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<\/a>beautifully decorated gingerbread – a great accessory<\/p><\/div>\n
There are plenty of gingerbreads on Christmas stalls! We bought the colourful, decorated, heart-shaped ones during Oktoberfest \u2013 they serves as a great home decoration or as a small present for a friend, or family member.<\/p>\n
You can find small and large gingerbreads with icing, or chocolate, and our favourite fr\u00fcchtebrot <\/b>\u2013 Christmas dried fruit bread. You can buy fr\u00fcchtebrot in various sizes, and if you don\u2019t know that you\u2019re going to like it \u2013 get a thick slice for \u20ac1 or \u20ac1.5 and just taste it. The bread contains i.e. nuts, apricots, dates, and figs. It tastes deliciously! And although it has plenty of calories, at least you feel like you\u2019re having a quite healthy desert!<\/p>\n Toru\u0144 is not the only one famous for gingerbread<\/p><\/div>\n fruchtebrot with dried fruits and nuts<\/p><\/div>\n 2) MARZIPAN<\/b><\/p>\n When I think of marzipans, I usually think of my mom\u2019s childhood friend who has been living in Germany for many years. Because, almost every time she brought us something from Germany, it was a variation on marzipan. It could be small, large, covered in chocolate, or maybe in the shape of thalers with Mozart on the wrapper? I used to love marzipan, especially the delicious so-called marzipan potatoes (marzipankartoffeln). Afterwards, I got over it and forgot about it for a very long time! However, it\u2019s worth returning to marzipan when your are in Germany, especially that they have entire stalls specializing in marzipan delicacies combined with chocolate, nougat and many other bee\u2019s knees!<\/p>\n We chose a bag of small marzipan potatoes, left the market, ate 5 of them or so, and returned for 2 more bags\u2026 For a present, because they were so delicious! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n marzipan potatoes<\/p><\/div>\n 3) STOLLEN or STRIEZEL<\/b><\/p>\n Stollen <\/i>or striezel <\/i>cake is a heavy yeast cake prepared specially for Christmas and deriving from Dresden \u2013 that\u2019s where the name of the Dresden Christmas fair derives from \u2013 Striezelmarkt. <\/b>Traditionally, the cake contains dried fruits and is prepared a few weeks before Christmas. Afterwards it\u2019s covered with butter and sprinkled with a thick layer of caster sugar. Indeed, it is heavy and rather filling but it\u2019s worth trying!<\/p>\n We bought a small piece of stolen <\/i>to bring back home, not only because of the taste and to bring something new to the Christmas table, but mainly because \u0141ukasz\u2019s parents used to live in Dresden a long time ago when \u0141ukasz was little, and they still remember the taste of striezel. <\/i>During this Christmas it will bring back the memory of the past holidays \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n choose your striezel<\/p><\/div>\n 4) KR\u00c4PPELCHEN<\/b><\/p>\n When we got to Leipzig and took a walk around the city centre I was instantly fascinated by the content of the omnipresent paper bags resembling the bags used for chips. It turned out that they contained kr\u00e4ppelchen<\/i><\/strong> – small donuts covered with caster sugar. They reminded me a little of another delicacy that we used to have not so long ago on the streets of Chinatown in Bangkok \u2013 however, in Thailand they were covered with coconut sauce, and here they were covered with the homey caster sugar. To be honest, they weren\u2019t so spectacular, but they are quite popular in Leipzig \u2013 it\u2019s probably connected with the fact that many people associate them with the taste of their childhood \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n small krappelchen donuts – for 2, 3 euro<\/p><\/div>\n 5) APFELSTRUDEL<\/strong><\/p>\n Except for sweets available from Christmas markets, there are also \u201crestaurant\u201d deserts. Of course, a German variant of our apple pie, orapfelstrudel<\/i><\/strong> is served in almost every restaurant and it\u2019s mandatory to try it. What I like most about it is the marvellous vanilla sauce that adds a completely new undertone to the apple pie and I adore this new flavour! Together with the so-calledgermkn\u00f6del<\/i><\/strong>, or a huge round dumpling (kn\u00f6del<\/i>) stuffed with prunes, covered with vanilla sauce and sprinkled with poppy seeds \u2013 this dumpling always reminds me of Austria, but we\u2019ve also seen it in Berlin or Nuremberg, although we were too stuffed to try it\u2026<\/p>\n And what about other deserts? Dresden offered nice cheese pies and Nuremberg offered plums with gingerbread ice-cream \u2013 good but a bit too sweet\u2026 even for me \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>