Anisbroetli

These are exactly the same as German Springerle—rich anise-flavored dough imprinted with special molds to give the cookies beautiful designs. In Germany, to imprint the dough with designs, they are usually rolled with a special carved rolling pin. The Swiss tend to imprint using individual molds. The Swiss system is more reliable because you are working with only a small portion of the dough at a time. Molds were difficult to find at one time, but now there are many antique-reproduction mol