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Christmas, sweet and crunchy

This Christmas, the Toy Worlds Museum Basle will be featuring Christmas biscuits and cakes from all around the world. The museum will be filled with the smell of biscuits, bûche de Noël, speculoos, Lebkuchen, gingerbread, Bredele, panettone, Stollen and Vanillekipferl as well as of all the delightful exotic spices and ingredients, which are needed for Christmas baking.

Evidence from excavations and illustrations shows that baking for festive occasions existed even before Christ. However, the first Christmas biscuits were presumably baked by nuns and monks in the Middle Ages.