first day of next month. Connie Meisinger became a springerle baker when her aging grandmother was no longer able ...

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 ...

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. The tools you need to craft these cameo-like cards come from the kitchen: They're traditional European springerle-cookie molds. We ...