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The 2017 Lebkuchen of the Year - introduced annually by Lebkuchen Schmidt - celebrates their 90th Anniversary. Meisterwerk 90 (or in English Masterpiece 90) is a simple specialty: a whole lot more of what makes Lebkuchen so special: nuts. The...

Petit fours. Mini Pastry. Tiny Cake. Call these cubes of yummy goodness whatever you like....we call them Dominosteine. Only about a 1" cube, Dominosteine (or just Dominos) pack together some delicious layers and are coated with dark German chocolate. The...

The Festive Chest is always Lebkuchen Schmidt's largest Chest and it is always packed to the brim with Lebkuchen and pastries. The contents change a little bit from year to year and the beautiful illustration on the Chest is new every year...

The Striezel Children – the actual children not the figures – were from Dresden. That beautiful city has a most magnificent Christmas Market each year that is called the “Striezelmarkt”. And history has it that the poor children of Dresden...

I have had the good pleasure of visiting quite a number of German Christmas Markets - or Christkindl-Markts. Some of them in Germany and a couple of them right here in Canada. Given that I'm in the German Christmas business...

What says Christmas more than a Stollen loaf densely packed with raisins and rich with real butter. There are many types of Christmas loaves - or Winterbrot - and Stollen (or ChristStollen) has a special place amongst traditional German Christmas...