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ratcreature) wrote2011-12-24 12:55 am
ratcreature) wrote2011-12-24 12:55 am
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cookies!
I baked a lot of cookies yesterday and today. A whole bunch are just plain butter cookies made from shortpastry, but I also made two kinds of lebkuchen. (I realize that ideally those ought to have sat a few days at least for best taste before the intended eating date, in particular the first recipe, but whatever. I tried some right after they were cool and they tasted quite nice already, and I apparently suck at Christmas bakery planning.)
To make them you need:
100g candied lemon peel
100g candied orange peel
100g dried figs
peel of one untreated lemon
175g walnuts
175g almonds
1 Tbsp cacao
1/2 Tbsp cinnamon
1/2 package of lebkuchen spice mix (about a tbsp of a mix of cinnamon, star-anise, coriander, nutmeg, allspice, aniseed, ginger, and cloves)
1 pinch of salt
5 eggs
100g powdered sugar
round baking wafers (my recipe said to use 10cm ones, but my store only had 7cm ones and those worked okay, i.e. the cookies weren't so small as to become dry)
You chop the candied orange/lemon peel, figs, and regular lemon peel into small but not too tiny pieces, easiest with a kitchen machine, then grind the nuts (or buy them ground), then mix both with the cacao, spices and salt. Then you separate the eggs, beat the egg whites with 2tbsp of lemon juice from your lemon and the powdered sugar until the mixture is stiff. Then you mix in the egg yolks and mix the two, then you add the fruit/nut mix and mix the two until it becomes a dough. Then you spoon the mixture onto the wafers (the recipe said it would make 20 of the 10cm ones, but for me it made 26 of the 7cm ones) and bake them 20 minutes at 180°C in the middle of the oven. (I took mine out just a bit before the 20 minutes because I worried my smaller version would need less time.) Once they are cool you glaze them with a simple sugar-lemon glazing, i.e. you mix some lemon juice, powdered sugar and hot water to get a thick mix, and cover them with that. Or you can cover them in chocolate.
To make them you need:
100g dried figs (well, my recipe said dates, but I stiil had leftover dried figs from the recipe above)
50g dried apricots (my recipe said dried plums, but I like apricots better)
100g candied orange peel
100g hazelnuts
100g coconut flesh (I used the already grated stuff because I had that on hand, and it worked out fine, though it seemed the recipe wanted to chop non-dried coconut, which I suppose would give a more coconut taste)
50g semi-dark chocolate
1 large Orange
250g flour
1 tbsp baking powder
80g soft butter
50g sugar
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla sugar
1/2 package of lebkuchen spice mix (same as above)
1 pinch oft salt
1/8l milk
chocolate glazing
You chop the dried fruits, hazelnuts, candied orange peel, coconut chocolate into small pieces. If your orange is untreated you can also chop its peel. Add the flour and baking powder and mix well. In another bowl mix the eggs with the sugar, butter, vanilla sugar, juice of the orange, spice mix and salt until creamy. I added a tablespoon of rum too because my orange was smallish not large as the recipe asked, and you can't go wrong with rum flavor. Add the chopped dry ingredients into the wet ones you creamed, add the milk, and mix well. Spread this out evenly on a baking tray (either greased or on baking paper, I used paper). This isn't enough to cover a whole tray, mine was more like a square that covered maybe 2/3 as I spread it to reasonable thickness (about what you see on the photo, it doesn't rise much). Then bake at 180°C about 25 minutes. (My recipe said 30 minutes but starting in a cold oven, however mine was already hot, so I baked shorter, this ought to just start to brown at the edges.) Then you let it cool a bit, cover it with the chocolate glazing and then cut it into squares or rectangles, and then let the pieces cool fully.
To make them you need:
100g candied lemon peel
100g candied orange peel
100g dried figs
peel of one untreated lemon
175g walnuts
175g almonds
1 Tbsp cacao
1/2 Tbsp cinnamon
1/2 package of lebkuchen spice mix (about a tbsp of a mix of cinnamon, star-anise, coriander, nutmeg, allspice, aniseed, ginger, and cloves)
1 pinch of salt
5 eggs
100g powdered sugar
round baking wafers (my recipe said to use 10cm ones, but my store only had 7cm ones and those worked okay, i.e. the cookies weren't so small as to become dry)
You chop the candied orange/lemon peel, figs, and regular lemon peel into small but not too tiny pieces, easiest with a kitchen machine, then grind the nuts (or buy them ground), then mix both with the cacao, spices and salt. Then you separate the eggs, beat the egg whites with 2tbsp of lemon juice from your lemon and the powdered sugar until the mixture is stiff. Then you mix in the egg yolks and mix the two, then you add the fruit/nut mix and mix the two until it becomes a dough. Then you spoon the mixture onto the wafers (the recipe said it would make 20 of the 10cm ones, but for me it made 26 of the 7cm ones) and bake them 20 minutes at 180°C in the middle of the oven. (I took mine out just a bit before the 20 minutes because I worried my smaller version would need less time.) Once they are cool you glaze them with a simple sugar-lemon glazing, i.e. you mix some lemon juice, powdered sugar and hot water to get a thick mix, and cover them with that. Or you can cover them in chocolate.
To make them you need:
100g dried figs (well, my recipe said dates, but I stiil had leftover dried figs from the recipe above)
50g dried apricots (my recipe said dried plums, but I like apricots better)
100g candied orange peel
100g hazelnuts
100g coconut flesh (I used the already grated stuff because I had that on hand, and it worked out fine, though it seemed the recipe wanted to chop non-dried coconut, which I suppose would give a more coconut taste)
50g semi-dark chocolate
1 large Orange
250g flour
1 tbsp baking powder
80g soft butter
50g sugar
2 eggs
1tsp vanilla sugar
1/2 package of lebkuchen spice mix (same as above)
1 pinch oft salt
1/8l milk
chocolate glazing
You chop the dried fruits, hazelnuts, candied orange peel, coconut chocolate into small pieces. If your orange is untreated you can also chop its peel. Add the flour and baking powder and mix well. In another bowl mix the eggs with the sugar, butter, vanilla sugar, juice of the orange, spice mix and salt until creamy. I added a tablespoon of rum too because my orange was smallish not large as the recipe asked, and you can't go wrong with rum flavor. Add the chopped dry ingredients into the wet ones you creamed, add the milk, and mix well. Spread this out evenly on a baking tray (either greased or on baking paper, I used paper). This isn't enough to cover a whole tray, mine was more like a square that covered maybe 2/3 as I spread it to reasonable thickness (about what you see on the photo, it doesn't rise much). Then bake at 180°C about 25 minutes. (My recipe said 30 minutes but starting in a cold oven, however mine was already hot, so I baked shorter, this ought to just start to brown at the edges.) Then you let it cool a bit, cover it with the chocolate glazing and then cut it into squares or rectangles, and then let the pieces cool fully.