Lebkuchen (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
Hello, welcome to my latest Christmas recipe for Gluten and Dairy Free Lebkuchen. This little cookies (or are they cakes?) take a little time to make but are definitely worth the effort. I chose to both glaze mine and dip the base in some dairy free dark chocolate.
Other Christmas Ideas
If you like this recipe for Gluten and Dairy Free Lebkuchen then you might like to try one of my other Christmas recipes:
- Treat yourself with my Christmas Pie Bites (Gluten & Dairy Free)
- Go traditional with my Christmas Pudding (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
- Make a some biscuits with my Cranberry & Orange Shortbread (Gluten Free, Dairy Free)
- Bake loaf cake with my recipe for Christmas Mincemeat Loaf (Gluten & Dairy Free)
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Enjoy!
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- 50 g dairy free spread
- 4 tbsp treacle
- 3 tbsp honey
- 75 g brown sugar
- 50 g ground almonds
- 1 tsp almond extract (optional)
- 2 tsp mixed spice
- 1 egg (beaten)
- 225 g gluten free self raising flour
- 1 tsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp orange zest
- 170 g icing sugar
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 200 g dairy free dark chocolate (optional)
- 75 g dairy free white chocolate (optional)
- 1
Place the dairy free spread, treacle, honey and brown sugar into a small saucepan over a low heat for a couple of minutes until melted together
- 2
Place the ground almonds, gluten free flour and mixed spice into a large bowl and stir in the treacle mix
- 3
Mix in the beaten egg, almond extract, lemon zest and orange zest
- 4
Wrap in clingfilm and leave to chill in the fridge for a couple of hours
- 5
Preheat the oven to 180 oC and dust the worktop with a little icing sugar and roll out the dough to about 1.5cm thick
- 6
Preheat the oven to 180 oC
- 7
Bake for 15 minutes and place on a wire rack- 8
Stir together the icing sugar, lemon juice and enough water to make a thin glaze
- 9
Brush the cookies with the glaze while they are still warm then leave to cool completely
- 10
Melt the dairy free dark chocolate in a shallow dish and dip the base of each cookie into the chocolate
- 11
Leave the chocolate to set and you can then decorate your cookies, I used some melted white chocolate and a sprinkle of Christmas trees
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