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thenewgreen · 4727 days ago · link · · parent · post: Baking time.

What on earth are you making? Btw, your daughter is lovely.

Happy baking! Hope you are feeling better.

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kleinbl00 · 4727 days ago · link ·

My wife, actually.

http://i.imgur.com/47C2R.jpg

We were actually there buying fruitcake ingredients, but when you see a 22lb bag of chocolate chips, you gotta represent.

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thenewgreen · 4727 days ago · link ·

Fruitcake? Have you made it before? Fruitcake has such a bad rep. I've never had a good one.

I just had our traditional E Otto Schmidt Lebkuchen tin arrive. Been getting this every year since I can remember. If you haven't had their Lebkuchen before, do yourself a favor and get a tin: http://www.mostlychocolate.com/store/pc/Nuremberg-Winter-Che...

As for the wife: I see that you too married up.

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kleinbl00 · 4727 days ago · link ·

She makes it for her dad. Her recipe is actually really light and airy but you can't keep it that long (a plus). We've also messed around with candying our own fruit. Thing is, he doesn't like it that way, he likes the super-sweet crappy stuff, so that's what he gets.

Growing up, we made three kinds of cookies at christmas: Lebkuchen, bizcochitos and date pinwheels. These are, without a doubt, my least favorite cookies on earth. The only ones I liked that we made occasionally were bourbon balls, the recipe of which I have since completely revised to suit myself.

So I'll pass on your lebkuchen, thanks.