Honigkuchen

A gingerbread horse is a sweet food-product flavored with
ginger and typically honey formed as a horse. In Germany there is a slight
difference between a gingerbread and a honey cake. The honey cake is a variety
of gingerbread with spices mixed in this
content: 45% cinnamon, 20 % anise, 20% Allspice, 10 % cloves, 5 % cilantro and
1 pinch ginger. The icing is made with at least 50% honey. But this is not what
this is about. Today’s word is “Honigkuchenpferd” which is being used in the
german language when somebody is grinning all the time and never stops. The
german phrase is:
Grinsen wie ein Honigkuchenpferd cannot be translated as
honey cake horse. In the English language this is being translated as grinning
like a Cheshire Cat. The Cheshire cat is a fictional cat popularized in 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' and known for its distinctive mischievous grin. But if you
translate Cheshire Cat into German you will get: Grinsekatze. Grinsekatze is
something different than a Honigkuchenpferd. So I guess there is not really a
translation for Honigkuchenpferd.

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