Do NOT use silicone mats for baking springerle cookies! They are wonderful for baking many things, especially soft gooey cookies, like chocolate chip cookies or fudgy drop cookies. But the problem is that with springerle you want the steam to escape from the bottom of the cookie while it is baking and silocone mats do not allow this to happen. If the steam does not escape from the bottom, it has to go somewhere and it will puff out the sides, or worse, the steam will break through the top of the cookie and thus impact the beautiful print on the top surface of the springerle.
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Can you bake them on the teflon sheets.
Thank you so much!!! I have baked about 100 of them on both parchment and silpats and definitely the parchment is the best. The video helped tremendously too. Making 250 for my daughter’s wedding…
Thanks for the springgerless recipe, now my problem is where can buy the molds? I live in México city, can you tell me if there are any store to sell them?
Barb are you using the cookies as favors for the wedding? Which mold are you using? My daughter is getting married next year. Looking for ideas.
Thank you so much for this tip!
For years I’ve been baking springerle on the Silpat mat, and though they were lovely, I knew the print could be much clearer.
I think that because the mat is made of fiberglass it heats up really fast and singes the bottom of the cookie. Now I understand why my cookies always puffed up too much! Mystery solved!
I’m so glad this helped. Sometimes it’s amazing what a difference a small change can make!
Connie
Oh my goodness, I’m so glad to have seen this tip before baking my first batch, which are drying on Silpat mats right now. Wow! Thanks!
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