Recipes For German Christmas Cookies
This recipe for vanillekipferl or german vanilla crescent cookies is made with ground nuts and finished with a dusting of vanilla sugar.
Recipes for german christmas cookies. Springerle this anise flavored white cookie is a regional specialty from southern germany more precisely form the swabian region of baden württemberg. My mother remembers her grandmother making them with this recipe that has been in our family for generations. The crescent shape is pretty and festive and the soft.
A german holiday tradition these fragrant cookies pack a warm rush of spices in every bite. A great german christmas cookie based on traditional lebkuchen these simple gingerbread squares are brushed with honey and decorated with ground walnuts. These anise flavored german christmas cookies have been made for centuries using decorative carved wooden molds or carved rolling pins.
German hazelnut cookies haselnussmakronen german hazelnut cookies or haselnussmakronen are another german christmas cookie that is unique in many ways. Also called peppernuts they go wonderfully with coffee or tea joanne nelson east stroudsburg pennsylvania.