Honey gingerbread

10.07.2021 Bakery

After cooking, you will receive 3 trays
Cooking time: 1 hour 30 minutes + + 1-3 days for the dough to ripen

It's time to start baking honey cakes! Delicious with milk, fragrant for tea! Baking for the New Year and - gingerbread - can be used in different ways ... How?

This dough takes time to ripen - it is stored for at least three days before baking. This is how its aroma unfolds - and the gingerbread gets the typical taste of gingerbread.

Ingredients for 3 sheets

250 g honey
250 g sugar
200 ml of water
1 pinch of salt
15 g gingerbread seasoning
8 g ammonium carbonate

Ammonium carbonate used instead of yeast in bakery and confectionery industry (food additive E503).

700 g flour
whole almonds

Only high-quality honey will add a unique flavor to your baked goods.
Honey- a great ingredient not only for baking! You can make honey from mead ! If you are interested in history of the drink and mead recipes - welcome to the specialists https://sviymed.com/staty/76-recepty-medovyhi

How to cook

Step: Bring honey, sugar and water to a boil

Put honey, sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil while stirring. Stir until honey and sugar dissolve

Step: Stir in spices

Remove the saucepan from the hot stove and stir in the salt and seasoning.
Then let the mass cool to room temperature (below 25 ° C).

Step: Mix honey mixture and flour

Meanwhile, sift the ammonium carbonate onto the flour and mix with the flour.
Add the cooled honey mixture to the flour and stir with a wooden spoon. Knead with your hands.
Wrap the dough in foil and refrigerate for at least 3 days.

Step: Roll out the dough

Roll the gingerbread dough onto a floured work surface about 5-7 mm thick.
Roll out the center - while turning the dough constantly so that it does not stick to the working surface.

Step: Cut the gingerbread

Cut out small figures from dough, for example, small animals, Christmas trees, etc.
Place the gingerbread cookies on baking trays lined with baking paper and garnish with nuts.
Brush the gingerbread with a little water and let it rest for another 10 minutes.
Bake the gingerbread cookies in a preheated oven at 180 ° C (electric stove) for 12-15 minutes.

Step: Decorate to your liking.

Advice: You can also make your own gingerbread seasoning:

- mix and grind cinnamon, coriander, cloves, cardamom, allspice, ginger, star anise, pepper and nutmeg

in equal parts and keep in a closed jar.

Ready gingerbread are kept in a closed bank for four to six weeks.

2. Gingerbread with nuts

Ingredients

300 g wheat flour
1 tsp baking powder
100 g ground hazelnuts
125 g prunes
150 g of liquid honey
1 egg
1 yolk
3 tsp spices for gingerbread
egg for lubrication

For decoration

whole almonds, peeled
250 g icing sugar
food coloring

How to cook

Step 1

Mix flour with baking powder and hazelnuts. Grind prunes in mashed potatoes with a blender. Mix plum puree, honey, egg, egg yolk and gingerbread spice with flour mixture with a mixer until firm.
Cover the dough and leave at room temperature overnight.

Step 2

Roll out the dough about 1 cm thick and cut out the cookies with cookie cutters. Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
Stir the egg with 2 tablespoons of water and brush over the gingerbread and garnish with almonds.
Bake in a preheated oven (180 ° C) for about 20 minutes and then let cool well.

Step 3

To decorate

For glaze 3-4 tbsp. Mix water with powdered sugar until smooth and - (color optional) - paint with dyes.
Place the glaze in the cornets and decorate with the gingerbread cookies.
Let them dry.

3. Gingerbread cookies in 1 bowl "Shake it!"

If you do not have at all, at all time, then you can use this recipe. Everything is prepared in 1 bowl. Just shake things up!

Ingredients

350 g flour
300 g sugar
150 g candied fruits
100 g hazelnuts, chopped
3 tsp gingerbread spice
1 tsp ground cloves
1 tbsp vanilla sugar
1 pack of baking powder
250 ml milk
150 g butter, liquid
2 tablespoons honey
4 eggs

Glaze (ready-made)

How to cook

Place flour, sugar, chopped candied fruit, chopped nuts, seasoning, clove powder, vanilla sugar and baking powder in a bowl, close tightly and shake vigorously.
Put milk, butter, honey and eggs in a bowl or shaker, cover and shake vigorously.
Add liquid ingredients to dry ingredients, cover and shake well.
Stir with a spatula and place on a greased baking sheet.
Furnace at 200 ° C about 20 min.
After baking, cover with glaze and cut into squares, rectangles or triangles.

4. Gingerbread with spelled flour

Ingredients

500 g honey
125 ml vegetable oil
250 g brown sugar
700 g spelled flour
16 g ammonium carbonate
250 g almonds, peeled and ground
1 ½ tsp cinnamon
a pinch of ground cloves
1 tsp ginger powder
1 tsp ground coriander
½ tsp sea salt
3 eggs
100 g citronate, finely chopped
100 g orange, finely chopped
3 tbsp coffee cream (10%)
100 g almonds

How to cook

Boil honey, butter and sugar slowly in a saucepan and let cool again.
Sift flour with ammonium carbonate into a bowl and mix with almonds, spices, salt, eggs, candied fruits.
Add the cooled honey mixture and knead well. Add a little flour if necessary.
Cover the dough and leave for 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 200 ° C and grease a baking sheet or line with baking paper.
Press the dough evenly with your hands sprinkled with flour and spread over the baking sheet.
Grease with cream.
Using a knife and a ruler, mark out squares with a side length of about 6 cm on the test.

Garnish each piece with almonds.
Bake in the oven at 180-200 ° C within 35-45 minutes until light brown.
After baking, allow to cool slightly, then cut into the marked squares and allow to cool on a wire rack.