Honey Lebkuchen is a family staple for Christmas in our family. Commonalities: candied citron, honey, spices, eggs, and glaze. Differences: we use some shortening, honey AND sugar, pecans and almonds, dough ferments for 5 days before rolling out and cutting cookies, makes 450 thin cookies instead of bars. I find that using my kitchen aid mixer with grinder attachment I can grind the nuts and the citron so that the dough is smooth for rolling out cookies. Once baked and cooled I glaze with a lemon juice-powdered sugar glaze... heaven! There are plenty of cookies for sharing with family and friends. My mom is not up to the rigor of our lebkuchen recipe any more, so i'm gonna suggest she uses your simpler version... thanks! Sounds so yummy!

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