Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lebkuchen (german gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
- Make ready 300 g cane sugar
- Get 5 eggs, medium size
- Get 500 g ground hazelnuts
- Prepare 15 g gingerbread spice mix
- Make ready 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
- Prepare 25 g candied orange peel
- Take 25 g candied lemon peel
- Prepare 0.5 tsp lemon peel
- Take 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
- Get wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
- Get dark couverture chocolate
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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