"[Sandy Lee's] fabulous confections rely on the classic Nuremberg recipe, which features a nine-spice blend and a dough heavy on almonds and hazelnuts, and they’re everything lebkuchen should be—including a wonderful way to bring the true taste of Christmas back to the table.” — Ruth Reichl
"As I find myself less in Bavaria these days than I'd like, I sort of assumed my lebkuchen days had passed me by. Which is why I was beyond thrilled to discover Leckerlee, a New York based lebkuchen-only bakery selling beautifully decorated collect-em-all tins of my long-lost holiday cookies."— Alessandra Codinha, Vogue
"And then I discovered Leckerlee. And it was like being a child again. These are the real thing. Chewy, gingery, spicy, nutty – with that completely tasteless but compelling wafer on the bottom. It is, for me at least, Christmas in a single bite.” — Ruth Reichl
"I watched [my German-born husband] Michael take his first bite, assessing the spice blend, tender crumb, and fragrant aroma before devouring the chewy round and pronouncing it 'the real thing.'"— Grace Young, Saveur
Martha Stewart Living
“Sandy Lee left Manhattan and moved to Berlin looking for a new start. She found it in a German Christmas cookie called lebkuchen. ‘I was obsessed at first bite,’ Lee Says of the spicy, nutty confection, which has notes of citrus and honey.” — Marli Guzzetta, Martha Stewart Living
"Through founding Leckerlee, Lee also tapped into an unexpected, and rather astonishing, side story. It turns out, her beloved Christmas cookie played an instrumental role in the survival of two families of Jewish Holocaust survivors."— Leah Koenig, Tablet
"Packaged in a red patterned tin, Leckerlee’s spice cookies are big, tender and fresh-tasting.” — Food & Wine
New York Magazine
“Even German expats find these gingerbread cookies (lebkuchen) baked on the Lower East Side by a lebkuchen obsessive named Sandy Lee bafflingly authentic — and delicious."
“Navigate your way through the kitsch to seasonal spins on landmark local eats, like [...] handmade German gingerbread from Leckerlee.” — Ashley Day and Nancy Trejos, USA Today Weekend
“The soft, cakey rounds are studded with almonds, marzipan, candied citron and orange peel and encased in a layer of dark chocolate or sugar glaze on top and edible wafer on the bottom.” — Mari Uyehara, Time Out New York
“This festive tin is stacked with a tower of giant German gingerbread-cookie cakes, each made with a blend of nine spices.” — Bon Appetit
First for Women
“These authentic German gingerbread bites, or lebkuchen, taste like a mix between a cookie and a cake.” — First for Women
“In Brooklyn, New York, Leckerlee, the two-year- old business of Sandy Lee, makes just one item: traditional Nuremburg-style lebkuchen, also called Elisenlebkuchen, whose content is nuts rather than any great amount of flour.” — Edward Behr, The Art of Eating