Lebkuchen are nutty honey cookies that you’ll find on every German Christmas market. They are delicious with tea or mulled wine. Where I live, I can’t find a lot of the ingredients that the traditional recipes call for. I crafted my own adapted, equally delicious version.
Ingredients
- 125gr ground almonds
- 125gr ground hazelnuts
- 150 gr of mince pie filling, finely chopped
- 20gr honey
- 90gr brown sugar
- 2 Tbs lebkuchen spice mix or gingerbread spice mix
- 3 eggs
- 1 Tsp of ground cinnamon
- 2 Tsp of ground ginger
- Wafer paper cut into about 20 circles with a diameter of 5cm
Optional
- Chocolate glaze: Chocolate and little bit of butter
- Sugar glaze: Equal parts icing sugar and water
Instructions
- Mix the almonds, hazelnuts, spices and mice pie filling together.
- Add the sugar and honey to the mixture
- Add the eggs
- Heat the oven to 150॰C
- Add the mixture to the wafer paper circles to form a cookie shape The cookies won’t expand much
- Bake for 20-25 min on a baking tray
- The lebkuchen are even better with a simple chocolate or sugar glaze added after they cool
Why these Lebkuchen aren’t traditional
- Real lebkuchen call for candied orange and lemon peel. I couldn’t find it anywhere, therefore went with a fruity, chrismasy mince pie filling as an alternative.
- In Germany you can get so called Oblaten(wafer paper) pre-cut in rounds. I got sheets of wafer paper, usually for edible prints, in a cake shop andcut it in rounds myself.
- I had the lebkuchen spice mix but wouldn’t have been able to buy it where I live. A gingerbread mix will do the job
- Some recipes call for a Marzipan paste. It’s too much effort to make yourself when not readily available, this recipe does not need it
- Please ingore my failed chocoalte tempering. the failed attempt still tasted delicious!
Find a traditional recipe here.
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