Easiest Way to Special Perfect Apricot Filled Lebkechun Hearts

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Apricot Filled Lebkechun Hearts. Apricot Filled Lebkechun Hearts I've always loved Lebkechun, my Dad always used to buy us bags of these at Christmas. Unfortunately if you look at the ingredients list on the back of the packages, you can see they are completely full of sugar and a long list of preservatives. These Weiss gingerbread cookies are covered with creamy milk chocolate and filled with delicious apricot jam.

All natural and imported from Germany for Christmas!

Lebkuchen is a classic German gingerbread treat.

Lebkuchen Herzen are bite-sized brown gingerbread hearts filled with apricot fruit filling, covered with dark chocolate.

You can cook Apricot Filled Lebkechun Hearts using 13 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Apricot Filled Lebkechun Hearts

Prepare 125 g of wholewheat flour.
You need 50 g of ground almonds.
You need 1 tsp of ginger.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of cinnamon.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
You need 55 g of honey.
Prepare 40 g of coconut oil.
It’s 2 tbsp of almond milk.
You need 6 tsp of apricot jam*.
It’s of Glaze:.
You need 50 g of dark chocolate**.
Prepare 2 tsp of coconut oil.
It’s 3 tbsp of almond milk.

Now to some, the combination of gingerbread, chocolate and apricot might sound like an utterly absurd idea.

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!

Apricot Filled Lebkechun Hearts step by step

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..

Fruity apricot filled gingerbread covered with dark chocolate and milk chocolate decoration Please note that while we take every care to make sure the product.

Today, our master bakers have blended innovation with tradition to bring theses quality cookies to you to enjoy.

Those early lebkuchen recipes included various imported spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, anise, cloves, and of course, ginger.

Spices cost a lot of money in medieval Europe, so recipes that used them liberally provided a subtle means to display wealth.

Lebkuchen commanded such respect in Nuremberg that it stood in for currency.