Often, every housewife thinks what to bake for tea to please guests or household members. There are many delicious desserts in the shops, but not one of them will fill the house with an amazing aroma of pastries.
Biscuit dough is an indispensable recipe if there is very little time to cook
If the arrival of guests is expected any minute, or you just don’t want to stand by the stove for a long time, then in this situation you can also find something to quickly bake for tea. For example, a biscuit and its derivatives. Sponge cake dough is made from products that are almost always available in every kitchen.
The proportions of the recipe are easy to remember: three eggs, a glass of sugar and a glass of flour. It is advisable to add vanillin.
Mix the eggs and sugar with a mixer and gradually mix the flour. When all the ingredients are combined, they must be thoroughly beaten with a mixer (at least 5 minutes). It is important not just to mix the products, but to give them an airy lightness and a uniform creamy texture. Then the dough during baking will increase in volume up to two times. Grease the form with margarine, preferably lay the baking paper. If you are afraid that the culinary product may burn, sprinkle the bottom with semolina. Bake a biscuit at 170-200 degrees for about half an hour (depending on the oven, it is advisable to often check the dough after the first 20 minutes).
How to diversify a simple biscuit?
If you have a pair of apples and a bag of ground cinnamon based on this test, you will get a fragrant apple pie. You need to cut the fruit, lay on the bottom of the form and sprinkle with cinnamon. A special note to this cake will be given by slices of orange peel spread on the surface of the dough.
You can cut the biscuit and soak with boiled condensed milk, jam, syrup. The finished cake can also be filled with chocolate icing.
Puff pastry
When in the fridge there is a pack of ready-made puff pastry, you will always know what to bake for tea. This product is easily found at the grocery supermarket in the frozen convenience foods section. Its price varies depending on the naturalness of the composition, but is invariably affordable for any housewife. Before work, the dough must be thawed at room temperature. It is this process that will take up the bulk of the baking time. When the sheets are softened and can be separated, lay them on a dusted board so that they do not stick together between the crash.
The easiest way to bake tea from such a dough is apple roses. Roll out the dough, cut into strips. Wash the apple and chop it into thin slices. Sprinkle a strip of dough with sugar and cinnamon, put an apple and turn it into a roll so that the resulting shape resembles a lush rose. Grease with yolk and bake at 180 degrees 25-30 minutes. You can decorate with powdered sugar.
Fancy Fruit Puff Options
If at home there is puff pastry, apricots, canned peaches or pineapples, then some of them can also be baked for tea. The recipe is this: roll out a sheet of puff pastry, sprinkle with sugar and twist in a roll along the length. We cut the resulting sausage into pieces, which we flatten with our hand to the state of the cake. The size depends on what you use: for apricot, a smaller tortilla is needed, for a peach and pineapple - more.
Cooking cream. Here you can choose protein or custard (proportions are indicated for 0.5 kg of dough, baking time - the same as for roses).
Protein cream is easier. To prepare it, you need one protein (or two if the eggs are small). Beat it with a pinch of salt for about 2-3 minutes, then add 2 tbsp. sugar and continue to mix until the mixture becomes white and thick. Put the fruit on tortillas and close the cream on top.
Custard takes a little longer: beat 3 yolks, 100 g sugar and 2 grams of vanillin, add hot milk (a glass), boil the mixture until thick, stirring constantly (it burns very quickly). Here it is better to spread the cream on tortillas, and only then add the fruit.
Lush fragrant buns and other yeast cakes
If you need to bake something for tea and have a couple of hours of time, buns will be a great option. There are many recipes for yeast dough, here is one of them. We will need the following ingredients:
- Dry yeast - 1 tsp
- Sugar - 3 tbsp
- Milk - 200 ml (in order for the dough to rise better, it needs to be slightly warmed up).
- Egg - 1 pc.
- Margarine - 50 g.
- Vegetable oil - 3 tbsp.
- A bag of vanilla sugar.
- Flour - 3 cups.
- Salt is a pinch.
First we make the leaven. Mix milk, yeast, 1 tablespoon of sugar and 2-3 tablespoons of flour. Set aside in a warm place. Melt margarine, stir in the egg, sugar, vanilla, vegetable oil, salt. Then pour the mixture into the sourdough, add part of the flour - not all, so that the dough remains sufficiently liquid. We leave the dough in a warm place, there should not be drafts in the room. After an hour, she should rise well, add flour to a thick consistency and give her time to increase again in volume. Total dough should rise 1.5-2 hours (if you can hold it for longer, this will only add splendor to the culinary products).
Then knead, shape and bake in a preheated oven at 200 degrees.
1000 and 1 variant of buns
If you collect all the options for molding, filling and sprinkling buns that you can bake for tea, there will be even more than 1001. Here is a little help to your culinary imagination:
1. Experiment with the filling. Jam, fresh fruit, condensed milk (including boiled), marmalade, chocolate, cottage cheese will be a good core buns.
2. Blotches in the dough. Raisins, dried fruits, nuts, coconut, citrus zest, poppy, cinnamon - all these products will give a unique taste. Just make sure that no shells, dry stalks, spoiled pieces, etc. get into the baking.
3. The shape of the buns. You can just roll a ball, or you can braid pigtails, come up with different variations of curled curls or make a bun.
4. Sprinkling and decorating. Sprinkle the baked goods with powdered sugar, coconut or chocolate chips, cinnamon, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, festive sprinkles (as for Easter cakes), pastry beads and mastic flowers. Brush with chocolate icing or just egg yolk (before baking).
Delicious pastries for fasting
What to bake for tea if you or one of the guests are fasting? A simple but very tasty recipe for honey muffins comes in handy . We will need the following products:
- Honey - 2 tbsp. l (he and soda give the test splendor and porosity).
- Soda - 1.5 tsp
- Warm boiled water - 200 ml.
- Sugar - 0.5 tbsp.
- Vegetable oil - 200 ml.
- Flour - 2 cups.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
Mix all the ingredients until smooth, the dough will turn out to be liquidish, viscous. When baking, it rises very well, so the forms should be filled in half. You can add nuts and dried fruits to the dough. Bake at 200 degrees until a uniform brownish color (approximately 20 minutes).
Shortbread cookies - lifesaver when there are no eggs
These delicious cookies are very easy to prepare. The amount of ingredients is easy to determine: 50 g of sugar, 100 g of margarine and 150 g of flour (i.e. 1 share of sugar: 2 parts of margarine: 3 parts of flour). And you also need a pinch of salt. Beat up unrefined margarine at low speed with other ingredients, put in a plastic bag in the refrigerator for half an hour. Then, without taking out of the bag, knead. Roll out the dough and cut out cookie cutters. Bake at 200 degrees for only 10-15 minutes until a light sand color, do not overdo it. You can mix cocoa in the dough, then you will get chocolate chip cookies. Or you can make a "marble" product, if you mix two types of dough. Experiment with nuts, icing, chocolate drops. You can also add “M & M'S” dragees to your shortbread dough. In this case, you will get an unusual taste and a bright festive look.
Take any of these simple and proven recipes into service, and you will always know what to bake for tea. Easy and tasty cooking!