Easter gingerbread is not as popular as Easter cake, but it changes nothing!
Pastry is elegant, interesting, pleases the eyes and warms the soul.
It fits perfectly into the holiday table and will surely please with taste!
Easter Gingerbread - General Cooking Principles
Gingerbread dough can be prepared in many different ways, often made with honey. With him, baking turns out not only fragrant, but also very gentle, with a special crumb, does not get stale for a long time. Although it is increasingly possible to meet recipes without honey, since not all people tolerate it, the product is not always given to children, since there is a high risk of developing allergies.
What else do they put in gingerbread:
• sugar;
• butter;
• eggs;
• flour.
For taste, add cocoa, ginger, cinnamon, various other spices. For pomp put rippers. The finished dough is rolled by a layer, the thickness is usually 0.5-1 cm. Then gingerbread is squeezed out with molds or just a glass. Products are shifted to a baking sheet, baked at a temperature of from 170 to 190 degrees. Since there is a lot of sugar in the dough, above 200 you do not need to heat the oven. Baking time depends on the amount of sugar in the dough and the thickness of the products, but it rarely exceeds 25 minutes.
Decorating Easter gingerbread
Easter gingerbread is different from the usual baking elegant look. The easiest way to decorate is to use protein glaze or painting with icing. The following is a detailed recipe and proportions of sugar, protein. You can also use sugar icing for decoration. For its preparation, water is added dropwise to the powder, mixed thoroughly, achieving the desired consistency. You can add different colors to the glaze.
On sale you can find ready-made fudge for confectionery. They are diluted with water or milk, sometimes they require boiling. They can also be used to decorate holiday gingerbread, as well as pastry sprinkles.
Gingerbread cookies for Easter with honey (decorating with icing)
The recipe for delicious gingerbread cookies for Easter, which are prepared with natural honey. Replace the ingredient syrups or molasses can not. Cocoa dough, but you can not put it. Ingredients
• 250 grams of honey;
• 0,5 packs of oil sl .;
• 220 grams of sugar;
• 3 whole eggs;
• 1 extra protein;
• 0.3 tsp. cinnamon;
• one cup of powder;
• 7 glasses of flour;
• 1.5 tsp. soda;
• Spoon lemon juice;
• 2 spoons of cocoa.
Cooking
1. Cut half of a pack of butter into small pieces, put in a saucepan or bowl, send to a water bath.
2. Add natural honey to the butter, dissolve everything together until smooth. Remove, add soda, stir and cool to room temperature.
3. Beat the eggs with prescription sugar into a strong foam.
4. Combine with honey.
5. Add flour. Mixed with cocoa powder and cinnamon, you can add a pinch of vanilla to taste.
6. Knead the soft dough, pull the film on the bowl, put it in the fridge overnight, or at least stand for 3-4 hours.
7. Roll out dough flat layer with a thickness of 5 millimeters.
8. Cut the gingerbread cookies. Transfer to baking sheet.
9. Bake at 180 degrees until cooked, about 14-16 minutes.
10. Beat one protein until fluffy foam. One spoonful of powdered sugar, at the end pour lemon juice in icing.
11. Put the icing in a bag, decorate the gingerbread with a pattern or completely cover with protein glaze, decorate with confectionary dressing.
Gingerbread cookies for Easter on burnt sugar
Gingerbread recipe for Easter, for which honey is not needed. A whole orange is not needed, you will need a peel - a thin orange crust.
Ingredients
• 0.25 kg of granulated sugar;
• 0.5 standard pack of plums. oils;
• 0.5 kg of flour;
• 125 ml of plain water;
• three eggs;
• one orange;
• 1 tsp. spices (ginger, crista, saffron, etc.);
• 0.5 tsp. soda
Cooking
1. Pour half the sugar into the saucepan, add a couple of tablespoons of water, put on the stove. Melt, fry until brownish, it is important not to burn.
2. As soon as the burnt aroma comes from the sugar, you need to pour the prescription water in parts. It is important to use boiling water so that the syrup does not caramelize. Mix well, remove immediately from heat.
3. Add the rest of the sugar, put the softened butter, stir well. 4. Introduce the eggs, mix and add the finely chopped dried peel, removed from the orange.
5. We take fragrant spices and also pour out, mix everything well.
6. Fill the flour, but not all, first 300 grams, add hydrated soda. Knead soft dough. Doshym still torment, if necessary. Sent in the fridge for a couple of hours.
7. Now it remains only to form gingerbread, up to 1 cm thick, put on a baking sheet, bake at 180 degrees until cooked.
Honey cakes gingerbread cookies with kefir
Recipe for gingerbread dough with honey on kefir. Sour milk also fits when there is no kefir.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of kefir;
• 100 grams of sour cream;
• 2 glasses of sugar;
• 2 eggs;
• 600 g of flour;
• 60 grams of honey;
• 2 pinches of salt;
• 1 tsp. soda
Cooking
1. Beat the eggs in a bowl, beat until frothy, add a couple of glasses of sugar, continue to beat until the grains dissolve as much as possible.
2. Melt the honey, add in the process of beating eggs.
3. Throw two small pinches of salt, add sour cream, stir. No more whisking, mixer can be removed.
4. In kefir to extinguish soda, wait until the reaction is over, pour into the dough.
5. Stir, add flour, knead the usual, slightly softish dough. Let him rest in the fridge for a couple of hours.
6. To form products, 0.5 centimeters thick.
7. Bake Easter gingerbread cookies at medium temperature, decorate with glaze.
Curd gingerbread cookies for Easter
For the preparation of cottage cheese Easter cakes, you will also need baking baking powder. But you can take baking soda, half of this norm.
Ingredients
• 250 grams of cottage cheese;
• incomplete glass of granulated sugar;
• 7 g ripper;
• 8 spoons of milk;
• 8 spoons of vegetable oil;
• 0.5 kg of sifted wheat flour;
• egg;
• vanilla to taste.
Cooking
1. Mix the sugar with the egg, whisk for a couple of minutes.
2. Add milk along with vegetable oil, it must be refined, that is, odorless. Stir.
3. Grind the cottage cheese through a sieve, send it to the dough.
4. Pour the flour with the ripper and vanilla, knead. 5. Put in the bag, send for an hour in the fridge.
6. Sprinkle the table with flour, put the dough. Because of the curd, it will still be a little sticky. Therefore, the top is also sprinkled with flour. Gently roll out to a thickness of 5-7 millimeters.
7. Cut the gingerbread, transfer to a baking sheet.
8. We bake at 180 degrees until golden brown. Do not overdo it in the oven.
9. Decorate with icing.
Chocolate gingerbread cookies for Easter
The taste and color of these cakes directly depends on the quality of cocoa. If it is good, dark, then the baking will be very fragrant, chocolate. Cocoa with sugar is better not to use. From this amount of gingerbread products you get a little, if necessary, you can proportionally increase the rate.
Ingredients
• 3 tbsp. l cocoa;
• one large egg;
• 0.5 tsp. baking soda;
• 240 grams of sifted flour;
• 50 grams of plums. oils;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 50 grams of honey.
Fudge:
• 2 tsp. cocoa;
• 4 tbsp. l powdered sugar;
• 3 spoons of water.
Additionally, you will need a confectionery dressing.
Cooking
1. Melt the butter with honey and sugar. You can take margarine for gingerbread dough.
2. Remove from the water bath, add soda, stir. Quench reaction will occur.
3. Add one egg, then add to the cocoa dough with flour. Knead, cool for half an hour in the freezer.
4. Roll out dough, cut gingerbread, bake Easter products until cooked at 180.
5. Connect the water with cocoa and powdered sugar, carefully grind. If you need to add more powder, the fudge should not be very fluid.
6. Grease the gingerbread with a thin layer of chocolate. Just before it froze, sprinkle with colored sprinkles.
7. Put on a wire rack, leave for a couple of hours, so that the icing dries out and is not smeared.
Gingerbread cookies for Easter (recipe with honey)
For the preparation of such gingerbread dark honey is best suited, for example, buckwheat. But you can take any other. Ginger is used ground dry.
Ingredients
• 500 grams of sifted flour;
• 1 tsp. dry ginger;
• 150 grams of oil;
• 0.5 tsp. ground dry cinnamon; • 2 eggs;
• 50 grams of dark honey;
• 1 tsp. no top baking soda;
• 100 g of sugar;
• orange.
Cooking
1. Brush orange. Take a fine grater and pass it on all sides to remove the fragrant zest. We remove the citrus, we do not need it. Shredded zest for the dough is ready.
2. To add honey chopped butter, sugar, spices, pour the zest. We send all this to the water bath and warm up well to dissolve all the grains.
3. Remove from heat, start the baking soda, quickly stir.
4. Enter the flour. On average, half a kilogram will leave, but we are guided by the test. If there was a lot of water in the oil, you will need a little more.
5. Knead, clean in a cold place for three hours.
6. We take out the dough, roll it out on the table, always sprinkled with flour, layer. Thickness about 0.5 cm.
7. Extrude gingerbread, transfer to prepared baking sheet.
8. Bake 12-15 minutes at 180 degrees. Check readiness, remove and cool.
9. For decoration, use any glaze, fudge, you can paint gingerbreads with icing.
Gingerbread cookies for Easter - useful tips and tricks
• Sweet gingerbread sticks to the baking sheet, so it is better not to grease it, but cover it with baking paper, parchment, or just use silicone mats.
• There should be enough space between the gingerbread on the baking sheet so that they are evenly baked.
• From any gingerbread dough you can bake cookies, including Christmas ones. It is only necessary to roll out the thinner layer during molding.
