TOP 5 recipes for homemade Christmas honey cakes. Cooking secrets. Video recipes.
Christmas is a holiday associated with the kindness, warmth and comfort of the family hearth. Along with kutya, delicious homemade gingerbread cookies are the same symbol of Christmas. The tradition of baking them for the Christmas holidays appeared 300 years ago, and the gingerbread cookies themselves learned to cook much earlier. In Russia, honey was the main ingredient in the preparation of gingerbread; in Europe, ginger and nuts were added, and in the east - spicy spices.
The special difference between Christmas gingerbread and ordinary ones is their appearance. They are decorated in the form of stars, men, Christmas trees, houses, snowflakes, deer and other New Year's artifacts. Such gingerbread cookies were presented in the form of beautiful and delicious gifts for Christmas and decorated the New Year tree. We offer you to familiarize yourself with the most popular recipes for Christmas honey gingerbread, which are prepared in different countries of the world.
The subtleties of making Christmas honey gingerbread
- The main ingredients of the gingerbread dough: honey, flour, spices.
- For gingerbread dough, it is best to use a mixture of rye and whole grain flour, although wheat flour will work as well.
- Honey can be any, but dark varieties are much better suited, then the dough will be more aromatic. But the most fragrant are gingerbread cookies based on buckwheat honey.
- Honey gingerbread is made from custard, raw or lean dough.
- For raw dough, all components are used only at room temperature, and for custard, syrup is first prepared, which is cooled to 70 ° C and used as a base.
- Custard gingerbreads are stored for a longer time and remain soft, and raw gingerbread quickly stale.
- To enrich the taste of baked goods, add spices, raisins, nuts, zest, dried fruits, chocolate, candied fruits.
- Cinnamon, cloves, cardamom, Jamaican pepper, nutmeg, star anise, mint, anise, ginger, coriander, cumin, vanilla are used as spices.
- In some types of products, jam, jam, marmalade, dried berries are used, which are kneaded directly into the dough or act as interlayers and glues between two gingerbread surfaces.
- Small and thin gingerbread cookies are baked for 5-15 minutes at 220-240 ° С, thicker ones from hard dough at 180-220 ° С.
- Decorate finished products with sugar, protein or milk glaze. For colored glaze, food coloring is added.
Chocolate gingerbread cookies with honey and chili
Chocolate gingerbread cookies with honey and chili pepper are a spicy and interesting baking recipe. Chile is used a little, so it only gives a certain spice.
See also how to make gingerbread cookies for Christmas.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 492 kcal.
- Servings - 20
- Cooking time - 50 minutes
Ingredients:
- Flour - 320 g
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
- Milk - 100 ml
- Cocoa powder - 4 tablespoons
- Sugar - 50 g
- Powdered sugar - for decoration
- Ground chili pepper - a pinch
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Honey - 50 g
- Butter - 70 g
- Salt - a pinch
Cooking chocolate gingerbread with honey and chili:
- Combine and mix dry ingredients: flour, cocoa powder, sugar, salt, chili powder and baking powder.
- Add eggs, softened butter, milk, honey to the dry mixture and knead the dough with your hands.
- Form the dough into 30 g balls and roll in the icing sugar.
- Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and place the blanks at a distance of 2 cm from each other.
- Send chocolate gingerbread cookies with honey and chili peppers to bake in a preheated oven at 200 ° C for 15-20 minutes.
German honey gingerbread Lebkuchen
The basis of Lebkuchen gingerbread from Nuremberg is sugar syrup with honey. Also, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, coriander and tangerine zest are added to the dough of German Christmas gingerbread, which is the highlight of this baking. Another feature of the products is that the finished dough can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 14 days.
Ingredients:
- Honey - 200 g
- Margarine - 100 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Flour - 500 g
- Baking powder - 1 tablespoon
- A mixture of ground spices (cinnamon, cloves, ginger, coriander) - 30 g
- Tangerine zest - 1 tsp
- Liqueur Baileys - 2 tablespoons
- Dark or white chocolate - 150 g (for ganache)
- Cream 33% - 100 ml (for ganache)
- Icing sugar - 150 (for glaze)
- Egg white - 1 pc. (for glaze)
- Dragee multicolored - zhmenya
Making German Lebkuchen Honey Gingerbread:
- Put honey, sugar, margarine in a bowl and heat the food over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar is completely dissolved and the margarine is melted. At the same time, do not bring to a boil. Leave the finished syrup to cool to room temperature.
- Mix dry ingredients: flour, ground spices, baking powder and add tangerine zest, grated on a fine grater.
- Pour the honey mixture, baileys liqueur into the dry ingredients, add eggs and knead the dough until smooth. Shape it into a ball and refrigerate for 10 hours.
- Roll out the dough into a layer of 7-8 mm, cut out the figures and put them on a baking sheet at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other, because the items will increase in size and rise.
- Send Lebkuchen honey cakes to bake in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 10 minutes until golden brown.
- Separately melt white and dark chocolate in a water bath and stir with warmed cream. Dip the gingerbread cookies in the chocolate ganache, sprinkle with colorful dragees and leave in a cool place to set.
- For the icing, beat the protein until a white foam forms, add the icing sugar and beat again until stable peaks. Cover the lebkuchen gingerbread cookies for Christmas with icing.
Honey gingerbread with jam
Delicious and crumbly honey gingerbread for Christmas with jam can be stored for two weeks without losing their excellent qualities.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Butter 82% - 100 g
- Egg white - 1 pc.
- Honey - 50 g
- Ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp
- Salt - a pinch
- Baking soda - 0.5 tsp
- Jam or jam - for filling
Cooking honey gingerbread with jam:
- Whisk butter at room temperature with liquid honey in a food processor. Add egg white and beat again.
- Pour flour, salt, cinnamon, baking soda into liquid foods and beat until the dough coalesces around the knife.
- Form the dough into a ball and leave at room temperature for 10 minutes.
- Roll balls out of the dough, press them lightly and make a small indentation in the middle with your finger.
- Place the tortillas on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and refrigerate.
- After 1 hour, send the honey cakes to bake in a preheated oven to 190 ° C for 15 minutes.
- Put the jam into the groove of the finished gingerbread cookies and sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.
Christmas honey gingerbread on the tree on choux pastry
Honey gingerbread will be a great treat in anticipation of the festive Christmas days. Leave them in a vase in the kitchen and the room will immediately be filled with the scent of winter magic!
Ingredients:
- Flour - 400 g
- Honey - 80 g
- Sugar - 100 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Milk - 100 ml
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Ground cloves - 1 tsp
- Ground ginger - 1 tsp
Cooking Christmas honey cakes:
- Sift the flour through a fine sieve and combine with sugar, soda, ground cinnamon, ginger and cloves.
- Heat the honey a little and add to the flour mixture along with the eggs.
- Stir the food and gradually pour in warm milk. Knead the elastic dough, wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator, where it can be stored for up to 2 weeks, but at least it should be one day.
- Roll out the dough in a layer of 3 mm, cut out the gingerbread cookies with molds and make a large hole in them, into which you will then pass the string to decorate the Christmas tree. Since the gingerbread will rise during the baking process, it will be impossible to thread a thread into a too small hole.
- Put the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet and send to bake in the oven at 170 ° C for 10-15 minutes until lightly browning.
- Chill ready-made gingerbread cookies for Christmas completely, cover with icing and leave to dry. Pass the thread through the hole in the gingerbread and hang it on the tree.
Honey gingerbread cookies with nuts on raw dough
Honey Christmas gingerbread cookies with nuts are a delicious, aromatic and beautiful delicacy that will create a pleasant holiday mood for all family members.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 3 tbsp.
- Sugar - 1 tbsp.
- Liquid honey - 4 tablespoons
- Water - 0.5 tbsp.
- Butter - 50 g
- Soda - 0.5 tsp
- Nuts - 150 g
- Vanillin - 0.25 tsp
Cooking honey gingerbread with nuts on raw dough:
- Combine sugar, honey, vanillin and pour in water. Heat the syrup in the microwave for 7 minutes and cool to room temperature.
- Add softened butter, cut into small pieces, to the products and stir.
- Pour in baking soda with flour and knead an elastic, sufficiently tough dough, the temperature of which should not exceed 20 ° C.
- Grind the nuts into pieces and stir into the dough.
- Roll out the dough into a layer 6 mm thick and cut out the products with grooves.
- Place the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet at a short distance from each other and bake in a preheated oven to 190 ° C for 12-14 minutes.
- Decorate the finished chilled gingerbread with icing if desired.
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