Filled Gingerbread
Filled gingerbread is a recipe with fresh ingredients from the jam category. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 300 g flour
- 150 g sugar
- 1 tsp Baking powder
- 2 tsp grated lemon zest
- 1.5 packets gingerbread spice mix
- 75 g honey
- 2 Eggs
- 100 g raisins
- 40 ml rum
- 50 g pine nuts (chopped)
- 50 g almond sticks (chopped)
- 50 g hazelnuts (chopped)
- 50 g candied lemon peel (chopped)
- 50 g candied orange peel (chopped)
- 7 tbsp apricot jam
- 1 egg
- 35 whole blanched almonds (halved)
Instructions
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1.
Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, lemon zest and gingerbread spice mix.
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2.
Warm honey slightly, whisk with the eggs and add to the flour mixture; knead well.
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3.
Soak raisins in rum.
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4.
Combine filling ingredients, stir in raisins.
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5.
Divide gingerbread dough into two halves; roll each on a floured work surface to sheet size. Place one sheet on a buttered baking tray, spread 6 tbsp warm jam over it, then distribute the filling, top with the second dough sheet and press with a rolling pin.
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6.
Brush the surface with beaten egg and bake in preheated oven at 200°C (400°F) on middle rack for about 20 minutes. Remove, cut into small squares of roughly 2.5 cm edges while warm, cool, then attach one almond half to each square with jam.
