Lebkuchen
Lebkuchen
500 g honey
900 g flour
375g sugar
5
eggs
200g ground almonds or hazelnuts
15g (6 table spoons) cinnamon
1 tsp each of ground cloves, cardamon, nutmeg, coriander, anise
scraped off peel of 2 lemons and 2 oranges
1 bag of baking powder
mix: eggs, sugar, candied lemon/orange peel, nuts, spices.
soften up the honey by warming it a little in the microwave, add
that.
add flour and baking powder.
roll out on a greased baking sheet.
Bake at 330 F for about 20 min, until a fork stuck in comes out
clean.
cut immediately into rectangles and the let cool while still on
baking
sheet.
Glazes:
melt baking chocolate with a bit of sweet cream mixed in and spread that with
a spoon on the lebkuchen
cool, store in airtight container.
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Lemon juice and confectioners
sugar
juice of 1 lemon
add confectioner's sugar until the lemon juice-sugar glaze becomes
quite heavy.
spread the glaze on the lebkuchen with a spoon
cool, store in airtight container.