Leckerli cookies

6 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Honey
⅓ cup Sugar
2½ cup Unsifted flour (see note)
4 teaspoons Baking powder
1 teaspoon Ground cinnamon
1 pinch Nutmeg
1 pinch Cloves
⅔ cup Sliced almonds
3 tablespoons Candied orange peel, finely chopped
3 tablespoons Candied lemon peel, finely chopped
1 Egg
2 tablespoons Kirsch OR orange juice
Milk
Glaze (recipe follows)
Candied red cherries, halved, for topping
Angelica or candied citron peel, cut into leaf shapes for topping

Directions

Spices and candied fruit are in these chewy cookie squares.

NOTE: When unsifted flour is called for, fluff up the flour in the sack orcontainer with a fork before measuring.

Preheat oven to 375~.

Combine honey and sugar in a small saucepan. Heat slowly, stirring constantly, until honey thinks and sugar dissolves; cool slightly.

Sift flour, baking powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves into a large bowl. Add almonds, candied orange and lemon peels; mix to coat.

Add cooled honey mixture, egg and kirsch to flour mixture; stir with wooden spoon until blended. Knead dough together with palm of hand until mixture cleans side of bowl; shape into ball; flatten slightly.

Roll dough between two sheets of wax paper to a 13x9 inch rectangle, slightly less than ¼-inch thick, keeping edges as even as possible.

Remove top piece of wax paper; flip dough onto lightly greased cookie sheet; removesecond piece of wax paper. Brush top lightly with milk.

Bake in 375~ oven for 15 minutes or until golden brown. Remove cookie sheet to wire tack. Trim edges of cookie dough; cut into 2-inch squares.

Make Glaze. Brush quickly over warm Leckerli. (Do not make syrup until Leckerli are out ofthe oven or syrup will harden>) Decorate with candied red cherry halves and angelica leaves. Glaze will harden and turn white.

~=> Glaze: Combine ½ cu granulated sugar and 3 Tablespoons water in saucepan. Cook about 5 minutes or until it registers 235~ on candy thermometer. Brush glaze on cookies while both are still warm.

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