Today, sweet tooth does not need to "bother" with the preparation of homemade cakes. Shops provide a huge selection of different confectionery products for every taste. But are they all harmless to health? Many housewives prefer to feed their family exclusively with homemade food, including desserts. Do-it-yourself sweets are guaranteed to be free of preservatives and other harmful substances. You can safely treat yourself to such a treat, let alone offer it to children.
Carrot is the easiest baking, which is easy to cook on the basis of honey, kefir or jam.
From the history
Carrot is a delicious pastry made from gingerbread dough. The delicacy can be of different sizes: from very small to huge - almost one and a half meters in length, up to 10 cm in height and up to a meter in width. The weight of the cake sometimes exceeds pounds. In Russian cuisine, this dish is very popular.
The name of the pie - “gingerbread” - comes from the word “rug” (whole bread). It is known that the history of carriages in Russia dates back to the 9th century. In those days they were called honey cakes. In the old days, gingerbread was made from honey, flour and berry juice. The emergence of the modern name “gingerbread” by various sources refers to the XIII-XV centuries.
Description
Carrot is baking, the main ingredients of which are sugar, flour, nuts, raisins, honey. Often it consists of two cakes, separated by a layer of jam. The top layer of the product is usually covered with glaze, which is prepared from icing sugar. Due to the fact that the pie contains honey, gingerbread for quite a long time does not stale.
You can often hear that gingerbread is a lean baking, because it is allowed to be used even in fasting, in its not too strict days. During the meager lean diet, this dish is a real treat.
Gingerbread today is one of the most popular old Russian dishes. "How to cook a carrot?" - Beginners often ask home confectioners. We offer several interesting recipes in our article.
Carrot "Honey with Plums" cooked in a slow cooker
According to reviews, such a gingerbread turns out to be simply incomparable: it contains an unusually gentle, sour-sweet taste of a very successful combination of honey and plums. About how to cook honey gingerbread with plums in a slow cooker, we will discuss further in the article.
Ingredients
Carrot honey with plums is a simple pie, for the preparation of which you will need:
- 8-10 pcs. drain;
- flour - 200 g;
- honey - 150 g;
- sahara - half a cup;
- sour cream (any fat content) - 2 table. l .;
- soda - half a tsp;
- salt - half a tsp;
- drain. oils (or margarine) - 100 g;
- 2 eggs.
The multicooker uses power: 800 watts. Baking time: 70 minutes.
Cooking
Carrot “Honey with Plums” is prepared in several stages:
- Plums are well washed and wiped dry. Cut into halves and remove the bones.
- Sift the flour, add soda, salt, sugar to it and mix. Then add the drain. butter or margarine (softened) and knead until small, fatty crumbs are formed.
- Eggs are broken into a blender bowl, sour cream and liquid (certainly!) Honey are added. The thick product should be dissolved in the microwave (in a water bath), and then cooled to room temperature. Next, the mixture is whipped with a whisk or blender.
- Dry and liquid mixtures are combined and mixed. Spread in the bowl of the multicooker, previously greased rast. oil. From top to bottom cut up halves of plums. Mistresses do not recommend to sink plums in the dough. During baking, it will absorb pieces of fruit.
- In the slow cooker, choose the program "Baking", set the time for preparing the baked goods - 1 hour 10 minutes. A temperature of 180 ° C is required to prepare carriages in the oven measuring 22 x 33 cm. At the same time, the delicacy is baked “to dry bones”. After the required time has passed, the MV is turned off and the finished mantle is left in the bowl for another 10 minutes.
- Then removed, spread on a dish. If desired, ready-made treats are sprinkled with powdered sugar and allowed to cool completely.
Carving “Lenten Monastery”
For its preparation use:
- 1 cup of sugar;
- half a glass of raff. rast. oils;
- 1/2 stack nuts
- half a glass of dried fruit;
- 1 stack juice (apple);
- 2 cups of flour;
- soda - half a teahouse. l .;
- lemon juice - 1 table. l .;
- a pinch of salt;
- cinnamon and vanillin are added to taste.
How to cook?
The “Lenten Monastery” mantlet is prepared simply. First, grind the nuts and chop the dried fruits.
Next, the dough is prepared. Sugar and butter should be mixed, add dried fruits and nuts, iced tea or apple juice, quenched soda and salt, vanillin and cinnamon. All is thoroughly mixed, flour is poured into the mixture, the dough is carefully kneaded, laid out in a greased form. The cake is baked for about an hour. If desired, you can cut the finished baked cake into cakes and layered with some jam or cream. You can not do this, according to reviews, lean gingerbread is delicious without it.
Mistresses should remember that lean carving is stale enough quickly, so it needs to be stored in dishes covered with a lid.
“Lenten Honey” (with nuts and raisins)
This recipe was known to our grandmothers. They called him lean because they baked such a gingerbread in fasting. In addition, neither milk, nor butter, nor eggs are used in the preparation of delicacies. In the composition of the pie:
- honey (6 tablespoons);
- lean (vegetable) oil (half a cup);
- raisins (half a glass);
- soda (one teaspoon);
- nuts (half a cup);
- water (1 glass);
- two glasses of flour;
- cocoa (two tablespoons);
- cinnamon and coriander (at the end of the knife).
Step cooking
- Honey is dissolved in a glass of warm (but not hot!) Water. Next, a rast is added to a separate container. oil.
- Cocoa, soda and cinnamon are mixed in a separate bowl, then the mixture is poured into a container with butter and sweet water. All are mixed.
- Next, flour is added to the container. Knead the dough, which should not be too liquid, and also lumps should be avoided in it. The consistency of the test will look like thick (homemade!) Sour cream. Add nuts and raisins and nuts to it, replace the dough so that they are distributed evenly.
- The baking dish is lined with parchment paper or greased with oil and sprinkled with flour, which is necessary to prevent burning, put the dough in it. Pie baked in the oven in the flow. 30 minutes at t: 200 ° C.
- The finished mantle is cut into pieces, like a pie. And you can cut the cakes and layered with cream or jam.
Classic recipe
Carrot “Classical” is a delicacy in the preparation of which jam is used. In the composition of:
- flour - 2 glasses .;
- granulated sugar - one glass .;
- jam - one glass .;
- two chicken eggs;
- soda - one tea. l .;
To sprinkle the finished cake using powdered sugar.
Cooking a Classic
Jam-baked treats are the easiest gingerbread recipes, a recipe for which has long been considered a classic of cooking.
The jam is spread in a small bowl, the quenched soda is added to it, after which it is thoroughly mixed for five minutes, and left until the soda is completely dissolved. Sometimes after adding soda, the jam changes color, acquiring a grayish tint. This should not be frightened, experienced confectioners reassure, this is a completely normal process.
In a large container in which the dough will be prepared, pour flour, sugar and mix.
Add jam and eggs. Beat everything with a whisk or mixer. The result is a dough whose consistency will be similar to a thick sour cream. Next, the dough is poured into a greased form. The surface is leveled with a spoon. The oven is preheated to 200 ° C. Gingerbread is baked for 50 minutes. Ready meals are sprinkled with powdered sugar. It will be delicious!