What do you associate with the smell of ginger? Most likely, Happy New Year: Christmas tree, toys, gingerbread, ginger biscuits .... But do not be discouraged, ginger biscuits can be eaten all year round, there would be a desire. And, of course, you need to know how to cook ginger biscuits.
And did you know that ginger biscuits can be cooked with ginger (spice from a bag), and with fresh ginger? And the difference, believe me, is very palpable. This is equivalent to eating out ripe fruits, or snacking a bag of dried fruits.
Ginger biscuits with fresh ginger
Let's try to make this mouth-watering cookie. If you are a fan of soft biscuits with a baked crust, then when baking, form balls from the dough. And if you want a crunchy - then medallions.
Ingredients:
- flour - 500 g;
- butter - 250 g;
- egg - 3 pieces;
- sugar - 190 g;
- honey, or molasses - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- baking powder - 1 sachet;
- ginger root - 130 g.
Preparation
We will need to withstand the butter in a warm place for a while, and when it becomes soft and supple, mix it with sugar and finely grated ginger. All this mass is beaten well, in parts mixing eggs and honey.
We must sift the flour, add it by air, add a small bag of baking powder and mix the buns. Now our dough in a sealed container should stay in the refrigerator for an hour or two.
That's all. We form balls or medallions, we drop them in sugar. At a temperature of 200 degrees, pechenyushki will be ready in about ten minutes.
In the dough for ginger biscuits you can add a lot of different spices. On an amateur, of course. Someone adds ground cloves, some - nutmeg. Very tasty and obtained with cinnamon.
Gingerbread cookies with cinnamon
Ingredients:
- flour - 4 items;
- Butter - 1.5 packs;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 1 item;
- honey or molasses - 10 tbsp. spoons;
- ginger ground - 3 tsp.
- cinnamon - 2 tsp.
- baking powder - 1 sachet.
Preparation
Mix ginger, cinnamon, sugar and honey and heat it over a small fire. Stir constantly, until the sugar dissolves completely. Then pour into the mixture a bag of baking powder. The mixture should be allowed to cool to room temperature.
We combine warm oil, cooled mixture, eggs and flour. Sticky oil bun is sent for a couple of hours in the cold. We knead a layer of dough not more than 5 mm thick on a food film and with biscuit molds we cut figurines. In the absence of molds, you can simply cut diamonds with a blunt knife so that the film can not be cut.
Bake is not long, about five to ten minutes at 200 degrees. We remove cookies from the baking tray only after it has cooled down.
Ginger biscuits without eggs
Ingredients:
- flour - 2,5 items;
- sugar - 300 g;
- butter - 2 packs;
- ginger ground - 2 tsp.
- almonds - 100 g;
- baking powder - 1 sachet;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- water - 4 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
Stir in a separate cup 4 tablespoons of flour, the floor of a bag of baking powder, vegetable oil and water. This mixture will play the role of eggs in our test.
We begin to knead the dough. Almond should be ground, combined with flour, baking powder, sugar, ginger. Add the oil and the mixture. The resulting colobus is cooled in
We form medallions. We leave the distance between the figures not less than a centimeter, so that the cookie does not stick together (it will very strongly spread during baking).
Preheat the oven (you remember - up to 200 degrees). Watch for the color of the cookie and, as soon as it gets brown, - turn off the oven.
Vkusnyatina it turns out - lick your fingers. And guests are not ashamed to treat.
Ready-made delicacy perfectly complement the aromatic tea with melissa , or Viennese coffee .