Honey cookies: cooking recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Honey biscuits are an extraordinary delicacy that anyone can make at home at no extra cost. The whole process takes little time. The main thing is to knead the shortbread dough correctly. Let's look at a few recipes for this popular dessert.

Let's start with little tricks

Before we start considering the honey cookie recipe, the photo of which is presented above, here are a few recommendations:

1. Dough for such baking can be prepared with a margin and frozen. After thawing, the workpieces rise perfectly during the baking process. If you have a lot to do and do not always have time to pamper your household with goodies, you can knead the dough with a margin. You can freeze it with bars and balls. The most important thing is to wrap with parchment, film or foil.
2. In the process of heating, a mixture of butter and honey can be flavored with your favorite spice. In the case of cookies, it is more appropriate to use cinnamon, ginger or licorice. But never mix them. And of course, don't add too much, as the honey flavor should dominate.
3. Don't serve honey cookies with sugary drinks. Such pastries go well with fruit drinks, low-fat sour-milk products, with tea, but without sugar, as well as withmilk.
4. The finished delicacy has a pleasant golden hue. Cookies do not need additional decoration. In addition, poppy seeds and coconut flakes will not linger on it, and powdered sugar will make the dessert cloying.

Classic of the genre

This honey cookie recipe will be a real find for those who value their time. For such baking you will need:

• flour (exclusively premium) - approximately 200 g;
• honey, preferably liquid - about 2 tbsp. l.;
• margarine - 100 g;
• egg;
• baking powder - enough - 1 tsp;
• powdered sugar - no more than 3 tbsp. l.;
• sea s alt.

Knead dough

Preparing honey cookies based on margarine, but it can also be replaced with butter made from cream. Chop it up. For this, a regular grater is suitable. For convenience, lightly freeze the product. Add egg, honey and a little s alt to the mass. Pour the baking powder and sifted flour here, and then powdered sugar. Pay attention to the last component. Ordinary sugar is not suitable for making such cookies.

If you don't have baking powder on hand, you can replace it with baking soda. Knead the dough. However, keep in mind that it is not recommended to knead it for a long time. Otherwise, it will become too hard and the cookies will not be very tasty.

From the finished dough, roll a ball, and then place it in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.

We form andbaking cookies

When the dough has cooled, you can start rolling it out. Place the dough on the work surface. Roll it out with a rolling pin and cut out shapes. To do this, you can use special molds or a regular glass.

Grease a baking sheet with oil, and then transfer the dough pieces to it. Bake a treat at 180˚C. This takes no more than 15 minutes. Serve dessert with tea, milk or coffee.

Second cooking method

Honey cookies can be prepared in a different way. In this case, from the products you will need:

• flour - about 1.5 cups;
• butter or margarine - 80g;
• sugar, preferably brown - no more than 60 g;
• honey - 1/2 cup;
• baking powder - just 1 tsp;
• cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• s alt.

From the listed ingredients, you can make fragrant, soft and fairly simple cookies.

So let's get started…

Take prepared butter (in extreme cases, you can replace margarine), brown sugar, honey. Put everything in a metal container and put on the stove. Heat until fat dissolves. Bring the mixture to a boil. Be sure to stir to achieve uniformity.

Separately mix baking powder, cinnamon and sifted flour. Add s alt to the mixture, pour in the oily mass. Knead the dough. The mass should be homogeneous, elastic, but not rigid.

Divide the dough into balls the size of a walnut. Carefully flatten the blanks. Grease a baking sheet with oil. You can line it with parchment if you like. Put all the blanks on it. Place the baking sheet with the treat in the preheated oven. Bake dessert at 200 ˚С. In time, it takes no more than 8 minutes.

Cream biscuits

Nothing could be more appetizing than homemade honey cookies! The photo is proof of this. To prepare such a delicacy, you will need a minimum of products:

• flour - how much dough will take;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• cream (can be replaced with sour cream) - 250 g;
• honey – 350g

Mix oil and honey, then whisk. Add cream, soda and flour here. Be sure to sift the last component. Knead the components not too steep dough. Roll it out, cut out mugs from the resulting layer with a glass. Put everything on a baking sheet, grease it first with oil, bake at 180 ˚С.

In closing

At the moment, there are many recipes for such a treat as honey cookies. You can add vanilla, any nuts to it. But it is worth paying special attention to honey. This component must be natural and liquid. If you have candied honey available, then it should be used in those recipes where the mass is heated. This will knead the elastic dough.