Got more things, this time a box full of traditional east German Christmas treats:
Those are, from left to right, a 2lb Whiskey Stollen, a .5lb Bratapfel Stollen (baked cinnamon appel), a 1.5lb balls-to-wall Dresdner Stollen, and without a box a Bratapfel Striezel.
What's a Stollen? It's a traditional German fruit cake that started it's existence as a winter ration, baked during the close of the harvest season and using things like crushed almonds and raisins, they are such sugar dense fruit cakes that they stay fresh for the entire winter season. So they make excellent treats for dark age peasants during the long winter months, and they also double as a good emergency rations due to having ridiculous amounts of calories. These days they're just nice treats but still make for decent rations for winter hikes or similar.
The right most one is the most traditional of them, made with only premium ingredients because I want to see if it's actually worth spending more or if the cheaper ones are more bang for the buck. The whiskey and Bratapfel ones I got because I never had those flavors in Stollen before, and the Kentucky whiskey in particular sounds interesting. The Striezel is not quite a Stollen but very close, seems like the biggest difference to Stollen is that it's more like Brioche dough, and only lasts a couple weeks instead of 6 months.
Why did I get them before Halloween? Because they were sold out when I tried to get them last year during December. So this year I ordered them a little early so they wouldn't be all gone again.