Omi's Lebkuchen

Name: Omi's Lebkuchen
Yield: 25 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 600 grams Flour; 120 grams Treacle sugar; 120 grams Butter; 120 grams Blackcurrant jam; 120 grams Honey; 3 tbsp Lebkuchen spice; 1 grams Cloves; 2 tbsp Cocoa; 50 grams Cooking chocolate; 1 Orange(rind & juice); 1 Lemon (rind & juice); 1 packet Baking powder; 2 Egg yolks; 1 Icing; 2 tbsp Rum; 2 Egg Whites; 200 grams Icing Sugar

Quinton Andrews @cook_3275168

Port Elizabeth

Omi Wohlrab's recipe. I never knew my Omi from Vienna. But Pappilein made sure that I know her through his cooking. This is her recipe passed down the generations.

Quinton Andrews @cook_3275168

Port Elizabeth

Omi Wohlrab's recipe. I never knew my Omi from Vienna. But Pappilein made sure that I know her through his cooking. This is her recipe passed down the generations.

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Ingredients

25 servings

600 gramsFlour
120 gramsTreacle sugar
120 gramsButter
120 gramsBlackcurrant jam
120 gramsHoney
3 tbspLebkuchen spice
1 gramsCloves
2 tbspCocoa
50 gramsCooking chocolate
1Orange(rind & juice)
1Lemon (rind & juice)
1packet Baking powder
2Egg yolks
1Icing
2 tbspRum
2Egg Whites
200 gramsIcing Sugar

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Steps

1

Melt chocolate and butter, add all wet ingredients.
2

In a bowl place all dry ingredients, add wet ingredients, mix then knead together.
3

Rest dough for 24 hours
4

Roll out into 5mm thickness. Create cookies.
5

Bake at 180°F celcius for 15min
6

Mix rum, egg whites and icing sugar into liquid paste to ice the biscuits. Use different colourants to add colour, decorate with sprinkles.
7

In dry climates, one can let the biscuits mature (soften) over a week or two, by placing them in an air tight container with a quartered apple. (See picture). Replace apple quarters as they dry.