Cookies with spices and honey are the main Christmas and New Year's pastries. A large number of spices, ginger, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, anise are the main symbols of the holiday.
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Cookies with honey and spices are traditional New Year's baked goods, which every self-respecting housewife bakes. Warm, spicy aroma and great taste leave no one indifferent. Such pastries can be prepared in advance, since the presence of honey makes them more resistant to winding. Therefore, the cookies do not stale for a long time, they remain aromatic and tasty.
The dough for New Year's cookies can be very different, most often it is shortbread or chopped. There are recipes where honey is not added to the dough, but syrup is made from it, which is poured over the cookies after baking and left to freeze on the surface.
It is not a little important for New Year's cookies to choose themed molds with the symbols of the holiday. It can be different figures, like animals, little men, Christmas trees, stars. If you wish, you can cover the pastries with icing or chocolate, or apply a drawing. It is advisable to devote a whole day to Christmas baking, because Cookies should be prepared slowly and in a good mood.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 389 kcal.
- Servings - 400 g
- Cooking time - 20 minutes for kneading the dough, 1 hour for keeping in the refrigerator, 20-30 minutes for baking
Ingredients:
- Flour - 200 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Butter - 70 g
- Honey - 3 tablespoons
- Baking soda - 1 tsp
- Ginger powder - 2 tsp
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Cloves - 0.5 tsp
- Allspice peas - 0.5 tsp
- Cardamom - 0.5 tsp
Cooking Christmas cookies with spices and honey
1. First, grind the spices: clove buds, allspice peas, cardamom seeds. This can be done with a coffee grinder, mortar, grinder or hammer.
2. Place flour, baking soda, ginger powder, ground cinnamon and ground spices into a bowl.
3. Stir in the flour and spices.
4. Beat an egg into a small container, add honey and butter at room temperature. Mix the food with a mixer. You don't need to beat them, just stir them to make it more convenient to work with the dough.
5. Pour the liquid mass into a bowl with flour.
6. Knead the dough until smooth. It may seem too liquid to you, that's okay, then it will become denser and it will be convenient to work with it. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate for 1 hour. During this time, the butter will harden and the dough will become stronger.
7. After this time, roll out the dough into a thin layer. Here you can choose the height yourself. If you want soft cookies, roll out the dough 5-7 mm, crunchy - 3-4 mm. Cut out the cookies with special themed cutters.
8. If you want to hang cookies on a Christmas tree, make holes in it with a drinking straw. Then put it on a baking sheet and send it to bake in a heated oven up to 180 ° C for 15-30 minutes. The baking time depends on the thickness of the cookie. Therefore, control the process yourself. When it turns rosy, remove from the oven.
9. Chill the finished biscuits, cover with icing if desired and serve.
See also the video recipe on how to make crumbly, flavored Christmas cookies.
