Honey cookies are an extraordinary delicacy that everyone is able to cook at home without any special costs. The whole process takes a little time. The main thing is to knead the shortbread dough correctly. Let's look at a few recipes for this popular dessert.
Let's start with some tricks.
Before proceeding with the consideration of the honey cookie recipe, the photo of which is presented above, here are a few recommendations:
- The dough for such baking can be prepared with a margin and freeze. After thawing, the workpieces rise perfectly during the baking process. If you have a lot to do and do not always have time to pamper your household with treats, you can knead the dough with a margin. You can freeze it with bars and balls. The most important thing is to wrap it with parchment, film or foil.
- During heating, the mixture of oil and honey can be flavored with your favorite spice. In the case of cookies, it is more appropriate to use cinnamon, ginger or licorice. But in no case do not mix them. And of course, do not add too much, as the taste of honey should dominate.
- Do not serve honey cookies with sweet drinks. Such pastries are perfectly combined with fruit drinks, low-fat sour-milk products, with tea, but without sugar, as well as with milk.
- The finished treat has a pleasant golden hue. Cookies do not need additional decoration. In addition, poppy seeds and coconut flakes will not stay on it, and icing sugar will make dessert cloying.
Classics of the genre
Such a honey cookie recipe will be a real find for those who value their time. For such baking you will need:
- flour (exclusively of the highest grade) - approximately 200 g;
- honey, preferably liquid - about 2 tbsp. l .;
- margarine - 100 g;
- egg;
- baking powder - enough - 1 tsp;
- icing sugar - no more than 3 tbsp. l .;
- sea salt.
Knead the dough
Preparing honey cookies based on margarine, but it can be replaced with butter made from cream. Grind it. For this, a regular grater is suitable. For convenience, lightly freeze the product. Add egg, honey and some salt to the mass. Pour baking powder and sifted flour here, and then powdered sugar. Pay attention to the last component. Regular sugar is not suitable for making such cookies.
If you don’t have a baking powder on hand, you can replace it with baking soda. Knead the dough. However, note that kneading it for a long time is not recommended. Otherwise, it will become too hard, and the cookies will turn out not too tasty.
Roll the ball from the finished dough, and then place it for 40 minutes in the refrigerator.
Form and bake cookies
When the dough has cooled, you can start rolling it. Place the dough on a work surface. Using a rolling pin, roll it out and cut out the figures. To do this, you can use special molds or a regular glass.
Grease a baking sheet with oil, and then transfer dough pieces to it. Bake a treat at 180 ° C. It takes no more than 15 minutes. Serve dessert with tea, milk or coffee.
Second cooking method
Honey cookies can be prepared in another way. In this case, the products will need:
- flour - about 1.5 cups;
- butter or margarine - 80 g;
- sugar, preferably brown - not more than 60 g;
- honey - 1/2 cup;
- baking powder - only 1 tsp;
- cinnamon - 1 tsp;
- salt.
From these components, you can make fragrant, soft and fairly simple cookies.
So, let's begin…
Take the prepared oil (in extreme cases, you can replace margarine), brown sugar, honey. Put everything in a metal container and place on the stove. Heat until fat dissolves. Bring the mixture to a boil. Be sure to mix to achieve uniformity.
Separately mix baking powder, cinnamon and sifted flour. Add salt to the mixture, pour in the oily mass. Knead the dough. The mass should be homogeneous, elastic, but not rigid.
Divide the dough into balls, the sizes of which correspond to the size of a walnut. Gently flatten the workpieces. Oil a baking sheet. If you wish, you can cover it with parchment. Put on it all the blanks. Place a baking tray with a treat in a preheated oven. Bake dessert at 200 ° C. In time it takes no more than 8 minutes.
Cream cookies
Nothing could be more appetizing than homemade honey cookies! The photo is a confirmation of this. To prepare such a treat, you will need a minimum of products:
- flour - how much dough will take;
- soda - 1 tsp;
- cream (can be replaced with sour cream) - 250 g;
- honey - 350 g.
Combine the butter and honey and then whisk. Add cream, soda and flour. Sieve the last component. Knead the dough not too steep. Roll it out, cut out circles from the resulting layer with a glass. Put everything on a baking sheet, grease it first with oil, bake at 180 ˚.
Finally
At the moment, there are many recipes for such goodies as honey cookies. You can add vanilla, any nuts to it. But it is worth paying special attention to honey. This component must be natural and liquid. If you have candied honey in stock, then it should be used in those recipes where the mass is heated. This will knead the elastic dough.