Fragrant, melting honey cakes in the mouth, the recipe of which is extremely simple - it's this baking that you want to taste on cold evenings. Well, why not? Let's try to cook with them.
How to make honey cakes?
Most often, honey cakes are cooked on a custard pastry - this is a classic recipe, we'll tell you about it. The most important thing is to knead the dough properly. Whichever recipe for honey cakes you take, any of them requires that you do not spare your strength and knead the dough until it begins to lag behind the walls of dishes and hands. Honey is taken any: mustard, lime, floral, add spices, which will add flavor to products. If you do not have gingerbread molds, you can bake the whole rolled sheet, then gently cut it into rhombuses or rectangles with a knife and cover it with glaze.
Custard honey cakes
The peculiarity of this method of preparation is that the flour is brewed and when baking the product rises without any baking powder. If you are preparing home honey gingerbread cookies for the holiday, then try covering them with glaze, sugar or chocolate, from the top, drawing a picture, then your products will bring mood into the house, and you can paint them with the whole family. And who knows, maybe painting honey gingerbread will become your family tradition.
Ingredients:
- flour - 1 kg;
- sugar - 450 g;
- honey - 300 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- oil - 200 g;
- water 120 g;
- spices - 4 tsp.
Preparation
Pour in a pan with a thick bottom of water, heat it to 60 degrees, add honey, sugar and heat up to 90 degrees. Stir until the sugar is completely dissolved, add the butter, egg, spices, stir in the still hot mixture, then cool to 65 degrees, pour in the flour and mix the dough very fast. Then roll the dough on the board. We cut out various figures, put home honey gingerbread on the baking tray and bake at 200-250 degrees for 25-30 minutes. If you decide to cover the gingerbread figures glaze, then send them to dry in the oven for a couple of minutes.
For the glaze you will need to pour a glass of sugar 1/2 cup of water and slowly boil until the liquid begins to stretch (like a thick thread). Periodically remove the foam. In the resulting sugar syrup, you can add vanillin or other spices. Cooled glaze, you can paint gingerbread, I use a brush or toothpick.
It is worth noting that the tradition of painting is characteristic for one more delicious treat - the Tula gingerbread, the recipe of which is also found in our piggy bank.
Lenten honey cakes
This recipe will undoubtedly be enjoyed by those who adhere to the lean diet. Gingerbread cooks without eggs, without oil - only honey, water and flour.
Ingredients:
- flour - 7 glasses;
- honey - 2 cups;
- sugar - 1 cup;
- soda - 1 pinch;
- water - 3/4 cup.
Preparation
Mix honey, water and sugar in a saucepan, bring to a boil, cool a little and gradually add flour. Knead the dough and set the minutes for 30 minutes to cool. Soda diluted, mixed with the dough, let stand for about 10 minutes, then rolled into a layer and cut the cakes.
Such a simple recipe for honey gingerbread can also be used for making honey gingerbread with stuffing. Than you will fill them - a matter of your taste. You can try with marzipan or chocolate, with ground nuts or jam.
If you like gingerbread and always try to submit them in a new way, then look at the recipe for the cake "Curly Pinscher" , in which they are the main ingredient.