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Great recipe for Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat. Lebkuchen is a ginger type cake , often you see Lebkuchen Hearts at fairs and such. At Christmas time more spices are added and Lebkuchen is often chocolate cover.
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The ingredients needed to make Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat:
- Make ready 30 grams almond shavings
- Take 75 grams golden caster or muscovado sugar
- Get 115 grams Printen or Lebkuchen (German Christmas thick gooey gingerbread or honeybread) chocolate covered, with almonds if you can get them
- Make ready 1 can or jar about 200 ml winter berries in juice or cherry pie filling
- Take 450 grams quark or creme fraiche
- Take tinfoil
- Take oil for brushing tinfoil
- Make ready 1 pinch the most of cinnamon for dusting over each dessert (optioonal)
A quintessential sweet treat throughout all of Germany during the Christmas season, Lebkuchen is one of the most popular and beloved of all German holiday confections. There are a variety of German Lebkuchen, each distinguished by slight alterations in ingredients and most especially the amount of nuts used. Following is a list of a tried and true German goodie assortment for your advent party, stocking fillers or Tannenbaum (fir tree) treats (the best of which you can obtain on The Taste of Germany.com). The etymology behind this treat's name is unclear.
Instructions to make Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat:
- In a pan dry roast the almond shavings until they are brown then sprinkle with 25 grams of the sugar and caramelise them
- Brush the tin foil and put the almonds on the tin foil set aside
- Break down the lebkuchen biscuits into crumbs set aside
- Now mix all but one tablespoon of the fruit with the quark with a little of the juice and 50 grams sugar. Layer the biscuits with the fruit cream several times,top with rest of fruit and the set aside almonds
- Chill for a short while,decorate in a festive manner if you like and sprinkle with a little cinnamon, if you like and top with the sugared almonds.
The 'leb' in lebkuchen is said to refer either to the German word for life, 'Leben', derivative of the term 'leibspeise', which means 'favorite food', or to possibly have something to do with the Germanic term, 'lebbe', meaning 'very sweet'. Sandy Lee fell in love with lebkuchen, the traditional German Christmas cookie, while living in Berlin. "It was like nothing I'd ever tasted," she recalls. "I couldn't get all those complex flavors out of my head." She became obsessed, learning all she could about them before returning to the states and starting her own lebkuchen. One bite of this traditional German 'love cake' sings holiday rapture! Think almond, orange, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, and ginger. If Christmas was a flavour, this cake would be it.
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