Lebkuchen
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- Total Time
- 30mins
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- Serves
- 15
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- Calories
- 201
This is a traditional German biscuit like gingerbread. You can swap the icing topping for melted chocolate.
recipe updated Mar 4, 2025
Ingredients
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- Egg white
- 1
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- Honey
- 200 g
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- Butter
- 85 g
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- All purpose flour
- 250 g
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- Ground almonds
- 85 g
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- Ground ginger
- 2 teaspoons
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- Ground cloves
- 1 pinch
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- Ground nutmeg
- 1 pinch
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- Black pepper
- 1 pinch
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- Baking powder
- 1 teaspoon
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- Baking soda
- ½ teaspoon
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- Icing sugar
- 100 g
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- Water
- 2 tablespoons
Tools
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Oven
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Parchment paper
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Cooling rack
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Cooking Chef XL
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Baking tray - large
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Cooking chef xl bowl
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Medium bowl
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Work surface
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Small bowl
Step preview
- Line a clean baking tray with parchment paper
- Attach the K-Beater
- Add honey and butter to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
- Lift the Cooking Chef head and fit the heat shield
- Heat with splashguard fitted - 4 min, 60°C, Stir 1
- Then add all purpose flour, ground almonds, ground ginger, ground cloves, ground nutmeg, black pepper, baking powder and baking soda to the Cooking Chef XL Bowl
- Mix with splashguard fitted - 1 min, Speed Min
- Transfer dough to medium bowl
- Cover with kitchen towel and let cool
- Pre-heat oven - 180°C
- Transfer dough to work surface
- Roll into balls
- Flatten each ball to make a dome shape
- Place dough balls on baking tray
- Bake - 15 min, 180°C
- Remove from oven and let cool
- Add icing sugar, egg white and water to a clean small bowl
- Mix until combined
- Dip biscuits into icing
- Turn out onto cooling rack until set
- Serve