Get ready to embark on a delightful culinary journey with our Pfeffernüsse recipe – a symphony of warm spices, sweet honey, and a touch of holiday cheer. These German Christmas Spiced Cookies are not ...

Fire up those ovens, today is National Pfeffernusse Day! These hard, round cookies incorporate spices like cloves, black pepper and cinnamon for a festive, wintry flavor. This nutty take on ...

I’d never heard of pfeffernüsse until 2012, when a reader named Sally Jo Hahn emailed me to try to find a recipe for her dad. He was about to turn 92, and he absolutely loved these spiced “peppernut” ...

It’s our 20th year of this sweet extravaganza, and we’re ready to celebrate with you. As the short days and cold nights of late fall and early winter begin to settle around us, I’ll take any excuse to ...

Cook's notes: Baker's ammonia or ammonium carbonate, is used as a leavener, lighter and airier than baking soda. Weiss considers it crucial to the recipe. It smells strong until it is baked. We found ...

Berlin-born food writer Weiss (My Berlin Kitchen) collects masterpieces of time-tested recipes to create this traditional classic that, like her lebkuchen (old-fashioned German gingerbread), is bound ...

1. In a bowl, whisk the cinnamon, cloves, coriander ginger, nutmeg, white pepper, cardamom, anise, salt, and baking soda to blend them. Add the flour and whisk well until thoroughly blended. 2. In a ...

Pfeffernusse are small, firm peppery balls often served with tea or cocoa. Traditional recipes call for black pepper - the name, after all, means "pepper nuts" - and a host of other spices. We kept ...

For me, for almost half a century, it's exactly the same every year. It's the day the pfeffernusse arrive. They're spicy little German Christmas cookies named for their pepper and nuts -- a completely ...