Recipe of Award-winning Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread).

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It's appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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

The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):

1. {Make ready of cane sugar.
2. {Take of eggs, medium size.
3. {Take of ground hazelnuts.
4. {Get of gingerbread spice mix.
5. {Take of cinnamon.
6. {Take of candied orange peel.
7. {Take of candied lemon peel.
8. {Take of lemon peel.
9. {Get of knive point of hartshorn or potash.
10. {Prepare of wafer paper, diameter 70 mm.
11. {Prepare of dark couverture chocolate.

Instructions 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... ;).

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