Recipe - Lebkuchen (Ginger Bread)

Ingredients:
100 g butter
200 g sugar
3 eggs
300 g flour
1 pkg baking powder
200 g ground hazelnuts
100 g candied lemon peel
100 g candied orange peel
150 g raisins
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cocoa
pinch of ground cloves
Optional Decoration:
chocolate icing

Preparation:

Grind candied lemon and orange peel and raisins through a meat grinder or chop them in an electric blender. Let mixture stand. Mix flour and baking powder together.

Beat butter until foamy. Gradually add sugar and eggs. Then stir in lemon-orange-raisin mixture, hazelnuts, cinnamon, cloves, cocoa, and the flour-baking powder mixture. Beat into a smooth dough.

With a large spoon spread dough onto large wafer/rice paper rounds.

Bake 10-15 minutes at 150° C.

Coat with chocolate icing as desired.

Recipes: cookies • ginger bread • lebkuchen