Traditional Springerle

Traditional recipe for springerle molds. The rolled and pressed cookies need to dry overnight to allow the pressed embossed design to harden.

Springerle A Traditional German Christmas Cookie Recipe

While historical molds show that springerle were baked for religious holidays and secular occasions throughout the year they are now most commonly associated with the christmas season.

Traditional springerle. Springerle cookies have been and still are traditional christmas cookies in bavaria switzerland and austria dating back to at least the 1600s. Springerle traditions was created to share the tradition of springerle cookies by making authentic molds available to all. Mold impressions are easier to make if the dough is chilled beforehand.

They re delicately flavored with anise and are embossed with a variety of designs. Springerle are traditional german cookies with a very long very rich history and tradition and come from the swabia region of southern germany where i m from. The springerle is the best choice of cookies to dip in coffee tea or hot chocolate.

With the same devotion the molds are used for beautiful tragacanth ornaments paper reliefs marzipan and spicy springerle. This collection is being expanded every year. The name springerle translates literally as little jumper or little knight but its exact origin is unkno.

This preserves the detail of the surface pattern. There is hardly another cookie that has been baked for the past few hundred years with the same love and care as the springerle. Traditional german springerle the traditional german springerle belong to the collection of old fashioned christmas cookies in germany.

Allowed to dry overnight the designs remain embossed in the cookies when baked. Springerle cookies are a centuries old anise flavored german christmas cookie made using decorative carved wooden molds or rolling pins. änis paradies has been in business for over 30 years and has the world s largest collection over 1000 of cookie molds.

Springerle are white anise flavored cookies made from a simple egg flour sugar dough. Springerle is a type of german biscuit with an embossed design made by pressing a mold onto rolled dough and allowing the impression to dry before baking. Traditional springerle cookies are made by pressing a mold onto the rolled out cookie dough and letting the impression dry before baking.