FRC: We've been invited to several holiday gatherings and I'd like to

We had a German next door neighbor when I was little. When her mom

sent her goodies, nobody, but NOBODY, dared bother her booze filled chocolates if they knew what was good for them.

 
They are wonderful...they also have

Rumkugeln (rum balls). The layers outside in are milk chocolate, coconut chocolate, bittersweet chocolate, then a tiny little sugar cup in the shape of a gumdrop that is filled with rum. I used to hold them on my tongue, gently letting the layers dissolve until I was down to the sugar container with the rum. Then, the sugar would dissolve on my tongue and the little trickle of rum would run out, it was exquisite torture waiting the 10 minutes or so it took to have the whole thing melt away without crunching it all up.

 
My mom used to make Lebkuchen when we were kids. Haven't had any since.

Since you're familiar with the product, which do you sugges I order?

 
Aldi's has their Lebkuchen and Stollen and Domino Steinen in stock right now. I brought back a bunch

for gift giving.

 
Cyn, I like the quality of Schmidt's products...

I've tried several Lebkuchen and some are not up to snuff. The imported German stuff is always going to be better than an American interpretation because the German government controls the percentage of nuts required in Lebkuchen, and it's a very high percentage. The American Lebkuchen will be filled with more (cheaper) flour.

That said: Chocolate coated Punsch-Lebkuchen is the star. They're Lebkuchen filled with lots of fruit, doused with rum, then coated in chocolate.

As a friend of mine said when I gave them a tin for Christmas one year:

"This is the taste I want in my mouth when I die!"

 
Have you seen those little maraschino cherry mice?

A friend made them for a Halloween party and they looked pretty easy to make. Everyone raved over them:

maraschino cherries with stems
unwrapped hershey's kisses
Almond slices
white icing in a pastry bag with a fine tip, or buy one of the tubes at the grocery, you don't need much

The cherry is the body and tail, the hershey's kiss is the nose, the almond slices are ears, the icing is two dots for eyes.

Drain stemmed marashino cherries, blot dry. Dip the cherry in chocolate. Immediately press the flat end of a kiss onto the bottom of the chocolate-coated cherry and set on parchment with the stem pointing up. Tuck two almond slices between the kiss and cherry for the ears. Pipe two dots on the tapered end of the kiss for the mice eyes. Let dry.

 
One of our club members made them last year for the local holiday fair. Thew FLEW off the table but

they taste terrible smileys/wink.gif

 
OK- Iput in Chocolate coated Punsch-Lebkuchen got "no items found" then I put in

Punsch-Lebkuchen and again nothing. What should I put in the search, please?

 
Cyn, apparently the German Importers didn't import them this year...

There are several US importers that receive shipments of the Schmidt Lebkuchen each year. I went to look and sure enough, the Punsch Lebkuchen doesn't appear on any of the list for individual purchase this year. However, the Large Festive Chest this year does have a package of punch lebkuchen as well as many other varieties. But that's a lot of lebkuchen and it's $86. However, it does freeze in the package extremely well. We did the large chest a couple times and each time we saved a couple packages for the next christmas in the freezer and skipped ordering that year. I've got two packages in the freezer already for this year.

The link will take you to one of the importers offering it and you can see what's in the box. This is the same assortment that they also sell in a very attractive German tin chest with scenes of Nürnberg. The selection with the tin obviously costs more, but if you're going to spring for that assortment, you won't regret getting the large tin chest as it is a beautiful, and very useful keepsake. They hold entire batches of cookies for later Christmases, for example and make a great presentation of cookies for companies during the holidays.

http://www.bavarianspecialty.com/products/Das-Grosse-Festtags%252d-Paket-2010%7B47%7D-Large-Festive-Box-2010.html

 
oh so cute! I have an idea for better taste---use a boxed chocolate covered cherry and

and add a licorice whip for the tail, make the head the same.

 
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