Moravian Cookies Recipe

by Courtney Drake-McDonough, Publisher and Managing Editor | Oct 28, 2025 | Real Recipes, Sweets

This Moravian Cookies Recipe is one of the most popular that RealFoodTraveler.com has ever run! It’s part of a wonderful article called “Old Salem Moravian Cookies Recipe and The Moravian Cookie Trail,” written by Suzanne Corbett, our Food History...

Old-Fashioned Pfeffernusse Cookie Recipe

by Courtney Drake-McDonough, Publisher and Managing Editor | Dec 9, 2023 | Real Recipes, Sweets

While enjoying the Christmas season in Fredericksburg, Texas, which has a strong German heritage, I discovered Pfeffer-Neusse cookies (aka Pfeffernusse) being made in a unique way. My fellow travel writers and I were visiting the Sauer-Beckmann Living History Farm on...

Biscochitos Cookies Recipe

by Courtney Drake-McDonough, Publisher and Managing Editor | Dec 27, 2022 | Real Recipes, Sweets

Make the light, tender, and delicious Biscochitos Cookies, a treat traditionally enjoyed during the Christmas holidays, originally from New Mexico. We were fortunate to receive the recipe from Angel Fire Resort in New Mexico.  Hungry for more? Read more about Angel...

Old Salem Moravian Cookies Recipe and The Moravian Cookie Trail

by Suzanne Corbett, RFT Food History Editor | Nov 14, 2022 | Real Recipes, Sweets

Colonial American culinary traditions often are mixed with molasses, allspice and ginger. These were popular ingredients found throughout the 18th century that made their way into a multitude of dishes from stews to gingerbread. These spices that defined a time also...

Make Spitzbuben at a Virtual Cookie Baking Party

by Sherry Spitsnaugle | Dec 18, 2020 | Real Recipes, Sweets

    Like just about everything else in 2020, even getting together to bake cookies with family and friends has changed. Writer Sherry Spitsnaugle and her family got together for a virtual cookie baking party to make festive, authentic Spitzbuben together...