Springerle recipe

If you're used to springerle cookies that are as challenging to roll out as lifting your own body weight, this recipe is your answer to sore arms! Thanks to Frank Tegethoff, one of our talented test bakers, for coming up with this easier springerle recipe.

These beautiful cookies are steeped in European tradition and you can make them today with hand-carved wooden molds that are made in the United States.

Springerle cookies have been called "too pretty to eat". But don't let that stop you. Enjoy these springerle tips, history and recipe.

Springerle cookies are a Christmas cookie from the Alsace-Lorraine area of France, and into Germany and Switzerland. I’d seen pictures of them before but never made them, and after being tempted into purchasing one of the cookie molds at a Christmas market at Freiburg, it was time. Now the complicated part for these cookies doesn’t

“Of Swiss and German heritage, the molded springerle (SPRING-ur-lee) cookie is delightful. A white, anise-flavored cookies formed by pressing a single or multiple-image mold or carved rolling pin into dough. of Swiss and German origin. Springerle means "jumper" or "springer"--presumably because the cookie dough rises, or "springs up," to half again its height during baking.”Classic Springerle Cookies 9 large eggs (USDA Grade A Large in the US) at room temperature 2 lb powdered…

Authentic German Springerle Cookies with Anise - Humbly Homemade

With no shortening in Springerle Cookies, it is a combination of a cookie and a cake. The drying time before baking is to dry the top of the cookie so the design becomes prominent. This anise flavored German cookie is great to eat as well as to use for tree ornaments.

Do you know what springerle are? Traditionally leavened with hartshorn (baker’s ammonia) and flavored with anise or lemon, these pretty embossed cookies date back to 14th-century Germany. The intricate molds that shape them are typically carved from wood.