Elven Bread Recipe

Suilaid, Im gelir ceni ad lín!

I really like Lord of the Rings. alot. I grew up reading the books and then watching the movies.

It is something I shall never grow out of. I still want to live in Rivendell...

If you are a fan you might recall the Lembas bread!

Well here is my own version of it.

This Lembas Bread was made for my cousins hobbit birthday party.

I found the recipe online about 3 years ago. (can't remember where..sorry!) 

I modified it and added a few touches of my own. So the recipe below is the result.

Lembas Bread Recipe

1 cup of Butter (or vegan butter)

1 1/2 cups White Flour

1/2 cup Oat Flour (or rice flour)

1/2 cup Honey

1/4 tsp Vanilla

3 teaspoons brown sugar

1 teaspoon finely ground almonds

dash of ground cloves

dash of nutmeg (more or less to taste)

dash of Cinnamon

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I pre-heated the oven to 350.

Mix together the flours and ground almonds in a bowl. Set a side.

Cream the butter with the Honey and Vanilla in a mixer or another bowl.

Now add the flour mixture (slowly!) into the sticky honey mixture.

You want the dough to look like a scone mix. (or muffins) So it isn't too sticky, but not too hard.

Add more flour if you need to.

Take the dough and place onto a floured surface. Smush out into a round shape, that isn't too tall. Like just shy of an inch. ok, once you have that nice round shape cut the dough into slices.

You are left with slices of Lembas that needs to be placed onto a cookie sheet.

Bake for about 15 min. So they are that perfect golden brown color.

Once removed from the oven spread a bit of melted honey on the top. yummy!

 The taste and texture is like that of a british shortbread.

I think Tolkien would approve.

*I doubled mine for the party, but the above recipe will make one batch.

If you want to get creative you can wrap them in large elvish leaves. I also served it with homemade blueberry/peach jam.

Thanks for reading!

If you give the recipe a try let me know. :)

Namárië

Comments

[Fidelia]

YUM! I'll have to try it!

~Fidelia~

[Arya]

Very cool! :) I'll have to try this sometime. I've been contemplating trying to come up with my own recipe for Lembas. hehe I love to bake!

[Fidelia]

I don't have oat or rice flour... hmmm.... do you think I could just do a mixture of white and wheat? (I'm making it today and the stores are closed)

~*~Fidelia~8~

[Fidelia]

I tried it, with a few changes (Unintentional) :P But It turned out delicious anyway! It's also fun eating it with a friend and quoting some lines from the movie concerning lembas bread lol.

"How many did you eat?"
"Four."

~*~Fidelia~*~

[BrielleCostumes]

@Fidelia,
Yes you can totally use a mixture of white and wheat. :) I am sure it would still be elvish bread like.

oh, so pleased to hear that you enjoyed the recipe and saying quotes from the movie makes it all the better doesn't it? :)
Thanks for your comments! They totally made my day.