Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
- Get 300 g cane sugar
- Get 5 eggs, medium size
- Take 500 g ground hazelnuts
- Make ready 15 g gingerbread spice mix
- Get 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
- Prepare 25 g candied orange peel
- Get 25 g candied lemon peel
- Get 0.5 tsp lemon peel
- Get 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
- Get wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
- Make ready 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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