Christmas Cookies
Franconian Butter Cookies. We use our traditional Franconian family recipe for our Butter Cookies. They have an irresistible rich butter flavor with a hint of vanilla and lemon and are just melt-in-your-mouth good. They have a golden color with soft brown edges and are tossed in extra fine cane sugar with a hint of cinnamon while they are still hot. Each cookie is cut out by hand. Cookie shapes may vary (e.g. stars, hearts, trees, ornaments etc.)
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Fruit Piles are drop cookies who burst of flavor from candied fruits, raisins, butter and vanilla. They are dusted with powdered sugar.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Short Bread Cookies with browned butter. These short bread cookies or also known as tea biscuits are named after a region in the northern part of Germany called Lüneburg Heath (Heide = Heath) and are a common Christmas cookie not only in northern Germany. The browned butter and the fact they are made without eggs gives them a unique taste and tender texture. They are either sprinkled with turbinado sugar or rolled in fine cane sugar.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Thumbprint Cookies - These fluffy shortbread cookies with jam filling are a staple on every cookie platter in Germany and Austria.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Filled Marzipan Short Bread Cookies - These cookies have a vanilla shortbread base with a marzipan circle piped on top. The middle is filled with red and yellow jelly/jam.
You will receive 10 cookies
Sacher Cookies - A chocolate shortbread sandwich cookie filled with apricot jam. Half of the cookie is dipped in dark couverture and chocolate sprinkles. These cookies were inspired by the famous Sacher cake.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Chocolate Bread is very moist and chocolatey. Made with high quality European chocolate and finest ground nuts. It is baked on a sheet and cut into small rectangles. The top has a chocolate glaze.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Linzer Cookies. A jam or jelly filled sandwich cookie with a buttery flavor and shortbread-like texture. Each cookie is cut out, filled and assembled by hand. The finished cookie is dusted with confectioners sugar. Shapes may vary.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Spritz Cookies originated in Germany and the Alsace region in France. These buttery crisp cookies come in various shapes and are dipped partially in chocolate. They can be made with or without nuts. Our family recipe contains nuts!
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Stollen Bites - This is the cookie version of the traditional German Stollen. (German Christmas Fruit Cake). Each buttery bite is loaded with raisins, candied fruit and almonds. Like their big brother they are dipped in melted butter and rolled in confectioners sugar after baking.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Vanilla Crescents. These delicate, mellow, half moon shaped almond cookies have a buttery flavor and a heavy dusting of vanilla sugar. They originate from the Austrian city of Vienna and are very common, especially during Christmas season, in Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.
You will receive 1 dz. cookies
Elisen Gingerbread. This special type of Gingerbread is the Queen of all gingerbread. Only the best ingredients are used, no flour and lots of nuts and candied fruit are added to the dough. It is the most original type of gingerbread hail from the Franconian city of Nuremberg.
The Elisen Gingerbread are soft and chewy round cookies baked on thin wafers (Oblaten). The first cookie in each package is decorated with whole almonds.
You will receive 6 Elisen Gingerbread. 4 sugar glazed, 2 chocolate
Marzipan Gingerbread. This is another type of gingerbread with no flour added to the dough. Only nuts, marzipan and candied fruits are used.
The Marzipan Gingerbread are chewy round cookies baked on thin wafers (Oblaten) and have a sugar glaze. The first Marzipa Gingerbread cookie in each package is decorated with whole almonds and a piece of candied cherry.
You will receive 6 sugar glazed Marzipan Gingerbread.
A set of 12 Gingerbread Macarons. Each Macaron is a work of art and has a sophisticated detailed decoration. The filling is a gingerbread flavored milk chocolate ganache and orange jam. The color of the macaron is brown.
A set of 12 Spiced Cookie / Spekulatius (Speculoo) Macarons. Each Macaron is a work of art and has a sophisticated detailed decoration. The filling is a spiced cookie white chocolate ganache. The color of the macaron is off-white/beige.
Mulled Wine Cake - A chocolatey, flavorful cake with a hint of gingerbread spices and a swig of mulled wine covered with a wine glaze.
This cake contains red wine!
Christmas Cake - This moist cake is loaded with warm winter spices, marzipan, almonds and chocolate. A special cake for the holiday season. Decorated with a chocolate glaze and marzipan stars.
Christmassy German Cheesecake with a cinnamon flavored chocolate short crust, juicy cherries and a baked quark filling. German cheesecakes are made using quark instead of cream cheese. Quark is a fresh cheese somewhat like strained Greek yogurt. Cheesecakes made with quark have a lighter texture than the ones made with cream cheese.
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