Easter cake is not as popular as Easter cake, but it does not change anything!
The pastries are elegant, interesting, pleasing to the eyes and warm the soul.
It fits perfectly into the festive table and will certainly delight you with its taste!
Gingerbread Cookies for Easter - General Cooking Principles
Gingerbread dough can be prepared in a variety of ways, often made on honey. With it, the baking is not only fragrant, but also very tender, with a special crumb, does not stale for a long time. Although, more and more often you can find recipes without honey, since not all people tolerate it, the product is not always given to children, since there is a high risk of allergies.
What else is put in the gingerbread:
• sugar;
• butter;
• eggs;
• flour.
Cocoa, ginger, cinnamon, various other spices are added for taste. For splendor put rippers. The finished dough is rolled out with a layer, the thickness is usually 0.5-1 cm. Then, gingerbread cookies are squeezed out with molds or just a glass. Products are transferred to a baking sheet, baked at a temperature of from 170 to 190 degrees. Since there is a lot of sugar in the test, above 200 the oven does not need to be heated. Baking time directly depends on the amount of sugar in the dough and the thickness of the products, but it rarely exceeds 25 minutes.
Easter Gingerbread Decoration
Easter gingerbread cookies differ from ordinary baking in an elegant way. The easiest way to decorate is to use protein glaze or icing. The detailed recipe and proportions of sugar and protein are described below. 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 dyes to the glaze.
On sale you can find ready-made sweets for confectionery. They are diluted with water or milk, sometimes require cooking. They can also be used to decorate festive gingerbread, as well as confectionery sprinkles.
Gingerbread cookies for Easter with honey (decoration icing)
The recipe for delicious gingerbread cookies for Easter, which are prepared with natural honey. Replace the ingredient with syrups or molasses. Dough with the addition of cocoa, but you can not put it.
Ingredients
• 250 grams of honey;
• 0.5 packs of oil;
• 220 grams of sugar;
• 3 whole eggs;
• 1 additional protein;
• 0.3 tsp cinnamon
• one glass of powder;
• 7 glasses of flour;
• 1.5 tsp soda;
• a spoonful of lemon juice;
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa.
Cooking
1. Cut into small pieces half a packet of butter, put in a saucepan or in a bowl, send to a water bath.
2. Add natural honey to the oil, dissolve all together until smooth. Remove, add soda, stir and cool to room temperature.
3. Beat eggs with prescription sugar in a strong foam.
4. Combine with honey.
5. Add flour. Mixed with cocoa powder and cinnamon, a pinch of vanilla can be added to taste.
6. Knead the soft dough, pull the film over the bowl, put in the refrigerator for the night or at least stand for 3-4 hours.
7. Roll out an even layer with a thickness of 5 millimeters from the dough.
8. Cut the gingerbread cookie cutters. Place on a baking sheet.
9. Bake at 180 degrees until cooked, about 14-16 minutes.
10. Beat one protein until fluffy foam. Pour sugar powder one spoonful, pour lemon juice into the icing at the end.
11. Put the icing in a bag, decorate the gingerbread cookies with a pattern or completely cover with protein glaze, decorate with confectionery sprinkles.
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 zest - a thin orange crust.
Ingredients
• 0.25 kg of granulated sugar;
• 0.5 standard pack of drains. oils;
• 0.5 kg of flour;
• 125 ml of ordinary water;
• three eggs;
• one orange;
• 1 tsp spices (ginger, kritsa, saffron, etc.);
• 0.5 tsp soda.
Cooking
1. Pour half the sugar into a 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 sugar, you need to pour prescription water in parts. It is important to use boiling water so that the syrup does not caramelize. Mix well, immediately remove from heat.
3. Add the rest of the sugar, put the softened butter, stir well.
4. Introduce the eggs, mix and add the well-chopped zest removed from the orange.
5. We take aromatic spices and also pour it out, stir everything well.
6. Pour flour, but not all, first 300 grams, add slaked soda. Knead the soft dough. Add more flour, if necessary. We send it to the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
7. Now it remains only to form gingerbread cookies, up to 1 cm thick, put on a baking sheet, bake at 180 degrees until cooked.
Gingerbread cookies for Easter "Honey" with kefir
Gingerbread dough recipe with honey on kefir. Sour milk will do, if 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. Break the eggs into a bowl, beat until foam, add a couple of glasses of sugar, continue to beat, so that 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. You don’t need to whip anymore, you can take out the mixer.
4. In kefir, extinguish soda, wait until the reaction passes, pour into the dough.
5. Stir, add flour, knead the usual, slightly soft dough. Let him lie down for a couple of hours in the refrigerator.
6. To form products with a thickness of 0.5 centimeters.
7. Bake Easter cakes at medium temperature, garnish with icing.
Gingerbread curd cookies for Easter
For the preparation of curd Easter gingerbread cookies, you will also need a baking powder. But you can take baking soda, half of the indicated rate.
Ingredients
• 250 grams of cottage cheese;
• an incomplete glass of granulated sugar;
• 7 g of ripper;
• 8 tablespoons of milk;
• 8 tablespoons of vegetable oil;
• 0.5 kg sifted wheat flour;
• egg;
• vanilla to taste.
Cooking
1. Mix the granulated sugar with the egg, beat with a whisk for a couple of minutes.
2. Add milk along with vegetable oil, it must be refined, that is, odorless. Stir.
3. Grate the cottage cheese through a sieve, send to the dough.
4. Pour flour with a cultivator and vanilla, knead.
5. Put in a bag, send for an hour in the refrigerator.
6. Sprinkle the table with flour, put the dough. Because of the curd, it will still be a little sticky. Therefore, we also sprinkle flour on top. Gently roll to a thickness of 5-7 millimeters.
7. Cut the gingerbread cookies, transfer to a baking sheet.
8. Bake at 180 degrees until golden brown. We don’t overdo it in the oven.
9. Decorate with icing.
Chocolate gingerbread cookies for easter
The taste and color of these gingerbread cookies 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 norms.
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.
Fondant:
• 2 tsp cocoa;
• 4 tbsp. l powdered sugar;
• 3 tablespoons of water.
In addition, you need pastry topping.
Cooking
1. Melt butter with honey and sugar. You can take margarine for gingerbread dough.
2. Remove from the water bath, add soda, stir. The quenching reaction will go.
3. Add one egg, then add cocoa with flour to the dough. Knead, cool for half an hour in the freezer.
4. Roll out the dough from the dough, cut out the gingerbread cookies, bake the Easter products until cooked at 180.
5. Combine water with cocoa and powdered sugar, grind thoroughly. If you need to add more powder, the fudge should not be very fluid.
6. Lubricate the gingerbread with a thin layer of chocolate. Sprinkle with colored sprinkles immediately, until it has frozen.
7. Put on a wire rack, leave for a couple of hours so that the icing dries and does not smear.
Easter gingerbread cookies (recipe with honey)
For the preparation of such gingerbread cookies, dark honey, for example, buckwheat, is best suited. 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 without top of baking soda;
• 100 g sugar;
• orange.
Cooking
1. Wash the orange with a brush. Take a fine grater and pass it from all sides to remove the aromatic zest. We remove the citrus, we will not need it. The chopped zest for the dough is ready.
2. Add chopped butter, sugar, spices to the honey, pour the zest. We send all this to a water bath and warm it well to dissolve all the grains.
3. Remove from heat, start baking soda, quickly stir.
4. Introduce the flour. On average, half a kilogram will take, but we focus on the test. If there was a lot of water in the oil, a little more would be needed.
5. Knead, remove in a cold place for three hours.
6. We take out the dough, roll out on the table, necessarily sprinkled with flour, layer. Thickness approx. 0.5 cm.
7. Squeeze the gingerbread cookies, transfer to the prepared pan.
8. Bake for 12-15 minutes at 180 degrees. We check readiness, take out and cool.
9. For decoration we use any icing, fondant, you can paint gingerbread with icing.
Gingerbread cookies for Easter - useful tips and tricks
• Sweet gingerbread sticks to the pan, so it’s better not to grease it, but to cover it with baking paper, parchment or just use silicone rugs.
• There should be enough space between the gingerbread cookies on the baking sheet so that they bake evenly.
• You can bake cookies from any gingerbread dough, including Christmas cookies. It is only necessary to roll out a thinner layer during molding.
