Lebkuchen

• Vegetarian

• Produce

  • 1/4 cup Candied orange peel

• Refrigerated

  • 3 Eggs

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 3/4 cup Almond meal
  • 1/4 tsp Cardamon, ground
  • 4 oz Chocolate chips, semisweet
  • 1 tsp Cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp Cloves, ground
  • 2 tsp Cocoa powder, unsweetened
  • 1/3 cup Flour
  • 1 Gold sugar crystals
  • 1/4 tsp Nutmeg
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 4 oz White chocolate chips

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Description

Ingredients

• 3 eggs
• 1 cup sugar
• ⅓ c. flour
• 2 tsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 tsp. cinnamon
• ¼ tsp. ground cardamon
• ½ tsp. ground cloves
• ¼ tsp. nutmeg
• 1¾ c. almond meal
• ¼ c. candied orange peel
• Decoration:
• 4 oz. semisweet chocolate chips
• 4 oz. white chocolate chips
• gold sugar crystals

Directions

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Line 3-4 baking sheets with parchment paper
• Place eggs and sugar in a heatproof bowl on top of a saucepan of simmering water.
• Beat with a whisk until thick and foamy.
• Remove bowl from pan and continue to beat for an additional two minutes.
• In a large bowl, sift flour, and cocoa powder. Add in the spices, almond flour and orange peel.
• Slowly add the egg mixture and mix well until you have a uniform dough.
• Using a cookie scooper, drop small mounds onto the parchment sheets.
• Press down lightly on the mounds.
• Bake for approximately 15 minutes.
• Cool on wire racks.
• While the cookies are baking, place chocolate chips on two separate bowls, each over a pan of simmering water. Stir gently until thoroughly melted.
• Using tongs, dip each cookie into the melted chocolate, alternating in order to end up with equal amounts of each color. Sprinkle with sugar crystals.