Lebkuchen
These spiced Lebkuchn biscuits are a classic German Christmas cookie. Choose your favourite cookie cutter to make this festive treat extra festive.
Servings: 24 cookies
Equipment
- A cookie cutter of your choosing!
Ingredients
- 250 grams plain flour
- 0.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 85 grams ground almonds
- 2 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1 pinch all spice
- 1 twist black pepper
- 150 millilitres honey
- 50 millilitres dark treacle
- 85 grams butter
Instructions
- Sieve together the flour, ground almonds and spices into a large bowl and place to one side.
- In a heavy bottomed saucepan, gently heat the honey, treacle and butter until the butter has melted.
- Pour the butter and sugar mixture into the large bowl of flour and mix well until it begins to come together into a dough.
- Knead with your hands until you have a relatively firm ball of dough.
- Wrap in cling film and place in the fridge for at least 30 minutes until it is cool and stiff enough to roll out.
- Pre-heat the oven to 180C or gas mark 4.
- Lightly dust your surface with a little flour and cinnamon.
- Using a rolling pin, roll the dough out until it is roughly 0.5cm thick.
- Using a cutter, cut into reindeer antler shapes.
- Transfer the cut out cookies onto a baking sheet lined with grease proof paper leaving a little room for spreading.
- Bake in the centre of the oven for 15 minutes or until they are just golden brown.
- Leave the cookies to cool on the baking sheet until they are firm enough to transfer to a wire wrack.
- To decorate, melt the dark chocolate then pour into a small piping bag.
- Snip a small hole in the end of the piping bag and drizzle the dark chocolate over the cookies.
- Repeat with the white chocolate.
- Allow all of the chocolate to cool and set before serving.