Nuernberger Lebkuchen Food

NüRNBERGER LEBKUCHEN - VEGAN AND FAT FREE!

Steps:

• Mix honey, sugar, eggbeater, lemon juice and rind. Blend dry ingredients separately.
• Stir the wet into the dry. Chill overnight.
• When ready to cook, heat the oven to 400 degrees.
• Roll out a small amount of dough at a time to a 1/4 " thick log. Cut into 2" rounds.
• Place each cookie round on a nonstick cookie sheet, and place a slivered almond in the center if desired.
• Bake about 12 minutes, or until set.
• Immediately brush with glazing icing, if desired:
• boil sugar and water until the first indication of a 'thread' appears as it thickens (around 230 degrees).
• Remove from heat and stir in the powdered sugar. Bush this lightly over the cookies (when the icing gets sugary, reheat slightly, adding a little water until clear again).

NUERNBERGER ELISENLEBKUCHEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 300 F or 150 C and grease cookie sheet. If you have a silicon cookie sheet, this works best.
• Cream together eggs and sugar at high speed until you have a thick yellow cream. This will take some time, but don't stop beating before the mixture is really thick and creamy!
• Mix in spices, rum, vanilla and candied peel, then fold in ground almonds, nuts and baking powder.
• Drop heaped teaspoons full of batter onto greased cookie sheet and flatten slightly.
• Bake at 300 degrees 25 - 35 minutes.
• For the light glaze stir together 3 1/2 ounces powdered sugar with just as much hot water that you get a thick creamy icing.
• For the dark glaze stir together 3 1/2 ounces powdered sugar with the cocoa powder, melt the coconut oil and mix with sugar and cocoa, add just enough hot water to have a smooth thick creamy icing.
• Immediately after removing the cookies from the oven glaze half of them with light and half with dark icing.
• Let cool completely and store in airtight container in a cool place.

AUTHENTIC GERMAN LEBKUCHEN (NüRNBERGER ELISENLEBKUCHEN)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 300 degrees F.
• Toss the candied lemon and orange peel with about 1/4 cup all-purpose flour to keep it from sticking together and then pulse in a food processor until finely minced. Set aside.
• In a large mixing bowl, beat the eggs until foamy. Add the sugar, honey and vanilla extract and beat until combined.
• Add the ground almonds and hazelnuts, salt, baking powder, Lebkuchengewürz, and candied lemon and orange peels and stir vigorously until thoroughly combined. (You can use a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment and beat for about 2 minutes). The mixture will be wet but if it is too thin to scoop onto the oblaten add some more almond or hazelnut meal.
• Scoop the mixture onto the Backoblaten, smoothing down the top and leaving just a slight space around the edges. Set them on a lined cookie sheet.
• Bake on the middle rack of the oven for 25-30 minutes. Remove the cookie sheet and allow to cool completely.
• Once cooled, place a wire rack over a cookie sheet (to catch the drippings). Dip half the Lebkuchen in the chocolate glaze and half in the sugar glaze, letting the excess drip back into the bowl and then place the Lebkuchen on the wire rack. Arrange 3 almonds on each Lebkuchen while the glaze is still wet. Let the Lebkuchen dry completely until the glaze is hardened.
• Keep stored in an airtight container. Will keep for several weeks and the flavor improves with time.
• Makes about 35 if using 70mm Backoblaten and about 25 if using 90mm Backoblaten.