Recently, in our country in the winter season, such sweet pastries as gingerbread with pepper become popular. If you have not tried these flour products, then you should definitely fix this.
Gingerbread cookies
Do not think that if there is pepper in the composition, then this will be spicy baking. Just this component will add piquancy. Gingerbread cookies of different shapes. They are decorated with glaze, whole houses are assembled from them.
Note that depending on the thickness of the dough, you can get both thin crispy products and fluffy gingerbread with gingerbread. Depending on which honey (or syrup) was used, the color of the products will vary, from bright yellow to chocolate (if dark molasses or buckwheat honey is used).
It is fun for both adults and children to make cookies using fancy cookie cutters. You can cut Christmas trees, snowmen and more.
Cooking gingerbread with pepper
Take a deep container, mix 65 grams of brown sugar and 115 grams of butter in it. Beat the mass thoroughly with a mixer until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Note that the less sugar there is, the more likely it is to get a smooth surface. If you don’t have brown sugar at home, you can take white in return.
Take another container, beat an egg into it, pour honey (155 grams) or molasses. If you use honey, you can combine several flavors. For example, you can take 55 grams of buckwheat and 100 grams of lime. You can do it differently by relying on your imagination to mix types of honey. Next, add spices to your taste (1 tsp. Ginger, musk and 1/2 tsp. Black pepper). Put soda there (1.5 tsp). Thanks to the last component, gingerbread cookies with black pepper will be more magnificent. Combine the spicy ingredients in one bowl with butter. Mix well.
Next, take 375 grams of flour. Add it in small portions to the dough. In this case, constantly stir with a spatula. Add flour until the mass becomes obedient. Wrap the finished dough with foil and send in the refrigerator for 1 - 2 hours.
Next, go directly to the cooking process. Take the parchment. Lay out part of the dough on it, cover it with a second piece of paper. Roll out the dough 4 mm thick.
Further, the most interesting stage of the process: you need to cut out gingerbread cookies with pepper with molds. You can connect not only adults, but also children to this. It is advisable to do everything quickly so that the dough does not have time to get particularly warm at room temperature.
Next, preheat the oven to 175 degrees. Take a baking sheet, cover it with parchment, put gingerbread cookies with pepper on it. Products are baked for about 10 minutes. The exact time depends on the shape and thickness, as well as the operation of the oven. If you want the gingerbread cookies with pepper to be crispy, then hold them in the oven for an extra five minutes.
You can sprinkle finished products with powder. By the way, such pastries can be beautifully packaged and presented as a gift to your loved ones.
Baking in milk with black and red pepper. What do you need for baking?
Now consider another gingerbread recipe with pepper. Only in this case will we prepare them in milk.
To prepare you will need:
- 1/2 tsp cloves, nutmeg (ground);
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon, ground allspice, soda;
- 1 tsp ground ginger;
- vegetable oil (required for greasing the pan);
- 400 grams of flour;
- 150 grams of butter and as much sugar;
- 150 ml of milk (medium fat);
- a pinch of ground red and black pepper.
Gingerbread Cooking
To cook this baking you need as follows:
- First, warm the milk to a warm state and then pour in soda.
- Take a separate container. Beat eggs in it.
- Put butter and sugar in a small saucepan. Melt over low heat.
- Then pour milk into the butter and add the eggs. Mix the components together until smooth. Pour there the sifted flour, as well as spices.
- Knead a uniform dough.
- Sprinkle the work surface with flour. On it roll the dough into a layer with a thickness of about 6 mm. Next, use a knife to cut it into rectangles. You can take molds and cut products of the desired shape.
- Place on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. Then send the gingerbread cookies with pepper into the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Then transfer the finished product into a bag. Hold the gingerbread cookies with pepper for about 6 hours. So they will become even tastier and more aromatic.
As you can see, there is nothing complicated. The main thing is the desire to do something with your own hands.