Composition / ingredients
Step-by-step cooking
Step 1:
How to bake a honey cake? Prepare the products. Choose honey of good quality, natural, it is better if it is liquid. If your honey is candied, then melt it in a water bath. Take black tea without additives. You can take brown sugar, the cake will get a caramel taste.
Step 2:
Boil water and brew tea using a teaspoon of tea leaves and 70 ml of boiling water. Let the tea brew.
Step 3:
Add honey, sugar and tea leaves to the saucepan, straining it through a strainer.
Step 4:
Put the saucepan on the fire. Cook, stirring, until the mixture boils. After boiling, cook for a couple more minutes. Make the fire small, the mixture boils strongly and can escape. Then turn off the heating and leave to cool down to a warm state.
Step 5:
Add soda to the cooled mixture, mix well. After a while, the foam will rise. Add cinnamon and ground cloves. Mix it up.
Step 6:
Sift flour. It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.
Step 7:
Pour the honey mixture into the flour and knead the dough. It turns out to be fluid, like thick sour cream.
Step 8:
Grease the mold with vegetable oil. Pour the dough into the mold, smooth the surface with a spatula. I took a detachable one with a diameter of 20 cm.
Step 9:
Bake the gingerbread in the oven at 180 ° C for 30-40 minutes. Check the readiness with a wooden stick — stick it in the middle of the pie, when taking it out it should be dry. Cool the finished gingerbread a little and remove it from the mold. Enjoy your meal!
Ready-made gingerbread can be sprinkled with powdered sugar. When serving, cut it into portions.
You can bake the cake not only in a round shape, but also on a baking sheet. Make the dough large in volume and pour on a baking sheet, about one centimeter thick. Such a cake can be cut into pieces, and then put them one on top of the other, smearing the middle with jam or jam.
To make the baking flavor even more intense, add different spices: ginger, cardamom, nutmeg and even a little pepper.
You can also diversify the recipe by adding nuts, raisins, candied fruits or chocolate to the dough.
Grated lemon zest will emphasize the taste of honey well.
If you add half a cup of vegetable oil to the dough and reduce the amount of honey, then the cake will turn out even softer, more like a biscuit.
Caramel flavor will give the gingerbread cane sugar.
Also, the gingerbread can be poured on top with icing, sugar fudge or melted chocolate.
They bake a gingerbread not only in the oven, today they use a slow cooker and even a microwave oven for this.
Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. To avoid mistakes, read about flour and its properties!
Since the degree of sweetness is individual for everyone, add honey and sugar to your taste!
Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Carnation - 323 kcal/100g
- Cinnamon - 247 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333 kcal/100g
- Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364 kcal/100g
- Flour krupchatka - 348 kcal/100g
- Flour - 325 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
- Black Tea - 0 kcal/100g
- Baking soda - 0 kcal/100g