Lebkuchen Spycy Greman biscuit By María

     Lebkuchen Spycy Greman biscuit 

Ingredients

1egg
4 tablespoons clear honey
55g butter or margarine
55g soft brown sugar
225g plain flour teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon ground ginger
30g cocoa powder
1 teaspoon mixed spice 
85g icing sugar 
1 tablespoon lemon juice
food colouring (optional)
icing bag or a cone of greaseproof paper


                 METHOD


First, grease a baking sheet with butter. Separate the egg. Put the yolk into a bowl. You  don´t need the egg.

Then, turn on the oven. Put the honey, butter and sugar in a pan over a low heat. Stir them until the butter has melted.

Next, sift the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, ginger and mixed spice into a mixing bowl. Add the egg yolk.

After, mix the melted butter, honey and sugar into the flour. Squeeze the mixture into a ball of dough with your hands.

Later, sprinkle some flour onto a clean worktop and onto a rolling pin. Roll out the dough until it is 1/2cm thick.

After, use cookie cutters or a knife to cut out different shapes. Roll out the leftover dough and cut out more shapes.

Then, use a spatula to lift the biscuits onto the baking sheet. Make a hole at the top of each biscuit with a skewer.

Next, bake the biscuits until golden. Then, leave them to cool.

Meanwhile, sift the icing sugar into a bowl. mix in the tablespoon of lemon juice, keep stirring.

Later, spoon some of the icing into a  bowl. You can mix in a few drops of  food colouring if you want.

Finally, spoon the icing into an icing bag. Pipe on the icing slowly by squeezing the bag.

                                                      

                                                            ENJOY!!!!!!!!!