Advent: Festive German Bakes to Celebrate the Coming of Christmas

Selected for Jamie Oliver’s Cookbook Club

’I love it. As soon as I opened this, I felt it was Christmas.’ - Diana Henry

Advent celebrates the magical run-up to Christmas with over 100 classic German baking recipes.

The Advent season is one of the most special times of the year, when candles twinkle, the Christmas tree is decorated, and the smells of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove fill the kitchen.

In the modern classic Advent, Anja Dunk shares her recipes for the very best of traditional German festive bakes. From lightly spiced Lebkuchen, frosted cinnamon stars, jam-filled ginger hearts, snow-capped coconut macaroons, to marzipan-filled Stollen, edible tree decorations, lucky meringue mushrooms and a gingerbread house dripping with candies and sugar icicles, you will find delectable spiced treats to fill your Bunter Teller and share with friends and family.

Featuring Anja’s own linocut illustrations and evocative photography, this stunning, burgundy-coloured clothbound edition will be a family favourite for many years to come. The weeks of Advent hold all the sweet, almost unbearable anticipation of Christmas for days on end and this gorgeous book embraces that fairy-tale feeling within its pages.

Anja Dunk was born in Wales to a German mother and a Welsh father. She is a freelance cook, food writer and artist. Anja co-wrote Do Preserve: Make your own jams, chutneys, pickles and cordials) and is the author of Strudel, Noodles and Dumplings: The new taste of German cooking.