A great cake recipe for any occasion:
In a saucepan, heat the honey, 250 g sugar and 3 tbsp water to about 60 degrees while stirring.
Mix together the flour, sponge cake crumbs, 2 tbsp cocoa powder, the packet of baking powder, cinnamon and gingerbread spice and 100 g candied lemon peel and 100 g oranges. Then add 100 ml of milk, the juice of half a lemon and the honey-sugar mixture to make a dough (if you have a food processor with a chopper, it’s easier – but it can also be done by hand).
Then knead by hand a little more and put in a baking bowl to cool for one night, but do not chill in the refrigerator! The next morning, preheat the oven to 200 °C, roll out the dough to approx.
1-2 cm and place on a parchment paper on the baking tray and bake in the middle of the oven for 15-20 minutes.
After cooling, cut with a serrated knife into strips about 2-3 cm wide, then cut them into rhombuses 2-3 cm wide.
For the glaze, in a saucepan, bring sugar and water to a boil and make 3-4 minutes. Stir in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.
Form the gastric bread loaves in the glaze, stir gently with a wooden spoon so that the gastric bread is glazed on all sides and set down on a parchment paper with two forks to dry.
You can, of course, enjoy the gastric bread just as well without the glaze.
Stomach bread can be kept for several weeks in a well-sealed container. It becomes drier and harder, i