Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, apricot filled lebkuchun hearts. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Put half of the hearts on a baking tray lined with more parchment paper. Spoon a small tsp of apricot jam into the centre of each heart. Using a pastry brush (or your finger), wet the edges of the heart with some water. All natural and imported from Germany for Christmas!
Apricot Filled Lebkuchun Hearts is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Apricot Filled Lebkuchun Hearts is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have apricot filled lebkuchun hearts using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Apricot Filled Lebkuchun Hearts:
- Get 125 g wholewheat flour
- Take 50 g ground almonds
- Take 1 tsp ginger
- Get 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 55 g honey
- Prepare 40 g coconut oil
- Take 2 tbsp almond milk
- Get 6 tsp apricot jam*
- Take Glaze:
- Take 50 g dark chocolate**
- Make ready 2 tsp coconut oil
- Make ready 3 tbsp almond milk
Dot the right-hand half of the dough with teaspoons of apricot jam,. Lebkuchen Hearts (Lebkuchenherzen) Lebkuchen are German Christmas cookies, similar to gingerbread, with a fruit filling and chocolate frosting. This recipe adds cocoa and a mixture of seven warm spices to a simple cookie dough. The charm of this recipe for Lebkuchen heart cookies is a filling that combines marzipan and apricot jam!
Steps to make Apricot Filled Lebkuchun Hearts:
- Pre-heat the oven to 180°C.
- In a small saucepan, gently warm the honey and oil until melted. Turn the heat off and set the pan to one side.
- Weigh out the flour and then sift it into a large mixing bowl (discard the bigger bran flakes left in the sieve if using wholewheat flour). Add the ground almonds, spices and baking powder to the sieve and sieve these ingredients into the flour. Don’t discard the larger almond pieces, tip anything left in the sieve into the mixing bowl. Mix all dry ingredients together well.
- Pour the honey and oil into the dry ingredients and mix with a wooden spoon. Add the almond milk and bring the dough together in a slightly sticky dough.
- Roll the dough out between 2 sheets of parchment paper until it is approximately ¾ cm thick. Cut out 12 heart shapes from the dough.
- Put half of the hearts on a baking tray lined with more parchment paper. Spoon a small tsp of apricot jam into the centre of each heart.
- Using a pastry brush (or your finger), wet the edges of the heart with some water. Then put another heart shape on top of your cake, using your fingers to gently press the two hearts together.
- Bake in the oven for 12-15 minutes until golden in colour. Allow to cool.
- Warm the almond milk and coconut oil in a small saucepan until hot but not boiling. Pour the hot milk and oil into a bowl containing the dark chocolate (broken into small pieces). Stir until all of the chocolate is melted. If you need to, put the chocolate in the microwave, or over hot water, for a few seconds to melt it all completely. Dip each heart into the chocolate glaze and allow to cool and set before eating.
This recipe adds cocoa and a mixture of seven warm spices to a simple cookie dough. The charm of this recipe for Lebkuchen heart cookies is a filling that combines marzipan and apricot jam! Now to some, the combination of gingerbread, chocolate and apricot might sound like an utterly absurd idea. To make the Apricot Filling: Place dried apricots in a small saucepan and pour in just enough water to cover the apricots. Boil until the apricots are soft.
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