Classic German Baking ─ The Very Best Recipes for Traditional Favorites, from Pfeffernusse to Streuselkuchen

A collection of 100 quintessential German recipes for sweets and breads from the creator of The Wednesday Chef blog and author of the memoir, My Berlin Kitchen, including stories from the author's experience of living and baking in Berlinn.

German baking is legendary and informs baking traditions the world over: Christmas cookies, coffee cakes, delicate tortes, soft seeded rolls, and hearty dumplings all have their origins in Germany (and Austria). In Classic German Baking, blogger and author Luisa Weiss--who was born in Berlin to an Italian mother and American father, and married into a family of bakers with roots in Saxony--has collected and mastered the recipes most essential to every good baker's repertoire. In addition to the pillars of the German baking tradition, like Christmas stollen, lebkuchen, and apple strudel, Weiss includes overlooked gems, like eisenbahner--an almond macaroon paste piped onto jam-topped shortbread--and rosinenbrötchen--the raisin-studded whole wheat buns that please a child's palate and a parent's conscience--to create the resource that bakers across the world have long wanted.

LUISA WEISS is an American-Italian food writer and blogger based in Berlin, Germany. She is the creator of the blog, The Wednesday Chef, and author of the critically acclaimed memoir, My Berlin Kitchen. She grew up in Berlin and Boston, and graduated from Tufts University with degrees in English and French literature. She spent a decade working in book publishing in New York, most recently as senior cookbook editor at Stewart, Tabori, and Chang.