How to Prepare Perfect Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat

Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat. The Lebkuchen turn out wonderful and my german father can't get enough of them, says they remind him of when he was a boy. Though I'm only a little bit German, I first had Lebkuchen in German class. I didn't know what I thought of it at first but over the years I find to love it.

The glaze provides the perfect complement, a little sweet and with a hint of lemon. Lebkuchen are the most famous German Christmas Cookies! German Gingerbread is soft and moist, unlike The best thing about these treats is that can be made weeks before Christmas because they keep Lebkuchen are traditional German Christmas cookies that somewhat resemble gingerbread. You can cook Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat

1. It's 30 grams of almond shavings.
2. It's 75 grams of golden caster or muscovado sugar.
3. You need 115 grams of Printen or Lebkuchen (German Christmas thick gooey gingerbread or honeybread) chocolate covered, with almonds if you can get them.
4. Prepare 1 can of or jar about 200 ml winter berries in juice or cherry pie filling.
5. It's 450 grams of quark or creme fraiche.
6. It's of tinfoil.
7. It's of oil for brushing tinfoil.
8. It's 1 pinch of the most of cinnamon for dusting over each dessert (optioonal).

Lebkuchen - or German Gingerbread - is a moist, nutty cookie baked for Christmas. Authentic Lebkuchen comes from the city of Nuremberg in Germany. Traditionally eaten & shared at Christmas and often presented in beautifully illustrated metal chests & tins. Lebkuchen spices make those special German gingerbread cookies and bars taste spectacular.

Sig's Layered German Lebkuchen Treat step by step

1. In a pan dry roast the almond shavings until they are brown then sprinkle with 25 grams of the sugar and caramelise them.
2. Brush the tin foil and put the almonds on the tin foil set aside.
3. Break down the lebkuchen biscuits into crumbs set aside.
4. 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.
5. 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..

Mix up your own batch for your holiday treats. Lebkuchen or Pfefferkuchen is a traditional German baked Christmas treat, somewhat resembling gingerbread. Lebkuchen is a treat that in some weird way reminds me of them all. It specifically reminds me of the only Christmas in Germany I can remember, where we spent it with my Omi and. In fact, the lebkuchen is actually more akin to an unleavened cake, thanks to the fact that the monks initially prepared it in the same Oblate used to prepare the communion wafers.