If your holiday story involves a special gift for a loved one, these bakeries offer custom-piped names and messages on their cookies. Eli Zabar Gingerbread People

: This boutique bakery in the U.S. specializes in small-batch, traditional Nuremberg-style Lebkuchen. Reviewers from Leckerlee highlight their use of premium ingredients like 40% almonds and hazelnuts and real honey. Their seasonal, limited-edition tins are considered one-of-a-kind collectibles. Lebkuchen-Schmidt Original Nuremberg Gingerbread

, the soft, spiced gingerbread traditional to Nuremberg, Germany. Leckerlee Authentic German Lebkuchen