Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread). I have updated my lebkuchen recipe and you will find that post HERE. The second recipe makes a nuttier, chewy cookie. A few years ago, my boyfriend Graham and I spent the week of Valentine's Day in Munich, Germany. This traditional lebkuchen recipe is easy to make and contains no flour. Elisenlebkuchen are one of the most famous Christmas cookies in Germany!
Lebkuchen - or German Gingerbread - is a moist, nutty cookie baked for Christmas.
Authentic Lebkuchen comes from the city of Nuremberg in Germany.
Traditionally eaten & shared at Christmas.
You can cook Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread)
- You need 300 g of cane sugar.
- You need 5 of eggs, medium size.
- You need 500 g of ground hazelnuts.
- You need 15 g of gingerbread spice mix.
- You need 0.5 tbsp of cinnamon.
- You need 25 g of candied orange peel.
- It's 25 g of candied lemon peel.
- Prepare 0.5 tsp of lemon peel.
- It's 1 of knive point of hartshorn or potash.
- It's of wafer paper, diameter 70 mm.
- It's of dark couverture chocolate.
By zetallgerman (GoodFood Community). "Lebkuchen" (gingerbread) is also known as "Honigkuchen" (honeycake) in some parts of Germany. Lebkuchen are soft German gingerbread cookies. My mom has been making this recipe every Christmas for as long as I can remember. I look forward to all things gingerbread every Christmas.
Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) step by step
- 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..
- 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..
- Than add the candied lemon and orange peel and the ground hazelnuts and mix throughly..
- 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..
- 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.).
- 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... ;).
These German gingerbread cookies, or Lebkuchen, are such a traditional cookie to have for However, the usual ingredients for these are not readily available outside of Germany, unless, of. German Christmas Cookies (Lebkuchen Recipe /German Gingerbread) by Chef Mirko Peters. Having grown up in Germany it's the Christmas season when I get the most homesick. The snowy landscapes, the decorations, the Christmas markets, and all the delicious. German Lebkuchen is a special German gingerbread for baking anything from spicy ginger cookies, Christmas decorations or aromatic Lanterns, Valentine's Day or Oktoberfest Hearts, Witches'..gingerbread cookie reveals the history of Germany's variation, the lebkuchen, a heart-shaped for the heart-shaped lebkuchen — have become a staple in German celebrations, especially around.