Easy Chocolate Lebkuchen Cutouts
- Ready In:
- 37mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Yields:
-
15 small cookies
ingredients
- 4 tablespoons clear honey
- 4 tablespoons butter (or margarine)
- 4 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon allspice
- 1 egg yolk
-
Icing
- 1⁄3 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- food coloring (optional)
directions
- Preheat oven to 400°F and grease baking sheet (or line with parchment paper).
- In small saucepan, over low heat, stir together honey, butter and brown sugar until the butter has melted.
- Sift together the flour, baking powder, cocoa, ginger and allspice into a mixing bowl. Add egg yolk and stir to combine.
- Add the honey and butter mixture to the flour. Stir to combined and then squeeze the mixture into a ball of dough with your hands.
- On a lightly floured surface, with a floured rolling pin, roll out the dough until it is 1/4 inch thick.
- Use cookie cutters or a knife to cut out different shapes. Roll out leftover dough and cut more shapes.
- Use a spatula to lift cookies to the baking sheet. (For decorations, make a hole at the top of each cookie with a skewer.).
- Bake the cookies for 7-8 minutes or until golden. Cool on wire rack.
- For Icing: Sift the powdered sugar into a bowl. Mix in the lemon juice, stirring well. If desired, divide up mixture into smaller bowls and tint with a drop or two of food coloring.
- When the cookies are cool, spoon the icing into an icing bag or a parchment paper cone and slowly pipe the icing onto cookies.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Tinkerbell
Boise, 51
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