Chocolate Brushed Lebkuchen
Recipe From What's For Lunch, Honey?
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
Ingredients:
200g raw marzipan
200g sugar
50 candied lemon peel, finely chopped
4 free-range egg whites
50g almonds, ground
50g hazelnuts, ground
100g all-purpose flour
2 teaspoon Lebkuchen spice mix (see below)
½ teaspoon salt
Pinch baking soda
40 round rice paper approx. 5cm diameter
100g bittersweet chocolate
100g white chocolate
Method:
Pre-heat oven to 180 degrees C. Line two baking trays with baking paper and moisten with some water. Place the rice paper rounds 1 cm apart.
In a large mixing bowl whisk together the egg whites, marzipan, sugar and pinch of salt with an electric whisk to a thick and smooth batter. Fold in the lemon peel.
Mix together the ground almonds, hazelnuts, flour and Lebkuchen spice, then fold into the egg-marzipan batter. Dissolve the baking soda in 1 tablespoon water and mix into the batter.
Fill the lebkuchen batter into a piping bag with a rounded tip and pipe enough batter on the rice paper round, keeping a few millimeters free from the edges as the batter spreads while it bakes.
Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes, then completely cool the lebkuchen cookies on a rack.
In the meantime melt both chocolates separately over a water bath. Brush the cookies alternatively with white and bittersweet chocolate. Allow the chocolate to dry and set.
Store the lebkuchen cookies in a cookie box between layers of baking paper.
* Note: If you cannot find premixed "Lebkuchen Gewürz" from a German store, you may mix your own. Here are the spices that make up "Lebkuchen Gewürz"
2 T. ground cinnamon
2 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. ground allspice
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp. ground coriander
1/2 tsp. ground cardamom
1/2 tsp. ground ginger
1/2 tsp. ground anise seed
Yields 40 cookies
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