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🍰 Spiced Lebkuchen with Icing

485 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 200 g honey
• 50 g brown sugar
• 75 g butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tbsp cocoa powder
• 1 tsp ground cinnamon
• 0.25 tsp nutmeg
• 0.25 tsp ground cloves
• 2 tsp potash
• 2 tbsp rum
• 300 g flour
• 100 g chopped almonds
• 50 g citron (finely chopped)
• 50 g candied orange peel (finely chopped)
• 50 round wafer biscuits
• 125 g powdered sugar
• 2 tbsp lemon juice
• 25 maraschino cherries
• 50 g almond slivers

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees Celsius.
2. 2. Place honey, brown sugar, and butter in a saucepan.
3. 3. Heat the mixture and stir until the sugar has completely dissolved.
4. 4. Allow the mixture to cool down.
5. 5. Stir in an egg, cocoa powder, and the spices.
6. 6. Dissolve baking ammonia (a leavening agent) in rum and stir until smooth.
7. 7. Add the baking ammonia and rum mixture to the batter.
8. 8. Fold in flour, chopped almonds, candied lemon peel, and candied orange peel.
9. 9. Knead all ingredients into a firm dough.
10. 10. Dust your work surface with a little flour.
11. 11. Place wafer cookies (small, thin wafers) on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
12. 12. Take a tablespoon of dough and place it on each wafer.
13. 13. Spread the mixture flat on the wafer.
14. 14. Bake the lebkuchen in the preheated oven for 25 to 30 minutes.
15. 15. Remove the lebkuchen from the oven and let them cool down completely.
16. 16. Whisk powdered sugar with lemon juice to create a thin icing.
17. 17. Brush the cooled lebkuchen with the icing.
18. 18. Place one halved maraschino cherry on each lebkuchen.
19. 19. Decorate the lebkuchen with almond slivers.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 485
• Protein: 7 g · Fett/Fat: 14 g · Carbs: 79 g