German Christmas Food

Christmas is a season when greenery of the German valleys is hardly visible from under the thick snow. Mercury keeps on dipping down and plunges below the freezing point. This is the ideal season to gorge on spicy food rich on calories. Arrival of Christmas is the only warmth in the chilly German winter. People curled around the fire-place get at least one reason to get out of house even in that terrible bite of cold due to Christmas but German Christmas food is another thing that is able to drive people out of their house in order to enjoy a memorable open-air party. Baking Christmas cookies is nothing less than a ritual in German

Christmas celebration. Cookies are part and parcel of German Christmas food. Germans make cookies in the shape of human figurines, Christmas characters or cookies with some popular designs. Aroma of baked brown gnomes and edible trees fill the kitchens from a week before the celebration of Christmas is kicked off. The traditional German Christmas food is never cooked during any other part of the year. Ginger Bread, Mint Snowballs, King George Christmas Pudding and Nutmeg Rolls are some of the famous traditional German Christmas Food.

The festive Christmas dinner is the major part of Christmas celebration in Germany. This traditional Christmas meal usually comprises of traditional German delicacies made of duck, goose, rabbits, etc. Apple and sausage stuffing, potato dumplings and red cabbage are the other aristocratic members of the traditional German holiday cuisines. American fruitcakes have been adopted as one of the most popular German delicacies. It is called 'stollen'. "Dresdner Christstollen" is the most famous form of stolen pastries available in the markets of Germany. The birthplace of this cuisine is Dresden, Germany. This version of Stollen is loaded with nuts band fruits.



Apart from stolen there are some other mouth watering dishes which are the part of Christmas celebration in Germany. Lebkuchen or gingerbread, chocolate shaped Santa-clause and several other Christmas confectioneries are part of German Christmas Food. Plätzchen is baked in Germany during this season. The markets in Germany are flooded with different kinds of cookies, traditionally popular in the country.

So people who hardly get time to bake cookies at home need not to worry. Browse through the pages of Christmasonnet and explore the rich aroma of nice German Christmas delicacies.