Moravian spice cookies
moravian spice cooky traditional kind cookie originated colonial american community moravian church blend spice molasses rolled paper thin reputation world thinnest cookie related german lebkuchen original recipe traced back th century cookie especially popular around usually associated christmas community strong moravian background winstonsalem north carolina bethlehem pennsylvania still maintain two largest moravian community united state although bakery still roll cut cooky hand use mechanized process making cooky order meet demand affect taste machinemade cooky criticized thin handmade counterpart spice recipe traditional wellknown moravian cooky version appeared year including sugar lemon black walnut chocolate variety