Monday, December 15, 2008

A new hobby...


No, I haven't given up tatting, but I do have a new hobby... baking Springerle cookies! I was on a quest for a special rolling pin for my daughter, when I came upon a beautiful Springerle rolling pin. I was intrigued and started reading up on it, ordered some molds, bought the ingredients, and...


I'm addicted. Thanksgiving weekend, my daughter Andrea and I made our first batch... Andrea really did all the work. I just watched. The cookies were well worth the effort! This past weekend, I decided to try and make them on my own. I had fun, and they turned out almost as good as Andrea's!


We're celebrating December birthdays at school tomorrow. Guess what I'm taking!

11 comments:

  1. Oh, wow! They look beautiful! I've always wanted one of those rolling pins! They look like they are so much fun to make! :)

    Perhaps one day you might provide us all with a tute on how to make these!?!

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  2. slurrpppp!!!! They look so yummy, I wish you could send some all the way here...lol.

    I so love home baked cookies - much better and tastier than what you get outside. Do you like the smell of baking??? Just thinking of it makes my mouth drool! hehe

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  3. I hardly cook or bake. Learnt something new today - Springerle rolling pin. These rolling pins are so interesting, the cookies look like art pieces! I'll look out for the pins when I next go shopping.

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  4. Those look delicious! Baking is a great hobby. I bought a Springerle rolling pin last year, but haven't used it yet. Was it hard to keep the dough from sticking to the shapes on the pin? I have a cookie exchange this weekend, maybe I'll try to make these.

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  5. Those look delicious! In fact you taught me something new today...I've never heard of this technique.

    I can see why you have become addicted!

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  6. Yumm, yumm! I have these in my Cookie Book but have always shied away from them. Guess I need to take a closer look. They are beautiful and look sooo good!

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  7. How pretty -- very nearly too pretty to eat! I've never heard of a whatsit rolling pin. Now, I'm going to have to do a bit of looking. Is the dough something special or is it like a sugar cookie?

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  8. And just when I thought I had my Christmas baking done. WOW they look great.

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  9. I don't know what a rolling pin is and decorating cakes in this way is unfamiliar to me. But they both look yummy and beautiful.

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  10. How beautiful! I'll have to start the hunt for really cool rolling pins. Blessings.. Polly

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