Kid Recipes

Day 4 of Christmas Ideas week on TBA! That means tomorrow is the last day :( But there is the 25 Days of Christmas going on and I'm hosting a day next week, yay! Wow, that was a roller coaster of emotion right there lol.

So today is Kid Recipe day!   Continuing on with the German theme I did yesterday, here is a kid recipe for one of my FAVORITE German cookies that I associate with Christmas.

Lebkuchen! Pronounced layb-kooch-yen. The kooch part is not ch like church...it's that German-in-your-throat-that-sounds-like-you-are-coughing-up-something sound.

It's kid friendly because everything is mixed in one bowl, put in one pan, then baked! Normally you don't really decorate them, but the kiddos could put on a light frosting too. I guess you could say it's German gingerbread.

Ingredients:

• 1 egg
• 2 tbsp. oil
• 1/2 cup brown sugar, packed
• 1/3 cup honey
• 1/3 cup molasses
• 2 cups flour, all-purpose
• 1 tbsp. pumpkin pie spice (see comments above)
• 1/2 tsp. baking soda
• 1/2 cup chopped almonds
• 1/2 cup mixed candied fruits and peels, finely chopped
• 1 egg white
• 1 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp. lemon juice

Instructions:

• Preheat oven to 350° F.
• Grease a 15 X 10 X 1-inch baking sheet.
• In large mixer bowl, beat egg and oil. Add brown sugar and beat well.
• Add honey and molasses. Mix well.
• Mix together flour, pumpkin pie spice, and baking soda. Add to egg mixture and beat till well mixed.
• Stir in almonds and candied fruit and peel. Dough will be very thick.
• Spread in baking pan. Use back of spoon to spread, dipping spoon in water so that dough doesn't stick to spoon.
• Bake for 15 - 23 minutes or until done.
• with a sharp knife, score into bars immediately upon removing from oven by just cutting through the top crust.
• With mixer, in small bowl, beat egg white, powdered sugar and lemon juice until smooth.
• Spread icing over warm bars. Cool completely.
• Cut through completely at the score marks to cut into individual bars.
• Makes about 32.

This is how I know them!