Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)
Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Deliciously aromatic and chocolatey, Lebkuchen happen to be the original gingerbread cookie. Switch up your cookie repertoire with this delectable recipe. This traditional lebkuchen recipe is easy to make and contains no flour.

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook lebkuchen (german gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
  1. Prepare 300 g cane sugar
  2. Get 5 eggs, medium size
  3. Prepare 500 g ground hazelnuts
  4. Take 15 g gingerbread spice mix
  5. Take 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
  6. Take 25 g candied orange peel
  7. Get 25 g candied lemon peel
  8. Prepare 0.5 tsp lemon peel
  9. Make ready 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
  10. Take wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
  11. Make ready dark couverture chocolate

Lebkuchen - or German Gingerbread - is a moist, nutty cookie baked for Christmas. Authentic Lebkuchen comes from the city of Nuremberg in Germany. Traditionally eaten & shared at Christmas. Lebkuchen are soft German gingerbread cookies.

Steps to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):
  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… ;)

My mom has been making this recipe every Christmas for as long as I can remember. I look forward to all things gingerbread every Christmas. German Christmas Cookies (Lebkuchen Recipe /German Gingerbread) by Chef Mirko Peters. These German gingerbread cookies, or Lebkuchen, are such a traditional cookie to have for However, the usual ingredients for these are not readily available outside of Germany, unless, of. By zetallgerman (GoodFood Community). "Lebkuchen" (gingerbread) is also known as "Honigkuchen" (honeycake) in some parts of Germany.

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