1. In a bowl, whisk the cinnamon, cloves, coriander ginger, nutmeg, white pepper, cardamom, anise, salt, and baking soda to blend them. Add the flour and whisk well until thoroughly blended. 2. In a ...

Cook's notes: Baker's ammonia or ammonium carbonate, is used as a leavener, lighter and airier than baking soda. Weiss considers it crucial to the recipe. It smells strong until it is baked. We found ...

German for "pepper nut," pfeffernusse cookies are named for the pinch of pepper added to the dough before baking. It joins a quartet of warm spices -- cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and cloves.

It's the week before Christmas, and Hans Rockenwagner's bakery in mid-city Los Angeles is humming. Giant side-by-side mixers beat egg white and sugar, along with a mix containing almond paste and ...

It’s easy to overlook pfeffernusse on a holiday cookie platter of colorful, stuffed, and decorated cookies. Not only are they petite, but the unassuming brown color also doesn’t give anything away ...

For me, for almost half a century, it's exactly the same every year. It's the day the pfeffernusse arrive. They're spicy little German Christmas cookies named for their pepper and nuts -- a completely ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Traditionally made with almonds and cinnamon, these star-shaped cookies are both cute and spiced. To give ...

These traditional German Christmas Cookies are the perfect addition to your holiday cookie platter. With favorites like almond crescent cookies, spritz cookies and gingerbread cookies you can bake up ...

For the holidays, we decided to take a classic — yet simple — German pepper cookie and make it a bit more festive and a bit more peppery.

23 December is National Pfeffernusse Day, a day reserved for the celebration of the very popular German spiced cookie. This cookie is a popular snack during the holidays. It’s a fluffy cookie, made ...

Bake your way through the holidays with AP's 12 Days of Holiday Cookies. The series features 12 delicious cookies, with each building on the skills mastered in the previous day's cookie. By the end of ...