Gingerbread is a big soft gingerbread or sweet cake.
From the available products that are found in every home, you can cook a delicious, fragrant and soft lean gingerbread.
Lean gingerbread - the basic principles of cooking
A distinctive feature of the gingerbread from other cakes is ground spices, which are added in abundance to the dough. Use coriander, nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and other spices.
Lean gingerbread cooked without eggs. The basis for the test can be honey, syrup, brewed tea, syrup, compote or jam, diluted in water.
You can diversify the taste of a lean ginger by adding berries, grapes, nuts, dried fruits, etc. to the dough.
Gingerbread is quite tall and lush. It can be cut into two shortcakes and smeared each with jam, jam or jam. Then to collect, and it will turn out a pie which is not a shame to give even on a holiday table.
Recipe 1. Lean shrimp
Ingredients
a glass of freshly brewed black tea;
a pinch of soda and salt;
two glasses of flour;
cinnamon and ginger;
100 ml of refined sunflower oil;
a bag of vanillin;
half art. peeled walnut;
half a cup of sugar;
40 g of lemon juice;
75 g of liquid honey.
Cooking method
1. Wash dried fruit, lightly dry it and put it in the bowl of the blender. Pour nuts here and chop them into mush.
2. Pour warm tea, honey and butter in a bowl, add sugar and a mixture of nuts with dried fruits, season with cinnamon, salt and vanilla. Mix everything well until smooth.
3. We extinguish lemon juice soda, and put it in the dough. Mix well.
4. Gradually add flour and continue kneading dough. Cover the form with parchment, lightly lubricate it with butter and pour the dough. Spread the surface with a wooden spatula and send it to the oven, preheated, to a temperature of 190 C. Bake the cake for about an hour until rosy.
Recipe 2. Lenten festive cake
Ingredients
three art. flour;
lemon juice - 25 ml;
instant coffee - 10 g;
soda - 5 g;
olive oil - 100 ml;
chopped roasted nuts - 100 g;
sugar - half a glass;
dried apricots - six pcs .;
zest of half a lemon;
jam - 100 ml;
welding - a glass.
Cooking method
1. Pour oil into a deep container and add sugar and jam. Stir.
2. Dissolve in hot brewing coffee, and pour the liquid into a bowl.
3. Put dried apricots and nuts, pour in a portion of the flour and knead the dough.
4. Quench soda with lemon juice, add to dough. This same three lemon zest and half pour the rest of the flour. Knead homogeneous dough.
5. We shift it to a greased, and sprinkled semolina form and bake for an hour, at 180 C. Cool the cake and cut into portions.
Recipe 3. Lenten tea cake with a layer
Ingredients
sugar - half a cup;
baking powder - tsp;
vegetable oil - 60 ml;
jam - half a cup;
strong tea - a glass;
cinnamon - 5 g;
flour - 200 g;
vanillin - bag;
jam or jam for layer;
powdered sugar;
chopped roasted nuts.
Cooking method
1. Put jam and butter in a bowl, add sugar and season with cinnamon, salt and vanilla. Stir and pour tea. Whisk whisk until smooth.
2. Mix baking powder with flour and sift. We pour, constantly beating, into the dough.
3. Add chopped, roasted nuts. Stir so that they are evenly distributed throughout the test.
4. Cover the form with parchment, and spread the dough into it. We put the form on forty minutes, in the preheated to 180 C, oven. Check the readiness of the wooden skewer.
5. Get the gingerbread and cool. We divide it into two shortcakes. Bottom cake grease with jam or jam and cover with the top. Sprinkle with powdered sugar and cut into portions.
Recipe 4. Honey Cake with Cocoa and Poppy Seed
Ingredients
glass of water;
150 ml of vegetable oil;
two glasses of flour;
60 g of cocoa;
250 g of sugar;
poppy - 50 g;
80 g of honey;
baking powder - pack.
Cooking method
1. Pour the water into the pot and set it on fire. Dissolve sugar in it. Add honey and mix until honey disperses completely. Remove from heat.
2. In a separate bowl, mix the cocoa with the baking powder. Pour the warm mixture from the saucepan, stir and leave for five minutes.
3. Rinse the poppy and place it in the dough. Gradually add flour and knead the dough, the consistency, like thick sour cream.
4. Pour the dough into a mold, smeared with butter, and bake for about an hour at 180 C. Remove the form from the oven and sprinkle with the powdered sugar.
Recipe 5. Coffee Lenten mug in a slow cooker
Ingredients
Art. rice cereal;
Art. spoon of vegetable oil;
incomplete glass of flour;
a pinch of salt;
glass of water;
6 g of soda;
40 grams of instant coffee;
a handful of raisins;
half art. Sahara;
liquid honey - 50 g
Cooking method
1. Put coffee in a high cup and brew it with boiling water. Add honey and sugar and mix.
2. Pour the brewed coffee into a bowl and add rice cereal. Mix, pour in the oil, and, while constantly stirring, gradually add the flour.
3. Rinse the raisins, put on a disposable towel and pat dry. Put it in the dough and mix well.
4. Lubricate the multicooker container with oil, and pour the dough into it. Turn on the baking program and set the timer to 50 minutes. Then take the gingerbread, and send for half an hour in the oven, so that the gingerbread top roasted. Cool baking. Top can be smeared with jam.
Recipe 6. Lean honey cake
Ingredients
incomplete art. Sahara;
20 g of semolina;
one and a half tsp black tea;
50 g of honey;
300 ml of water;
flour;
110 ml of vegetable oil;
a handful of walnuts;
50 g of cocoa powder;
a handful of raisins;
cinnamon, ginger and cloves;
a pinch of soda.
Cooking method
1. Boil water, and fill it with dry tea leaves and leave to brew. Then strain strong tea through a sieve in a saucepan, add sugar and honey. Sent to the stove and keep on fire until the honey and sugar dissolve. Pour in vegetable oil, stir and cool.
2. Wash the raisins and pour it with boiling water. Steamed raisins squeeze. Put the nuts in a bag and chop them with a wooden rolling pin.
3. Pour into the cooled liquid, sifting cocoa powder through a strainer and stir. Add chopped nuts and raisins to the mixture and mix again. Season everything with spices and beat.
4. Add a little flour, mixed with soda, and knead the dough, the consistency of both pancakes.
5. Spray the greased form with semolina and pour the dough into it. Heat the oven to 180 ° C, and send the form to it with the dough for forty minutes. We cool the finished gingerbread on two cakes and coat them with jam.
Recipe 6. Chocolate Lenten Cake
Ingredients
120 g of sugar;
Art. l powdered sugar;
50 ml of sunflower oil;
100 g of chopped nuts;
50 ml of syrup from jam;
300 g of flour;
raisins and candied fruit - 100 g;
5 g of soda;
50 g of cocoa powder;
lemon - half.
Cooking method
1. Pour a glass of water into a small saucepan, add sugar and put it on the stove. Heat over low heat, stirring until sugar is completely dissolved. Cool slightly, and pour in syrup of jam and vegetable oil and mix.
2. Finely chop the lemon, put it in the blender bowl, and grind it into porridge. We shift to the stewpot.
3. Put the jam on a sieve and let it drip to the syrup.
4. Mix flour with cocoa powder and soda. Gradually pour it into a saucepan and add chopped nuts and candied fruit. Knead homogeneous dough.
5. Pour the dough into a greased form, and level the surface with a wet spatula. Put the chocolate cake in the oven for half an hour, and bake at 180 C. Readiness is checked with a wooden skewer or toothpick. We take out pastries from the oven and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.
Recipe 7. Lenten gingerbread with apples in a slow cooker
Ingredients
a glass of sugar;
two apples;
water - 250 ml;
a pinch of cinnamon;
two art. l honey;
half a kilo of flour;
soda - 5 g;
on a pinch of baking powder and soda;
half a glass of vegetable oil;
half art. walnuts.
Cooking method
1. Pour water diluted with vegetable oil into a saucepan and add sugar. Put on the stove, warm up a little, and add honey. Continue to warm over low heat until the honey and sugar disperse completely.
2. In a warm liquid, add soda and cinnamon. Grind walnuts with a coffee grinder into flour and pour into a saucepan.
3. Mix baking powder with flour. Knead the dough, gradually pouring flour, like on pancakes. Rinse the apples and cut into slices.
4. Grease a bowl of butter and pour the dough into it. Top with apple slices, slightly pressing them into the dough. We include the program "Baking". The timer is set to 50 minutes. Place the bowl in the slow cooker and bake until tender. Then leave the cake for another ten minutes on the "Preheat" so that the cake does not settle.
Recipe 8. Lean gingerbread with oranges and nuts
Ingredients
two oranges;
one and a half tsp soda;
150 grams of sugar;
two glasses of flour;
olive oil - 50 ml;
half a cup of strong tea;
jam - 50 g;
half a cup of chopped nuts.
Cooking method
1. Pound sugar with vegetable oil.
2. Peel the oranges and cut them into small pieces. Crush nuts with a rolling pin. Brew strong tea.
3. Put the oranges, jam and nuts in the oil-nut mixture, and pour in the brewed tea. Mix everything well. Pour the flour with soda and mix the dough like pancakes.
4. Cover the bottom of the form with parchment and brush with oil. Pour the dough into it, and bake for forty minutes in a well-heated oven.
Recipe 9. Lenten banana bread
Ingredients
flour - 150 g;
bananas;
100 ml of lemonade;
75 g sugar;
salt - pinch;
70 ml of olive oil;
10 ml of vinegar.
Cooking method
1. Pour flour into the bowl. Soda extinguish vinegar. Mix flour with sugar, pour in oil and stir. Put soda, pour in lemonade and knead the dough, consistency, like pancakes.
2. Sprinkle the form with flour and pour the dough into it. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon on top. Then lay out sliced bananas. Bake 20 minutes in the preheated to 170 C, oven.
Recipe 9. Lenten flour with pears
Ingredients
two pears;
cinnamon;
peeled almonds - half a cup;
citric acid - at the tip of the knife;
a glass of sugar;
vegetable oil - half a cup;
honey - 50 g;
breadcrumbs - 20 g;
lemon juice - 10 ml;
flour - two glasses;
soda - 5 g;
pinch of baking powder.
Cooking method
1. Cut a pear in half and remove the core. The wide edge is cut into a fan or thin plates.
2. Grind almonds into a powder grinder.
3. Pour sugar into the container and pour in water with vegetable oil. Mixture put in a water bath and spread honey. Hold until complete dissolution of honey and sugar. Soda extinguish with citric acid and put in the mixture. Season with all the cinnamon and lay out the nuts. Stir, gradually adding flour mixed with baking powder, knead the dough.
3. Sprinkle the greased form with breadcrumbs and pour the dough into it. Use a wet spatula to level the surface. Fold the pears on top and place the oven for half an hour in a heated oven to 200 ° C.
Recipe 10. Monastic Lenten Gingerbread
Ingredients
a glass of sugar;
vanillin;
half a glass of refined vegetable oil;
salt, cinnamon and soda - on a pinch;
half a cup of walnuts;
lemon juice - 20 ml;
half a cup of dried fruit;
two glasses of flour;
a glass of apple juice.
Cooking method
1. Rinse and dry the dried fruit with a napkin. Put the nuts and dried fruits in a blender container and grind.
2. Mix butter and sugar in a bowl, add to the mixture porridge of dried fruit and nuts, pour in apple juice and mix. Salt, season with cinnamon and vanilla and add lemon soda with hydrated juice. Gradually add flour and knead the dough, in thickness, like on pancakes.
3. Pour the dough into a greased form and bake for about an hour in a well-heated oven.
Lean gingerbread - tips and tricks from pastry chefs
- To enhance the flavor, except for vanilla, you can use almond extract, ground nutmeg, cinnamon or other spices that are used in baking.
- Canned or fresh fruit can be added to the dough.
- If you are cooking the cake in silicone form, then you do not need to lubricate it. Simply rinse with water.
- For the dough, it is better to use refined sunflower or olive oil.
- Soda not extinguish vinegar, and squeezed lemon juice.
- Sprinkle the surface of the finished gingerbread with ground nuts or powdered sugar.
