Since childhood, we have associated homemade food with something warm, tasty and so familiar, especially when it comes to desserts. We remember how we waited near the oven for the next cake to be cooked, ran to the kitchen for delicious cookies, etc. And many also remember delicious homemade gingerbread cookies that cannot be bought in any store. These baked goods were prepared at home by our beloved grandmothers and mothers. This delicacy contained only the best ingredients that made the gingerbread so delicious. Nowadays you rarely see natural gingerbread, so it’s worth remembering the good old recipes for homemade gingerbread and start preparing them at home.

Cooking time: 120 minutes

Servings: 25 pcs.

Calories: 336.44 kcal per 100 grams

Preparing gingerbread cookies, which will contain only the healthiest and highest quality ingredients, will not be difficult if you do everything gradually and follow the recipe step by step. In addition, the housewife who has taken on this recipe must have a good supply of patience in order to complete the task and still prepare and bake delicious gingerbread cookies.

For the test:

• 1 glass of kefir;
• 1 cup sugar;
• 1 glass of vegetable oil;
• 6 cups flour;
• 1 tablespoon cocoa powder;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 1 teaspoon of soda slaked with vinegar.

For the glaze:

• ½ cup sugar;
• 1 egg white.

Recipe

Preparing the glaze

Tip 1: baking real soft gingerbreads is, of course, very easy and convenient, however, if you try to make milk gingerbreads rather than kefir gingerbreads, you may be pleasantly surprised. Make milk gingerbreads a little faster. They both taste incredible though.

Tip 2: For those with an avid sweet tooth, glazed gingerbread cookies can also be decorated with melted chocolate, if you carefully distribute it using a pastry bag and let it harden. You can also add chocolate to the dough.

Baking glazed gingerbread cookies is a pleasure. Firstly, you always know what is included in your dessert, secondly, the baked goods turn out more tender and appetizing, and thirdly, why overpay for the purchase when there is such a simple recipe that is so easy to cook with?

Cook deliciously and enjoy your meal!

Gingerbread cookies were prepared for all holidays and were made in different shapes and sizes. They owe their name to the spices that have been part of the recipe since ancient times. Gingerbread, which originally included honey and molasses, has today undergone some changes. The fact is that sugar has become much more accessible than honey, and products began to be made using it. Below we will look at different test options.

Gingerbread dough: a recipe from time immemorial

As mentioned above, gingerbread is one of the most ancient sweets in Rus'. According to some sources, they were baked back in the 10th century. When modern housewives prepare gingerbread dough, the recipe, of course, differs from that of old Russian sweets. However, three can be distinguished - honey, sugar and sugar-honey. It contains both sugar and honey. You can prepare the dough in two different ways. With the simplified version, the products become stale faster. The second option takes more time, but the gingerbread cookies stay fresh and soft longer. Below we will look at both methods.

Choux pastry

This is the most difficult option that a housewife who decides to make gingerbread dough can use. This recipe is easy to master and will delight you with seven delicious gingerbread cookies in the future.

• So, you need to take 750 g of flour, 1 glass of sugar, 60 g of honey, 100 g of butter, 1 egg, 0.5 teaspoon of soda, 0.5 tsp. spices to taste, 60 ml water. If all proportions are observed, you will get approximately 1 kg of dough.

As you can see, the gingerbread dough recipe is not as complicated as it might seem at first glance. So, in order to make it, put honey, sugar, water in a saucepan and heat it without bringing it to a boil. Then it is recommended to add half the flour and spices to the mixture. It is best to stir the product for the product with a wooden spatula. Moreover, if you leave the flour in the syrup without stirring for at least a couple of minutes, then lumps will appear in the dough, which will be difficult to get rid of. Cool the resulting mixture to room temperature, and then add the rest of the flour, eggs and baking powder. The finished dough should be soft. To make a tasty dish, you need to start cutting the dough right away, otherwise the finished gingerbread cookies will be of poor quality. This gingerbread dough recipe is closest to the original old version.

Simple test option

For housewives who do not want to spend a lot of time preparing dough, the following recipe is suitable. You need to put honey in a saucepan, add butter, mashed with sugar, spices and knead all the ingredients for a couple of minutes. Then add flour (preferably sifted) and soda and knead the dough. If crystals have formed in the honey, then it must be heated, but under no circumstances should it be brought to a boil. This will cause it to lose its aroma, which means the product will not be as tasty. Honey for gingerbread cookies should be at room temperature. What consistency the gingerbread dough should be - the recipe with photo will demonstrate only approximately. You need to be able to determine this by touch.

Making a Christmas treat

The dough recipe for a gingerbread house differs from the usual one in that here it should be more fragrant and festive. There are many options, and every housewife can choose exactly the one she likes. For example, excellent gingerbread dough (recipe from Gerda) is obtained if all proportions are strictly observed.

• So, we will need: 0.5 kg of honey, 0.3 kg of butter and 0.3 kg of cane sugar, 50-100 g of cocoa (depending on whether you want to make the house chocolate or not). You will also need 3 tablespoons of rum, a little baking powder, a pinch or two of cinnamon, a pinch of ground cardamom, a little ground cloves, a pinch and a little fresh grated root. For spices, it is also recommended to add a pinch of ground anise seeds, a little star anise (ground), ground nutmeg, vanilla, the zest of one orange and lemon. This proportion will require a little more than 1 kg of flour.

Of course, every housewife makes a unique gingerbread dough. Skripkin’s recipe, for example, can be slightly modernized by removing such a large number of spices. The dough recipe with modifications is given below.

• We will need: 500 grams of honey, 300 grams of sugar, 300 grams of butter, 50 grams of cocoa, zest of one lemon, zest of an orange, vanilla to taste.

Thus, it is clear that gingerbread dough (recipe) and products made from it do not require high culinary skills and can be done even by a novice housewife.

Making gingerbread dough: recipe for cookies

Many people know gingerbread men only as characters from the cartoon "Shrek". Meanwhile, these are traditional cookies for Catholic Christmas, which can be used to please children on any other day.

So, how to make this gingerbread dough? See the recipe below.

We will need:

• 3 eggs.
• 1.5 cups molasses.
• 6 cups sifted flour.
• Approximately 300 g margarine.
• 250 g sugar.
• 2 tablespoons of cocoa or instant coffee.
• 4 spoons of soda, quenched in vinegar.
• A little ground ginger.
• A pinch of ground cinnamon.
• A pinch of clove powder.

How to make the cookies themselves?

For cookies, we first need a template and, of course, gingerbread dough. The recipe was given above, but we will duplicate it again. Thanks to the template, the little people will turn out identical and beautiful. Gingerbread dough and products made from it are distinguished by the fact that they hold their shape perfectly, and any figures can be made from them. The dough preparation process itself is simple. You need to mix oil, spices, soda and salt in a saucepan, and then add sugar and honey.

You can mash everything with a spoon, or you can beat it with a mixer. Dissolve cocoa in a couple of tablespoons of boiling water, let cool to room temperature and add to the dough at the same time as the eggs. After this, add 3.5 cups of flour, continuing to beat the mass with a mixer. Add the remaining flour and knead the dough with your hands. It should not be too dense so that it rolls out easily. Place the finished product in the refrigerator for at least 5-6 hours, after wrapping it in cling film. After this, take out the dough and place it on a board, rolling it out into a thin layer. To prevent it from sticking, sprinkle flour on the rolling pin. However, you need to handle flour more carefully so as not to spoil the taste of the cookies. Cut out little people from the rolled out dough and bake until done. Afterwards, you can separately make icing and decorate the finished cookies.

Variations in the recipe

Some components can be replaced. For example, take vegetable oil instead of butter, and add baking powder instead of soda. But ginger must be present in any case. It is this that gives cookies a unique taste that is loved by both adults and children all over the world. If you don’t have molds, you can make a template yourself from thick paper or cardboard.

Not every housewife has one in her kitchen. But you shouldn’t be upset, as it can be replaced with a so-called pastry bag. To do this, simply cut off a corner of a plastic bag, and the icing is already squeezed out of it.

Colored glaze is made by adding food coloring to it. If the cookies are large, then multi-colored buttons can be laid out from candies.

Gingerbread house No. 2: ideas for inspiration

Gingerbread dough and products made from it are an excellent gift option for family and friends for any occasion. Below we will look at the technology for making a gingerbread house. The dough recipe for a gingerbread house is not very different from a simple gingerbread recipe.

Heat honey, margarine and sugar. Whisk, adding cocoa, until all lumps disappear. The mass should be homogeneous and should not boil.

Mix flour with spices and baking powder. If desired, you can add orange zest.

Add eggs and rum or cognac into the heated honey mixture in two steps.

Add flour and spices to the honey mixture and knead the dough thoroughly. It shouldn't leak. On average it takes 15-20 minutes to knead. However, do not try to mix in all the flour at once. The dough will gradually cool down. It must be placed in the refrigerator, first wrapped in cling film. Let the dough rest for at least 5 hours.

"Construction" of a sweet house

Make a template of the parts of the house - walls, roof and other figures that you see fit. Roll out the dough and cut out the details of the house. Bake for 20-25 minutes until done.

The foundation of the future house should be gingerbread. It is to this that the walls are attached.

The windows are made from marmalade or caramel. True, in conditions of high humidity it will most likely melt. Therefore, it is best to take candies without filling or marmalade slices.

Transparent caramel should not be used. It does not melt well, and even if it does melt, it still flows out of the “windows” of the house, ruining the entire product. If there is high humidity in the house, it is not recommended to cook caramel yourself - it will still melt and leak out. This means that the work will go down the drain. But in any case, the most important thing is well-prepared gingerbread dough. The recipe (Pokhlebkin suggests slightly different proportions) assumes a dense and non-sticky dough. We must constantly remember this.

For the house you need to make glaze or icing. To do this, powdered sugar with proteins, lemon juice and starch is ground so that there are no bubbles. The finished mass is placed in or in a milk bag with a corner cut off. You can also use a regular paper file; it is quite dense and easy to work with.

Gingerbread cookies with sugar

We looked at several ways to make gingerbread dough. The recipe without honey is very popular nowadays, since honey is a rather expensive product. Below we will look at an old recipe for gingerbread without honey. They turn out somewhat unusual, but also very tasty. So, for the test we need:

• 300 g of sifted flour (in principle, the recipe may indicate more, but then the dough will turn out very tough).
• 40 g butter.
• 50 g sugar.
• Cinnamon and cardamom to taste.
• 50 g raisins.
• 1 egg.

Mix sugar, cinnamon and cardamom.

Then mix sugar with spices, flour and egg with butter. The dough should be quite dense, but not stiff, otherwise the product will be harsh and quickly become stale.

Place small dough balls on a greased baking sheet. Alternatively, you can roll out the dough into small flat cakes and make shaped edges.

Bake for 15-20 minutes. However, if you are making balls, they will need to sit in the oven a little longer to bake completely.

If desired, cover the finished products with icing, sugar pearls and chocolate. If you strictly follow the recipe, they will turn out almost unsweetened. Therefore, chocolate and icing are a must. You can change the amount of sugar, proportionally increasing the amount of other components.

Gingerbread cookies can be bought in any store; their assortment is simply huge. But they will not be as fragrant and tasty as homemade ones.

For some reason, homemade gingerbread cookies are not as popular among housewives as, for example, pancakes, cookies, muffins and other baked goods. In fact, preparing the delicacy is much simpler than you might think.

Homemade gingerbread - general principles of preparation

For the test you need to mix all the liquid and bulk ingredients, sometimes they are heated or choux pastry is prepared. Then the mass is rolled out into a layer with a rolling pin, given the desired shape and baked.

For slicing You can use molds, glasses, shot glasses, curly and simple knives. To prevent the dough from sticking, the edges should be periodically dipped in flour. You can also simply roll the balls with your hands and place them on a baking sheet. Gingerbread cookies are baked at 180-200 °C.

Finished goods After baking they are glazed. For this purpose, sugar, protein, and chocolate fondants are used. You can use ready-made confectionery icing, paint it in different colors and create real masterpieces. To glue homemade gingerbread, they usually use the same glaze, jam, boiled condensed milk, and various creams.

It is not necessary to prepare a delicacy in the form of simple cookies. Can be made with fillings, raisins, sprinkles. In any case It is important to roll out the dough correctly. It should not be thinner than 0.5 mm and thicker than 2 cm; during baking, the products will rise even more and become more voluminous.

Recipe 1: Simple homemade gingerbread with kefir and vanilla

Instead of kefir, you can use any fermented milk product in this recipe. You can even have it slightly acidic or moderately expired, this will not affect the taste of homemade gingerbread. In the classic recipe, baking soda is added to the dough, but we will use baking powder. It makes the dough more tender and the porosity is more uniform.

Required Ingredients

Kefir 500 gr. (any fermented milk product);

5 tbsp. flour;

0.45 kg sugar;

Fine salt 1 tsp;

A packet of baking powder;

Vanillin packet;

3 yolks.

To prepare the white glaze:

2 raw egg whites;

0.25 kg of powdered sugar.

Preparation

1. Mix kefir with salt, sugar, yolks, add flour with baking powder and vanillin mixed in it. You don’t need to pour it all at once; you may need less. It all depends on the kefir liquid. The mass should be elastic, soft, and slightly stick to your hands.

2. Roll out the dough on the table no more than 1.5 cm thick, use molds or a glass to squeeze out homemade gingerbread cookies, place them on a baking sheet so that they do not touch each other. Place in the oven to bake until done.

3. For the glaze, beat the egg whites and gradually add powdered sugar. The butter should be thick and strong. Grease the gingerbread cookies on all sides and let them dry for several hours.

Recipe 2: Homemade honey and cinnamon gingerbread cookies

Homemade honey gingerbread was one of the first to appear and is distinguished by its unique, delicate aroma and aftertaste. And to emphasize it, we will add a little cinnamon and burnt spice to the dough. It is important to use real honey; artificial molasses or sugar syrup will not work.

Required Ingredients

0.05 kg of fresh honey;

100 grams of water;

0.2 kg sugar;

500 gr. flour;

Butter 50 gr. (you can also use margarine);

A sachet (10 g) of ripper;

0.5 tsp. cinnamon.

For the glaze:

Fresh protein;

30 ml milk

0.1 kg of powder.

Preparation

1. We make a burning. To do this, pour a spoonful of granulated sugar into a frying pan, add just a few drops of water and start frying. As soon as smoke appears and the sugar turns black, add half a glass of water drop by drop. It is important to do this a little at a time so that the sugar does not caramelize.

2. Add cinnamon, honey, the rest of the sugar and stir thoroughly.

3. Melt the butter and add it to the dough, beat in the egg and flour with baking powder. Mix the mixture with your hands.

4. Roll out the dough using a rolling pin sprinkled with flour into a layer up to 2 cm, cut out any shapes, prick with a fork and bake.

5. For the glaze, beat the sugar and egg whites, add hot milk and mix.

6. Coat the baked pieces and dry them.

Recipe 3: Homemade Gingerbread with Honey

In many European countries, gingerbread and cookies are Christmas treats. Just before a bright day, the smell of fragrant baked goods floats through the streets. But to please your loved ones with homemade gingerbread, you don’t have to wait for a holiday; they can easily be prepared at any time. The same dough can be used to make gingerbread houses, a Christmas delicacy decorated with egg white patterns.

Ingredients

0.22 kg honey;

1 tbsp. spoon of ginger powder;

Soda 2 tsp;

0.5 tbsp. l. spoons of cinnamon powder;

100 gr. granulated sugar;

0.13 kg plums oils;

500 gr. sifted flour.

Fans of spicy flavors can also add ground cloves and allspice to the dough. You can use any glaze, including protein from previous recipes.

Preparation

1. Pour sugar into a saucepan, add honey and add aromatic spices. Place on the fire and bring to a boil. The mixture needs to be stirred so that it does not fry from the edges of the pan.

2. Turn off the heat and gradually add baking soda, no need to pour it all at once. A quenching reaction should occur and the mass will foam. Mix well.

3. Add butter, it will melt in the dough. Then the egg and flour. If the dough is still hot, first add a little flour, then a beaten egg so that it does not bake.

4. Knead the mixture on the table; if it turns out weak, you can add a little more flour.

5. Roll out the dough into layers, form shapes, then bake and decorate with glaze.

Recipe 4: Homemade gingerbread “Makovka”

For these homemade gingerbreads, poppy seeds are used, which can be pre-soaked in water or sugar syrup if desired. This recipe does not use glazing; the products are simply sprinkled with powdered sugar. If you need to make a coating or decoration, you can use any fondant, egg white or chocolate icing.

Ingredients

0.1 kg of honey;

2 tbsp. l. rast. oils;

Maca 50 gr.;

0.1 kg sugar;

1 tsp. soda;

One egg;

Cognac 1 tbsp. l.;

Flour 1.5 cups.

Preparation

1. Combine the oil with bee honey, granulated sugar, heat it, add soda, cognac, egg. Mix everything thoroughly.

2. Add poppy seeds, flour, knead the dough thoroughly.

3. Roll out the layer, cut out the figures and bake. Cool and sprinkle with powder when cold. Warm products should not be decorated, as the sugar will melt.

Recipe 5: Homemade gingerbread “Chocolate Truffle”

These homemade gingerbread cookies have a distinct taste and aroma of chocolate, are tender, soft and have an amazing taste. In addition to cocoa, the recipe uses a chocolate bar.

Ingredients

0.1 kg dark chocolate;

30 gr. cocoa powder;

0.15 kg flour;

50 gr. sugar sand;

50 gr. oils;

0.5 teaspoon of ripper.

For fondant:

0.1 kg of powdered sugar.

Preparation

1. Break the chocolate bar into pieces, add oil and place in a water bath to heat. Bring to a liquid state, no need to boil. Stir constantly.

2. Remove from heat, add granulated sugar and cool.

3. Break the chicken egg, mix, add cocoa.

4. Combine the ripper with flour and add it to the dough. Knead, adding a little more flour if necessary.

5. Roll out the layer, use molds or a glass to make even circles, place on a prepared baking sheet and bake until done.

6. Beat the egg whites with powder, coat the gingerbread on one side, let dry, turn over and cover with glaze.

Recipe 6: Homemade gingerbread with jam

They say that without honey you cannot make real, fluffy gingerbread. In fact, this is not so and this recipe will help if the main ingredient is missing. Jam is used as a filling for homemade gingerbread cookies. If desired, it can be replaced with boiled condensed milk, chocolate spread, marmalade, and dried fruits.

Required Ingredients

0.2 kg sugar;

1 tsp. soda;

0.1 kg butter (margarine can be used);

3 cups flour;

Cinnamon and ginger to taste;

Jam for filling.

Preparation

1. Soften the butter, but do not melt it, just keep it warm for an hour. Then add sugar to it and grind thoroughly.

2. Add cocoa, eggs, continue mixing.

3. Add soda. In this recipe, it must be extinguished so that the dough does not acquire a specific taste.

4. Add flour, prepare the dough, roll out the cake, 0.4-0.5 mm thick. Squeeze out the mugs with a glass, put the filling in the center, glue the edges and flatten them slightly, you get dumplings. You can make round gingerbread cookies by folding two circles and filling between them.

5. Bake, if desired, you can sprinkle with powder or cover with glaze.

Recipe 7: Homemade “Coffee” gingerbread

The coffee aroma excites not only in drinks, but also in amazing desserts. For homemade gingerbread, you will need instant coffee, as well as a little cocoa to highlight the taste and aroma of the delicacy.

Required Ingredients

2 spoons of coffee;

1 tbsp. cocoa;

0.1 kg plums oils;

Half a glass of sugar;

A glass of powder (about 150 g);

10 gr. ripper;

2 tbsp. l. milk;

200 gr. flour;

1 tbsp. l. rast. oils

Preparation

1. Melt the butter. This is easy to do simply on the stove, in a frying pan or in the microwave. We choose any convenient method. The oil should not be hot; if it is overheated, it needs to be cooled.

2. Beat the egg with sugar, add melted butter, then coffee, cocoa and baking powder. Each product must be dissolved before adding the next one.

3. Add milk, flour and knead the mass until elastic. Place in the refrigerator for an hour.

4. Divide the dough into small balls, roll each one in powdered sugar and place on a baking sheet.

5. Bake until done at a temperature of 180-190°C for about half an hour. The duration depends on the size of the gingerbread.

Recipe 8: Homemade “Royal” gingerbread

If you don’t have time, then you can skip preparing a large number of cookies and make one, but large and spectacular gingerbread. It is better if it is filled with filling, like its Tula relative, and appears as a large pie that can be cut into pieces when serving. To prepare, you will need a mold; you can use a frying pan or a springform cake base.

Required Ingredients

0.1 kg of honey;

3 full glasses of flour;

Oils 70 gr.;

A packet of ripper.

For the glaze:

5 spoons of sugar;

3 spoons of water.

Cooking method

1. Melt honey and sugar in a water bath, extinguish the soda. Turn off the stove and add butter. Stir until completely dissolved, let cool.

2. Beat the eggs with a fork or whisk and pour into the total mass.

3. Mix flour with ripper, knead the dough. Place in the refrigerator for half an hour.

4. Divide the dough into 2 unequal parts, placing half on the bottom of the mold. We level and form small sides.

5. Spread the filling and spread it in an even layer.

6. Roll out a flat cake from the smaller part of the dough and place it on top, pinch the edges. Bake until done.

7. Make syrup from water and sugar, pour the gingerbread on top.

Recipe 9: Homemade gingerbread “Tvorozhniki”

For cooking, it is advisable to use real cottage cheese, not mass. Homemade gingerbread also includes sour cream, the fat content of which should not be less than 20%. You may need a little more flour than indicated in the recipe, depending on the moisture content of the cottage cheese. The gingerbread cookies are topped with white glaze.

Required Ingredients

0.25 kg cottage cheese;

2 yolks;

0.2 kg sour cream;

0.1 kg vegetable oils;

0.15 kg sugar;

2 teaspoons of ripper;

0.8 kg flour;

Vanillin, cinnamon to taste.

For the glaze:

0.25 kg of powdered sugar;

Cooking method

1. Before use, the cottage cheese must be passed through a sieve or put in a blender. Pour out the yolks.

2. Now add vegetable oil, sugar, ripper, sour cream, vanillin. Stir until smooth, add flour. Knead elastic dough. Let it sit for half an hour.

3. Prepare the glaze. Just beat the powder with the whites until stiff peaks form. This needs to be done before baking.

4. Form the gingerbread cookies with your hands or squeeze them out with a mold. Bake on parchment paper.

5. Remove from the oven and brush with glaze while hot. Let it cool and dry.

In order for the protein glaze on homemade gingerbread to dry faster, you need to cover warm baked goods.

To dry, gingerbreads should be placed not on paper, but on a wire rack. Thus, you can reduce the time and the appearance of the products will be prettier.

You can make chocolate gingerbread from any recipe, but you need to remember that cocoa takes away some of the moisture. Therefore, the amount of flour will have to be reduced.

Homemade gingerbread cookies can be easily painted. To do this, you will need a pastry syringe with a thin spout or a bag. You can use any glaze, melted chocolate, or colored fondant as ink.

Gingerbread cookies are made from very sweet dough, so they easily stick to the baking sheet. To prevent this from happening, you can use a silicone mat or parchment. Only the baking paper needs to be additionally greased with vegetable oil.

Probably everyone will agree that store-bought gingerbreads are not very tasty or healthy. But in our childhood we had the softest and most fragrant gingerbreads in the world!! Gingerbread – sounds like “spicy”. This is not surprising, because since ancient times in Rus' they were baked with all kinds of spices - cloves, cinnamon, ginger and, of course, honey, since sugar was then considered a rather expensive “foreign” product. Real gingerbread dough is made using the custard method using high-quality butter. But with flour the opposite is true - surprisingly, low-grade flour gives the best results in gingerbread dough.

Ingredients for making homemade gingerbread:

For the gingerbread dough:

• flour - 3 cups
• sugar – 2-3 tbsp.
• honey – 2-3 tbsp.
• butter – 50 g
• chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
• soda – 0.5 tsp.
• spices to taste (cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, cloves) – 0.5 tsp.
• water – ¼ cup

For the white glaze:

• chicken egg (white) – 1 pc.
• powdered sugar – 100 g
• citric acid - on the tip of a knife

Recipe homemade honey gingerbread:

Before preparing gingerbread, be sure to sift the flour and enrich it with air - this will make your gingerbread more airy.

Place butter, honey and sugar in a saucepan. Melt over low heat, without bringing to a boil, stirring constantly.

Prepare spices - peel the cardamom, grind the seeds in a coffee grinder or mortar along with the seeds of coriander, cloves, star anise, etc. To make homemade gingerbread, you can use any spices that smell pleasant to you, for example, cinnamon, ginger and allspice.

Pour half the flour and a set of chopped spices into the warm honey-cream mixture.

Stir immediately to avoid the formation of lumps. Leave the mixture to cool so that the spices permeate the gingerbread dough with their aromas.

Place two eggs into the cooled dough and gently fold them in with a fork or spoon.

Now you can add the remaining flour, soda and knead into a soft dough that resembles plasticine in consistency.

Roll the gingerbread dough into a ball and sprinkle the surface of the table with flour.

Using a rolling pin, roll out the ball into a layer 0.5-0.8 cm thick.

Using cookie cutters, cut out the desired gingerbread shapes from the dough.

Place the pieces on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

Children love sweets on sticks. Nothing could be easier! Just stick a wooden skewer into each gingerbread and bake like that along with the rest of the gingerbread.

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, bake gingerbread for 20-25 minutes until light brown.

Protein glaze is traditionally used to decorate gingerbread cookies. To do this, separate the egg white from the yolk, beat it with powdered sugar and a pinch of citric acid into an elastic mass that will firmly hold the desired shape.

Transfer the glaze into a cornet or bag with a corner cut off, draw various patterns and decorate the gingerbread cookies with multi-colored baking sprinkles.

Homemade honey gingerbreads are ready!

Bon appetit!

It is the dream of any housewife to cook quickly and tasty, especially when it comes to baking, which usually takes a lot of time. For example, gingerbread cookies, a favorite delicacy since childhood, it turns out that you can make them at home easily and simply, and most importantly, with your own hands. The recipe for such baking is simple, you only need products that everyone has at home and the desire to pamper your family. These indescribable vanilla smells of gingerbread will create an atmosphere of harmony and comfort, and not only children, but also adults will appreciate how delicious it is. So, let's look at the recipe and we can start making gingerbread cookies in a hurry.

Number of servings: 10

Cooking time: 40 minutes

• Flour – 3 cups
• Kefir – 500 grams
• Eggs – 4 pcs (of which 2 whites are needed for glaze)
• Vegetable oil – 4 tablespoons
• Sugar – 2.5 cups (of which 1 cup is for glaze)
• Salt – 1 pinch
• Soda – 1 teaspoon

Step by step recipe

When all the ingredients are prepared and the recipe has been studied, we can start preparing some truly delicious baked goods with our own hands.

1. So, to begin with, we take kefir, pour it into a bowl, but not small, so that all other products can subsequently fit into it. Add soda to kefir and mix very thoroughly.
2. Add the eggs to another container, but do not forget to leave two whites for the glaze, so that our gingerbread cookies are not only tasty to eat, but also pleasant to look at. Add 1.5 cups of sugar to the eggs, too, beat a little, then pour in vegetable oil and add salt. Beat all this with a blender and pour into a bowl with kefir. If you have spices at home, we can add them too, the cooking recipe does not limit your imagination.
3. The next step is to slowly add the flour; it is advisable to not just mix everything during the addition, but to quickly beat it. You can do this with your own hands, and if you have a mixer at home, then use it while the dough allows you to do it. When whipped with a mixer, the dough will turn out more airy and fluffy.
   
4. As the recipe suggests, then add the remaining flour to the dough and start kneading. You need to make the dough not stiff, but more elastic and so that it does not stick to your hands. To do this you need to mix it thoroughly.
5. As a result, we end up with a significantly large amount of dough, so we take some of it and start rolling it out with a silicone rolling pin. Before doing this, sprinkle the table with just a little flour so that it is barely noticeable. You shouldn’t roll it out very thin, but you shouldn’t overdo it either. The thickness of the rolled out dough should be approximately 1.5 centimeters.
6. The recipe suggests that a glass, which each of us definitely has at home, will help create the image of the gingerbread itself, or many housewives use interesting baking molds for gingerbread, in the form of hearts, stars, diamonds and much more. Well, if you don’t have such a form at home, you can do it the traditional way.
   
7. Next, cover the baking sheet with plain baking paper and begin laying out the gingerbread cookies cut out from the dough. Place them at a distance so that they do not stick together during baking.
8. Bake at 180 degrees for about 30 minutes.
   
9. While our gingerbread cookies are browning, we can make the glaze; the steps here are also very simple. Take the prepared 2 egg whites and the reserved sugar and beat well until the consistency resembles strong foam.
   
10. When there are about 5 minutes left before the end of baking, we take them out of the oven and grease them with the resulting glaze, after which we send them back to bake for 5 minutes. After this time, we take out the gingerbread cookies and let them cool a little so that the glaze becomes hard. Therefore, until the glaze has hardened, do not place the gingerbread cookies on top of each other, place them in a row or leave them on a baking sheet if you have another one at home on which you can continue baking the remaining gingerbread cookies.

With the remaining dough we do the same as the recipe shows and we can easily invite friends and family to the table.

As you can see, the recipe is very simple, everything is done quickly and, most importantly, tasty. To make your favorite gingerbreads vanilla, you only need to add a little vanilla during cooking; you can also add any other spices you have at home, nutmeg, ginger and much more; such additives will definitely not spoil the taste of these beautiful gingerbreads, but will only add an interesting piquancy and unforgettable aroma.

If you need to make a portion of gingerbread a little smaller or you don’t have the required amount of ingredients at home, simply proportionally reduce the amount of ingredients from those indicated in the recipe, but make sure that the dough has the correct consistency.

Once you try it, this will be your favorite recipe.