My brother has been sending me a tin of german gingerbread every year around this time. It's delicious!! Much different from the sweet, hard/crunchy 'gingerbread men' cookies here in the US. It's more cake-like, not as sweet, and has like shredded ginger in it (I think, it looks like that, I can't read the labels as they're all in german) My sister in law sent me her recipe but I haven't made it yet, it's pretty labor-intensive.