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Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

How to Making Recipes Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) - 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. German Lebkuchen are similar to gingerbread cookies, but they are very soft with a little more complex spice flavor. Gingerbread Recipes Are Old (And Wonderful) My mom says it is a very old recipe from Volynia (an area around the border of today's Poland and Ukraine, where German settlers used to live).

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

The spices had to be imported for all Lebkuchen, so cities with strong trading partners had an advantage over small, agricultural villages when creating new types of Lebkuchen.

Those early lebkuchen recipes included various imported spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, anise, cloves, and of course, ginger These German gingerbread cookies, or Lebkuchen, are such a traditional cookie to have for Christmas.

You can cook Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients cook Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

  1. It's 300 g cane sugar.
  2. You need 5 eggs, medium size.
  3. It's 500 g ground hazelnuts.
  4. You need 15 g gingerbread spice mix.
  5. You need 0.5 tbsp cinnamon.
  6. It's 25 g candied orange peel.
  7. You need 25 g candied lemon peel.
  8. Prepare 0.5 tsp lemon peel.
  9. Prepare 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash.
  10. It's wafer paper, diameter 70 mm.
  11. You need dark couverture chocolate.

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) instructions

  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... ;).

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) - Lebkuchen are traditional German Christmas cookies that somewhat resemble gingerbread. 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. Having grown up in Germany it's the Christmas season when I get the most homesick. The snowy landscapes, the decorations, the Christmas markets, and all the delicious Christmas goodies…you just can't beat Christmas in Germany. We make authentic lebkuchen, a traditional German gingerbread, by hand. Thank you and good luck