German Christmas cookies (Lebkuchen)

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German Christmas cookies (Lebkuchen)

Ingredients

Butter (margarine) 200 g
Sugar 250 g
Honey 500 g
Cocoa 4 dessert spoons without a slide
Eggs 2 pieces
Flour 1 kg
Baking powder 0.5 sachet
Salt pinch
Gingerbread spices (cinnamon, cloves, anise, cardamom, coriander, ginger, nutmeg) 1 sachet
maybe peeled almonds for decoration

Cooking method

  • Melt butter, sugar, honey in a ladle over low heat, add seasonings and cocoa, stir thoroughly and leave to cool to room temperature.

  • Then add eggs, salt, flour mixed with baking powder and knead the dough well.

  • Roll out the dough (if necessary, lightly dust with flour) 0.5 cm thick and cut out the hearts with molds. I made half the portion, it turned out 2 trays. Pour in a coffee spoon of cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, nutmeg.

  • Bake at 180 ° (convection 160 °) for about 10 minutes (maximum). Cool and decorate as desired.

  • Store in a tightly closed box with half a raw apple (not to dry out).

  • Very important!!! It's better to unbake cookies than to bake them !!! On a baking sheet, it should be soft, hardened during cooling!

  • If you do overexpose and the cookie turns out to be too tough, don't worry! I've already been told what can be made from bad cookies!


Note

Recipe from chefkoch.de by nappel
In the comments it is written that this is the best recipe of all!

Irina_hel
Stelochka, two questions:
1.1 Pck. gingerbread condiments (see above) above is where?
2. If you do overexpose and the cookie turns out to be too tough, don't worry! I've already been told what can be made from bad cookies!
Can you tell us? just in case!
Stern
Irisha, Thank you! Fixed spices.

I'll tell you, of course ... when you bake the cookies!
NIZA
Stelochka ½ Pck. baking powder, does that mean how much?
Stern
1 rounded teaspoon
Rusya
God, what a beauty !!!!
And here I bought cookie cutters. I'm looking for a pretty recipe to bake. The child wants to cut out the cookies with a cookie cutter.
Took a note. Next week, the children will have a vacation.

P.S. Stelochka, I've never met spices for gingerbread here. And you can do it yourself according to the list, mix ??? And how many grams are in this spice bag?
I read the recipe carefully. The question is removed.
NIZA
Thank you, the recipe is just like an order, my faithful loves honey baked goods so much that no matter what recipe I take, he will definitely note that it is tasty, but honey is not enough, but here, I see, it will be just right
Stern
Girls, bake, good luck!

I don’t buy this mixture of spices, because there are cloves and anise there, and I can’t stand these spices. I don't even know what the bag looks like.

In Germany, these cookies are painted with sugar icing, always with the kids.
Antonovka
Stеrn.
But I can't paint beautifully - either my hands are crooked, or the glaze is not the same, or I don’t understand the technology - or all at once
Stern
So you can not paint, just cover with glaze.
NIZA
Stella cookies are just super-, well, well, well, that Christmas has already passed, and we are not Germans: This does not prevent us from spoiling our relatives with such delicious
German Christmas cookies (Lebkuchen)
Stern
NIZ, good health, dear German Christmas cookies (Lebkuchen) and thanks for the report!
LudaLida
If you do overexpose and the cookie turns out to be too tough, don't worry! I've already been told what can be made of bad cookies!

If the author doesn't mind, I will share a secret on how to save overdried cookies.It is necessary to beat a glass of sour cream with 2-3 tbsp. l. Smear sugar and biscuits with cream, gluing 2 at a time. After lying down for a while, they will become soft and will melt in your mouth. Of course, it will turn out to be a completely different transfer, but also very tasty.

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