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Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, lebkuchen (german gingerbread). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread) is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread):

1. Make ready 300 g cane sugar
2. Make ready 5 eggs, medium size
3. Make ready 500 g ground hazelnuts
4. Get 15 g gingerbread spice mix
5. Prepare 0.5 tbsp cinnamon
6. Take 25 g candied orange peel
7. Get 25 g candied lemon peel
8. Make ready 0.5 tsp lemon peel
9. Prepare 1 knive point of hartshorn or potash
10. Take wafer paper, diameter 70 mm
11. Prepare 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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