This gorgeous limited edition tin of Christmas cookies is perfect for gift-giving! The cookies themselves are rich with nuts, spices and bits of candied citrus peel, and that stunning, wintry packaging has us sledding and making snow angels.
Anyone who’s ever visited Germany during the holidays comes back obsessed with these cookies (pronounced layb’-koo-khen). And who could blame ’em? They’re made with ground hazelnuts and almonds, infused with spices, sweetened with honey, and coated in a thin sugar glaze or dark chocolate. They’ve been making these honey-sweetened spiced cookies in Germany for hundreds of years. Leckerlee founder Sandy Lee has only been baking them professionally since 2011, but she makes up for the time with the intensity of her devotion.
tip of the tongue
That’s not paper stuck to the bottom of each cookie – it’s an oblaten (aka communion) wafer. Yep. The monks who made lebkuchen hundreds of years ago started using them to keep the notoriously sticky dough from sticking to the baking pans. Another pro tip: These actually taste better after they’ve sat for a few weeks!
Tin is 4.63 x 3.8″ and contains 7 mini lebkuchen.