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🍰 Chocolate Lebkuchen Hearts with Marzipan Filling

85 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 300 g Honey
• 50 g Sugar
• 200 g Flour
• 3 g Baking Ammonium
• 120 g Rye Flour
• 3 g Potash
• 1 Egg Yolk
• 20 g Gingerbread Spice
• 240 g Marzipan Raw Mass
• 180 g Orange Marmalade
• 200 g Dark Couverture
• 50 g Light Couverture
• 25 Walnut Kernel Halves
• Milk (for brushing)

Instructions

1. 1. Preheat the oven to 190 degrees Celsius.
2. 2. Melt the honey and sugar in a pan over very low heat.
3. 3. Let the sweet mixture cool down for two hours.
4. 4. Add flour and baking ammonia (a leavening agent) to the cooled mixture and stir well.
5. 5. Work the remaining ingredients into a smooth dough.
6. 6. Let the dough rest for one hour.
7. 7. Roll out the dough thinly.
8. 8. Cut out hearts and stars with a diameter of 7 cm.
9. 9. Mix marzipan and jam smoothly for the filling.
10. 10. If necessary, add a little hot water to improve the consistency.
11. 11. Spread the filling over half of the lebkuchen, but leave a border free.
12. 12. Place the second half of the lebkuchen on top and press firmly.
13. 13. Brush the lebkuchen thinly with milk.
14. 14. Prick the lebkuchen with a fork.
15. 15. Bake the lebkuchen at 190 degrees for about 8 minutes.
16. 16. Remove the lebkuchen and let them cool down.
17. 17. Melt the dark and the light chocolate coating separately in a double boiler.
18. 18. Dip the lebkuchen into the dark chocolate coating.
19. 19. Let the coated lebkuchen drip dry on a rack.
20. 20. Form a bag from baking paper and fill it with the light chocolate coating.
21. 21. Cut off a tiny tip of the bag.
22. 22. Paint thin stripes with the light chocolate coating onto the lebkuchen.
23. 23. Decorate the lebkuchen with walnut halves.
24. 24. Let the chocolate coating harden completely.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 85
• Protein: 2 g · Fett/Fat: 2 g · Carbs: 14 g