Vegan Lebkuchen Soft Spiced Cookies Filled with Apricot Jam
Ingredients
For the dough
180
g
sugar beet syrup (or agave syrup)
120
g
cane sugar
120
g
wheat flour
120
g
spelt flour
1
ts
baking powder
0.5
ts
baking soda
2
ts
lebkuchen spice mix (christmas cookie spice)
1
ts
cinnamon
4
tb
apricot jam
For the filling and decoration
Some
apricot jam
Some
vegan dark chocolate couverture
50
ml
aquafaba, whipped
Some
chopped pistachios
50
g
icing sugar
5
g
water
5
g
soy drink
Some
blanched almonds
Equipment
cookie cutters (heart-shaped, circular, star-shaped)
Preparation
1. Mix together the flour, baking soda, baking powder, Lebkuchen spice mix and cinnamon.
2. Melt the margarine and sugar beet syrup in a saucepan, and stir in the sugar until it has completely dissolved. Stir in the apricot jam, and leave the mixture to cool a little. Stir in the flour mixture gradually until you have a sticky dough. Leave the dough to cool for 5 minutes, and then knead by hand. Wrap in cling film, and leave to rest overnight in the fridge.
3. After chilling, preheat your oven to 175 °C (345°F) upper and lower heat, and dust your work surface with flour.
4. Roll out the dough until it is approx. 0.5cm thick, and cut out different shapes with cookie cutters. Lay the Lebkuchen cookies out on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Make sure they have enough space between them.
5. Brush a dollop of apricot jam into the middle of each unbaked cookie, and place another cookie on top of each. Press the edges down well so that the filling doesn’t run out.
6. Bake for around 10 minutes, then place on a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
7. If desired, brush the Lebkuchen cookies with various glazes, and decorate them. We brushed some of ours with whipped aquafaba, and used chopped pistachios as a topping. For the second glaze we mixed icing sugar, water and soy drink, and then decorated with flaked almonds. For the third, we melted the dark chocolate couverture and drizzled it over the Lebkuchen.
8. Keep in an airtight container so that the Lebkuchen cookies don’t dry out.
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