Now is a good time to reserve your favorite German holiday sweets and brands. We've got over 800 goodies to choose from: advent calendars, stollen, gingerbreads, speculatius, historic lebkuchen tins, baumkuchen, liquor-filled pralines, spices and cake mixes just for the holidays. Make your choices now and guarantee availability of inventory when we're in stock at the end of October. 

You can choose from the following categories (click on the links)

• Cookies & Gingerbreads
• Historic Gift Tins
• Advent Calendars
• Chocolate, Marzipan & Candies
• Cakes & Stollen
• Christmas Beverages
• New Year's Eve Party

We will receive Christmas products at the beginning of October all the way to the beginning of November. As soon as we have all products you pre-order now, we will ship them to you on a first-come-first-serve basis. If you add non-seasonal items to the cart along with the pre-order holiday products, we will ship the entire order as of October. We can also split the order and ship non-seasonal items now. Some incremental shipping costs will apply in this case.

Brows to your heart's delight.

Recipes & Meal Ideas

For home bakers, we have a vast recipe collection to make your own lebkuchen, stollen, cinnamon cookies and marzipan cake. Vist our sister site www.germanfoods.org

The following sections may be of interest to you:

• 10 Beloved Christmas Traditions
• Guide to German Holiday Baking
• 22 Traditional German Christmas Cookies Recipes
• What Makes Good Stollen Great
• Christmas Markets in North America

It's clearly too early to think in the middle of the summer of the Christmas holidays. But it's never to early to be prepared for the season.