Wenn man den billigsten Stollen kauft, braucht man sich nicht wundern, wenn er nicht schmeckt. Einen guten Stollen zu backen, ist eine Kunst. Man muss schon etwas tiefer in die Tasche greifen, um einen wirklich guten Stollen zu bekommen. Es gibt ganz schlechten und richtig guten! 😊
Same with the BAUMKUCHEN ( better phrased as TREE SHAPED CAKE ) I know there is a similar Cake in Virginkioa were they also do a vry similar DOW LEVELED CAKE. The better Qulity you get in Konditoreien and it tastes much different from those cheap supermarket items. Allso you eat Baumkuchen just thinliced to bring out the fine taste of the baked spiced dow
@@epistte well, they make ..... eatable stollen, I would not call it decent though. But as I am a Confectioner and are used to the high quality swollen from my workplace, maby I just have a higher standard.
@@minajordan5359 I paid my tuition by baking in college, so I can make a better stollen, but $6.00 its very good. I've paid more and it wasn't as good as what Aldi sells.
@@epistte (In the US) The stollen at Aldi and Trader Joe's and other places is all made in Germany. So it's old by the time you get it, but very high in fat and sugar so it lasts. Of course none of it is the same thing as a homemade or bakery one, but good for what it is. I've tried many and they are all similar no matter what the source. The style makes them different - some have cherries, some marzipan (my fave) etc. Aldi is of course reliably the cheapest, and TJ's next cheapest. The foil wrapped German chocolate Santas etc. are half or less as much at Aldi as the same things at import food stores. (Germany has chocolate regulations - natürlich - so their Christmas and Easter chocolate figures or real German chocolate advent calendars are FAR better than similar typical ones in the US unless you buy high end gourmet stuff.)
Stollen u.a. sollte man vielleicht beim Bäcker kaufen.. meist sind die besser als die billigen aus der Fabrik.. vielleicht gibts die auch ohne Marzipan / Rosinen..
@@nadinedoring8949 Ich selber mag am liebsten Erzgebirgischen Stollen, der toppt sogar den Dresdner. Bisher konnte ich auch alle, die keinen Stollen mögen mit dem überzeugen. Mein Cousin hat eine Bäckerei in Ehrenfriedersdorf, wo einige Stollen sogar noch traditionell im Bergwerk gelagert werden, und da merkt man den Unterschied im Aroma deutlich. Damit hat er auch schon einige Preise gewonnen und inzwischen bekommt er auch Bestellungen aus Japan.
@@Dunkelwolke Hängt natürlich vom Bäcker/Konditor ab, aber dafür das es Handarbeit ist finde ich die meisten eigendlich nicht wirklich teuer, die im supermarkt sind halt seeeehr billig, da kann man als "gutes deutsches Handwerk" nicht nachziehen sonst macht man am ende minus.
If you try Stollen - please don't buy this ugly, uneatable cheap stuff from Supermarkt/Gut & Günstig. Buy a real Dresdner Stollen - it's a difference like Night and Day.
Atlanx stimm ich dir zu jedoch ist der Erzgebirgische nochmal ein Stück besser. Der Dresdner ist oft ziemlich trocken und der erzgebirgische wird in vielen Bäckereien noch richtig traditionell hergestellt und ist deswegen absolut mein Favorit.
7:34 Fun Fact: Baumkuchen was once imported to Japan by a German and is today one of the most beloved sweets of the Japanese. You'll find them in every convinience store.
Did you forget anything ? I dunno, but you could go to a weihnachtsmarkt and try all the foods there. And drinks obviously. The butter brezeln, reibeküchen, bratwurst, eierpunsch, glühwein, all those things 😉 NEXT VIDEO🎬
Speculatius: Speculaas is SOOOOO Dutch! Yes they usually have the windmills on them or they come in man and woman shape. Then they are called : Speculaaspop (Speculaas puppet) . In the past these cookies were made on a Speculaasplank. A wooden plank with hand cut-out patterns in which the dough is formed to the specific shape.
A very different German molded cookie is Springerle. You press the little relief pictures into the dough with a wooden roller or flat wooden mold and then cut into the squares. They are hard and dry unlike Speculaas, in fact dried overnight before baking. Anise seeds are sprinkled on the pan so they get baked into the underside, and that's the main flavor. Why yes I do have a roller. The new ones from Germany have crap carvings sadly so I had to look for a vintage one on Ebay. I glaze them to add a bit of sweetness and vanilla flavor.
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I love lebkuchen. Bought some at Trader Joe’s, as I do every Christmas season. I’ve always wanted to go to Germany for Christmas. Love, from the US.
Next time Deana should try Vanillekipferl from a Bakery. They are more expensive than the ones from REWE, Lidl or Aldi. Like 5€ for 100g (at least where i am from). But it is worth. They are not as dense and are more like "melting on the tongue". Both (the cheap mass production and the bakery ones) are dry and crumbly but she will see the difference. As always a good video and keep up the work. I love your content
My Mom used to get stollen from a German bakery and we'd have it with our breakfast every Christmas. I loved it. Thanks for posting! Some of those treats looked really yummy. Merry Christmas Deana & Phil !!
I love the video’s. The interaction between you two is what makes the difference. Never met a German with such a sense of humor. All my German and Austrian friends are far more stoic.
I live in England, one can get quite a few German Christmas snacks here, especially in lidl or aldi. But I always get a parcel from Germany (it's my birthday 4th December) with our local bakery's stolen and contessa lebkuchen. My mother buys them in august, when they first appear in shops, as one cannot get them in December! I like Dominosteine and Spekulaten best.
You didn't have the Nuremberg style Lebkuchen (Elisenlebkuchen, Oblatenlebkuchen).
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Imre Hundertwasser Oblatenlebkuchen is the best! I like it with the simple sugar glaze. I buy them in the US at Trader Joe’s and they’re made in Nuremberg- delicious!
In 1950's - 60's we had a local company that made Petit Fours, looked a lot like your Dominoes. Most of the workers were German immigrant woman. Even today, I will eat Pfeffernusse until I am sick! When I was little, I would give my grandparents an assortment of jellies and one of cheeses.
@Evi1M4chine yeah, but it's hard to get for most people, lubeka and Albrecht and nice don't deliver to private persons and besides, there are versions of marzipan made with a splash of rosewater, it especially makes it easier for people who are making it at home. and sugar is always necessary, or you just have almond butter, marzipanrohmasse is 1/3 sugar if you didn't already knew this.
How can you not LOVE Lebkuchen? I'm half German, from South Africa and every Weinachten there were tons of Lebkuchen beautifully decorated with colored royal icing. Lebkuchen just reminds me of Christmas.
"Dominosteine" are typical German - they were invented short after World War II when the feedstock for Pralinen (What's that in English?) was impossible to get and/or unaffordable. What you did test was the supermarket-version of Christmas Sweets. Try again with those from you local bakery or even better form a baker in the region(s) they are from originaly. The differences are huge. And if you go for christmas sweets at supermarkets again avoid the own brands of the "big" chains (EDEKA, REWE...) but choose ALDI (sorry for the ad)
Stollen is great, if you pick a GOOD one (ie from a proper bakery but even better you make it yourself). A good Stollen CAN'T be dry, because the point is to let it rest long enough that the marzipan seeps into the dough. The Baumkuchen was pretty poor excusse, too, btw.
I live in Vancouver, Canada and grew with Lebkuchen in The Netherlands. I love and buy it every year for Christmas ... ♥Great show, you two, keep it up!
We have both ALDI & Lidl nearby so I have tried a lot of great cookies and candies from Germany. I am addicted to Knoppers, thanks to a previous post you did. I also like the stollen and butter cookies they sell from Germany. The Haribo gummy bears are good too. Really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work! Merry Christmas to you both!
After watching many Knoppers addict NALF videos I bought some Knoppers (had to buy a pack of five) at Aldi in Brooklyn when they appeared. VERY disappointed - blandest chocolate/hazelnut thing I've ever had. Barely any flavor of either one.
Maybe the filled kringel are vanilla fondant ? Yes your flavor palate does change over time. People tend to stay away from candy when they turn older and start to like bolder flavors such as marzipan, dark chocolate, blue cheese, pickles
Those round, flat chocolates covered in white dots look a lot like nonpareils, which you can find in just about every US movie theatre or candy aisle. They were my mother's favorite!
@@DeanaandPhil don't like the stollen never did as a kid growing up . My grandma would bring or send them to us . So nasty , everything else I loved growing up still do just hard to find here . Some stuff you find at Aldi's around x mas time 😀
All the stuff you guys hate are literally my childhood!!! My grandpa from Dierdorf brought me all German treats at Christmastime. I’m thinking they may have been better quality…he got all of it sent from his family in Germany for me in the US. So nostalgic. I wish he was still here….I love watching your videos!
You can’t get dominosteine here in the states and yea it’s marzipan 😁 The marzipan Kartoffeln are dusted with cacaopowder I think. I love nougat 😍😍😍 You actually can buy Spekulatius and Lebkuchen at Aldis 😁 You forget the original Nünberger Lebkuchen!
A bunch of these we also have in the Netherlands, but definitely the speculaas en pepernoten (as we call them) are dutch and are Sinterklaas snacks (5th of December). So, yes, these are typically Dutch cookies! Although the Pfeffernüsse/pepernoten look very different (bigger and we have them with different kinds of chocolade, but they're usually without). Also, these speculaas-cookies are sold all year round but other shapes and sizes are holiday-specific.. We have the Kringelmischung a-lot around christmas, in many different types (cookies/chocolade/with filling) to hang in the tree and call the kerstkransjes (little christmas-wreaths). Though judging by your reactions they might be of higher quality here 😂. Greetings from the Netherlands!
Marzipankartoffeln are marzipan dusted with a 1:1 mix of cacaopowder and icing sugar and then are swung over the steam of boiling water, so the cocoa and the sugar melt a little and create a sort of "protection layer" so the marzipan doesn't dry out.
Speculaas is typical Dutch cookie. Usually with windmills. Fruitcake stollen is bread with dried fruit inside (sometimes nuts) and marzipan.. you must put butter on it and eat it for breakfast.
Der Baum-Kuchen heißt aufgrund der Schichten so, da sie die Lebensringe eines Baumes darstellen sollen. 🙂 Edit: Stollen = mine. Da es diesen symbolisieren soll. 🙂🙂
Ich meine mal gehört zu haben dass es das Jesuskindlein darstellen soll und der Puderzucker soll die Leinentücher symbolisieren in dieser eingewickelt war, aber der Name leitet sich mit ihrer Erklärung einfacher ab.😀
A bit nitpicky, but I hope you find this interesting: Stollen does not EXACTLY mean mine in this particular case, though it shares the same etymology. A "Stollen" was an old German word for a post in the sense of a vertical wooden beam, a wooden pillar if you wish. This kind of cake is named after said posts because it is thought to resemble those. The word "Stollen" actually also means "adit", so basically a horizontal, perhaps slightly sloping mine. It is called "Stollen" only if it's supported by... yes yes... by "Stollen".
Stollen is different from what we would call “Fruit Cake” in the US. What we call Fruit Cake is more like the traditional English style fruit cake. It’s a dense cake closer to the texture of pound cake but spiced and there is usually a denser pack of fruit. Finally it’s soaked with a spirit such as brandy or rum. In the US when you can find Stollen it is called Stollen. My uncle, a professional baker, used to make it and Mohnkuken at Christmas time. We had found stollen in Aldi. I didn’t realize at the time that Aldi was a German company, but knowing that now it makes more sense that we found it there. I like Lebkucken and Pfeffernusse, but prefer it with powdered sugar rather than icing. I pass on the marzipan, it’s a texture thing.
There's also something called Früchtebrot (fruit bread) in Germany which is a rather dark and dense affair with lots of nuts and dried fruit in it. I guess it's more of a thing in the South of Germany.
Lebkuchenherzen. We are still eating our way through a bag of these. My favourite Xmas German treat (we had more than one bag!). The taste of Xmas if you had a German mother.
Greetings from Australia! My husband and I are really enjoying your videos. Pfeffernüsse is mine and my family's favourite Christmas snack but not that crappy stuff you tried with the white icing. We make our own Pfeffernüsse from my great-great grandmother Mittag's recipe. The family were originally from Schwerin.
Speculaas is from the Netherlands, I love them. Originally only for the holiday season, also Sinterklaas, but nowadays we can buy it all year round 😊❤️
Your video reminds me of my time (2 years) spent in Köln. I miss the Weihnachts pastries and snacks. So much gingerbread and cinnamon! Btw, shop-bought Stollen is crap. You need Phil's Oma (or his mum) to make you one. Also if they are dry, you can add a liquer to help moisten it. You didnt do Printenrolle, which are a bit like Lebekuchen, which I LOVE btw, so there is something wrong with you people! (joke). Spekulatius is great too. Ich wuenshe euch eine Frohe Weihnachten aus Finnland. Tshuss!
My mom likes to eat and bake her own Stollen (although we always spell/pronounce it "Stoellen"). Her ancestors originally came from a small town near Chemnitz, so it's traditional for them. She likes to put in the fruit pieces, nuts, raisins, etc., but she doesn't coat it with powdered sugar. I'm not a fan of it, myself. I always think it tastes like bread with some extras thrown in.
Baumkuchen is cake that is cooked on a barbecue (of sorts) or like a kebab. You have an exterior heat source and you pour the dough on a spindle. That's why it has these layers.
I buy a bunch of Christmas food at ALDI in December. I even buy the mediocre sweets because it’s not Christmas without my ALDI Christmas food. The almond Spekulatius is my favorite. Interestingly, ALDI always has a lot of Stollen left after Christmas.
I specifically remember as a kid taking a bite out of a cute little decorative marzipan candy. It can be shaped like animals etc. and painted with food colors. I think it was a little pig. I thought it was kind of bad also. Now I also like it, with chocolate or in a stollen. Or even cute little animals.
I love gingerbread. I hate Dominosteine and Pfefferkuchen. And Stollen tastes good when you take an expensive one, which lied in a tunnel in the mountain for one month. But the best Christmas Coockies are selfmade. I hope you can try them. You should als try a good Glühwein. I think you can`t get it so easy in the USA.
0:55 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipferl ... like many old style cookies they are normally hard and dry (compared to what Americans might be used to) weather good not bad, just the way they are.
Stollen is great, *BUT* when you buy them [edit: and sugar on top], there's usually way too many raisins in there. And also, they have to be big in order to mature well in the couple of weeks before you eat them. Small ones are just dry and don't taste good at all. And with big I mean filling the entire baking tray when you bake them at home.
I like your hair Deana, looks really good like that. Also great video, i love the food ones :)). Also i m curious, Deana don t you wanna learn german cause you have a super advantage to have phil as a bf
Stollen must be made by a bakery and should age for a few weeks. Also there are variations without marzipan and raisins. Actually Stollen with marzipan is not that common.
Probiert innder Winterzeit doch mal 'stollenkonfekt' vom Bäcker zu bekommen, macht leider nicht jeder. ABER Wenn ihr frisches Konfekt vom Bäckerkauft ist das soo lecker und lange nicht so trocken wie Abgepackter Stollen. 😊❤️
Phil, I was looking forward to hear you pronounce Marzipan correctly! You said it how Americans say it😕 haha!! I Love Stolen!! My Aunt would make them every Christmas, so glad they have more and more German Christmas treats!! When I was kid kid she would go back to Germany and then she would get yummy bears, before they were the U.S. ( I know I know I'm old. LOL!!) and marzipan potatoes I love anything Marzipan hehe! And I love German gingerbread, ok that enough sorry I miss my family! Thanks you two, glad I found your videos!
You probably won't believe it, but this is 100% true: The English word for "Taler" (or to be very precise: "Thaler") is... ... dollar! Kid you not! In Dutch it's "daalder" by the way. A coin of 2.5 gulden was still called a "rijksdaalder" up until the end, being "national dollars". The word "Thaler" derives from the fact that they were originally made from the silver minded in the Joachimsthal (Joachim Valley) in the 16th century. The original "Thaler" was actually called "Joachimsthaler", so it was an adjective, used as a noun. It later was shortened to "Thaler". Later both the word "Thal" and "Thaler" lost the H. And speculaas (which is the Dutch word, but according to Wikipedia also the English word) is originated in Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern Germany, and it is basically a mild tasting Lebkuchen/Gingerbread/Peperkoek. Contrary to lebkuchen, speculaas tastes good. Lebkuchen is terrible! In Belgium and the Netherlands, we often take a slice of bread with butter, dip the speculaas in coffee and put them on the slice of bread and eat it like that. Nowadays, this is made easier, as about 10'ish years ago, someone invented a speculaas spread in a jar. Looks like peanut butter.
What's your favorite Christmas Candy/Snack?
it`s not christmas related, but Ferrero Rocher is a big thing for me in the winter time
ich persönlich finde ja butter-spekulatius bei weitem leckerer als die anderen
Gewürz Spekulatius und Marzipankartoffeln 😋😃🎄🍪🎁
Dominosteine und Gewürzspekulatius
Krokantkugeln ! 😍
Phil: *eats Lebkuchen* „why do people like that stuff“
Me: HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE IT OMG
die mit Füllung sind gut
I like the small round cookies with ginger bread chocolate, etc.
me too.. only like the filled ones...
Lebucken is the best!!
Ich will Lebkuchen mit dir essen 😕
Homemade vanillekipferl are way better.
If I am correct kiefl is the origin of the croissants.
Kipferl are Austrian as Austrian can be. :-)))
@@olafkunert3714 Austrian and Bavarian, all else is just fake. ;)
Christmas time in Germany or as we call it "Try not to get too fat"-Challenge
...which we always fail of course 😂😂
It’s like Thanksgiving for four weeks
Ich liebe ja die Baumkuchenspitzen von Aldi entweder mit Orangen oder Rumgeschmack für 1 Milli Sekündchen die Mikrowelle lecker
@@roberttheis3832 Well, kneel to your Challenge King! I never get fat on me. It´s Spooky Scarry Skeleton season all year round for me 😂
Yeah every time I try to lose weight I fail😂
You have to taste „gebrannte Mandeln“ and „Glühwein“ 😍
Gebrannte Mandeln aufm Weihnachtsmarkt sind das beste! *-*
They already did I think. In another video🤔
Wenn man den billigsten Stollen kauft, braucht man sich nicht wundern, wenn er nicht schmeckt. Einen guten Stollen zu backen, ist eine Kunst. Man muss schon etwas tiefer in die Tasche greifen, um einen wirklich guten Stollen zu bekommen. Es gibt ganz schlechten und richtig guten! 😊
Same with the BAUMKUCHEN ( better phrased as TREE SHAPED CAKE ) I know there is a similar Cake in Virginkioa were they also do a vry similar DOW LEVELED CAKE.
The better Qulity you get in Konditoreien and it tastes much different from those cheap supermarket items. Allso you eat Baumkuchen just thinliced to bring out the fine taste of the baked spiced dow
Selbstgemacht schmeckt immer am besten. 😀
You should try a real "Stollen" from a bakery or a christmas market, it´s much better! :)
Aldi makes a decent stollen.
@@epistte well, they make ..... eatable stollen, I would not call it decent though. But as I am a Confectioner and are used to the high quality swollen from my workplace, maby I just have a higher standard.
@@minajordan5359 I paid my tuition by baking in college, so I can make a better stollen, but $6.00 its very good. I've paid more and it wasn't as good as what Aldi sells.
@@epistte (In the US) The stollen at Aldi and Trader Joe's and other places is all made in Germany. So it's old by the time you get it, but very high in fat and sugar so it lasts. Of course none of it is the same thing as a homemade or bakery one, but good for what it is. I've tried many and they are all similar no matter what the source. The style makes them different - some have cherries, some marzipan (my fave) etc. Aldi is of course reliably the cheapest, and TJ's next cheapest. The foil wrapped German chocolate Santas etc. are half or less as much at Aldi as the same things at import food stores. (Germany has chocolate regulations - natürlich - so their Christmas and Easter chocolate figures or real German chocolate advent calendars are FAR better than similar typical ones in the US unless you buy high end gourmet stuff.)
I agree 100%. Either get your stollen from a good bakery or make it yourself.
Stollen u.a. sollte man vielleicht beim Bäcker kaufen.. meist sind die besser als die billigen aus der Fabrik.. vielleicht gibts die auch ohne Marzipan / Rosinen..
Ja, gibt es. Sehr zu empfehlen: Dresdner Christstollen.
Kein Vergleich zu dem billigen Supermarkt-Kram. Aber auch sehr teuer.
@@Dunkelwolke na ja der Dresdner ist sehr trocken. Ich hab dieses Jahr das erste mal Stollen selber gemacht und der hat jeden Bäckerstollen getoppt
@@nadinedoring8949 Ich selber mag am liebsten Erzgebirgischen Stollen, der toppt sogar den Dresdner. Bisher konnte ich auch alle, die keinen Stollen mögen mit dem überzeugen. Mein Cousin hat eine Bäckerei in Ehrenfriedersdorf, wo einige Stollen sogar noch traditionell im Bergwerk gelagert werden, und da merkt man den Unterschied im Aroma deutlich. Damit hat er auch schon einige Preise gewonnen und inzwischen bekommt er auch Bestellungen aus Japan.
@@Dunkelwolke Hängt natürlich vom Bäcker/Konditor ab, aber dafür das es Handarbeit ist finde ich die meisten eigendlich nicht wirklich teuer, die im supermarkt sind halt seeeehr billig, da kann man als "gutes deutsches Handwerk" nicht nachziehen sonst macht man am ende minus.
@xanscobe: probier mal Haselnussstollen, der ist auch nicht so trocken, wie manche anderen.
09:38 "Lebkuchen Herzen"
Auto-subtitles: " leguan Harrison"
In my mind that immediately transformed into a reptilian Han Solo.
Ihr seid so ein tolles, sympathisches Paar! Glad I found you on RUclips!🥰
We are glad you found us too! Happy Holidays! 🤗💜
Ohh Laura, da sind Videos, da solltest du vorher nichts trinken. Sonst pinkelt du dich ein ....
joerg fro verstehe den Zusammenhang nicht, aber ok.
If you try Stollen - please don't buy this ugly, uneatable cheap stuff from Supermarkt/Gut & Günstig. Buy a real Dresdner Stollen - it's a difference like Night and Day.
Atlanx stimm ich dir zu jedoch ist der Erzgebirgische nochmal ein Stück besser. Der Dresdner ist oft ziemlich trocken und der erzgebirgische wird in vielen Bäckereien noch richtig traditionell hergestellt und ist deswegen absolut mein Favorit.
I really don't like stollen at all BUT you are absolutely right. The "real" one the dresdner stollen is the best. Way much
yea if you want to eat a good stollen you will have to invest a little more money... the cheap stuff is usually awfully dry and kinda bland in taste
@@erickliem3727 ABSOLUT
Fun fact: "Feine Doinosteine" sind mit Persipan nur " *feinste* Dominosteine" sind mit Marzipan! 🎅🏻
most german comment :D
Da hat wer marktcheck geschaut
😂
@@Mamonga86 Stimmt, genau daher weiß ich es. 👍😀
@Evi1M4chine Die sind mit allerfeinstem Haschisch gefüllt ROFL 🤣🤣🤣
You forgot Blätterkrokant. Delicous!
Germany definitely has many delicious Christmas candy to offer. My favourite one are Lebkuchen and Dominosteine 😋😍😍ohh and of course Glühwein🤣
That's right, here in Germany we have really delicious things to eat.
Of course, homemade food tastes best. 😀
7:34 Fun Fact: Baumkuchen was once imported to Japan by a German and is today one of the most beloved sweets of the Japanese. You'll find them in every convinience store.
And often with a very weird fillings, such as Matcha baked apple :D
Did you forget anything ? I dunno, but you could go to a weihnachtsmarkt and try all the foods there. And drinks obviously. The butter brezeln, reibeküchen, bratwurst, eierpunsch, glühwein, all those things 😉 NEXT VIDEO🎬
Correct! Coming on Wednesday! :D
Jaded Kate omg Reibekuchen I love them so much that’s my favourite on the Weihnachtsmarkt
Speculatius: Speculaas is SOOOOO Dutch! Yes they usually have the windmills on them or they come in man and woman shape. Then they are called : Speculaaspop (Speculaas puppet) . In the past these cookies were made on a Speculaasplank. A wooden plank with hand cut-out patterns in which the dough is formed to the specific shape.
A very different German molded cookie is Springerle. You press the little relief pictures into the dough with a wooden roller or flat wooden mold and then cut into the squares. They are hard and dry unlike Speculaas, in fact dried overnight before baking. Anise seeds are sprinkled on the pan so they get baked into the underside, and that's the main flavor. Why yes I do have a roller. The new ones from Germany have crap carvings sadly so I had to look for a vintage one on Ebay. I glaze them to add a bit of sweetness and vanilla flavor.
I love lebkuchen. Bought some at Trader Joe’s, as I do every Christmas season. I’ve always wanted to go to Germany for Christmas. Love, from the US.
I would love to be in the us for Christmas let's switch😂
Marie C.S Why not? 😄👍🏻🎄
@Evi1M4chine ya still living in 1933 its not us who currently has a cheeto as a president how is doing stuff very similar to someone long ago🤔
Next time Deana should try Vanillekipferl from a Bakery. They are more expensive than the ones from REWE, Lidl or Aldi. Like 5€ for 100g (at least where i am from). But it is worth. They are not as dense and are more like "melting on the tongue". Both (the cheap mass production and the bakery ones) are dry and crumbly but she will see the difference.
As always a good video and keep up the work. I love your content
My Mom used to get stollen from a German bakery and we'd have it with our breakfast every Christmas. I loved it. Thanks for posting! Some of those treats looked really yummy. Merry Christmas Deana & Phil !!
Merry Christmas Dwight!
One year I made it from scratch, never again, it took all day and no one would eat it. I ended up with three loves of the stuff!!
@@joanlynch5271 Stollen has to wait to be eaten for some weeks... 😉
Really good stollen is a delight.
The Lebkuchenherzen with filling are so much better. 😌
I love the video’s. The interaction between you two is what makes the difference. Never met a German with such a sense of humor. All my German and Austrian friends are far more stoic.
@Evi1M4chine Mine are in far southwest Germany not far northwest, but they are also pretty sociable and funny.
I love Lebkuchen! They're my absolute favourite Christmas sweets
Fun fact: The american "Dollar" actually comes from the word "Taler". :D
A lot of english speakers forget that english is a germanic language, die to french/Latin influences
I live in England, one can get quite a few German Christmas snacks here, especially in lidl or aldi. But I always get a parcel from Germany (it's my birthday 4th December) with our local bakery's stolen and contessa lebkuchen. My mother buys them in august, when they first appear in shops, as one cannot get them in December! I like Dominosteine and Spekulaten best.
If you want something to dip try Aachener Printen - they come in many many kinds but the plain ones are best for dipping.
You didn't have the Nuremberg style Lebkuchen (Elisenlebkuchen, Oblatenlebkuchen).
Imre Hundertwasser Oblatenlebkuchen is the best! I like it with the simple sugar glaze. I buy them in the US at Trader Joe’s and they’re made in Nuremberg- delicious!
Elisenlebkuchen gibt es momentan beim Kaufland. Sehr empfehlenswert!
@@km-kl3lg In meinem Kaufland sind sie schon ausverkauft, bis auf die superteure Bio-Variante.
In 1950's - 60's we had a local company that made Petit Fours, looked a lot like your Dominoes. Most of the workers were German immigrant woman. Even today, I will eat Pfeffernusse until I am sick! When I was little, I would give my grandparents an assortment of jellies and one of cheeses.
The main ingredients of Marzipan are almonds, sugar and rose water.
@Evi1M4chine yeah, but it's hard to get for most people, lubeka and Albrecht and nice don't deliver to private persons and besides, there are versions of marzipan made with a splash of rosewater, it especially makes it easier for people who are making it at home. and sugar is always necessary, or you just have almond butter, marzipanrohmasse is 1/3 sugar if you didn't already knew this.
"They're not as dry as they look" 😀You two are adorable Peace💝
I loooove Stollen but not from the supermarket :) we always get a really good huge one from a bakery
How can you not LOVE Lebkuchen? I'm half German, from South Africa and every Weinachten there were tons of Lebkuchen beautifully decorated with colored royal icing. Lebkuchen just reminds me of Christmas.
The chocolate with the white, round sprinkles are like Sno-Caps. A must have for my movie theater nights.
die mit Frucht gefüllten Lebkuchenherzen hätten euch sicher besser geschmeckt...
Ich frage mich generell, wie man Lebkuchenherzen ohne Füllung essen kann!
@@PowerControl Weil die ohne Füllung viel besser sind 🤣
Ich seh euch beide einfach gern ! Ihr bereitet mir Freude ! Danke !
"Dominosteine" are typical German - they were invented short after World War II when the feedstock for Pralinen (What's that in English?) was impossible to get and/or unaffordable.
What you did test was the supermarket-version of Christmas Sweets. Try again with those from you local bakery or even better form a baker in the region(s) they are from originaly. The differences are huge. And if you go for christmas sweets at supermarkets again avoid the own brands of the "big" chains (EDEKA, REWE...) but choose ALDI (sorry for the ad)
OMG I love Pfeffernüsse, here in Canada you can find them in a few stores at Christmas time and it's one of the first treats I buy every year!
Wie ihr einfach mal alles was ich nicht gerne mag an weihnachten mega geil findet 😆
Stollen is great, if you pick a GOOD one (ie from a proper bakery but even better you make it yourself). A good Stollen CAN'T be dry, because the point is to let it rest long enough that the marzipan seeps into the dough.
The Baumkuchen was pretty poor excusse, too, btw.
How can you not like Stollen?😀
I love it😍
Taler -> Dollar. The word "dollar" is literally derived from the German word "Taler".
The "gingerbread" in Dominosterne is really lebkuchen, which has various other spices along with the ginger and authentically probably honey.
Danke jetzt hab ich einen Riesenappetit auf das ganze Zeugs haha. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Entertaining, as usual. 😁 Merry Christmas to the both of you. 🎄☃️❄️
nice, like your videos very much. keep it up
Regards from northern germany!
Thank you!! Happy Holidays and stay warm! 🤗💜
I love your video as always. I love Marzipan, any chocolate , and of course Lebkuchen
Why Milka Santa???? :"(
The best ones are from Lindt... chocolate is better and much more beautiful
The best are the Kinder Schokolade one
I live in Vancouver, Canada and grew with Lebkuchen in The Netherlands. I love and buy it every year for Christmas ... ♥Great show, you two, keep it up!
We have both ALDI & Lidl nearby so I have tried a lot of great cookies and candies from Germany. I am addicted to Knoppers, thanks to a previous post you did. I also like the stollen and butter cookies they sell from Germany. The Haribo gummy bears are good too. Really enjoy your videos, keep up the good work! Merry Christmas to you both!
After watching many Knoppers addict NALF videos I bought some Knoppers (had to buy a pack of five) at Aldi in Brooklyn when they appeared. VERY disappointed - blandest chocolate/hazelnut thing I've ever had. Barely any flavor of either one.
Stollen is my favorite. I grew up with it, and a lot of these actually, in Virginia.
Love the Video. 😁 I love Marzipankartoffeln, Lebkuchen and Dominosteine best. Wish you both happy holidays!
Taler is an old currency in Europe (very old) it ended up after some sound shiftings as (Taler --> Dallar -->) Dollar :-)
Here a link of the history of the T(h)aler en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaler
Maybe the filled kringel are vanilla fondant ? Yes your flavor palate does change over time. People tend to stay away from candy when they turn older and start to like bolder flavors such as marzipan, dark chocolate, blue cheese, pickles
Yes, children would mostly be happy just eating sugar.
@@emjayay haha TRUE 🤣
Those round, flat chocolates covered in white dots look a lot like nonpareils, which you can find in just about every US movie theatre or candy aisle. They were my mother's favorite!
You guys killing me lol my mouth is watering 🤤
Yes me too
😅😍😋
@@DeanaandPhil don't like the stollen never did as a kid growing up . My grandma would bring or send them to us . So nasty , everything else I loved growing up still do just hard to find here . Some stuff you find at Aldi's around x mas time 😀
All the stuff you guys hate are literally my childhood!!! My grandpa from Dierdorf brought me all German treats at Christmastime. I’m thinking they may have been better quality…he got all of it sent from his family in Germany for me in the US. So nostalgic. I wish he was still here….I love watching your videos!
I love DIY Crismas-candy , I bake it al by my self🙂
You can’t get dominosteine here in the states and yea it’s marzipan 😁
The marzipan Kartoffeln are dusted with cacaopowder I think.
I love nougat 😍😍😍
You actually can buy Spekulatius and Lebkuchen at Aldis 😁
You forget the original Nünberger Lebkuchen!
also: send me the leftovers of the stuff u didnt olike cuz i love all of it haha
A bunch of these we also have in the Netherlands, but definitely the speculaas en pepernoten (as we call them) are dutch and are Sinterklaas snacks (5th of December). So, yes, these are typically Dutch cookies! Although the Pfeffernüsse/pepernoten look very different (bigger and we have them with different kinds of chocolade, but they're usually without). Also, these speculaas-cookies are sold all year round but other shapes and sizes are holiday-specific.. We have the Kringelmischung a-lot around christmas, in many different types (cookies/chocolade/with filling) to hang in the tree and call the kerstkransjes (little christmas-wreaths). Though judging by your reactions they might be of higher quality here 😂. Greetings from the Netherlands!
Marzipankartoffeln are marzipan dusted with a 1:1 mix of cacaopowder and icing sugar and then are swung over the steam of boiling water, so the cocoa and the sugar melt a little and create a sort of "protection layer" so the marzipan doesn't dry out.
You got to try some prause candy from germany a little sour but gut
HERZ STERNE BREZEL LEBKUCHEN!! das beste einfach
Speculaas is typical Dutch cookie. Usually with windmills.
Fruitcake stollen is bread with dried fruit inside (sometimes nuts) and marzipan.. you must put butter on it and eat it for breakfast.
I'm hoping to run into you guys one day, maybe in the U Bahn or something!!! Great videos and chemistry always... sehr schon!
Der Baum-Kuchen heißt aufgrund der Schichten so, da sie die Lebensringe eines Baumes darstellen sollen. 🙂
Edit: Stollen = mine. Da es diesen symbolisieren soll. 🙂🙂
Ich meine mal gehört zu haben dass es das Jesuskindlein darstellen soll und der Puderzucker soll die Leinentücher symbolisieren in dieser eingewickelt war, aber der Name leitet sich mit ihrer Erklärung einfacher ab.😀
A bit nitpicky, but I hope you find this interesting:
Stollen does not EXACTLY mean mine in this particular case, though it shares the same etymology.
A "Stollen" was an old German word for a post in the sense of a vertical wooden beam, a wooden pillar if you wish. This kind of cake is named after said posts because it is thought to resemble those.
The word "Stollen" actually also means "adit", so basically a horizontal, perhaps slightly sloping mine. It is called "Stollen" only if it's supported by... yes yes... by "Stollen".
Stollen is different from what we would call “Fruit Cake” in the US. What we call Fruit Cake is more like the traditional English style fruit cake. It’s a dense cake closer to the texture of pound cake but spiced and there is usually a denser pack of fruit. Finally it’s soaked with a spirit such as brandy or rum. In the US when you can find Stollen it is called Stollen. My uncle, a professional baker, used to make it and Mohnkuken at Christmas time. We had found stollen in Aldi. I didn’t realize at the time that Aldi was a German company, but knowing that now it makes more sense that we found it there. I like Lebkucken and Pfeffernusse, but prefer it with powdered sugar rather than icing. I pass on the marzipan, it’s a texture thing.
There's also something called Früchtebrot (fruit bread) in Germany which is a rather dark and dense affair with lots of nuts and dried fruit in it. I guess it's more of a thing in the South of Germany.
Lebkuchenherzen. We are still eating our way through a bag of these. My favourite Xmas German treat (we had more than one bag!). The taste of Xmas if you had a German mother.
Yes, marzipan is crushed almonds and sugar, sometimes a little gelatin to hold it together.
gelatin? never heard of that
Baumkuchen you need to test with dark chocolate, way better!
10:15 So British 😎🤣suddenly Deana turns from cool to sophisticated 😎😎😎💪
Greetings from Australia! My husband and I are really enjoying your videos. Pfeffernüsse is mine and my family's favourite Christmas snack but not that crappy stuff you tried with the white icing. We make our own Pfeffernüsse from my great-great grandmother Mittag's recipe. The family were originally from Schwerin.
Speculaas is from the Netherlands, I love them. Originally only for the holiday season, also Sinterklaas, but nowadays we can buy it all year round 😊❤️
Nice subtle symphonic Christmas background music guys.
versucht mal baumstamm....die besten gibts bei...aldi..(hoffentlich keine schleichwerbung)....ich könnte mich da reinsetzen:-))),,in baumstämme^^
Deana thought about something else entirely when she had two of the Nougatzapfen in her hands ;)
Your video reminds me of my time (2 years) spent in Köln. I miss the Weihnachts pastries and snacks. So much gingerbread and cinnamon! Btw, shop-bought Stollen is crap. You need Phil's Oma (or his mum) to make you one. Also if they are dry, you can add a liquer to help moisten it. You didnt do Printenrolle, which are a bit like Lebekuchen, which I LOVE btw, so there is something wrong with you people! (joke). Spekulatius is great too. Ich wuenshe euch eine Frohe Weihnachten aus Finnland. Tshuss!
or at least from a bakery or confectionery
My mom likes to eat and bake her own Stollen (although we always spell/pronounce it "Stoellen"). Her ancestors originally came from a small town near Chemnitz, so it's traditional for them. She likes to put in the fruit pieces, nuts, raisins, etc., but she doesn't coat it with powdered sugar. I'm not a fan of it, myself. I always think it tastes like bread with some extras thrown in.
Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar or honey and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract.
Chocolate with sugar balls? Remember Sno-Caps at the movie theater?
I knew that reminded me of something.
Baumkuchen is cake that is cooked on a barbecue (of sorts) or like a kebab. You have an exterior heat source and you pour the dough on a spindle. That's why it has these layers.
An old tradition in some parts of Germany is to put butter on your Stollen. In my family we always eat it that way.
I buy a bunch of Christmas food at ALDI in December. I even buy the mediocre sweets because it’s not Christmas without my ALDI Christmas food. The almond Spekulatius is my favorite. Interestingly, ALDI always has a lot of Stollen left after Christmas.
I love Stollen!!! But just the “Dresdener Christstollen” and you should put butter on top🥰
You forgot about the chocolate that's ornaments for the Christmas tree!💖
I eat speculaas (that is the Dutch name) on bread. Preferably on white bread.
I specifically remember as a kid taking a bite out of a cute little decorative marzipan candy. It can be shaped like animals etc. and painted with food colors. I think it was a little pig. I thought it was kind of bad also. Now I also like it, with chocolate or in a stollen. Or even cute little animals.
Und wo sind die printen ? 😂
I love gingerbread. I hate Dominosteine and Pfefferkuchen. And Stollen tastes good when you take an expensive one, which lied in a tunnel in the mountain for one month. But the best Christmas Coockies are selfmade. I hope you can try them. You should als try a good Glühwein. I think you can`t get it so easy in the USA.
0:55 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kipferl ... like many old style cookies they are normally hard and dry (compared to what Americans might be used to) weather good not bad, just the way they are.
Stollen is great, *BUT* when you buy them [edit: and sugar on top], there's usually way too many raisins in there. And also, they have to be big in order to mature well in the couple of weeks before you eat them. Small ones are just dry and don't taste good at all. And with big I mean filling the entire baking tray when you bake them at home.
I like your hair Deana, looks really good like that. Also great video, i love the food ones :)). Also i m curious, Deana don t you wanna learn german cause you have a super advantage to have phil as a bf
Nougat pine cones FOR THE WIN! =)
😂🌲
Stollen must be made by a bakery and should age for a few weeks.
Also there are variations without marzipan and raisins. Actually Stollen with marzipan is not that common.
The marzipan version (my fave) is fairly common with the commercial versions.
Vanille Kipferl, Domino Steine, Baumkuchen, Lebkuchen und Spekulatius
Probiert innder Winterzeit doch mal 'stollenkonfekt' vom Bäcker zu bekommen, macht leider nicht jeder. ABER Wenn ihr frisches Konfekt vom Bäckerkauft ist das soo lecker und lange nicht so trocken wie Abgepackter Stollen. 😊❤️
Spekulatius with Almonds rulez
Phil, I was looking forward to hear you pronounce Marzipan correctly! You said it how Americans say it😕 haha!! I Love Stolen!! My Aunt would make them every Christmas, so glad they have more and more German Christmas treats!! When I was kid kid she would go back to Germany and then she would get yummy bears, before they were the U.S. ( I know I know I'm old. LOL!!) and marzipan potatoes I love anything Marzipan hehe! And I love German gingerbread, ok that enough sorry I miss my family! Thanks you two, glad I found your videos!
Very intresting reactions. Your US girlfriend is so Sympathic. 😍 Merry Xmas 🕯️🎄 I like the dominosteine
Personally, like Bahlsen hit, and Leibniz butter biscuit, Ritter schokolade, Milka, August Storck candies: Toffifay, Werther's original, Riesen.
You probably won't believe it, but this is 100% true:
The English word for "Taler" (or to be very precise: "Thaler") is... ... dollar!
Kid you not!
In Dutch it's "daalder" by the way. A coin of 2.5 gulden was still called a "rijksdaalder" up until the end, being "national dollars".
The word "Thaler" derives from the fact that they were originally made from the silver minded in the Joachimsthal (Joachim Valley) in the 16th century. The original "Thaler" was actually called "Joachimsthaler", so it was an adjective, used as a noun. It later was shortened to "Thaler". Later both the word "Thal" and "Thaler" lost the H.
And speculaas (which is the Dutch word, but according to Wikipedia also the English word) is originated in Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern Germany, and it is basically a mild tasting Lebkuchen/Gingerbread/Peperkoek. Contrary to lebkuchen, speculaas tastes good. Lebkuchen is terrible! In Belgium and the Netherlands, we often take a slice of bread with butter, dip the speculaas in coffee and put them on the slice of bread and eat it like that.
Nowadays, this is made easier, as about 10'ish years ago, someone invented a speculaas spread in a jar. Looks like peanut butter.