Saturday, November 13, 2010

Lebkuchen

Lebkuchen is a traditional German biscuit baked for Christmas, somewhat resembling soft gingerbread with sugar icing or chocolate icing.
It's one of those things you get to see and eat only around Christmas time.
Last time we were in Germany we tried to buy some but the shop in Ludwigsburg closes at 2pm on Saturdays (why would they close the shop on Saturday afternoon remains a mystery).
This time we were in Stuttgart on a week day. No way we couldn't buy our Lebkuchen.
Wolfram found the shop and gave me a tour of all the varieties of Lebkuchen. As a consequence I bought all of them: with sugar icing, with chocolate icing, the best ones and some mid-tier ones also very good and the latest news, with marzipan. I can't wait to be home for Christmas and eat them.
PS: the marzipan one we tried the evening right after and seriously it tastes extremely good. We should have bought more!

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