How To Use Wooden Cookie Molds

Kitchen-tested Cookie Recipes for apply with

wooden molds such every bit Springerle Presses

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7 x 3.5" Springerle Cookie

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Hand Carved Cookie Molds

Recipes & Instructions for Use with Wooden Molds

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TIP #3: Make full a foursquare of cheesecloth with powdered carbohydrate, secure with a safe band. Apply this as a "duster" of molds prior to use with chilled dough. Tap out whatever excess sugar and the mold'due south carved recesses remain sharp and clean for repeated use (unlike flour which oft builds up and obscures the carved details of the wooden mold.

TIP #2: The gift of a mold AND the cookies shaped with that mold is one to exist remembered past a special friend for a lifetime!

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Springerle Cookies... ahhhhhhhhhhhhh

an intoxicating whiff of anise, a soft and chewy bite, followed by a sweet melting on the tongue!

HARTSHORN is said to be the secret ingredient for keeping the springerles soft and chewy. Many pharmacies carry hartshorn and anise oil.

Solving Common Baking Problems:

"Dough soft and glutinous"=Also warm or not enough flour!

"Dough crumbly" = Too much flour, not enough liquid or fat due to pocket-size eggs, or (rarely) as well cold.

"Cookies bake unevenly" = Hot spots in oven, not shaped uniformly, arrange oven temp 25 degrees, shift cookie sheets.

"Cookies lose item when baked" = Too much leavening or cookies not molded firmly plenty to choice up all the detail.

"Cookies spread during baking" = Dough placed on hot or over greased baking canvas, unbaked cookies also warm when placed on baking sheet, likewise much leavening or when there is too much fat and/or liquid and not enough flour in the dough.

"Cookies suspension apart when moved to cookie rack" = Allow the cookies cool on the cookie sheets for a couple minutes before attempting to move them to a cooling rack.

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? REPLACE MARGARINE WITH BUTTER? Jan. 2016

Manufacturers are re-formulating margarine in response to new regulations regarding trans-fats. They are substituting palm oil for other oils, etc.

Anne 50. Watson writes: "I've constitute the result of this change in margarine on the MOLDED COOKIES is non skilful. The dough is sticky and adding more than flour makes the cookies brittle.Therefore, nosotros're taking margarine out of

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A Charming Story of Making Springerle:

First, anybody taking a turn beating the egg by manus [for about an hour]... then someone who rolled the dough, someone else who pressed the impressions, the male parent taking the responsibility of doing the important and dangerous precise cutting along lines with a very sharp knife. Others prepared the baking sheets and [saved for the littlest family fellow member] the most important job of placing two and only two anise seeds where each cookie would be placed and gear up to dry on the baking sheet.

Our customer Katy R. of Colorado writes " We still have, treasured and displayed, the two original double-sided springerle boards brought from Germany to Decatur nigh 1882, carved by her father when his daughter emigrated to America. Six generations shared this tradition every year for 130 years before retiring the originals when I saw a similar mitt-carved one-sided antiquarian springerle for auction for "yikes" $900. For the past five years we have establish 3 or 4 small, fairly good replicas - though non hand-carved and no comparison to those you take created.

And now, I've found your website! There should be an award for your website as well every bit your craft. Give thanks you! Such beautiful masterpieces all. I have ordered your "Twelve Days of Christmas" and the tradition goes on for another 130 years.