I have always associated the holidays with baked goods. The weeks leading up to Christmas at my house are marked with floured counters and dough balls in the back of the refrigerator. I remember ...

Coming home to the scent of cookies baking was a sure sign Christmas was coming when Michelle Herberger was little. Her mother would start baking the family's springerle cookies a few weeks before ...

Connie Meisinger has some sweet memories of Springerle cookies. “My grandma always made these,” she said. “My father was in the military and traveled all around and it was always very exciting when ...

I guess I should start by explaining that in my family, I’m the one who makes the Christmas cookies. I bring a big tray of them to the family Christmas Eve gathering, and I give tins of them every ...

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 ...

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 ...

They're called springerles, and you can learn to make them yourself in workshops scheduled Saturday-Sunday, Nov. 9-10, at the German American Heritage Center in Davenport. The classes will be taught ...

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 ...

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 ...

So what does a Christmas cookie from centuries ago look like? This time of year, a bakery in Pennsylvania Dutch country is busy making cookies the same way they were made in medieval Germany, and ...

BISMARCK - Lore Hornung recalls with fondness her childhood in Germany. The 88-year-old Jamestown woman was 10 when World War II began. She grew up in Bad Rappenau and remembers counting airplanes ...