Spiced Honey Gingerbread Cake

Fragrant, lush, beautiful, made from simple ingredients! Honey gingerbread is a pie that is baked from gingerbread dough with a lot of honey and spices, which is why it acquires its unique spicy taste. The mat remains soft for a long time, unlike conventional baked goods.
cook time: 1h
Miles Denholm
Spiced Honey Gingerbread Cake

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

328
Calories
1g
Fat
67g
Carbs
5g
Protein

Ingredients (6 portions)

Basic:

Sugar 100 g
Cinnamon 0.5 tsp
Wheat flour 250 g
Water 70 ml
Honey 150 g
Soda 1 tsp
Carnation 3 pc
Black tea 1 tsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to bake honey gingerbread? Prepare your food. Choose good quality, natural honey, it is better if it is liquid. If your honey is candied, melt it in a water bath. Take black tea without additives. You can take brown sugar, the gingerbread will acquire a caramel taste.

Step 2

Step 2
Boil water and brew tea using a teaspoon of tea leaves and 70 ml of boiling water. Let the tea brew.

Step 3

Step 3
Add honey, sugar and tea leaves to the saucepan, straining it through a strainer.

Step 4

Step 4
Place the saucepan on the fire. Cook, stirring, until the mixture boils. After boiling, cook for a couple more minutes. Keep the heat low; the mixture boils vigorously and may escape. Then turn off the heat and leave to cool until warm.

Step 5

Step 5
Add soda to the cooled mixture and mix well. After some time, foam will rise. Add cinnamon and crushed cloves. Stir.

Step 6

Step 6
Sift the flour. It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baked goods will turn out airy and rise well during baking.

Step 7

Step 7
Pour the honey mixture into the flour and knead the dough. It turns out fluid, like thick sour cream.

Step 8

Step 8
Grease the mold with vegetable oil. Pour the dough into the mold, smooth the surface with a spatula. I took a detachable one, 20 cm in diameter.

Step 9

Step 9
Bake the gingerbread in the oven at 180°C for 30-40 minutes. Check readiness with a wooden stick — stick it into the middle of the pie; when removing it, it should be dry. Cool the finished gingerbread a little and remove from the mold. Bon appetit!

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