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 ...

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 ...

Blame it on the nutmeg. Of course it’s a holiday staple, a sprinkling grated over eggnog, half a teaspoon for mulled cider, a quarter teaspoon in a pumpkin pie. But when a recipe calls for grating one ...

For several years, I worked with a woman who, every Christmas, brought in a large tray of springerle cookies. Well, I'd been making springerle cookies for years, as my mother had before me, and they ...

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 ...

Springerle cookies start with a simple dough, but making them takes time and attention to detail. After the cookies are rolled and stamped, the designs need to set up and dry for 8 to 24 hours. They ...