Switzerland Baking Retreat
Be the first to get information on our Switzerland Baking Retreat December 6–11, 2024. To be placed on an interest list, email events@bakefromscratch.com.
Andie is the author of three cookbooks: Helvetic Kitchen, Drink Like the Swiss, and Swiss Cookies.
Connect with her on Instagram (@helvetickitchen), on Facebook, and through her website, helvetickitchen.com.
Swiss Christmas Cookies
FOR COOKBOOK AUTHOR ANDIE PILOT, BAKING CHRISTMAS COOKIES FOR BEAUTIFUL COOKIE PLATES IS A SWISS FAMILY TRADITION SHE’S PROUD TO CARRY ON
RECIPE DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD STYLING BY ANDIE PILOT
In the Emmental, a region in central Switzerland famous for its cheese, butter from local dairies is still pressed into wooden molds before it’s sold. The designs vary, but Swiss imagery such as cows, Swiss crosses, and edelweiss are heavily featured. Today this practice is primarily decorative, but historically the butter molds would indicate not only the amount of butter, but also the dairy that produced it.
The day we visited cookbook author Andie Pilot at her cozy home in the Emmental near the Swiss Alps, we twisted through snowy village roads lined with fir tree branches hanging low with freshly fallen snow. When we pulled up to her house perched on the side of a hill overlooking a meadow
