Ingredients:

•    350 g    Flour
•        7 g    Baking Powder
•     295 g    Sugar
•      16 g    Vanilla Sugar
•    175 g    Candied Lemon and Orange Peel, finely chopped
•    300 g    Almonds, ground
•     3 tsp    Lebkuchen Spice
•     1 tsp    Cloves, ground
•  275 ml     Milk
•    150 g    Butter, liquefied
•      50 g    Honey, warm
•          4    Eggs
•               Apricot Marmalade, Chocolate or Lemon Glaze, optional

Directions:

Break eggs into a bowl and fold in sugar, vanilla sugar, lebkuchen spice and ground cloves and mix thoroughly. (Stand-mixer works great)

Mix together the milk, butter, honey and add to the bowl. Mix in Flour, baking powder and almonds.

Fold in candied fruit.

Portion mixture into small size Silicone cupcake pan (1.8 inch mini size 24 cups), filling each cup about half full.

Bake in preheated 390°F convection oven for 11 – 12 minutes until light brown.

• Brush the Lebkuchen Bites with Apricot marmalade
  (Heat 3 tbs marmalade with 1 tbs water and brush on),
• cover with a chocolate coating,
• brush on a lemon juice – confectioners sugar glaze,
• or just sprinkle with confectioners sugar.

Enjoy!

Recipe yields about 150 Mini Lebkuchen

For our Lebkuchen spice blend click here.