Making a Lebkuchen Hexe House
Everyone knows that Christmas time is a time when many people make gingerbread houses. This has been a tradition in my family too, but with a twist. Being German, my grandma always made a lebkuchen house rather than a gingerbread house. Lebkuchen is a German cookie, very similar to gingerbread in that it is comprised of many of the same spices: ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, etc. However, while gingerbread uses strictly molasses as a binder, lebkuchen uses honey. Afte