Homemade food has been associated with us since childhood with something warm, tasty and so familiar, especially when it comes to desserts. We remember how we waited near the oven for the next cake, ran to the kitchen for delicious cookies, etc. And many more remember delicious homemade gingerbread that cannot be bought in any store. Such pastries were prepared at home by our beloved grandmothers and mothers. The composition of such a delicacy included only the best ingredients, which made the gingerbread so delicious. Now you rarely see natural gingerbread, so you should remember the good old recipes for homemade gingerbread and start cooking them at home.
Cooking time: 120 minutes
Servings: 25 pcs.
Calories: 336.44 kcal per 100 grams
Cooking gingerbread, which will include only the most useful and high-quality ingredients, will not be difficult if you do everything gradually and step by step follow the recipe. In addition, the hostess who took up this recipe must have a good supply of patience in order to bring the matter to the end and still cook and bake delicious gingerbread cookies.
For test:
- 1 glass of kefir;
- 1 cup sugar;
- 1 glass of vegetable oil;
- 6 glasses of flour;
- 1 tablespoon cocoa powder;
- 1 chicken egg;
- 1 teaspoon soda, slaked with vinegar.
For glaze:
- ½ cup sugar;
- 1 egg white.
Recipe
Glaze preparation
Tip 1: baking real soft gingerbread, of course, is very easy and convenient, however, if you try to make milk gingerbread, not kefir gingerbread, you can be pleasantly surprised. Make milk gingerbread a little faster. They both taste amazing though.
Tip 2: for inveterate sweet tooth, glazed gingerbread cookies can also be decorated with melted chocolate, if you carefully distribute it with a pastry bag and let it harden. Chocolate can also be added to the dough.
Baking glazed gingerbread is a pleasure. Firstly, you always know what is included in your dessert, secondly, pastries are more tender and appetizing, and thirdly, why overpay for a purchase when there is such a simple recipe that is so easy to cook with?
Cook delicious and enjoy your meal!
Probably everyone will agree that store-bought gingerbread is not very tasty and healthy. But in our childhood there were the softest and most fragrant gingerbread cookies in the world !! Gingerbread - sounds like "spicy". This is not surprising, because since ancient times in Rus' they were baked with all kinds of spices - cloves, cinnamon, ginger and, of course, honey, since sugar was then considered a rather expensive "foreign" product. Real gingerbread dough is made using a custard method using high-quality butter. But with flour, the situation is the opposite - surprisingly, flour with a lower grade gives the best results in gingerbread dough.
Ingredients for homemade gingerbread:
For the gingerbread dough:
- flour - 3 cups
- sugar - 2-3 tbsp.
- honey - 2-3 tbsp.
- butter - 50 g
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
- soda - 0.5 tsp
- spices to taste (cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves) - 0.5 tsp
- water - ¼ cup
For the white frosting:
- chicken egg (protein) - 1 pc.
- powdered sugar - 100 g
- citric acid - on the tip of a knife
Recipe homemade honey gingerbread:
Before cooking gingerbread, be sure to sift the flour and enrich it with air - so your gingerbread cookies will become more airy.
Place butter, honey and sugar in a saucepan. Melt over low heat, do not bring to a boil while stirring constantly.
Prepare the spices - peel the cardamom, grind the seeds in a coffee grinder or mortar along with the seeds of coriander, cloves, star anise, etc. To make homemade gingerbread, you can use any spices that smell pleasant to you, such as cinnamon, ginger and allspice.
Pour half the flour and a set of chopped spices into the warm honey-creamy mass.
Mix immediately to avoid lumps. Leave the mass to cool so that the spices saturate the gingerbread dough with their smells.
Put two eggs into the cooled dough, gently mix them with a fork or spoon.
Now you can add the remaining flour, soda and knead a soft dough that resembles plasticine in consistency.
Roll the gingerbread dough into a ball, sprinkle the surface of the table with flour.
Roll out the ball with a rolling pin to a thickness of 0.5-0.8 cm.
Cut out the desired gingerbread shapes from the dough with cookie cutters.
Place blanks on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Children are very fond of sweets on sticks. There is nothing easier! Just stick a wooden skewer into each gingerbread and bake in this form along with the rest of the gingerbread.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, bake the gingerbread cookies for 20-25 minutes until light brown.
Protein glaze is traditionally used to decorate gingerbread. To do this, separate the egg white from the yolk, beat it with powdered sugar and a pinch of citric acid into an elastic mass that will steadily hold the desired shape.
Transfer the icing to a cornet or a bag with a cut off corner, draw a variety of patterns and decorate the gingerbread cookies with multi-colored baker's toppings.
Homemade honey cakes are ready!
Bon appetit!
The dream of any housewife is to cook quickly and tasty, especially when it comes to baking, which, as a rule, takes a lot of time. Here, for example, gingerbread, a favorite delicacy since childhood, it turns out that you can make them at home easily and simply, and most importantly with your own hands. The recipe for such baking is simple, you only need the products that every home has and the desire to pamper your family. These indescribable vanilla smells of gingerbread will create an atmosphere of harmony and comfort, and how delicious it is will be appreciated not only by children, but also by adults. So, consider the recipe and we can start cooking gingerbread cookies in a hurry.
Servings: 10
cooking time: 40 minutes
- Flour - 3 cups
- Kefir - 500 grams
- Eggs - 4 pcs (of which 2 proteins are needed for glaze)
- Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons
- Sugar - 2.5 cups (of which 1 cup for glaze)
- Salt - 1 pinch
- Soda - 1 teaspoon
Step by step recipe
When all the products are prepared, the recipe is studied, we can start cooking really delicious pastries with our own hands.
- So, for starters, we take kefir, pour it into a bowl, but not a small one, so that all other products can fit into it later. Add soda to kefir and mix very thoroughly.
- We add eggs to another container, but do not forget to leave two squirrels for icing so that our gingerbread cookies are not only tasty to eat, but also pleasant to look at. Add sugar to the eggs, too, not all, but 1.5 cups, beat a little, then pour vegetable oil and add salt. Whisk all this with a blender and pour into a bowl of kefir. If there are spices at home, we can add them too, the cooking recipe does not limit your imagination.
- The next step, slowly add the flour, preferably during the addition, not just mix everything, but beat quickly. You can do this with your own hands, and if you have a mixer at home, then use it while the dough allows you to do this. When whipping with a mixer, the dough will turn out more airy and lush.
- As the recipe suggests, then add the remaining flour to the dough and start kneading. You need to make the dough not steep, but more elastic and so that it does not stick to your hands. To do this, you need to mix it well.
- As a result, we get a significantly large amount of dough, so we take part of it and begin to roll it out with a silicone rolling pin. Before this, sprinkle the table quite a bit with flour so that it is barely noticeable. You should not roll out very thinly, but you should not overdo it either. The thickness of the rolled dough should be approximately 1.5 centimeters.
- The recipe suggests that a glass will help to make the image of the gingerbread itself, which each of us definitely has at home, or many housewives for gingerbread use interesting forms for baking, in the form of hearts, stars, diamonds and much more. Well, if you don’t have such a form at home, you can do it in the traditional way.
- Next, cover a baking sheet with plain baking paper and begin laying out the gingerbread cut out of the dough. Set them apart so they don't stick together during baking.
- Set to bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.
- While our gingerbread is blushing, we can make icing, here the steps are also very simple. We take the prepared 2 proteins and the remaining sugar and beat well so that the consistency resembles a strong foam.
- When about 5 minutes remain until the end of baking, we take them out of the oven and grease them with the resulting icing, after which we again send them to bake for 5 minutes. After this time, we take out the gingerbread cookies and give them the opportunity to cool slightly so that the icing becomes hard. Therefore, until the glaze has hardened, do not lay the gingerbread cookies on top of each other, lay them in a row or leave them on a baking sheet if you have another one at home, on which you can continue baking the remaining gingerbread cookies.
With the remaining dough, we do the same as the recipe shows and we can easily invite friends and family to the table.
As you can see, the recipe is very simple, everything is done quickly and, most importantly, delicious. To make your favorite gingerbread cookies vanilla, just add a little vanilla during cooking, you can also add any other spices that you have at home, nutmeg, ginger and much more, such additives will definitely not spoil the taste of these wonderful gingerbread cookies, but will only add an interesting piquancy and unforgettable scent.
If you need to make a portion of gingerbread a little smaller or the right amount of products is not enough at home, simply proportionally reduce the amount of ingredients from those indicated in the recipe, but make sure the dough has the correct consistency.
Once you try it, this will be your favorite recipe.
Gingerbread cookies are delicious and fragrant pastries. Today we will prepare festive gingerbread cookies for your birthday. With these gingerbread cookies you can decorate a birthday cake or give as a gift. The bright festive decoration of gingerbread will not leave the birthday boy indifferent. The dough for these gingerbread cookies is prepared very simply and quickly. Gingerbread dough is soft and elastic, it is very easy to work with. The taste of gingerbread is very soft and fragrant. Spices give flavor. Such gingerbreads are stored for a very long time, because the composition of the dough includes honey. It is better to store them in a closed plastic bag or metal container.
To make gingerbread cookies you will need:
- Egg - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 4 tbsp
- Honey - 3 tbsp
- Margarine - 60 g.
- Flour - 3 stack.
- Cinnamon - 0.3 tsp
- Ginger - 0.3 tsp
- Nutmeg - 2 chips.
- Soda - 1 tsp
- Egg white - 1 pc.
- Powdered sugar - 200 g.
- Lemon juice - 3 drops
- Food coloring 1 drop
Homemade gingerbread recipe.
1. To prepare the dough, take a convenient container so that it can be placed on a steam bath. Beat eggs and add sugar. We beat with a whisk.
2. Cut margarine or butter into pieces and add to the egg mass. I put honey.
3. Take a pot larger than the one where the dough will be cooked. Let's boil water in it. We put a saucepan with egg mass on a steam bath and add spices. We are waiting for the margarine to melt and the mass begins to foam. Don't forget to stir. Now let's add soda. Remove hot mixture from heat.
4. Add a glass of sifted flour to the hot egg mixture and mix with a whisk.
5. Leave the dough to cool to room temperature and only then add the rest of the flour.
6. Add another glass of flour and spread the dough on the mat. Sprinkle the dough with flour and start kneading it. Add more flour as needed. The dough should be soft and should not stick to your hands.
7. Here is the dough we got.
8. I don’t have cuttings for gingerbread in the form of a pony, so let’s draw them on paper.
9. Sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the dough 0.5 cm wide. We attach the drawings to the dough and cut out the gingerbread with a knife. Align the uneven edges with your hands, pressing the dough with your finger.
10. We transfer the gingerbread cookies to the silicone mat. First, preheat the oven and set the gingerbread cookies to bake for 10-13 minutes at a temperature of 180C. The readiness of the gingerbread can be checked after 10-12 minutes. Gingerbread will greatly increase in size. Let's break one gingerbread and see if the middle is baked. Gingerbread cookies do not need to be baked for more than 15 minutes, otherwise they turn out to be hard.
11. We take out the gingerbread cookies from the oven and let them cool.
12. Now let's make the icing. First, sift the icing sugar, there should be no grains left in it, sift it 2 times. Separate the protein from the yolk. We only need protein. Beat the protein with powdered sugar with a mixer, about 2 minutes. Add a couple of drops of lemon juice. The frosting should be thick.
13. Divide the glaze into 5 parts. Add one drop of food coloring to the glaze. Stir the frosting until the color is uniform. Put the frosting in a ziplock bag. Tie the top of the bag with an elastic band so that the icing does not run away. Cut off the tip in the bag and you can draw.
First, draw a contour on the gingerbread and wait until it dries. Then, you can paint the gingerbread without worrying that the azure may drain from the gingerbread. To decorate gingerbread beautifully and neatly, you need to spend a lot of time. Painted gingerbread should dry for at least a day.
Delicious and beautiful homemade gingerbread cookies are ready! Bon appetit!
Such fragrant and incredibly tasty pastries like gingerbread are traditionally Russian. So why did it happen? There is no need to go to the store and spend your money on sweets of dubious quality, and even stuffed with all sorts of chemicals.
Exists a huge number of different recipes gingerbread, which can be prepared at home. Here are some of them.
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Homemade Gingerbread Recipes
Most of the proposed options are easy to prepare. Each time you will improve and, in the end, you will be able to reach unprecedented heights in the confectionery art of baking! 
Gingerbread on kefir with glaze
Ingredients:
- kefir - 1 glass;
- chicken eggs - 3 pieces;
- sunflower oil - 60-70 grams;
- granulated sugar - 2 cups;
- bee honey - 1 large spoon;
- wheat flour - 4 cups;
- powdered sugar - 6 large spoons.
Cooking process:
This recipe for kefir gingerbread is quite simple, and it will not take you much time to make. Break the eggs into a deep container, while 1 protein must be separated and left for the glaze. Then granulated sugar is poured in and everything mixes well. Put honey in a container and mix everything again.
After that, add the required amount of sunflower oil and lukewarm kefir. All mix thoroughly. Pour soda into flour and sift everything. Then add it to the mixing bowl. Knead the dough.
Put the finished dough on a floured surface of the table and roll it out so that the resulting cake has a thickness 1 to 1.5 centimeters. Cut out the gingerbread with a cookie cutter (you can use a regular glass).
The bottom of the baking sheet should be covered with parchment paper and smeared with vegetable oil. Place our blanks in it. Place the baking sheet in a preheated 180 degrees oven. They will bake for about half an hour.
Icing for gingerbread: recipe
In the meantime, prepare the frosting. Necessary beat the egg white well. In the process of whipping, pour in powdered sugar in small portions. Ready gingerbread cookies are glazed and placed in the oven for 10 minutes. Before use, such pastries are recommended to cool.
Honey gingerbread
Ingredients:
- wheat flour - 400 grams;
- bee honey - 400 grams;
- egg whites - 8 pieces.
Cooking process:
If the honey is too thick, then it can be slightly warmed up in a water bath.
The recipe for making gingerbread at home is quite simple.
For cooking you will need two deep bowls
Put honey in one of them and beat it well using a mixer. In the second place the pre-chilled proteins. They should also be thoroughly beaten to a stable foam. Then put the proteins in honey and beat everything until the mixture is homogeneous.
Sift flour beforehand. Pour it into the whipped mass in not very large parts.
You need to mix gently so that no lumps form. At this stage, filler (spices or nuts) can be poured into the dough.
Roll out the finished dough into a cake of centimeter thickness and cut the gingerbread cookies with a cookie cutter or a glass. Place them on a baking sheet, which you need in advance coat with vegetable oil. Place the products in an oven heated to 180 degrees. Bake until fully cooked.
If desired, still hot gingerbread cookies can be covered with sugar icing.
Mint gingerbread with icing
Dough Ingredients:
- granulated sugar - 1 glass;
- water - ½ cup;
- baking soda - 1 small spoon;
- wheat flour - 2 cups;
- refined sunflower oil - 3 large spoons;
- mint (tincture or essence) - 1 small spoon.
Glaze Ingredients:
- water - a third of a glass;
- granulated sugar - 1 glass;
- lemon juice - 1 large spoon.
Cooking process
These are very gingerbread, which even an inexperienced cook can cook with their own hands. You will need a small saucepan. Mix water and granulated sugar in it and put on medium heat. Let the mixture simmer for half an hour, stirring regularly. Pour mint into the cooled mixture.
In a deep bowl, combine the sifted flour and soda. Pour the mint mixture and oil into the container. Knead the dough.
It should be soft and slightly stick to your fingers. Place the finished dough in a plastic bag and place for half an hour on the shelf of the refrigerator.
Divide chilled dough 5 identical pieces. In this case, from each piece you should get 5 pieces. Put them on a greased baking sheet and place it in an oven heated to 180 degrees. They will bake for only 10 minutes, while their surface should remain white.
Glaze preparation
The icing recipe for gingerbread is very simple. In a saucepan, combine water and sugar and boil the mixture over medium heat until it thickens slightly. Remove frosting from heat and mix it with lemon juice.
Dip the finished products in the resulting glaze.
