When traveling to Dresden during the Christmas season, you must not miss Dresdner Christstollen, which is a traditional local pastry. For hundreds of years, Dresden's bakers and confectioners have been preserving the cake-baking tradition here and passing on the secrets of Saxony's authentic cuisine. Although the basic ingredients for making Dresden preserves were specified hundreds of years ago, nearly 130 bakeries and confectioners in Dresden still have their own ancestral secret recipes. Dresden Christmas preserves Made exclusively in and around Dresden.