Recipe Details

Lebkuchen (German Gingerbread Cookies)

Soft, chewy German gingerbread cookies glazed with white icing or dark chocolate. Fragrant with Lebkuchengewürz — the classic blend of cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, anise, and ginger that means Christmas in Germany.

Prep Time

1 hours

Category

Dessert

Ingredients

14

Steps

6

Recipe and Instructions

350 gall-purpose flour
1 tspbaking soda
2 tspground cinnamon
1 tspground ginger
1/2 tspground cardamom
1/2 tspground cloves
1/4 tspground anise
150 gdark honey (buckwheat or forest honey)
100 gdark brown sugar
60 gunsalted butter
1egg
100 gfinely ground almonds
150 gpowdered sugar (for glaze)
2 tbsplemon juice (for glaze)

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