Gingerbread cookies. Recipes traditional

Approach, fly - here honey-cakes, printed, fragrant! This is a traditional Russian delicacy, perfectly combining the bread satiety and sweetness of cakes. We used to buy gingerbread. And there is a desire to learn how you can prepare honey gingerbread cookies at home? Let's look at a few options - and suddenly they will be even better than traditional purchased products!

To begin with, we will consider options for treats for children.

Gingerbread cookies: recipe with jam

We take only the yolks, mix with sugar powder (100 g), add 3 tablespoons melted honey on the steam bath, 4 tablespoons of milk, mix everything with soda, crushed with zest of one lemon. For the test for the indicated amount, about 400 g of flour will be needed. The dough "rests" for 2 hours - in this case the gingerbread will be a little puffy, which is especially good with milk and sour milk. The dough is rolled into a finger thick, the figures are cut out with a mug, sprinkled with nuts and sent to the oven. After baking, the gingerbread in pairs is joined with jam (this is optional, but the children love this option).

Gingerbread cookies. Recipe for the patient

This way of preparing a delicacy will require perseverance from the hostess and the selection of a whole list of ingredients. But the result - the real gingerbread, which in comparison with the store does not go. So, we recruit the ingredients: 400 g hazelnuts (peeled by roasting in the oven), 150 g honey and flour, candied fruits (100 g approximately the same size), lemon, egg, baking powder, ground cinnamon, 3 tablespoons sugar , A little less in the amount of butter, a pinch of ginger, cloves, ground coriander and nutmeg (the latter can be more). For the glaze will need 350 g of powdered sugar, lemon juice and boiled water (each component of 3 tablespoons). The decoration will consist of dark chocolate and kernels of nuts.

Well, is everything ready? Then for the cause! We make two mixtures: in one chopped and ground nuts (the whole mass is divided into 2 parts and processed in different ways), flour, washed candied fruits, baking powder and spices are a dry mix. Next, you need honey, milk and juice of one lemon very gently to heat and bring to a state of a homogeneous mass. Can not boil! Now the liquid is cooled, carefully introduced into the dry mixture, an egg is added, and all the dough obtained is thoroughly kneaded. Dough - in the fridge for the night. We bake gingerbread in the form of cute cakes with a diameter of 6 cm and a height of 2 cm. Baking time is half an hour. Then we prepare the sugar filling, we decorate each carrot with glaze, just dipping the product into a saucepan. While the frosting hardens, we decorate the gingerbread with the help of melted chocolate and kernels of nuts. Here are honey cakes! A recipe for experienced housewives, who are not comfortable with the simple way to get results.

And this - truly honey cakes. The recipe of the product, which can be stored for years (but, according to the craftsmen, does not last even for a week). 2 kg of flour is sieved, then 1.2 kg of honey is injected into it, stewed soda (2 teaspoons), 5 eggs and spices to taste. All thoroughly vymeshivayut. The dough is suitable for half an hour, then cut into circles with a diameter of up to 20 cm. The dough rises again - and it can be sent to the oven. Less than 10 minutes are baked gingerbread, and the stock is quite decent!

And finally, very tasty, very useful and very simple to prepare - gingerbread cookies from rye flour. They are stored in theory for a very long time in the refrigerator in a closed form, in practice they do not live to the refrigerator, disappearing practically from the baking tray. Mix 300 g of cottage cheese, honey (2 tablespoons), sour cream (the same amount), 80 g of sugar. All grind, add 100 g of vegetable oil and mix thoroughly.

Mix rye flour and wheat flour in the proportion of 2 to 1 - the total volume of flour is about 300 g, there also add spices, poppy seeds, vanilla. We connect both masses, hands garnish the gingerbread - and into the oven. They are baked for 30 minutes, then they need to be dipped in syrup or glaze - the taste of the mistress.