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Genre: Travel & Events
Date of upload: Dec 8, 2023 ^^
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My MIL was from Germany. Came to USA after WWII. Everything delightful discussed in this video, she made by hand in her kitchen. Except for the marzipan. That, she always got in Germany on her visits back home. During Christmas, everyone was "forget the gifts, we want the cookies and STOLLLEN!) Wonderful memories of her (Omi to my child)
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Ohh, stollen is one of my favorites at Christmastime, especially memories of making it with my Oma. And vanillakipferl is another favorite! As an American with German roots, German chocolates and candies have such a special place in my heart. I love Christmas with all of these delectable food memories!
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Thanks for this one. Very fun. Here in Denmark, we do marcipan for Christmas too. Some make their own, others combine marzipan and nugat and make a bread dipped in chocolate. Many Danes head to Lubeck each December to get their Marcipan and, as tradition dictates, the dessert served on Christmas Eve is risalamond (rice pudding with one whole almond hidden in it). The one to get the almond gets an extra present, which is traditionally a marcipan pig... I like the ritter sport with speculoos... Enjoy December!!
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You guys make me drool! I love Christmas season here in Austria, lebkuchen, marzipan and also my favorite chocolate, RItter Sport. When I go shopping here, usually I only want to buy one of two sweet snacks but I simply can't resist when I see all these wonderful things and I end up buying a lot more than was planned ! 😍
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My mom was born and raised in Nuremberg. Growing up was awesome at Christmastime. She spent every free moment after Thanksgiving baking various cookies and cakes for Christmas. The house always smelled so good. She would pack them in large metal tins and store them all in one room that the entire family was banned from going into. The fun part was that we would all take turns sneaking in there. Then Christmas Day we would wake up to find the kitchen table decorated and each person had a monster dish full of those cookies, cakes, nuts, fresh fruits, chocolates, etc… How I miss those days growing up.
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I lived in Germany back in the early 90's. A friend of my former husband was married to a German lady, who was an incredible dessert maker. She taught me how to make #3 Vanillekipferl from scratch. She did everything by hand - mixing & kneading the dough, shaping each individual cookie, & then rolling them in powdered sugar while still piping hot from the oven. We didn't even use forks or spoons to coat the cookies. You just have to be quick, so as not to burn your fingers & coat each cookie evenly.
There was one day when we made a huge batch to send to our husbands & their fellow military members while they were deployed during The Gulf War in 1991. I think we made over 300 cookies. It was an exhausting, but delicious day, as I couldn't stop eating them too - LOL! 😋
Helpful tip: in order to get the more traditional shape, you have to roll out each dough piece evenly with your hand (sort of like a Tootsie Roll), then bend in the middle to get the proper (thinner) crescent moon or horseshoe shape. Also you need to use more powdered vanilla sugar. Her cookies were completely white & heavily coated with the amount of sugar she used. Yum - so delicious!
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I bought a stollen (made in Germany) in the "gourmet" section of TJ Maxx today.for a reasonable price, and I've seen them in the local supermarket (MahketBasket) so they are fairly accessible throughout New England. Nice with a cup of tea! I've had the liebkuchen (sorry if bad spelling), and the papery lining seems to be the same material as communion hosts and those old-school spaceship-shaped candies filled with sugar balls. Fun video!
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@nordwestbeiwest1899
5 months ago
The price for Baumkuchen comes about because production takes so long, as each layer on the cake is applied and baked by slowly rotating.
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