Honey gingerbread belong to the traditional pastries of Russian cuisine. They can be baked for any celebration or diversify family tea drinking. Such Russian pastries are hearty, sweet. If you are still buying gingerbread cookies in shopping centers, we advise you to read the material presented.

Classic recipe

Honey gingerbread was baked in Russia and called honey bread, since the dough was kneaded on the basis of rye flour and honey. Since that time, much has changed, they began to put different spices in the dough, so this baking was given a different name - gingerbread cookies.

Ingredients:

  • 265 ml of any honey;
  • 435 g of flour;
  • 65 g of sand;
  • a spoonful of margarine (butter);
  • one large egg;
  • two tablespoons of ripper (0.5 tablespoons of soda).

Cooking method:

  1. In a water bath, melt honey with oil and sand. We put any spices, for example, vanillin, cinnamon or cloves.
  2. Pour flour and a cultivator into the bowl, drive the egg in and pour in the slightly cooled sweet mixture. We expose the basis in the cold for a couple of hours.
  3. Roll out the dough 1.5 cm thick using molds, create products, transfer to a greased baking sheet and put in the oven for ten minutes, setting the mode to 190 ° C. https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = ghhuABXLHQU

Cooking with icing

To make homemade honey gingerbreads delight not only with sweetness, but also with their appearance, they are covered with glaze.

Ingredients:

  • three tablespoons of honey;
  • 145 g of white sugar;
  • 65 g margarine (or butter);
  • two chicken eggs;
  • half a spoon of soda;
  • 425 g of flour;
  • protein;
  • 185 g of sweet powder.

Cooking method:

  1. To bake gingerbread with icing you will need a double boiler with a bowl, but if there is no such kitchen appliance, you can use the means at hand.
  2. So, pour sweet sand and soda into the bowl, drive eggs in there, add any aromatic spices. Turn on the double boiler for ten minutes, during which time the sweet granules should completely dissolve.
  3. Then pour the honey and put margarine, mix, warm, but in no case boil.
  4. After falling asleep the flour, stir everything all at once and turn off the appliance.
  5. Knead the soft dough, wrap it with cling film and cool for an hour. The longer the base is in the refrigerator, the more gentle the baking will be.
  6. Then we roll the dough into a layer, make billets and bake them on a baking sheet for ten minutes (temperature 180 ° C).
  7. For glaze, beat the protein and powder into a lush foam. As soon as the gingerbread cookies are ready, immediately pour them with icing.

Option for fasting

You can treat yourself to fasting with honey gingerbread based on products allowed during this period.

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Ingredients:

  • 110 ml of honey;
  • 185 ml of water;
  • 545 g of flour;
  • four tablespoons of vegetable oil;
  • 3 g of slaked soda;
  • 95 g of sugar.

Cooking method:

  1. From honey, sugar and water we cook thick syrup. If a thread is formed when draining from a spoon, then you can pour in vegetable oil and put slaked soda.
  2. Pour flour into any dish, season it with cinnamon, gradually pour in the syrup and knead the base, give it time to relax.
  3. Then we make blanks with a thickness of 1.5 cm, bake for a quarter of an hour at a temperature of 200 ° C.
  4. Glaze will help to make gingerbread cookies beautiful. To do this, simply mix the water with sweet granules and heat until they are completely dissolved.

Soft honey gingerbread cookies on kefir

We will try to bake soft and tender products based on kefir. Such a recipe is even for an inexperienced housewife.

The composition of the components:

  • 285 ml of kefir;
  • two large eggs (one protein for fudge);
  • 95 g margarine;
  • 315 g sugar (130 g for fudge);
  • a spoon of honey;
  • two bowls (with a hill) of flour.

Cooking method:

  1. For the test, take two yolks and one protein, add sugar and beat. Then pour in the dairy product, liquid margarine and honey, soda, mix.
  2. Then pour the flour. The dough should not turn out too steep, otherwise the baking will come out tight and heavy.
  3. From the already chilled dough, first we make a layer, and then we cut the blanks in the form of gingerbread. We bake products for 20 minutes, then grease with fondant from whipped protein and sand, reduce heat, and hold soft gingerbread on yogurt in the oven for another ten minutes. Https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = SjJT4BS9_xc

Steamed with Walnuts

The unusual thing about steaming gingerbread cookies is that they are not baked in the oven, but rather they use a slow cooker or a double boiler.

Ingredients:

  • one chicken egg;
  • 285 g of flour;
  • 55 g of butter (margarine);
  • 95 g of sugar;
  • a large spoon of honey;
  • one chicken egg;
  • half a spoon of soda;
  • 110 g of walnuts.

Cooking method:

  1. In a steam bath, melt honey sweetness and granules of sand, then break the egg, put butter and soda. As soon as the mass becomes homogeneous, remove from heat, introduce the flour and add the nuts crushed in a blender.
  2. From the base we make balls in the shape of gingerbread cookies, put them in a special basket. Set the time to 40 minutes. Https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = x78MDWPZWr0

Custard treat

Custard cakes are tasty and tender, keeping soft for several days.

Ingredients:

  • 95 ml of natural honey;
  • 275 g of flour;
  • packing butter;
  • one large egg;
  • a spoon of rum;
  • 35 ml sour cream;
  • any aromatic spices.

Cooking method:

  1. In a stewpan, heat the honey and oil, then add half the flour and quickly mix everything.
  2. As soon as the resulting mass cools down, we drive in the egg, we fill in the sweetener, the rest of the flour and spices.
  3. We roll out the soft base, make blanks and bake for 15 minutes (temperature 200 ° C), if desired, decorate with glaze.

Christmas honey gingerbread cookies

Honey-gingerbread cakes are often baked for the New Year and Christmas holidays.We suggest baking them in the form of various figures or a funny ginger man.

Ingredients:

  • five cups of flour;
  • five spoons of brewed strong coffee;
  • one and a half spoons of slaked soda;
  • two spoons of any ginger;
  • half a spoon of chopped cloves;
  • 185 g of sugar and as much honey;
  • packing butter;
  • two chicken eggs.

Cooking method:

  1. Mild soft butter with sweet sand, honey. We beat in the eggs, pour in the coffee drink, fill in part of the flour with ginger, cloves and salt. Stir the ingredients first with a mixer, then add the flour and stir with your hands.
  2. Check the dough for two hours.
  3. Make gingerbread man figures with a stencil.
  4. Bake the workpiece for 15 minutes (temperature 180 ° C) and decorate with glaze, colored sprinkles or chocolate. For fudge, you can take a glass of sweet powder, one egg and two tablespoons of citrus juice.

In the dough for gingerbread, you can add not only spices, but also use fruit zest, candied fruit, jam or jam.