Home · Recipes · Gourmet Specialties · Cold Pastries & Sweet Desserts

Gingerbread

4 servings

Ingredients

• 300 g Dark flour
• 1 TL Baking soda
• Cinnamon (nach Bedarf)
• Ground cloves (nach Bedarf)
• Allspice (ground) (nach Bedarf)
• Lemon zest (grated) (nach Bedarf)
• Raisins (finely chopped) (nach Bedarf)
• arancini, finely chopped (nach Bedarf)
• Candied citron (finely chopped) (nach Bedarf)
• 150 g Powdered sugar
• 2 Stk Eggs
• 2 EL Honey
• butter (for mold) (nach Bedarf)
• Flour (for dusting mold) (nach Bedarf)
• Lemon or chocolate glaze (nach Bedarf)

Instructions

1. Mix dark flour with baking soda, cinnamon, clove powder, allspice and grated lemon zest.
2. Mix in finely chopped raisins, candied orange peel and candied citron.
3. Beat powdered sugar with the eggs until creamy, stir in honey and add everything to the flour mixture.
4. Knead the dough thoroughly and let it rest for a sufficiently long time.
5. Then roll out finger-thick.
6. Grease a pan with butter and dust with flour.
7. Bake the dough at moderate temperature.
8. After cooling, coat with lemon or chocolate glaze.
9. After drying, cut into even cubes.

Based on a cookbook by Hans Hofer (1964), adapted with AI.