Description
Legendary cookie man Gunter Werner started Upper Crust, which carries on the tradition of quality as his previous, European Pastry Shop (now run by Peter Larsen since Gunter's retirement eight years ago). Most importantly, Larsen still makes those celebrated all-butter, crispy and crunchy, ultralight Christmas sugar cookies that had Pakistani Muslims, Brooklyn Jewish kids, Tibetan Buddhists, and everyone else on The Ave thinking good things about the Christian holiday as they noshed them by the dozen. Other German yuletide cookies include the anise-flavored springerle, gingerbread folks, cinnamon stars, gingersnaps, spicy pfeffernusse and chocolaty lebkuchen.
