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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...