Easiest Way to Make Perfect Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread).

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I'm gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It's enjoyed by millions daily. They're fine and they look wonderful. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something which I have loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):

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