Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
I have updated my lebkuchen recipe and you will find that post HERE. The second recipe makes a nuttier, chewy cookie. A few years ago, my boyfriend Graham and I spent the week of Valentine's Day in Munich, Germany.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lebkuchen (german gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
- Take 300 g cane sugar
- Take 5 eggs, medium size
- Make ready 500 g ground hazelnuts
- Prepare 15 g gingerbread spice mix
- Make ready 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
- Make ready 25 g candied orange peel
- Prepare 25 g candied lemon peel
- Prepare 0.5 tsp lemon peel
- Take 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
- Make ready wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
- Prepare dark couverture chocolate
By zetallgerman (GoodFood Community). "Lebkuchen" (gingerbread) is also known as "Honigkuchen" (honeycake) in some parts of Germany. Lebkuchen are soft German gingerbread cookies. My mom has been making this recipe every Christmas for as long as I can remember. I look forward to all things gingerbread every Christmas.
Instructions to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
- Mix eggs and cane sugar until foamy. Chop candied orange and lemon peel. Since I am not a big fan of them I chop them rather finely so I do not bite on it in the Lebkuchen.
- Add the rest of the ingredients. First the spices, potash/hartshorn and lemon peel, mix throughly. Than the candied lemon and orange peel and the ground hazelnuts.
- Than add the candied lemon and orange peel and the ground hazelnuts and mix throughly.
- Spread with a knife on the wafer paper and put on a baking tray with baking parchment. Let sit in the oven overnight. The photo shows how they look the nex morning.
- The next morning: Take out the baking tray(s). Preheat the oven to 130 °C. Bake the cookies for 40 min. Let cool. (Photo: to the left the baked Lebkuchen, to the right how they look after a nights` lodging in the cold oven.)
- Glaze with dark couverture chocolate and decorate to taste with almonds or candied cherries. Enjoy! But only after the flavours had two weeks in the bisquit tin to mingle… ;)
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