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. 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.