Not sure what to bake for tea or coffee? Make delicious and fragrant gingerbread cookies. You can find the recipe for their preparation according to GOST, on kefir or from other ingredients in our article. And so that the gingerbread cookies remain soft and fresh longer, cover them with icing according to one of their recipes.
Cooking recommendations
Despite the fact that there is nothing complicated in the preparation of mint gingerbread, the following recommendations will improve the taste of baking, maintain freshness and rich aroma for longer:
- The gingerbread dough should not be too dense, otherwise the finished product will turn out to be solid. When forming, so that the dough does not stick to your hands, they must be crushed with flour or moistened with cold water.
- It is important to adhere to the same product size. To do this, it is recommended to use a kitchen scale. The weight of the gingerbread according to GOST is 40 g.
- To keep gingerbread fresh for a long time, frosting will allow. It is recommended to cover cooled products with a thick layer of glaze, then they will soon turn black.
- If you want to enhance the taste of peppermint in gingerbread cookies, add a few drops of peppermint extract or oil to the icing. You will get refreshing and aromatic mint gingerbread cookies, the recipe for which is presented below. Glaze can be made both sugar and protein.
Mint cakes: GOST recipe
The taste of some confectionery products for many people is associated exclusively with childhood. Exactly such a delicacy is the mint gingerbread cookies.
The recipe for their preparation according to GOST is as follows:
- The oven warms up to 180 °.
- Using a mixer, the yolks (2 pcs.) Are whipped with sugar (2 tbsp.) For 7 minutes.
- Sour cream (500 ml), soda (1 teaspoon), quenched with vinegar, vanilla sugar (1 teaspoon) and a pinch of salt are introduced into the egg mass.
- The last time the mass is well beaten with a mixer, after which flour (5 tbsp.) Is sifted into the bowl.
- The dough should remain a little sticky. When forming gingerbread balls, the hands are sprinkled with flour.
- The formed balls are laid out on a baking sheet and pressed by the palm to give them the necessary shape.
- A baking tray with gingerbread leaves in the oven for 25 minutes.
- The cooled gingerbread cookies are dipped in peppermint icing, after which they must again be laid out on a baking sheet covered with paper for 1 hour until completely dry.
Gingerbread icing recipe
After baking mint gingerbreads according to GOST, they are covered with sugar glaze with a slight taste and aroma of mint. The glaze recipe is as follows:
- Lemon juice (1 teaspoon), cold water (2 tablespoons) and peppermint extract (½ teaspoon) are added to sifted icing sugar (1 tbsp.).
- Sugar mass is thoroughly mixed, after which another 1-2 tbsp is added to it. tablespoons of water.
- The result should be a liquid glaze dripping from a spoon. Most often, already cooled gingerbread is completely lowered into it.
Protein glaze for gingerbread is prepared according to the following recipe:
- Powdered sugar (125 g) is sifted through a sieve into a bowl with egg white.
- Using a mixer, the ingredients are mixed for a minute until a homogeneous mass is obtained, but not to peaks. The result should be a liquid glaze, not a lush and dense protein mass.
- Gingerbread cookies are smeared with icing using a silicone brush or simply dipped in it alternately. Glaze from so many ingredients is enough to cover 30 mint gingerbread.
Gingerbread mint on kefir
Delicious homemade cakes with a light aroma of mint can be prepared according to the following recipe. In total, 80-85 pieces of gingerbread should be obtained from the specified number of ingredients. But the main thing, judging by the reviews of the culinary experts, that in a week it will be the same soft and fragrant mint gingerbread cookies.
The recipe for kefir is as follows:
- In a deep bowl, the yolks (3 pcs.) Are mixed with vanilla (2 pts.), Sugar (1 ½ tbsp.), Vegetable oil (1 ½ tbsp.).
- Next, kefir (500 ml) and milk (8 tbsp. Tablespoons) are poured into the egg mass. All ingredients are mixed, after which 1 kg of flour and 60 g of baking powder are sieved into a bowl (4 pack).
- In the process of kneading the dough, if necessary, add flour to make a soft and elastic dough. It is covered with cling film and left on the table for 1 hour. During this time, the dough should increase slightly in size.
- The oven warms up to 200 °.
- The dough is rolled out 1 cm thick. Using a glass, circles are cut out of it and laid out on a baking sheet.
- In a preheated oven, gingerbread cookies are baked for 20 minutes.
After cooling, it is recommended to cover the finished gingerbread with protein glaze.
Mint gingerbread cookies: a recipe at home
If you like gingerbread cookies from the store, this recipe is just for you. They remain fresh and fragrant for a long time, while being prepared from the simplest ingredients.
A step-by-step recipe for mint gingerbread as in a store:
- First, in a pan with a thick bottom, syrup is cooked from water (180 ml) and sugar (1 ½ tbsp.). As soon as the sugar has completely dissolved, peppermint oil (5 drops) and vegetable oil (3 tbsp.) Are added. After that, hot syrup can be removed from the heat.
- Soda (½ teaspoon) and flour (2 tbsp.) Are added to the pan with syrup. The mass is thoroughly kneaded with a spoon.
- Another 1.5 cups of flour is gradually introduced. The result is a sticky dough that needs to be left on the table for 30 minutes.
- At this time, the oven warms up to 180 °.
- Small pieces come off from a whole layer of dough, roll into a ball in hands and spread on a baking sheet.
- Gingerbread cookies are baked in the oven for 15 minutes, after which they are still hot dipped in the icing.
Simple and tasty mint gingerbread cookies
Thrifty gingerbread cookies made from the minimum amount of affordable and inexpensive ingredients are obtained no worse than from a store. What are those hostesses who have already prepared them. Gingerbread cookies are prepared step by step:
- In a pan with hot water (1256 ml), sugar (1 tbsp.spoon) is completely dissolved, after which home-made mint syrup (50 ml) is added.
- Vegetable oil (1 tbsp.spoon) is added to the cooled solution, flour (250 g) and soda (¼ tsp) are sifted. Sticky dough is kneaded.
- With wet hands, small pieces are plucked off the dough and walnut-sized balls are formed. Already on the baking sheet they need to be flattened a little by hand, giving the desired shape.
- Gingerbread cookies are baked in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees.
Homemade gingerbread cakes, the recipe of which is presented above, are smeared with mint syrup while still hot, or immediately after cooling, they are coated with sugar or protein glaze. You can store them in a sealed container for about a week, then they will remain soft.
Mint gingerbread recipe with filling
Each child will no doubt enjoy the following gingerbread cookies. They are prepared with a filling of condensed milk, chocolate paste or jam. Judging by the reviews, they turn out to be very tasty and tender.
The recipe for homemade mint gingerbread on kefir is as follows:
- A glass of warm kefir is poured into a deep bowl. Mint drops (½ teaspoon), yolk and vegetable oil (2 tablespoons) are added to it.
- Sugar (1 tbsp) is poured into a bowl of liquid ingredients, after which soda (1 tsp) and flour (3 tbsp) are sifted.
- Knead soft dough, which should not stick to your hands. It must be wrapped in plastic and sent to the refrigerator for 1 hour.
- Chilled dough rolls into a 7 mm thick formation. Then, using cuttings for cookies, figures are cut out (2 pieces of the same type).
- After that, a little filling is laid out on one figure, on top it is covered with a second figure, after which the product is pinched at the edges.
- Gingerbread cookies are baked for 20 minutes at 180 °.
Chocolate gingerbread cookies with mint flavor
Many people like the taste of peppermint with chocolate in desserts. They will especially like the following mint gingerbread cookies. The recipe for their preparation is quite simple and consists in the following:
- Dry ingredients are mixed in a bowl for kneading dough: flour (265 g), cocoa (50 g), salt (½ teaspoon) and baking powder (1 tablespoon).
- Melt 180 g of dark chocolate with butter (120 g) in a water bath.
- Using a blender, grind fresh mint (35 g) with sugar (150 g) until smooth.
- Beat eggs (3 pcs.) With vanilla sugar and combine with chocolate mass and mint puree.
- Pour the liquid mixture into a dry one, knead the dough, cover with a film and leave it on the table for 1 hour.
- Form balls weighing 40 g each. Roll each ball first in sugar and then in icing sugar.
- Put the products on a baking sheet at a distance of 3 cm from each other and send in the oven preheated to 180 ° for 15 minutes.