Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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):
- Prepare 300 g cane sugar
- Make ready 5 eggs, medium size
- Prepare 500 g ground hazelnuts
- Take 15 g gingerbread spice mix
- Get 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
- Get 25 g candied orange peel
- Take 25 g candied lemon peel
- Make ready 0.5 tsp lemon peel
- Get 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
- Get wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
- Take dark couverture chocolate
Steps 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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