If you did not have to try home gingerbread, then you did not have to try gingerbread at all. The taste of a real gingerbread cooked by own hands, as in most cases, considerably surpasses the taste of the purchased product. You will be convinced of this on your own experience by preparing, for example, chocolate gingerbread.
The recipe for chocolate gingerbread
Ingredients:
- flour - 1 item;
- cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- chocolate - 100 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- butter - 120 g;
- baking powder -1 tsp;
- cloves - 10 buds;
- ginger (grated) - 1 teaspoon;
- oatmeal flakes - 1/2 table;
- cardamom - 1 teaspoon.
Preparation
First sugar and butter whisked, after which, without stopping to mix, one by one, add the eggs. As soon as the mass becomes airy, mix it with sifted cocoa powder and grated chocolate. Continuing to mix the basis of our test at the average speed of the mixer, start pouring the previously sifted flour with baking powder. The spices are the last in the dough, but before adding them, it is necessary to rub everything together with a mortar, and then sift to get rid of the films and other husks.
Now we are making oat flakes in the finished dough. For this recipe, steamed or non-brewed flakes are needed. Also at this stage, you can make nuts or candied fruits in the dough.
We put the prepared gingerbread dough on a baking sheet covered with parchment and put it in a preheated oven for 180 minutes for 20 minutes. Gingerbreads homemade, chocolate, served, smeared with melted chocolate.
Recipe for homemade chocolate gingerbread
In this recipe we will prepare ordinary gingerbreads in chocolate glaze , but if desired, you can add chocolate and cocoa powder to the dough itself.
Ingredients:
For gingerbreads:
- kefir - 2 items;
- flour - 3-3,5 items;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 1 item;
- soda - 1 teaspoon;
- salt - a pinch;
- vegetable oil - 2-3 tbsp. spoons.
For glaze:
- sugar - 100 g;
- cocoa powder - 1 teaspoon;
- egg white - 1 pc.
Preparation
Sugar is beaten with eggs until a white, lush mass forms. In another bowl, combine warm kefir with soda. To extinguish soda it is preliminary not necessary, as the lactic acid contained in kefir will easily cope with this task. There, pour in the oil and add a pinch of salt. Thoroughly mix the kefir mixture and add to it eggs and sifted flour. We mix a thick dough that does not stick to the hands and let it stand for 5-7 minutes. Roll the ball of dough into a layer, about 2 cm thick and cut out the circles. We spread the future gingerbread on a sheet of baking paper oiled with oil and send it to the oven heated up to 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
Protein with sugar and cocoa whisk in a smooth white frosting and pour it on the cooled chocolate gingerbread on kefir.
How to make chocolate gingerbreads according to GOST?
Ingredients:
For gingerbreads:
- flour - 410 g;
- sugar - 160 g;
- water - 67 ml;
- evaporated milk - 200 g;
- margarine - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- treacle - 30 g;
- egg - 1 piece;
- cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt - a pinch;
- soda - 1/3 tsp.
For glaze:
- sugar - 125 g;
- cocoa powder - 1 teaspoon;
- water - 50 ml.
Preparation
From sugar and water cook syrup. In parallel, we heat the molasses and we pour it into the syrup already warm.
Whisk the margarine with egg and condensed milk, add syrup. Separately mix the sifted flour with cocoa powder and salt. We add dry ingredients to the egg-oil mixture, soda is quenched with lemon juice and also injected into the mixture. Quickly knead the dough, roll it into sausage and cut into equal portions. Spread gingerbread on a sheet of baking paper and put in a preheated to 190 degrees oven for 8-12 minutes. Cooled gingerbread, if desired, watered with syrup from water, cocoa and sugar.