Woodcarver Mary May joins Roy to carve springerle cookie molds for every occasion. Woodcarver Mary May joins Roy to carve springerle cookie molds for every occasion from apple and cherry wood. The ...

As a young boy in Germany, Herb Schwartz worked dough into intricate, hand-carved wooden molds to create a shortbread-type cookie called springerle. The crisp, anise-flavored cookies depicting St.

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 ...

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 ...

On a cool December day a few years ago, I was roaming the Kristkindl Markt in Hermann, admiring the hand-crafted holiday decorations in the Festhalle, when I happened upon Letha Misener and her ...