A couple of months ago, I changed the way I approach what to cook next, and it’s meant spending more time flipping through my collection of cookbooks and getting to know some that I haven’t had the chance to use before. I’ve owned Classic German Baking for at least a year and shamefully never got around to baking from it, but I’ve been following its author, Luisa Weiss, for much, much longer, and have always admired both her writing voice and her taste in food on her blog The Wednesday Chef. So when I finally got around to cracking the book open a few weeks ago, I was on the hunt for something that seemed quintessentially German, but was also stuck on the idea of a potential Christmas cookie. The nussecken seemed to fit the bill.
