German Christmas Cookies
To Die For

German Christmas cookies
photo by a.rud.beth at flickr.com
Holiday season without German Christmas cookies just wouldn't be the same!

You can buy them everywhere, industrially manufactured and packaged Christmas cookies in the supermarkets, hand-made exclusive ones in the many bakeries we have, but most fun of course is to do them yourself !

Weihnachtsplätzchen is one of the German Chrismas traditions nobody wants to miss. In fact, even though most people complain about the fattening holiday season, almost everyone bakes their own cookies :-)

When I was a kid we used to bake Vanillekipferl (Almond-vanilla crescents) and Ausstecherle (with cookie cutters), which always drove my mother crazy, because my sister and I would eat the dough instead of forming the cookies. Afterwards we were usually sick from eating all the dough and didn't have enough cookies to give away :-)

Giving German Christmas cookies to just anyone you know is a nice Christmas tradition as well. Starting from 1st of December, your neigbours and colleagues offer you their newest cookie creation and offices smell with freshly baked Lebkuchen, cinnamon stars and other German Christmas cookies.

Tobi and I started a few years ago with our own "Cookie Production". Every year we bake 1 or 2 evergreens and try 2 new and exotic recipes.

But my all time favorites are cinnamon stars (Zimststerne). I'm really jealous with them and would rather not give any of those delicious little sweet treats away ;-)

If you want to make your own, here is our Cinnamon star recipe

Buy the famous Elisen Lebkuchen from Nuremberg

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