Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lebkuchen - German Gingerbread cookie is part of our World Cuisine Recipe Series. Lebkuchen is a soft gingerbread cookie frosted with sweet & tangy lemon frosting. You can find these cookies hanging in every German bakery at Christmas.
Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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):
- Take 300 g cane sugar
- Take 5 eggs, medium size
- Prepare 500 g ground hazelnuts
- Prepare 15 g gingerbread spice mix
- Make ready 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
- Get 25 g candied orange peel
- Make ready 25 g candied lemon peel
- Make ready 0.5 tsp lemon peel
- Take 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
- Make ready wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
- Prepare dark couverture chocolate
They're so very easy to make, that there's no reason to buy them. However, the usual ingredients for these are not readily available outside of Germany, unless, of course, you have a German deli close by. Those early lebkuchen recipes included various imported spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, anise, cloves, and of course, ginger Lebkuchen - German Gingerbread Cookies. Lebkuchen are traditional German Christmas cookies that somewhat resemble gingerbread.
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… ;)
There are different varieties of Lebkuchen, Oblaten Lebkuchen and Elisen Lebkuchen, which are made with different amounts of nuts but the main ingredients are always a mixture of nuts, candied orange and lemon peel, eggs, sugar or honey, and sometimes marzipan. Traditional lebkuchen, a German gingerbread variation with glaze. Carefully transfer the dough rectangle to the prepared pan, either by wrapping it around the rolling pin and then unfolding it into the pan, or using a giant spatula. The closest German equivalent of the gingerbread man is the Honigkuchenpferd ("honey cake horse"). We make authentic lebkuchen, a traditional German gingerbread, by hand.
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