These turned out beautifully. I learned how to make these when I lived in Germany but I lost the recipe. This one seems identical. Make sure to cut out extra tops because they will ocassionally crack during baking. In true German style I love to put sauerkirsch (sour cherry) jam in the middle for a kick of tartness.
Perfect. I struggled to use my mother in law's recipe which is in German and uses weights rather than volume measurements. This recipe worked beautifully and even my German husband was thrilled. Thank you so much! Now that Advent is approaching I plan to make several batches!
Lovely light cookie! I wasn't able to give the recipe five stars though due to the following errors: If the dough were rolled out to 3/4" thickness not only would you have a cookie that's 1-1/2" high when finished there's no way unless each was only about an inch around you'd be able to cut out 60 cookies in order to make 30. I rolled out my dough to about 3/16" and I got 40 heart shaped cookies 2" wide at the widest part. Almost all other Spitzbuben recipes say to roll out the dough to 1/4" (one said 1/8"). I warmed up about 3/4c. preserves and I had a few of tablespoons leftover. 1/2c. would have been plenty. Minor oops is the typo in the second to last sentence.;0)
These cookies are delicious! This has quickly become a new family favorite...I made a batch to send to my grandmother but they were all gone before I could get them in the mail!
These are very yummy. The only reason it isnt getting 5 stars is because it was a real pain to make. Ive never made these before so I did not know if what I was doing is right. I wish the directions were more detailed. My dough was very crumbly and hard to work with I dont know if it was supposed to be this way or if I did something wrong? The taste was great though. I also didnt know if the cookies were supposed to be golden when taking them out of the oven so I just did 8 minutes (not golden but tasted good) so I guess thats how their supposed to be.
I've made Spitzbuben every year as part of my christmas baking but lost my recipe in my recent move. These are delicious I also pefer to use sour preserve like rasberry.
We use red currant jam the sourness makes it delicious.
These are pretty good. I made them wrong though. Hah. They ended up really tall.:P
These cookies are definitely
