Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat. Great recipe for Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat. Lebkuchen is a ginger type cake , often you see Lebkuchen Hearts at fairs and such. At Christmas time more spices are added and Lebkuchen is often chocolate cover. Here they make a love addition to a fruit quark a dessert also eaten. Ever since I learned it, it is an all time favorite of my pre-christmas baking.
Please not that the prepared Lebkuchen have to sit overnight in the oven.
Following is a list of a tried and true German goodie assortment for your advent party, stocking fillers or Tannenbaum (fir tree) treats (the best of which you can obtain on The Taste of Germany.com).
I have also been known to make my own sloe gin and Christmas pudding vodka as well, but this post is about my latest festive treat: lebkuchen.
You can have Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat
- Prepare 30 grams of almond shavings.
- Prepare 75 grams of golden caster or muscovado sugar.
- It's 115 grams of Printen or Lebkuchen (German Christmas thick gooey gingerbread or honeybread) chocolate covered, with almonds if you can get them.
- You need 1 can of or jar about 200 ml winter berries in juice or cherry pie filling.
- It's 450 grams of quark or creme fraiche.
- Prepare of tinfoil.
- Prepare of oil for brushing tinfoil.
- You need 1 pinch of the most of cinnamon for dusting over each dessert (optioonal).
It's a deliciously spiced, soft yet crunchy gingerbread, thinly. A quintessential sweet treat throughout all of Germany during the Christmas season, Lebkuchen is one of the most popular and beloved of all German holiday confections. There are a variety of German Lebkuchen, each distinguished by slight alterations in ingredients and most especially the amount of nuts used. Sandy Lee fell in love with lebkuchen, the traditional German Christmas cookie, while living in Berlin. "It was like nothing I'd ever tasted," she recalls. "I couldn't get all those complex flavors out of my head." She became obsessed, learning all she could about them before returning to the states and starting her own lebkuchen.
Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat instructions
- In a pan dry roast the almond shavings until they are brown then sprinkle with 25 grams of the sugar and caramelise them.
- Brush the tin foil and put the almonds on the tin foil set aside.
- Break down the lebkuchen biscuits into crumbs set aside.
- Now mix all but one tablespoon of the fruit with the quark with a little of the juice and 50 grams sugar. Layer the biscuits with the fruit cream several times,top with rest of fruit and the set aside almonds.
- Chill for a short while,decorate in a festive manner if you like and sprinkle with a little cinnamon, if you like and top with the sugared almonds..
German cheesecake is another easy German recipe that you can easily make at home. When I was in high school I lived with a German family near Hamburg for a year. This is a list of German desserts. German cuisine has evolved as a national cuisine through centuries of social and political change with variations from region to region. The southern regions of Germany, including Bavaria and neighboring Swabia, as well as the neighbouring regions in Austria across the border share many dishes.