How to Make Tasty Omi's Lebkuchen

Omi's Lebkuchen.

You can cook Omi's Lebkuchen using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Omi's Lebkuchen

1. It's 600 grams of Flour.
2. It's 120 grams of Treacle sugar.
3. You need 120 grams of Butter.
4. Prepare 120 grams of Blackcurrant jam.
5. Prepare 120 grams of Honey.
6. You need 3 tbsp of Lebkuchen spice.
7. You need 1 grams of Cloves.
8. It's 2 tbsp of Cocoa.
9. Prepare 50 grams of Cooking chocolate.
10. You need 1 of Orange(rind & juice).
11. You need 1 of Lemon (rind & juice).
12. It's 1 of packet Baking powder.
13. Prepare 2 of Egg yolks.
14. You need 1 of Icing.
15. Prepare 2 tbsp of Rum.
16. You need 2 of Egg Whites.
17. It's 200 grams of Icing Sugar.

Omi's Lebkuchen step by step

1. Melt chocolate and butter, add all wet ingredients..
2. In a bowl place all dry ingredients, add wet ingredients, mix then knead together..
3. Rest dough for 24 hours.
4. Roll out into 5mm thickness. Create cookies..
5. Bake at 180°F celcius for 15min.
6. Mix rum, egg whites and icing sugar into liquid paste to ice the biscuits. Use different colourants to add colour, decorate with sprinkles..
7. In dry climates, one can let the biscuits mature (soften) over a week or two, by placing them in an air tight container with a quartered apple. (See picture). Replace apple quarters as they dry..