🇩🇪 Germany recipe
Lebkuchen
Nuremberg Lebkuchen are Germany's most revered Christmas confection, protected by a geographical indication since the 1600s. These spiced honey cakes trace their roots to medieval monastery kitchens, where monks combined precious spices from the East with local honey and ground nuts. The result is a soft, intensely aromatic cookie with a thin sugar glaze or chocolate coating, perfectly balanced between sweet, spicy, and nutty.
Prep30 mins + overnight rest
Cook18 mins
Serves24
Difficultymedium
Ingredients
- 250g honey
- 100g dark brown sugar
- 1 large egg
- 1 egg yolk
- Zest of 1 lemon
- Zest of 1 orange
- 1 tablespoon dark rum
- 300g plain flour
- 100g ground almonds
- 50g ground hazelnuts
- 50g finely diced candied orange peel
- 50g finely diced candied lemon peel
- 2 teaspoons Lebkuchengewürz (or mix of 1 tsp cinnamon, half tsp each of cloves, allspice, nutmeg, ginger, and cardamom)
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Half teaspoon baking soda
- Oblaten (edible wafer rounds, about 7cm diameter)
- For the glaze:
- 200g icing sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- Or 200g dark chocolate, tempered, for chocolate-coated version
- Blanched almond halves for decoration
Method
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Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 120
- Protein
- 2 g
- Carbs
- 22 g
- Fat
- 4 g
