''Bredele'' (also referred to as ''Bredala'', ''Bredle'' or ''Winachtsbredele'') are

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s or small

cakes Cake is a flour confection made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients, and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elaborate, ...

traditionally baked in

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

and

Moselle The Moselle ( , ; german: Mosel ; lb, Musel ) is a river that rises in the Vosges mountains and flows through north-eastern France and Luxembourg to western Germany. It is a bank (geography), left bank tributary of the Rhine, which it jo ...

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, especially during the

Christmas Christmas is an annual festival commemorating Nativity of Jesus, the birth of Jesus, Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people Observance of Christmas by country, around t ...

period. Many varieties can be found, including new ones, so that assortments can be created.Bredela at Ifood.tv
Accessed February 25, 2013 They can include ''anisbredela'' (cake with egg white and

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) ''butterbredle'', ''schwowebredle'' (

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and

cinnamon Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus ''Cinnamomum''. Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, breakfa ...

), ''spritzbredle'', small ''

pain d'épices ' or ' () is a French cake or quick bread. Its ingredients, according to ' (1694), were "rye flour, honey and spice A spice is a seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance primarily used for flavoring or coloring food. Spices are di ...

'' and spice cakes that are made with sugar rather than honey. Baking Bredeles at Christmas is popular in Alsace. The tradition is for each family to bake its own, and then offer it as a Christmas gift to every person surrounding them. The word comes from

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, which means Christmas cookies.

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