Christmas cookies or Christmas biscuits are traditionally sugar cookies or biscuits cut into various shapes related to Christmas.
A variety of decorated North American style Christmas cookies
Traditional holiday cookie tray
Modern Canadian and American style Christmas cookies
Lebkuchen, Honigkuchen or Pfefferkuchen are honey-sweetened German cakes, moulded cookies or bar cookies that have become part of Germany's Christmas traditions. They are similar to gingerbread.
An assortment of glazed and dark chocolate Lebkuchen
A Lebküchner from a manuscript c. 1520, in the Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg [de]
Mould used for marzipan or Lebkuchen, 17th/18th century, collection of the Oberhausmuseum
Lebkuchen hearts are sold at fairs.