Maybe you remember them growing up, those heirloom German cookie molds dressing up the kitchen wall. Though they make great decorations, the molds also produce showstopping cookies -- and they’re ...

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 ...

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 tools you need to craft these cameo-like cards come from the kitchen: They're traditional European springerle-cookie molds. We filled them with pulp made from cotton-linter paper instead of dough, ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SOUTH PORTLAND — If you can tear your eyes away from the luscious raised doughnuts, the enticing meat pies and the adorable potato-crusted mini-quiches at Little Bigs bakery on Main Street, you might ...

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 ...