Pfefferkuchen-Schneeflocken mit JohannisbeergeleeGingerbread Snowflakes with Red Currant Jelly

Endlich wieder Plätzchen und zwar Pfefferkuchen gefüllt mit Johannisbeergelee! Ich mag Pfefferkuchen ja sowieso, so gefüllt mit Gelee kannte ich sie bisher nicht, es passt aber sehr gut zusammen! Aber ich mag mit Marmelade gefüllte Plätzchen sowieso sehr gerne ;).

Die Pfefferkuchen sind richtig schön würzig und den Pfeffer des „Pfeffer“kuchens“ spürt man übrigens! Erst sind die Plätzchen süß und dann huch, zack kurze Pfefferwürze und dann fruchtige Marmelade und wieder Plätzchensüße. Sooo gut!

Ihr müsst Euch natülich nicht zwangsweise solche Mühe machen wie ich, ihr könnte jeden Ausstecher eurer Wahl verwenden und dann zwei Plätzchen zusammenkleben. Fertig!

 Pfefferkuchen mit Johannisbeergelee

Vor zwei Jahren: Wildschweinkeule mit Hagebuttensauce

Vor drei Jahren: Schokoladenkekse mit Fleur de Sel

Vor vier Jahren: Eierlikör und Lebkuchen

Today I provide you another kind of Christmas cookie: gingerbread cookies with red currant jelly! I already loved gingerbread, but I didn’t knew it filled with jelly. But the combination is a great match! But I’m a sucker for jam filled cookies anyway ;).

The gingerbread cookies are spiced really well and you will notice the pepper in the gingerbread (in German these cookies are called „pepper cake“)! First the cookies are sweet, then you taste the spice of the pepper and then the fruity jam and again cookie sweetness. So very good!

You don’t have to cut out such elaborate cookies like me, use your favourite cookie cutter and glue two cookies together with jam and you’re done!

Pfefferkuchen mit Johannisbeergelee

Two years ago: wild boar with rose hip sauce

Three years ago: chocolate cookies with fleur de sel

Four years ago: eggnog and gingerbread

Lebkuchen mit SchokoladenüberzugGingerbread with Chocolate Coating

Das sind nicht die ersten Lebkuchen die ich fabriziert habe. Aber diese hier sind gaaanz anders, als die die ich hier gebloggt habe. Die waren der Typ Nürnberger Lebkuchen, diese hier sind mehr der Typ „Herzen, Sterne Brezen“, aber saftiger und nicht so mächtig. Wahrscheinlich gibt es so ähnliche auch zu kaufen, ich weiß nur nicht wie sie heißen oder von welcher Firma sie sind. Ich achte nicht so auf dieses Gebäck im Supermarkt.

Aber ich bezweifle auch, dass man so leckere Lebkuchen kaufen kann. Ich war erst skeptisch, da flache Lebkuchen häufig trocken und hart sind, aber nicht diese hier. Die Schokolade oben drauf ist ein Muss und macht die Lebkuchen noch besser. Diese Kekse sind definitiv eine meiner Favoriten dieses Jahr. Deshalb habe ich sie auch Julia in ihr Post aus meiner Küche-Päckchen eingepackt. Neben selbstgemachtem Eierlikör, gab es für sie eine Plätzchenauswahl. Nach und nach werde ich Euch einige davon vorstellen.

Der Teig ergibt übrigens eine ganze Menge an Lebkuchen, obwohl ich keine Zweifel habe, dass sie bis Weihnachten aufgegessen sind.

Lebkuchen mit Schokoladenüberzug

Vor einem Jahr: Schokoladenkekse mit Fleur de Sel

Vor zwei Jahren: Weihnachtsplätzchen

 

These are not the first gingerbread cookies I made. But these are so very different to those. Those were more than a cookie, like the traditional famous Lebkuchen vom Nuremberg. This time they are like a lighter gingerbread cookie, but a mellow one. Probably there are cookies like this to buy, but I don’t know there name (or from which brand). I just don’t take notice of things like that in the supermarket.

But I doubt it, that you can buy such delicious gingerbread cookies. First I was a bit sceptical, since flat gingerbread cookies tend to be hard and dry. But not these! The chocolate coating is a must and makes the gingerbread even better. These cookies are one of my favourites this season.

The dough makes a lot of cookies, but I have no doubt, that they are eaten since Christmas.

Gingerbread with Chocolate Coating

One year ago: chocolate cookies with fleur de sel

Two years ago: christmas cookies

 

Eierlikör & LebkuchenEggnog & Gingerbread

Update: Für das deutsche Rezept nach unten scrollen!

Last week I told you about some Christmas gifts I will make. Today I present you two of them. I highly recommend both. Either as a gift or just for yourself. Both recipes are made in no time and are very easy.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 Although I bake and cook almost everything myself, I never made gingerbread or lebkuchen, as we call them in German (gingerbread is confusing for me, as the lebkuchen doesn’t contain any ginger…). I come from the lebkuchen city of Nürnberg, so I know the very good ones from the lebkuchen bakeries (not the cheap ones from the supermarkets) and I never had the guts to bake them myself. But then two things happened.

First I didn’t had the chance to buy or eat any lebkuchen from home, since there was no opportunity to be there. Second I bought a really wonderful book (sorry for all the English speakers). The book contains so many recipes for Christmas gifts (or gifts at all), Christmas cookies and even recipes for your Christmas dinner. It was love at first sight! There I discovered a lebkuchen recipe. They looked really good. A smaller version of my beloved ones from home. So I gave them a try. They are just perfect. No need to buy them anymore (ok, except the really good ones from the bakery). They are even better with chocolate icing. Or sugar icing. And they get better from day to day. It’s actually recommended, that you prepare them 1 to 2 weeks ahead. But then, you have to be careful, that you have some left for the gifts on Christmas.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 It’s almost a tradition to make eggnog, as a gift for my grandmother for Christmas. There are not many things, that a 90-year-old-woman desires. But we all know she loves eggnog, so at least my aunt and me are giving eggnog as a gift to her. This year I tried a new recipe (which I also adapted from the book, I recommended above). And it is a hit! It balances perfect between the sweetness, the vanilla and the alcohol. It’s not too thick and not to thin. Just the right consistency. There is no sharpness of the alcohol in this eggnog. This is how I love it. I used normal corn schnapps, instead of the high-proof alcohol, listed in the recipe. With the right amount of the other ingredients, this was the key of the perfect eggnog.

Give your beloved ones a treat with those wonderful gifts or at least yourself and your family.

Happy baking!

Eggnog & Gingerbread

Last week I told you about some Christmas gifts I will make. Today I present you two of them. I highly recommend both. Either as a gift or just for yourself. Both recipes are made in no time and are very easy.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 Although I bake and cook almost everything myself, I never made gingerbread or lebkuchen, as we call them in German (gingerbread is confusing for me, as the lebkuchen doesn’t contain any ginger…). I come from the lebkuchen city of Nürnberg, so I know the very good ones from the lebkuchen bakeries (not the cheap ones from the supermarkets) and I never had the guts to bake them myself. But then two things happened.

First I didn’t had the chance to buy or eat any lebkuchen from home, since there was no opportunity to be there. Second I bought a really wonderful book (sorry for all the English speakers). The book contains so many recipes for Christmas gifts (or gifts at all), Christmas cookies and even recipes for your Christmas dinner. It was love at first sight! There I discovered a lebkuchen recipe. They looked really good. A smaller version of my beloved ones from home. So I gave them a try. They are just perfect. No need to buy them anymore (ok, except the really good ones from the bakery). They are even better with chocolate icing. Or sugar icing. And they get better from day to day. It’s actually recommended, that you prepare them 1 to 2 weeks ahead. But then, you have to be careful, that you have some left for the gifts on Christmas.

Eggnog & Gingerbread

 It’s almost a tradition to make eggnog, as a gift for my grandmother for Christmas. There are not many things, that a 90-year-old-woman desires. But we all know she loves eggnog, so at least my aunt and me are giving eggnog as a gift to her. This year I tried a new recipe (which I also adapted from the book, I recommended above). And it is a hit! It balances perfect between the sweetness, the vanilla and the alcohol. It’s not too thick and not to thin. Just the right consistency. There is no sharpness of the alcohol in this eggnog. This is how I love it. I used normal corn schnapps, instead of the high-proof alcohol, listed in the recipe. With the right amount of the other ingredients, this was the key of the perfect eggnog.

Give your beloved ones a treat with those wonderful gifts or at least yourself and your family.

Happy baking!

 

Eggnog & Gingerbread