German Christmas Shop

German Christmas hampers and gift boxes packed from this shop, each one a bunter Teller of Lebkuchen, marzipan and chocolate, in three sizes from Secret Santa to the family hamper.

Small German gifts under £15 for colleagues, neighbours and Secret Santa. Each one is a full pack that only needs a card: Raffaello coconut and almond pralines, Yogurette with its yoghurt and strawberry filling, and Kinder Country cereal bars. Everything ships from our UK warehouse, so it arrives without customs fees.

Stollen is the Christmas loaf of Advent: a dense yeast bread made with butter and dried fruit, covered in icing sugar and cut into thin slices with coffee in the weeks before Christmas. We stock the Dresdner Christstollen from Dr. Quendt, which carries the protected PGI name of Dresden, and the mini Mohn Stollen from Bahlsen with a poppy seed filling.

Lebkuchen is the soft spiced gingerbread of the German Christmas market, made with honey, nuts and spices such as cinnamon and clove. All of ours come from Weiss: chocolate covered hearts, stars and pretzels, Lebkuchen Herzen with an apricot filling in milk or dark chocolate, Oblaten Lebkuchen baked on a thin wafer, and glazed Pfeffernüsse.

Spekulatius is the thin, crisp spiced biscuit that Germans eat through Advent, stamped with a picture on the front. In the UK the same kind of biscuit is sold as speculoos. We stock two from Bahlsen: Gewürz Spekulatius, the spiced original, and Butter Spekulatius, which is milder and made with butter.

These are the biscuits of the bunter Teller, the plate of Christmas baking set out in German homes through Advent. Zimtsterne are cinnamon stars made with ground nuts under a white glaze, Vanillekipferl are crumbly vanilla crescents, and the Bahlsen Zum Fest box puts several kinds together in one pack.

Marzipan belongs to a German Christmas as much as Lebkuchen does. Ours comes from Zentis in Aachen. The Marzipan Brot is a bar of marzipan coated in dark chocolate. Marzipan Kartoffeln are small balls of marzipan rolled in cocoa so they look like tiny potatoes, a sweet that turns up on the Christmas plate and in the Nikolaus boot.

Dominosteine are small Christmas cubes built in layers: soft Lebkuchen at the bottom, fruit jelly in the middle and marzipan or persipan on top, all covered in chocolate. They were first made in Dresden and are now sold across Germany every Advent. Ours are the Domino Star from Kinkartz in Aachen, coated in dark chocolate.

German stocking fillers, most of them under £5: Milka and Ritter Sport bars, Haribo, Katjes and Hitschies sweets, Hanuta wafers and Kinder Riegel. In Germany children put a boot outside the door on the evening of 5 December and find it filled with sweets on Nikolaus morning. The same sweets work just as well in a British Christmas stocking.