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Published 04/11/2025
2:15
Makes 18
Medium

Lebkuchen

This traditional, lightly spiced German biscuit is soft, chewy and full of warm spices – similar to gingerbread!

Gently spiced with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and more, it’s mixed with the sweetness of honey and brown sugar to create a moreish treat. Often decorated with melted chocolate, icing or a glaze, we’ve created a mixture – some iced, others dipped in chocolate for a variety of flavours and textures.

Our Lebkuchen biscuits can be enjoyed with a cup of coffee, solo or neatly packaged up and given to loved ones as gifts.

What you'll need...

  • 200g runny honey
  • 100g dark soft brown sugar
  • 90g butter
  • 200g plain flour
  • 100g ground almonds
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • ¼ tsp bicarbonate of soda
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp ground ginger
  • ½ tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1 tsp ground allspice or mixed spice
  • ¼ tsp cloves, optional
  • ½ orange, juice and zest
  • Pinch of salt

For the icing sugar glaze

  • 100g icing sugar
  • 1-2 tbsp boiling water

For the chocolate glaze

  • 150g of your choice of chocolate (dark, milk or white), finely chopped

Method

  1. Line baking trays with parchment paper. 

  2. Add the honey, butter and sugar into a mixing bowl and heat in the microwave in 30 second bursts until the sugar has dissolved. Alternatively, you can heat the honey, butter and sugar in a saucepan over a low heat until melted.  

  3. Take the honey-butter-sugar mixture and sieve in all the dry ingredients, orange juice and zest, stirring until combined. Place in the fridge for an hour or until cold. 

  4. Preheat the oven to 200C / 180C Fan / Gas 6. 

  5. Remove the dough from the fridge. The dough will be sticky, so always have damp hands when working with it. With damp hands, break off pieces of dough and roll into balls smaller than a golf ball. Place the dough balls onto the baking trays and gently flatten down ever so slightly, making sure that there’s space between each biscuit.  

  6. If cutting the dough into shapes like stars, hearts or Christmas trees, roll the dough to a 2cm thickness and cut out shapes using cookie cutters. Do this by using a floured surface and rolling pin to stop the dough from sticking. 

  1. Bake for 15 minutes or until the lebkuchen have risen and are firm. Remove from the oven and allow to cool for 3 minutes on the baking tray before transferring to a wired cooling rack. 

  2. It’s time to decorate. Alternate by having half dipped in a sugar glaze and half dipped in a chocolate glaze. 

  3. Once the lebkuchen have cooled, it’s time to make the icing glaze by mixing the icing sugar with boiling water. Add more water for a thinner glaze, or if it becomes too thin, add icing sugar to thicken it up. Dip one side of the lebkuchen into the glaze and place on the wire rack, icing side up, to set.  

  4. Melt the chocolate in a small bowl and dip one side of the biscuits into the melted chocolate glaze and return to the wire rack, chocolate side up, to cool and set. 

  5. Keep stored in an airtight container or serve to guests once cooled. 

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