Elisen Gingerbread

Gingerbread dough 1

1. Coarsely chop the walnuts and place them in a large bowl.
2. Add the chopped almonds and the ground hazelnuts to the walnuts in the bowl.
3. Also put the gingerbread spice mix into the bowl: (cinnamon, allspice, cardamom, coriander, clove and nutmeg)
4. Cut the candied ginger, lemon peel and orange peel, add to the ingredients in the bowl and mix everything together.
5. Mix the egg and the sugar with a fork.
6. Add the egg cream to the mixture in the big bowl and fold everything together into a firm, sticky dough.
7. Adapt the consistency by adding some more ground hazelnuts, if needed.

Gingerbread dough 2

1. Put the chopped and ground almonds, the baking soda, the gingerbread spice mix into the bowl with the candied lemon and orange peel and mix very thing well.
2. Mix the egg and the sugar with a fork.
3. Add the egg cream to the mixture in the big bowl and fold everything together into a firm, sticky dough.
4. Adapt the consistency by adding some more ground almonds, if needed.

Baking gingerbread in the oven

1. Place a heaped teaspoon of Lebkuchen dough onto each of the Christmas wafers and spread by using your fingers.
2. Place the Lebkuchen on a baking tin and bake for approx. 12 minutes at 180° C until lightly brown, but not fully baked.