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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Deutschland >> German

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In bowl, mix eggs, sugar and vanilla extract until foamy until sugar is completely dissolved. | 2. Chop 1/2 of hazelnuts, grind the other 1/2. | 3. To egg mixture add nuts, orange, citron, orange and lemon zests, ginger and all spices. | 4. Mix all well. | 5. Wrap dough in plastic and let rest overnight in refrigerator. | 6. Next day place baking oblates** (paper-like sugar waf ers) on cookie sheet LINED WITH BAKING PAPER. | 7. Shape small balls from dough and set on oblates leaving 1/2 inch space all around to edge of oblates. | 8. You should get approx 150 pieces. | 9. Preheat oven to 375°F. | 10. Bake 20 minutes. | 11. Place a cookie sheet in the next position above the lebkuchen so they won't get too dark. | 12. The light brown lebkuchen will be soft on the inside. Let cool on rack. | 13. 1/3 of the Lebkuchen remain as they are. (without icing) 1/3 cover with: mix confectioner sugar with rum and red wine, stir until smooth. | 14. Brush on 1/3 of lebkuchen: 1 good German "zart bitter" chocolate, or use Baker's Baking chocolate. Melt in double boiler about 1/2 of a pkg, Dip a fork into heated chocolate and just run it over the cookies in every direction or criss-cross. | 15. Let dry completely. | 16. Store in storage containers that you can close very tightly. | 17. You can store an apple with the lebkuchen to keep them nice and soft. After 10 days they will have developed their optimum flavors. | 18. * Try to get German Citron and Orangeat, King Albert Flour sells it Item 1078, 6 oz Citron, 1/2 lb $3.50 Item 1226, 6 oz Orange, 1/2 lb $3.50 1-800-827-6836 Ask for their catalog, they have lots of good stuff. | 19. **Backoblaten (US may have something like it, they are thin sweet paper like rounds to set cookies on) can be obtained - probably - in a specialty kitchen store or you can order them at "Himmelhaus" 219-293-8361, Item B146, Back-Oblaten 60 mm, medium, (100ea) $2.49 Himmelhaus also has available 'Lebkuchengewuerz' which is a ready-mix of the 9 spices you need. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
egg	6			429.0	2.16	37.68	28.53
sugar	470			378810.6	94750.12	0.0	0.0
vanilla extract	1	tablespoon		37.44	1.6445	0.0078	0.0078
hazelnut	480			153216.0	23040.0	0.0	7683.84
walnut	50		chopped	96356.0	0.0	0.0	10900.0
citron	100		diced	-	-	-	-
orange	100	g	diced candied	1.7625	0.4406	0.0352	0.0045
lemon peel	1		grated untreated	0.94	0.32	0.03	0.006
orange	1		untreated grated	1.7625	0.4406	0.0352	0.0045
ginger	1	tablespoon	chopped	4.8	1.0662	0.1092	0.045
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
clove	1/2	teaspoon	ground	2.877	0.6881	0.0627	0.1365
pimiento	1/2	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
coriander	1/2	teaspoon	ground	2.682	0.4949	0.1113	0.1599
nutmeg	1/2	teaspoon	ground	5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
cardamom	1/2	teaspoon	ground	3.11	0.6847	0.1076	0.067
anise	1/2	teaspoon	ground	3.5385	0.5252	0.1848	0.16699999999999998
baking oblate				-	-	-	-
confectioner ' sugar	130			-	-	-	-
rum	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
red wine	2	tablespoons		-	-	-	-
icing	200	g		660.0	106.84	8.68	22.54

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.