German Christmas Lebkuchen

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  Step 1

  Tip the dry ingredients into a large bowl.

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  Step 2

  Heat the honey and butter in a pan over a low heat until the butter melts.

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  Step 3

  Then pour into the flour mixture along with the lemon zest.

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  Step 4

  Mix well until the dough is combined and fairly solid. Cover and leave to cool.

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  Step 5

  Heat oven to 180C/fan160C/gas 4.

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  Step 6

  Using your hands, roll dough into about 30 balls, each 3cm wide, then flatten each one slightly into a disk. (kinda like this pic but your dough should be a different colour.)

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  Step 7

  Bake for 10mins, then cool on a wire rack. No, not that cat, the dough!!! lol sorry couldn't resist :D

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  Step 8

  Divide the biscuits between two baking trays lined with baking parchment, leaving room for them to expand. (Same as above: your should be a different colour than in pic.)

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  Step 9

  To ice the biscuits, mix together the icing sugar, egg white and 1-2 tbsp water to form a smooth, runny icing.

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  Step 10

  Dip the top of each biscuit in the icing and spread with the back of a knife.

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  Step 11

  Alternatively you can melt some chocolate and cover the top of them in chocolate instead. Both taste equally nice:D

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  Step 12

  Hope that was easy to follow and that you now have the finished Lebkuchen. The best bit is they even smell really chrissmassy!

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Tpmike 23rd March 2016

This looks so yummy

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tiffany h. · Orangeville, Ontario, CA · 2 projects 17th August 2010

i always joke about baking my kitty too...and having kitty kabobs when im playing around with him
lol

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Ani W. · Germany, Pennsylvania, US · 18 projects 30th May 2010

hehe thanks (and they taste amazing )

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Nattie Gurl · 58 projects 21st May 2010

Sounds so YUMMY! (The cookies, not the cat...lol)

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Jelly Jam · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 21 projects 5th September 2009

i love lebkuchen! lebcat is good too..

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Hannah B. · U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, US · 5 projects 26th May 2009

OMG YES! I'm half German so we always have these around Christmas time! Except we buy them. But now I can make them. Thanks so much!
And yum, cat cookies. ;)

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Kepi · Los Angeles, California, US · 49 projects 22nd April 2009

LOL...poor kitty!

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Katherine · Kansas City, Missouri, US · 2 projects 20th December 2008

haha I find the cat in the oven very funny!

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KMOM14 · Fort Wayne, Indiana, US · 378 projects 19th December 2008

The cat in oven is a riot. We used to have a cat, much to our dismay, that loved to sleep on the top of the stove.

These sound delicious! I am definitely going to try this sometime.

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ghost g. 19th December 2008

cat in the oven teeeheeehee!

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