Nut cakes Elizen for the New Year

Unique recipe for fragrant nut cakes without wheat flour! I don't know any other recipe for gingerbread without flour.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Chicken eggs

Sugar

150

Spices are dry (gingerbread seasoning: I use ready-made, but you can mix it yourself, for example, like this: half a teaspoon of cinnamon and a pinch of ground cloves and cardamom)

Lemon zest (meaning, the zest of 1 lemon)

Rum

Candied fruits

100

Hazelnuts (ground)

150

Almonds (chopped)

100

For glaze:

Powdered sugar

200

Egg whites (I have a ready-made glaze, and lemon, but this is absolutely optional. you can make a regular sugar-protein one)

Lemon juice (a couple of drops)

0.15

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 9 % 7 g

Fats 25 % 19 g

Carbohydrates 66 % 51 g

387 kcal

GI: 6 / 0 / 94

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h

Step 1:
Ingredients
Step 2:
Rub the lemon peel
Step 3:
Beat eggs with a mixer into foam
Step 4:
Pour granulated sugar in a thin stream during whipping, beat to a white foam
Step 5:
Throw in all the other ingredients at once
Step 6:
Mix. Put the oven on preheat (up to 150 degrees, a little hotter than for meringue)
Step 7:
If gingerbread wafers are used, spread them on top of the paper on a baking sheet, but not close to each other
Step 8:
Spoon the portions of the nut mass onto the wafers (or plop directly onto the paper, it's faster and more convenient, just gingerbread turns out to be less sticky without the wrappers and a little different consistency
Step 9:
Bake in the oven at an average temperature of 150 degrees for 20 minutes
Step 10:
Take it out of the oven, let it cool down, and only then divide the jumpers with a knife if they have formed between individual gingerbread
Step 11:
Completely cooled gingerbread can be covered with icing (or you can not cover). I also sprinkled waffle snowflakes purely for decoration. Enjoy it!

Gingerbread wafers 12 pieces will be required; you can do without them if you bake on paper. I had them with a diameter of 7 cm, it took 12 of them. If you take a smaller size, then roughly estimate exactly how many of them fit on the baking sheet.
Every December, like a maniac, I have to bake cookies almost every day, and then also hide it all over the house so that the family does not eat it. (This is probably also some kind of German Advent tradition.) I'm starting this marathon with this recipe, because I know by the end of December I have to bake it 2, if not 3 more times. German women, most of whom do not like to cook, or even do not know how, bake just mountains of pastries for Christmas - and here they are quite capable of competing in skill with other nations. These skills are honed over the years and generations of German frau in some kind of unspoken contest "whose Christmas pastries will be eaten or sold out in the first place." The finals of the competitions are held in kindergartens and schools, at local Christmas markets, festive evenings at work and in "interest circles". In addition, as a rule, different family members have different taste preferences, and still have to bake many varieties, even just for a holiday at home, not to mention any social events. Elizen is a recipe that EVERYONE likes with me. Yes, everyone has their own favorite kind of baking, which the others may not touch in the dish on display for Christmas; but my relatives and guests are usually absolutely unanimous in eating this kind of gingerbread in a race.