Lebkuchen is a German baked Christmas treat that is part of Germanys Christmas traditions. It is a type of honey-sweetened German cake, molded cookie, or bar cookie that is similar to gingerbread. Lebkuchen is soft, dense, and often nutty, with a texture somewhere between a cake and a cookie. It is made with a combination of ingredients such as honey, flour, sugar, eggs, cinnamon, cloves, anise, cardamom, coriander, ginger, nutmeg, allspice, almonds, hazelnuts, and/or walnuts, and candied lemon and orange peels. Lebkuchen can be round, square, or rectangular, and can be glazed or not glazed. If they are glazed, it can be white or chocolate. Some variations of Lebkuchen include cocoa mixed in with the dough, roasted apple, marzipan, or cashews mixed in to add different flavors and textures. Nuremberg-style Lebkuchen, known as Nürnberger Lebkuchen or Elisenlebkuchen in Germany, is the most highly prized of all types of Lebkuchen, having the highest nut content of all types of Lebkuchen. Lebkuchen is a traditional Christmas cookie that is often enjoyed with a cup of tea or coffee.