How to Make Appetizing Omi's Lebkuchen

Omi's Lebkuchen.

You can have Omi's Lebkuchen using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Omi's Lebkuchen

1. Prepare 600 grams of Flour.
2. Prepare 120 grams of Treacle sugar.
3. It's 120 grams of Butter.
4. You need 120 grams of Blackcurrant jam.
5. You need 120 grams of Honey.
6. Prepare 3 tbsp of Lebkuchen spice.
7. It's 1 grams of Cloves.
8. You need 2 tbsp of Cocoa.
9. You need 50 grams of Cooking chocolate.
10. Prepare 1 of Orange(rind & juice).
11. Prepare 1 of Lemon (rind & juice).
12. It's 1 of packet Baking powder.
13. You need 2 of Egg yolks.
14. It's 1 of Icing.
15. It's 2 tbsp of Rum.
16. Prepare 2 of Egg Whites.
17. You need 200 grams of Icing Sugar.

Omi's Lebkuchen step by step

1. Melt chocolate and butter, add all wet ingredients..
2. In a bowl place all dry ingredients, add wet ingredients, mix then knead together..
3. Rest dough for 24 hours.
4. Roll out into 5mm thickness. Create cookies..
5. Bake at 180°F celcius for 15min.
6. Mix rum, egg whites and icing sugar into liquid paste to ice the biscuits. Use different colourants to add colour, decorate with sprinkles..
7. In dry climates, one can let the biscuits mature (soften) over a week or two, by placing them in an air tight container with a quartered apple. (See picture). Replace apple quarters as they dry..