Martha Stone

Smart Little Cookies Martha Stone

The holidays are a time for baking and never more so than in December. In fact, baking is so popular during the festive season that America celebrates two significant dates in the culinary calendar. The first, Bake Cookies Day takes place on December 18th and National Pfeffern?sse Day quickly follows on December 23rd. Pfeffern?sse are small, round German spiced cookies. The cookies, which made their way to the USA thanks to German immigrants, are a Christmas holiday tradition. They are baked with ground nuts such as walnuts and almonds along with spices including cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cardamom, and cloves. The cookies are then dusted in powdered sugar. It