Basel gingerbread

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 500 g flour
• 200 g sugar
• 1 packet of baking powder
• 200 g almonds
• 100 g hazelnuts, ground
• 2 tbsp cinnamon
• 1 pack of gingerbread spice
• ¼ tsp clove powder
• 100 g candied lemon
• 100 g candied orange peel
• 4 eggs
• 3 tbsp honey
• 200 g dark chocolate coating or
• 200 g powdered sugar mixed with cinnamon or lemon juice from about 1/2 lemon

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 10 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 40 minutes

Cookie cutters, the best Christmas cookies ever

Mix all dry ingredients thoroughly, chopping the candied lemon and orange peel finely if necessary. Then add the eggs and honey and knead until a large ball of dough forms. Dust the surface with a little flour and roll out the dough to about 4 mm thick. Use various cookie cutters to cut out the cookies and then place the cookies on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in the oven at 160°C fan/convection oven (180°C top/bottom heat) for 8-10 minutes. Then let cool and cover with icing or chocolate glaze, if desired. The icing can be spiced up by adding lemon juice or a little cinnamon.