Springerle III

Here is a recipe for springerle I have had for over 30 years.

• Calories: 114 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• ¼ teaspoon salt
• 2 tablespoons anise seed
• 4 egg whites
• 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
• 4 egg yolks, beaten
• 3 ½ cups cake flour

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C).

Step 2

Beat egg whites. Add sifted powdered sugar and beaten egg yolks. Beat for 15 minutes (!)

Step 3

Sift cake flour with baking powder and salt.

Step 4

When you roll them out, use just enough flour to roll easily. Roll lightly to 1/4 or 1/2 inch thickness and press design into dough with a well-floured 'Springerle' rolling pin - but don't go all the way through the dough. (The rolling pin has designs cut into it. They sell them in specialty stores.)

Step 5

Butter a cookie sheet and then sprinkle it with anise seed. Cut each section apart carefully and transfer the cookies to the sheet.

Step 6

Let stand overnight to set the design. Otherwise, they sort of melt into themselves.

Step 7

Bake for 15 minutes. Do not brown. Springerles are hard at first, but if you store them in a bread box they become tender.