Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)
Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lebkuchen (german gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
  1. Make ready 300 g cane sugar
  2. Make ready 5 eggs, medium size
  3. Take 500 g ground hazelnuts
  4. Get 15 g gingerbread spice mix
  5. Get 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
  6. Get 25 g candied orange peel
  7. Prepare 25 g candied lemon peel
  8. Make ready 0.5 tsp lemon peel
  9. Get 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
  10. Get wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
  11. Get dark couverture chocolate
Steps to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Than add the candied lemon and orange peel and the ground hazelnuts and mix throughly.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.)
  6. 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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