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🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Aachen Printen

Aachener Printen

Firm gingerbread from Aachen since the 1820s, made with flour, sugar, and exotic spices like cinnamon and ginger.

🇩🇪Germany

Bethmaennchen

Bethmaennchen are Frankfurt marzipan cookies studded with three almond halves and baked until lightly golden.

🇦🇹Austria

Cinnamon Stars

Zimtsterne

Star-shaped cookies made with ground almonds and cinnamon, topped with meringue icing, a German-Austrian Christmas classic, distinctive and spicy, festive.

🇩🇪Germany

Domino Stones

Dominosteine

Three-layer Christmas squares: gingerbread, jelly, and marzipan, coated in chocolate.

🇩🇪Germany

Elisenlebkuchen

Elisenlebkuchen are Nuremberg spice cakes rich in ground almonds or hazelnuts, candied citrus and very little flour.

🇩🇪Frankfurt, Germany

Frankfurter Brenten

Frankfurter Brenten is a dessert from Frankfurt am Main, a sweet finish to the local table. Distinct from food-virsli.

🇩🇪Germany

German Chocolate Biscuit Cake

Kalter Hund

Kalter Hund is a no-bake German chocolate biscuit cake made from alternating cocoa-butter and crisp biscuit layers; Switzerland calls the form Chalte Hund.

🇩🇪Nuremberg, Germany

Nuremberg Gingerbread

Nürnberger Lebkuchen

EU-protected gingerbread from Nuremberg with at least 25% nuts, decorated with almonds and candied lemon peel.

🇩🇪North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Speculaas Cookies

Spekulatius

Spiced cookies pressed in wooden molds, from Westphalia and the Rhineland, traditional at Christmas.

🇩🇪Germany

Spitzbuben

Spitzbuben are tender butter cookies sandwiched with red jam, usually with a cut-out window in the top biscuit.

🇩🇪Germany

Spritzgebaeck

Spritzgebaeck are piped butter cookies baked into ridged rings or fingers with crisp edges and a short tender crumb.

🇦🇹Austria

Vanilla Crescents

Vanillekipferl

Crescent-shaped vanilla cookies with ground nuts, coated in vanilla sugar, the quintessential Austrian Christmas cookie, buttery and crumbly, festive.