What cookies do you look forward to most on your holiday cookie platter? For me, it’s always the anise cookies. Okay, that’s not true. I also look forward to chocolate crinkle cookies ...

Whether it’s baked goods or full meals, holiday traditions call for unique dishes that make wonderful gifts for those very ...

German Christmas cookies are the tradition that connects me to my German roots. One of my most treasured possessions is an old, stained and smeared spiral notebook with recipes in the hand of my Oma.

Spices: The blend of spices, including a generous amount of black pepper, gives the cookies their signature warming flavor and prickly heat. To keep the list of spices pared down, I suggest choosing ...

German Christmas cookies, or Weihnachtsplatzchen ... adding an exotic twist to classic treats like Springerle (anise-flavored embossed cookies).

The cookies are made by combining butter, sugar, eggs, flour, vanilla, salt, baking powder and anise extract ... Lebkuchen, or German gingerbread cookies from Nuremberg, are considered the ...

These festive cinnamon-spiced cookies are the best of both worlds — chewy and soft with a crispy meringue topping. Blanched almond flour has a finer texture and lighter color than natural or ...

“I hope you like the flavor of anise,” I said to our news editor, Liz Baumeister, earlier this week as I held out plate of holiday cut-out cookies, fresh from the Times Leader test kitchen.

At the holidays, I always think of my great-grandmother's hands rolling pasta and baking anise crescents. They looked like powdered sugar-coated Italian wedding cookies, but with a secret: anise ...