German Christmas Cookies

So I'm a baker. At Christmas, you have to be. Seriously, it's an obligation - for at least one person per family. It's like, the first born inherits the family manor, the second born must bake the christmas cookies.
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[@IronicAvenger]

I really appreciate the German lesson. Your videos are a very pleasant way to learn a foreign language. You should do more of these, please.

[@AinsTaylor]

I love Christmas baking! Mom and I spend the whole weekend making cookies and fudges and sweets. Then we box them all up and give them to friends and family.

[@ClaireWill71uk]

Lower Saxony , Platzchen at Christmas

[@MissiveCauseIMissYou]

That seems like a wonderful tradition. It must take days, though! So many varieties! Decorating them definitely looks like the best part. = ) Have fun!

[@karenholt9744]

Hi! Just want you to know I'm still enjoying this video. I play it every year to get pumped for making my own excessive amounts of various Christmas cookies. I have this compulsion and it may be genetic. I still remember how my mind was blown when you said, "...a good German housewife takes pride in making as many varieties as possible." I love the music, the pan of the cookie spread, and all the details of you making them. Thanks! 😁

[@Zaephyrs]

An amazing array of cookies! Educational and humorous. Plus chicken dancing? :) With each video I am more and more impressed.

[@DuckyGames]

Your chickens are awesome! And i love baking cookies, I hope when i have my own place to have all the ingredients to make whatever cookie i want! lol!

[@sk8rdman]

You should definitely do more German stuff like this. As someone who loved German in high school, it's always great to learn more, or just brush up on what I already know.

[@Imaroo]

Wow, this is a tradition that just doesn't exist in England, as far as I know. It sounds like a lot of fun :) All of those things looked delicious. I'm so glad you're making videos again, your videos are always simple but a delight, and you look so natural in front of the camera.

[@Mandibulari]

Your idea about a new one every year is good! We normally have the same everytime. Zimtsterne, Vanillekipfel, Himbeerherzen (like your stars, but heart- shaped), Engelsaugen and normal dekorated Plätzchen.

[@rayzgbbts]

Lady, you make me so happy. Merry Christmas.

[@nrawson66]

Would love the recipes for those yummy looking cookies! :)

[@nancydan1234]

This brings back memories when my kids were little. I'd make the dough and they would cut and decorate the cookies! We had a large assortment of cookie cutters, including hands and feet!! My favorite were the cream cheese cookies! I wonder if I still have the recipe... great video, by the way!!

[@lecagot2]

I miss these cookies. My mother was German born and she baked great cookies.

[@Alassieth]

I live in the UK and at Christmas we sometimes get lebkuchen over here (the softer ginger biscuits, usually with a crisp sugar icing) which I LOVE. Makes me want to go buy some from the supermarket right now...

[@kruemelmonsterly]

I'm from the south-western part of Germany and I call them Plätzchen at Christmas time and Kekse the rest of the year (although I almost never bake cookies when it's not Christmas time). Btw. a great way to make the Herzoginnenplätzchen is to use two spoons: one to scoop up the dough and a second one scoop the dough from the spoon onto the baking sheet.

[@ByrdMann2010]

My parents are immigrants with me being the first child born in the US. My father a Frankfurter, my mother a longer story. My father's parents still lived in Frankfurt when they were alive and one big highlight at Christmas was receiving the packages from Germany. One package was always a large box lined with a plastic bag and filled to the brim with cookies. We called them Weinachts Kuchen. Or perhaps it was Kuchien. (Sorry if I've misspelled. My German isn't as good anymore.)

[@ReadWryt]

Did I see Airplane Plätzchen?!? Goodness, when *I* think of Christmas, and all of it's peripheral joys, Air Travel springs to mind...*Snicker* Nice video, as usual...Thanks!!

[@eriklares90]

My stepmom hails from southern Germany, she starts about a month and a half before christmas, or at least had to this year because of her job. next year, she's going to put me to the task of Plaetzchhen backen. So much work, but the payoff is so delicious.

[@rosiefromthepast]

German cookies are amazing - spritzgebäcken are my favourite but I think you made enough!

[@jacobhornerjh]

that is scary how many you made, but at the same time pretty awesome, nice dancing by the way!!!

[@TheZocar]

This video really makes me in the mood for cookies...

[@Mojen_Marc_Music]

I was actually given some Lebkuchen a few days ago but they looked a bit different to those you made. These were very soft gingerbread covered in chocolate. All your cookies look SEHR LECKER! :)

[@maiquel006004]

i love how your chicken moves at the rhythm of the music !

[@mckennaissoawesome]

Yeah, I know. The first time I had it was in March or some time in early spring. But we went a few times at Christmas and it just became a Christmas thing in my mind. It's just one of those individual traditions I guess :)

[@lananification19]

Holy moly that is a lot of cookies! I am impressed! Also, you are adorable,

[@ImpGimp]

I am German and i think "Plätzchen" are some sort of cookies which you only bake around christmas.. "Kekse" you can bake and eat all over the year. It's like Christmas Cookies and just regular Cookies..

[@NighthawkNZ]

So what is the difference between christmas cookies and regular cookies? Just askin... being a Kiwi and not knowing any German I wouldn't know... lol

[@janika4633]

Night hawk the cookies for all the year are like the american cookies

[@HalWilson]

Excellent video editing. A very enjoyable video.

[@funnybleh]

I think the cookies look great. Brad Sucks should get a mention on that music track. Merry Christmas.

[@shaipeee]

Wow, you've been on a proper baking frenzy!

[@sillysparrowness]

Huh, days, yeah? Well, tecnically yes. But if you're a teacher, you're really busy before christmas, so to get that many varieties... I actually started baking in october... ;)

[@mckennaissoawesome]

I used to live in Bonn and would take the train all the way to Aachen at Christmas just for Aachener Printen!!! I tried to make it at home last year -- rather unsuccessfully, I might add.

[@mybestfrendsafrog]

THE SASSY CHICKEN DANCE WALK WAS THE BEST THING I'VE EVER SEEN

[@MsSheeep]

In Swabia (southern Germany) we say Bredla instead of Plätzchen but we still make a difference between regular cookies and christmas cookies... I like it that way.

[@chrisjsauer1]

After watching this, my new Christmas tradition will have to include dancing with chickens.

[@arrowgatve]

you could mix lemon juice and powdered sugar (confectioner's sugar) and stirr for some minutes.

[@lazymandoplayer]

That was wonderful, thank you.

[@RobertHeslop]

mmmm Plätzschen look so good!

[@MsASMARVEL]

They look delicious! Recipes please...? **hopeful look**

[@roadrunner1896]

I am from Lower Saxony and I call them "Plätzchen" when I decorate them and "Kekse" when I don't. Since at Christmas most of the cookies do get decorated it is mostly "Plätzchen", but I wouldn't be taken by surprise if someone said "Weihnachtskekse" instead.

[@hehehepssst]

I am from NRW and would totally use 'Kekse' during chrismas time

[@GuitarSamurai62]

I like the Rum balls best! Merry Christmas!!

[@RustyDust101]

Well, theoretically it could be a diminutive form of 'Platz', which either means a town square, or a place (note the similiarities there). In the first case it would be a (somewhat cute) form of a tiny town square. The second version would also be a small, cute seat or even a cozy seating arrangement at a table in a restaurant. Last version is any locality, such as a small meadow, gazebo, always in its diminutive form. I don't know where the term 'Plätzchen' comes from etymologically.

[@Eelathin]

I love the ending.

[@TheSockemitloch]

I'm from Bremen and we always say Kekse, no matter the season. Plätzchen sounds very southern German to me. We don't use diminutives ("-chen") very often...

[@bridgetisadreamer]

seeing you have this much fun really brightened my day :)

[@Fox.Shirakami]

Wer. Nennt. Die. Kekse.

[@MrHermanguerrero]

I'm in love! Not only can you bake, you are lovely too. Nice video. Grüße aus Nürnberg!

[@543Sun]

I agree :D In Christmas time, biscuits need to be called "Plätzchen"

[@MsSheeep]

@Melissa Fletcher Totally agreed!

[@grnlfe01]

Those look amazingly yummy. Lebkuchen are my favourite.

[@arrowgatve]

I'm from Austria and we call them Kekse, or maybe Weihnachtskekse! Watching you baking all these cookies really got me into Christmas mood! :) Is it usual in Germany to bake Vanillekipferl? To me, they are like Lebkuchen - just necessary! :)

[@chickenmomXD]

that was cute! Chickens were a cute addition! I've got some myself!

[@dellamenendez]

Love your chickens 😄

[@morenojohnnie514]

my god your not married yet... i would marry your german heart in a New York second... you amaze me more and more every time i see your videos.... most of my family would be proud to cause i have an uncle that is a german prince ... him and him family have a castle some where over there

[@zeebier2]

Is there any chance you might make a video showing how to make your rum truffles and lebkuchen this year? I know I could look up recipes somewhere online but your videos are so amazing!

[@toolskington]

near the wnd i started laughing and you said shut up its fun and made me laugh more. good video.

[@bluebird136]

Recipes? They all look so delicious!

[@shadow3191]

I see that you are conducting field research for your upcoming episodes by exploring the Earthling phenomenon that is Christmas.

[@lostismyconstent]

XD I can't get over how adorable you are!

[@Fuguer]

The internet will be coming to your house for wee wee Plätzchen.

[@Elinious]

In Dutch, we say 'koekjes' and we say 'koekjes bakken'. Koekjes at Christmas are just called Kerstkoekjes... We also have 'biscuitjes' which is biscuit pronounced like a French word and '-jes' added.

[@AvorNornberg]

Kekse und Plätzchen sind für mich auch verschieden und wenn das Gebäck mit Weihnachten zutun hat dann ist es ein Plätzchen.

[@MsShaunaM]

You know, the cheese cookies could be a nice snack to go with a glass of wine...

[@ornleifs]

"Shut up, it's Fun !" - Ha Ha.

[@sillysparrowness]

OMG no, I don't really eat a lot of cookies myself. I make them for my family and then I also give them away, to friends, colleagues...

[@Fitzliputzli23]

The German word "keks" is actually a commercial word created by German company Bahlsen in 1889. They just changed the spelling of their product "Leibnitz-Cakes" because when pronounced wrong the word "cakes" could have been associated with the German word for "poo". The plural function of the "s" was soon forgotten so today Germans call a single cookie "Keks". When it comes to old time traditions like christmas Germans tend to go back to older vacabulary and call their cookies "Plaetzchen".

[@JanineBrigitta]

Arround the Black Forrest we are calling them "Brödle" or "Plätzle" but never Kekse. I totallly agree with you.

[@dirkdiabolus]

In saxony we fill 'Pfannkuchen' or 'Berliner' with mustard instead of jam and mix them just for fun ;-)

[@Timmimini]

You, my freind, are a very wise person.

[@sillysparrowness]

I'm not sure if I should mix the cheese cookies with the others. Haven't figured that out yet. It does seem weird, does it?

[@thedeguchannel]

I agree with you. There are no "Kekse" at christmas time...

[@colmonhs]

Children in Germany must have the time of their lives at Christmas!

[@JonBln]

In my family we call it "Kekse backen" around christmas and I believe this is pretty common here in Berlin. So it may be a regioinal thing.

[@OhWounder]

So my seven year old son has a school project to make food from his ancestral home. And he's lucky enough to, y'know, choose German food. And since my mother makes a huge variety of wickedly good cookies, we're doing springerle. So when I saw this in the feed, we were both excited to see if you made them as well. Mild disappointment was assuaged by seeing chickens get sprinkled mid-dance!

[@closed9035]

With 32 students in each class, having only six cookies would get you in trouble.

[@ArtisticOctopus]

To my knowledge, us Americans never say "biscuit" unless we are talking about that mini-loaf of bread you might eat with a southern meal. ;) I've never heard about this distinction in British English between cookie and biscuit. Very interesting :)

[@Putenful]

Most of the christmas time I call them Plätzchen, but last week we had an "Ausstechle"- session :) so sometimes we call them Ausstechle

[@SparrowHawk541]

Deine Hühner sind genial. Keine Frage. Plätzchen! :)

[@ornleifs]

We have a similar word to "Kekse" in Icelandic - it's "Kex" and we use it mostly for the cookies you would buy in a store but we use another word for "Plätzchen" and that's "Jólakökur" or Christmas Cookies.

[@curiouscookie]

For me, Plätzchen are things like Zimtsterne, Mandelbögen, Lebkuchen that are ONLY eaten at Christmas, whereas Kekse can be eaten at any time of the year... I spent most of my time in Germany on the RLP/Hessen boarder if that's any indication. I really miss Zimtsterne. They're my favourite... I wonder if Aldi sell them here...

[@Mojen_Marc_Music]

Little places :) I like it! I'll have to look into this in Vienna :D

[@silent_amy]

i love the "pee in the snow"!!!!!!

[@MultiAbstrak]

Sorry, i was caught up in the cuteness. We (my family) just call them sugar cookies if they ware weater then normal. But we don't usually cook cookies. i cook the ham and they make the other stuff.

[@recklessroges]

Biscuits salés en anglais would be savoury biscuits. Decorative wee-wee; Yellow snow that you can eat!

[@angelcastiel98]

You are a native German? Your English is awesome!

[@BadSensation]

I think there is a difference in plätzchen and kekse all the way - if you make plätzchen in july they´re still plätzchen because there are certain plätzchen that are plätzchen and there are kekse which are kekse - even on christmas.

[@AubreyÆsohn]

Sehr toll! LOL My mom is gonna show me how to make Stollen this year. Woo! Can't wait to start baking! I'm an only child. ;-) Which means I get it all!!!!

[@Cerith99]

In the UK we always call the biscuits you were making 'biscuits' and the other kind (like chocolate-chip, double chocolate, and so on) 'cookies'. Maybe he calls cookies 'Kekse' and biscuits 'Plätzchen' whether or not it's Christmas time. I've never heard an American say 'biscuit', though.

[@PontusWelin]

You have a gorgeous smile. It makes me smile. =) Also. Can I please have the recipe for Herzoginnenplätzen? I love hazelnut!

[@ajubvj]

It's a good thing I set my browser to enable cookies! I'm guessing the delicate subject next week is mistletoe.

[@hempev]

I thought you weren't suppose to eat the yellow snow...

[@annabeth105]

Dinge zu benennen ist hart!

[@ThorstenWieking]

Charming video as always. I never thought about a seasonal context when saying "Plätzchen". But it really could be that way. Btw, I'm from southern germany.

[@StardustScribe]

Can you post your recipes? Those look really good.

[@optimus6300]

NEED Plätzchen NOW !! Great video ! wee wee cookies

[@rmcbeigh]

HAHAHA peed in the snow cookie BRILLIANT!!!!!

[@BethTheOxymoron]

Oh my goodness you are a biscuit making god!

[@MaDFsX]

Im fine with Kekse and Plätzchen, although the latter is more common here too, I'd say. ...And now I wanna bake some, too :o

[@MrMichkov]

We use Kekse in Austria. What I find interesting is that you make a temporal distinction whether you use Plätzchen or Kekse. I assume that the same cookies baked in January would be Kekse while those baked in December are Plätzchen?

[@hilde1945]

I am German and ever since I remember they were called Platzchen