Only the best ingredients added as well as exotic spices make the gingerbread a special sweet. The following ingredients are used for the production of German Lebkuchen - so called gingerbread: beside ginger and cinnamont, hazelnut, almonds, orangeat, zitronat and marzipan, honey, sugar, eggs and flour as well as a special selection of fine spices:

• Cardamom belongs to the ginger plants. For Lebkuchen on wafers this spice is mainly obtained from Guatemala, India and Sri Lanka.
• Pimento smells and tastes a bit like cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and pepper - that is why it is also called "mixed spice". It is imported from Mexico and Jamaica for Lebkuchen on wafers.
• Coriander is considered a typical spice for cakes. This berry the size of a peppercorn occurs in Morocco, but in Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and in parts of the Russian Federation as well.
• Cinnamon is the most important spice in Lebkuchen baking. The choicest, finest types come from Sri Lanka
• Cloves - these ancient Egyptians were already already familiar with this spice from originating East Africa, Madagascar, Indonesia and Brazil
• Aniseed is harvested from the aniseed plant native to the Mediterranean basin. The main areas where it is cultivated are: Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Bulgaria, and Spain
• Ginger is the pounded powder of dried root ginger. Chiefly imported from India, this spice gives food and drink an unmistakable flavor

Beside the standard Lebkuchen,a  gingerbread carries the designation " Elisenlebkuchen " - which names premium gingerbread - it must prerequisite a special composition of such ingredients: at least 25% of the mass must consist of almonds, hazelnuts or walnuts. Furthermore it is not permitted to add more than 10% grain fluor to the mass.

Among the different designs of Lebkuchen, the white lebkuchen is a speciality from the Frankonian aera. They contained at least 15% eggs and may contain at the most 40% flour. They are manufactured neither glazed nor filled only in rectangular form and. The decoration of the gingerbread is exclusively made with almonds.