Delicious amazing cookies for you to enjoy your teatime with family and friends.
What is lebkuchen:
These are super soft ,chewy and filled with flavours cookies.So these cookies are German and people often made them specially to enjoy or make there Christmas more fascinating.What makes them different? there amazing fusion of spices like nutmeg , cinnamon with dried fruits or hazelnuts all in one cookie.people also call them gingerbread cookies because they contain ginger bread flavours a bit but they are more flavourful in real.
interesting facts about them:
So culinary arts also contains a lot of history so these cookies are introduced in 13 century the interesting part is that they are served or taken as a medicine,there monks invented them.Now they are famous worldwide Lebkuchen cookies are in different forms the most premium one is Elisenlebkuchen because it contain no flour content in it only made by using dry fruits.
ingredients:
- For 6 cookies (about 10cm)
- 25g Butter
- 80g Brown sugar
- 1 Egg
- 90g Honey
- Vanilla extract
- 150g Flour
- 75g Almond flour
- 1 Tbsp Cocoa powder
- 1/4 Tsp Baking powder
- 1/8 Tsp Baking Soda
- 1/2 Tsp Cinnamon
- 1/2 Tsp Ginger
- 1/4 Tsp allspice
- 1/4 Tsp Nutmeg
- 1/4 Tsp Clove
- chocolate or caramel glaze
How to make:
batter making:
like all cookies we make the batter or dough for chewy soft cookies.Take a bowl add in room temperature butter and mix a bit now add in brown sugar and mix with hand beater. Now add one room temperature egg , vanilla extract and honey and mix again. Now liquid batter in ready now take a sifter and add flour and almond flour in it the liquid batter must be smooth now mix them.Now add in 1 Tbsp Cocoa powder 1/4 Tsp Baking powder,1/8 Tsp Baking Soda,1/2 Tsp Cinnamon,1/2 Tsp Ginger,1/4 Tsp allspice,1/4, Tsp Nutmeg,1/4 Tsp Clove and mix well with spatula.
shape:
now shape them in normal cookies or according to your choice and place them in oven tray ,pre heat your oven at 180C and bake them for 20 to 25 minutes until cookies are done. Lebkuchen are sell in there local markets with written notes on them like (i love you ) note they are cute and yummy.
Final plating:
take them out cool them, and now dip in chocolate dip or cover them with chocolate it all depends on your taste and that,s it your dish is ready to enjoy!
nutrition:
- energy per cookie 350 kcal
- total fat 13.7 g
- protien 7.0 g
- sugars 12 to 18 g