Recipe: Yummy Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread).

You can have Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

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

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) step by step

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... ;).