Classic rug

Korizhka is an interesting and unusual dessert that has a bright taste thanks to ingredients such as honey, strong tea and cocoa. In addition, you can add various toppings to the gingerbread - nuts, dried fruits or jam. Delicious, simple and original!

Classic homemade gingerbread in the oven

In order to prepare a truly delicious gingerbread, it is important to use high-quality tea leaves and real honey. Then the baked goods will turn out aromatic, tasty and will become a real decoration for a family tea party.

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   How to cook a classic gingerbread in the oven at home? Before cooking, brew strong tea and cool it to room temperature.
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   It is better to turn on the oven in advance so that it has time to warm up to 180 degrees before the dough is ready.
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   Pour boiling water over the raisins and leave for 5-10 minutes.
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   Sift flour and baking powder into a deep bowl, add cocoa powder and the desired amount of cinnamon: the more it is added, the more piquant the baked goods will be. Dry ingredients are mixed.
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   Honey and sugar are poured into tea and allowed to dissolve completely, and a pinch of salt is added. Stir the sweet tea mixture into the dry ingredients, then add the butter, raisins and candied fruit.
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   Place parchment paper in a deep baking dish and carefully fill it with dough so that it takes up no more than 2/3 of the container.
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   The gingerbread is cooked in the oven for about 40 minutes. Before serving, it is better to cool it a little and decorate with powdered sugar.

Step-by-step recipe for making gingerbread with jam

You can prepare a delicious gingerbread according to this recipe using any jam, based on your own taste preferences. Sour berry jam will give baked goods a less sweet taste and more piquancy.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 4.

Ingredients:

• Baking powder – 1 tsp.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Margarine – 100 gr.
• Wheat flour - to taste.
• Jam - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Beat eggs with sugar to form a thick foam.

2. Margarine is grated and mixed with the egg mixture and baking powder.

3. Gradually add flour until the dough stops sticking to your hands. Roll a third of the finished dough into balls and place them in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.

4. Grease the baking sheet on which the baked goods will be prepared with margarine and roll out the main part of the dough. Spread the jam over the entire surface.The dough balls, cooled in the refrigerator, are crushed over a baking sheet using a grater so that the dough evenly covers the entire gingerbread.

5. The product is baked in the oven, setting its heating to 180 degrees. It will take about half an hour for the gingerbread to bake. Serve the gingerbread with jam in portioned pieces.

Honey cake at home

In this recipe, the gingerbread is cooked with honey and decorated with milk fudge. A large amount of raisins and coconut flakes will give the baked goods a more festive look and unique taste.

Cooking time: 1 hour 15 minutes.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Black tea (strongly brewed) – 1 tbsp.
• Honey – 3 tbsp. l.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Vegetable oil – 0.5 tbsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Cinnamon – 1/3 tsp.
• Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp. l.
• Wheat flour – 2.5 tbsp.
• Raisins – 100 gr.
• Soda – 1 tsp.

For fondant:

• Milk – 0.5 tbsp.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Butter – 150 gr.
• Wheat flour – 3 tbsp. l.
• Food coloring - optional.

For decoration:

• Coconut shavings - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Dissolve the indicated amount of honey in strongly brewed black tea and cool it slightly.

2. Mix tea with sugar and egg in a deep bowl, beat the mass with a whisk or using a mixer, and then gradually pour butter into it and add cinnamon and cocoa powder.

3. Pour boiling water over the raisins, dry them and mix them separately with a tablespoon of flour so that they are better distributed throughout the dough when combined with it.

4. The dough is mixed with raisins and soda is added, and then the required amount of flour. Place the resulting product in a baking dish and keep it in the oven, which is first turned on to 170 degrees, for 45 minutes.

5.Mix milk and sugar in a saucepan, add butter, which is more convenient to chop into pieces in advance, and bring the mixture to a boil. Then add flour and dye to the fondant and keep it on the fire, stirring vigorously, for another 2 minutes.

6. The slightly cooled gingerbread is poured with fondant, decorated with coconut flakes on top and allowed to harden for an hour.

How to bake a delicious kefir gingerbread at home?

In this recipe, kefir is used to make gingerbread, and it is recommended to decorate such pastries with any fresh berries. The product is suitable for serving at a family tea party or for meeting with friends or like-minded people.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Cooking time: 10 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Egg – 1 pc.
• Jam – 1 tbsp.
• Kefir – 1 tbsp.
• Wheat flour – 2.5 tbsp.
• Soda slaked with vinegar - 1 tsp.
• Vegetable oil - to taste.
• Vanillin - to taste.
• Fresh berries - for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. Grind sugar with eggs, then add vanillin and jam to them. Beat the mass well.

2. Add soda, which must first be quenched with a small amount of table vinegar, and beat until the resulting mixture doubles in volume.

3. Next, pour in kefir and gradually add sifted flour.

4. Pour a little oil into the dough: this allows the product to remain fresh longer.

5. The resulting mass is transferred to a baking dish and kept in the oven, which is first heated to 180 degrees for half an hour or 40 minutes. The gingerbread is served slightly chilled.

A quick and easy Lenten gingerbread recipe

This version of the gingerbread is suitable during fasting or for those who, for one reason or another, limit the consumption of a number of foods.Lenten gingerbread is no less tasty than regular gingerbread, and the presence of dried fruits and nuts in it makes it also healthy.

Cooking time: 50 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Granulated sugar – 200 gr.
• Water or juice – 250 gr.
• Honey – 2 tbsp. l.
• Vegetable oil – 0.5 tbsp.
• Wheat flour – 1.5 tbsp.
• Cocoa powder – 2 tbsp. l.
• Baking powder – 1 tsp.
• Cinnamon – 1 tsp.
• Ground cardamom – 0.5 tsp.
• Raisins, dried apricots or figs - 0.5 tbsp.
• Chopped nuts – 0.5 tbsp.
• Jam or preserves - for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. In a saucepan, mix sugar with water or juice, honey and vegetable oil, and then heat to 60 degrees.

2. Separately, mix the dry ingredients in a deep bowl: sifted flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and spices - cinnamon and cardamom.

3. Combine the dry mixture and the liquid mixture, knead well until the mass becomes homogeneous, and then add nuts and chopped dried fruits to it.

4. The finished dough is transferred to the form in which the product will be baked, and kept for about 35 minutes in an oven preheated to 200 degrees.

5. The resulting lean gingerbread should be cooled slightly and greased with your favorite jam or preserves.

Delicious gingerbread made with milk in the oven

A simple way to bake a delicious gingerbread, which can be decorated with powdered sugar. The dough for this recipe is prepared with milk and your favorite jam is added. A good way to please your family with a delicious and easy-to-prepare dessert.

Cooking time: 55 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 20.

Ingredients:

• Milk – 2 tbsp.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Jam – 2 tbsp.
• Wheat flour – 3.5 tbsp.
• Soda – 1.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

1.Eggs and sugar are ground, milk and jam are added, as well as soda, which does not need to be extinguished.

2. The sifted flour is gradually added to the milk-egg mixture and a thick dough is kneaded.

3. The workpiece is placed in a baking dish, which must first be either greased with any fat or lined with parchment.

4. Bake the gingerbread in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for 40 minutes.

5. Before serving, cool the gingerbread and cut into pieces. You can sprinkle it with powdered sugar.

Lush and airy gingerbread with sour cream

The sour cream crust turns out airy and tender, especially if you use rich fresh sour cream. Any nuts can be added to baked goods, but the tastiest dessert is made with crushed walnuts.

Cooking time: 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 10.

Ingredients:

• Honey – 2 tbsp. l.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Egg – 2 pcs.
• Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Sour cream – 4 tbsp. l.
• Nuts – 100 gr.
• Wheat flour – 2 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Pour soda into honey, mix and leave for 5-10 minutes.

2. After this, break the eggs and add sugar, mix everything well and let it sit for another 5 minutes.

3. The butter should be softened and added to the dough, mix the mass well and leave for another 5 minutes.

4. At the next stage, add sour cream and crushed nuts to the dough, again wait 5 minutes. At the very end, flour is introduced into the dough in small portions until it acquires the consistency of thick sour cream.

5. The mass is transferred to a baking container and kept in the oven for about half an hour, checking readiness with a wooden skewer or toothpick. Recommended baking temperature is 180 degrees.

How to bake a gingerbread with cottage cheese in the oven?

An easy-to-prepare recipe for gingerbread with cottage cheese added. It is better to choose a richer dairy product so that the gingerbread does not come out too dry and turns out tasty. In addition, higher-fat dairy products provide more benefits than low-fat dairy products.

Cooking time: 55 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 8.

Ingredients:

• Cottage cheese – 400 gr.
• Wheat flour – 250 gr.
• Frozen butter – 150 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 180 gr.
• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Vanilla sugar - to taste.
• Grated chocolate - for serving.
• Fresh berries - for serving.

Cooking process:

1. Grind the eggs with cottage cheese, and then gradually add regular sugar along with vanilla and knead until smooth, adding 2 tbsp. l. flour so that the filling does not spread during baking.

2. Separately sift the flour and add grated frozen butter. The ingredients are combined to form a kind of crumb.

3. Pour half of the prepared crumbs into the baking container, level and spread the curd filling evenly, and sprinkle the second part of the flour and butter crumbs on top.

4. The gingerbread is cooked at 180 degrees in the oven until it acquires a beautiful golden brown crust.

5. The baked goods are allowed to cool, and before serving they are decorated with fresh berries or sprinkled with grated chocolate.

Rug with black tea jam

Tea gingerbread is easy to prepare, but to get the most delicious baked goods, you should use high-quality tea so that the brew is rich: the taste of the gingerbread largely depends on this.

Cooking time: 45 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 230 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 200 gr.
• Baking powder – 3 tsp.
• Black tea (strongly brewed) – 250 ml.
• Vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. l.
• Jam – 2 tbsp. l.
• Powdered sugar – 1 tbsp. l.

Cooking process:

1. In a deep bowl, combine dry products - flour with sugar and baking powder.

2. Pre-brewed and cooled tea is mixed separately with oil and carefully added to the dry mixture. Mix well.

3. At the next stage, jam is added to the dough and the consistency is checked: the dough should be quite liquid.

4. Pour the dough into a baking container, which needs to be either greased or lined with parchment, and put it in the oven for 50 minutes at 180 degrees.

5. The finished product is cut into pieces and decorated with powdered sugar.

Homemade chocolate cake with cocoa

Cocoa powder makes this gingerbread more saturated in color and gives it a chocolate taste, and raisins add juiciness to the baked goods. Both children and adults will love the rug, and it can be served with either chilled drinks or hot tea or coffee.

Cooking time: 45 min.

Cooking time: 15 min.

Servings – 6.

Ingredients:

• Water – 250 ml
• Vegetable oil – 130 ml
• Granulated sugar – 180 gr.
• Vanilla sugar – 1 tbsp. l.
• Cocoa powder – 1.5 tbsp. l.
• Wheat flour – 380 gr.
• Baking powder – 1.5 tsp.
• Raisins – 100 gr.
• Nuts – 100 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Mix water and two types of sugar in a bowl, and then add soft, preferably melted butter.

2. 100 gr. flour in a separate bowl is mixed with cocoa powder and baking powder, and then the dry mixture is carefully added to the liquid sweet base.

3. Next, the dough is brought to the desired condition by adding the remaining amount of flour in small portions and thoroughly mixing the mass.

4. Wash the raisins and let them dry on a paper towel.

5.The nuts are chopped with a knife or in a blender until medium-sized crumbs, and then added to the dough along with raisins.

6. Carefully transfer the resulting mass into a baking dish, which should have the consistency of thick sour cream. Bake the product for 50 minutes, turning on the oven heat to 180 degrees.