Hi all, I have a question regarding the name of some of the Christmas cookies in the image that I have attached. My Oma passed away this past January and this will be my family’s first Christmas without her, and she would always make these cookies as gifts. I was hoping to find the names and possibly recipes for these cookies to surprise my family with a similar gift.

I do know that the round almond cookies are Bethmännchen and I think that the crescents are chocolate dipped Vannillekipferl, but I am having a hard time finding anything about the cookies in the bottom half of the image.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Happy Holidays!

by skytrekg

4 comments

  2. It would help tremendously if you described them a little more.

    Were they hard? Crumbly? Buttery? Were they spiced?

  3. To me that looks like Magenbrot/Honigkuchen, but I’m no cookie expert, I never even heard of Berliner Brot until I read the other comment :,)
    Magenbrot does contain cocoa, but that’s just for the color. It’s made with cloves, nutmeg, star anise, honey and sometimes with some kind of nuts too I think.

  4. If you know where in Germany Oma was from that will help. Because the Christmas cookies are so damn regional that they aren’t even called the same word across Germany even at the generic (non recipe specific) level. 

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