**Introducing Honey Gingerbread: A Culinary Symphony of Warmth and Spice**
Indulge in the irresistible charm of honey gingerbread, a classic holiday treat that exudes warmth and comfort with every bite. This delightful confection is a harmonious blend of aromatic spices, the subtle sweetness of honey, and the rich, molasses-like flavor of dark brown sugar. Its distinct gingerbread aroma, reminiscent of cozy winter nights, is a sensory symphony that evokes nostalgia and merriment.
In this comprehensive guide, we embark on a culinary journey through the world of honey gingerbread, unveiling a treasure trove of recipes that showcase its versatility and timeless appeal. From the traditional gingerbread cookies, perfect for festive decorations or gifting, to the indulgent gingerbread bundt cake, a moist and flavorful centerpiece for any gathering, we provide step-by-step instructions and expert tips to ensure your baking endeavors are crowned with success.
Prepare to tantalize your taste buds with variations of this beloved classic, including a gluten-free gingerbread loaf that caters to dietary restrictions without compromising on taste, and a gingerbread and cranberry skillet cookie that combines tangy cranberries with the warmth of gingerbread spices. We also venture into the realm of gingerbread muffins, offering a delightful grab-and-go breakfast or snack option infused with the comforting flavors of the season.
Whether you're a seasoned baker looking to expand your repertoire or a novice eager to explore the joys of homemade treats, this collection of honey gingerbread recipes will guide you every step of the way. Let your kitchen be filled with the enticing aroma of gingerbread as you embark on this culinary adventure, creating memories and moments of sheer indulgence.
HONEY-GINGERBREAD COOKIES
These gingerbread cookies include a generous amount of honey, which gives them a pale golden color and a mildly sweet flavor. If you are making the Gingerbread Town-Square Cake, you can use this template to trace and cut out the different townhouse shapes.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Yield Makes about 2 dozen town houses, 4 dozen deer or trees, or 6 dozen men
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in honey and molasses. Reduce speed to low. Gradually add flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Divide dough into 3 portions, and wrap each in plastic. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a generously floured piece of parchment, roll dough to a scant 1/4 inch thick. Brush off excess flour. Slide dough and parchment onto a baking sheet, and freeze for 15 minutes.
- Cut out desired shapes. Transfer to parchment-lined baking sheets, and freeze for 15 minutes.
- Bake cookies for 6 minutes. Remove sheets from oven, and tap them firmly on counter to flatten cookies. Return to oven, rotating sheets, and bake until crisp but not darkened, 6 to 8 minutes more. Let cool on sheets on wire racks.
- Spoon icing into a pastry bag fitted with a very small plain round tip (such as Ateco #0 or #1). Pipe designs on cookies. Let cookies stand at room temperature until set, at least 2 hours (preferably overnight).
PAIN D'ÉPICES - SPICED FRENCH GINGERBREAD LOAF WITH HONEY
A French classic and one that I will me making myself from now on, having just paid a small fortune for a tiny, if delicious loaf from my local boulangerie! This is a cross between sticky ginger parkin and a gingerbread cake or a tea loaf. It is not as moist as parkin or gingerbread, but it is extremely good when spread with butter or even better, when toasted.......divine! It is also surprisingly good when served with cheese. Another idea that I discovered in a local café, is to serve it warm with a dollop of crème fraiche and a little bunch of fresh berries on top, a perfect dessert for an elegant dinner party! This improves with keeping and makes a wonderful gift for a foodie friend or hostess - wrap in cellophane and attach a ribbon with serving suggestions. If you cannot source Quatre Épices, I have a recipe on zaar to make it at home! Recipe #283280
Provided by French Tart
Categories Breads
Time 45m
Yield 1 Pain d'epices, 8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 180C/360°F.
- Warm the milk and then add the honey, sugar and butter stirring well.
- Put the flour, baking powder, ground ginger and quatre -épices in a mixing bowl, make a well in the middle, break the egg into it, and add the milk mixture. Mix well (or just throw the whole lot into a food processor). Add the crystallised ginger and mix well once again.
- Pour into a well buttered 23-cm loaf tin and bake for 25 minutes. Lower the heat to 150C/300F and cook for a further 15 minutes. Remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack.
- Store wrapped in clingfilm to keep it moist.
HONEY-GINGERBREAD COOKIES
Martha Stewart, December 2007 These are great for for gingerbread men and houses! Martha says, "These gingerbread cookies include a generous amount of honey, which gives them a pale golden color and a mildly sweet flavor."
Provided by kelly in TO
Categories Dessert
Time 1h40m
Yield 6 dozen men
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar with a mixer on medium-high speed until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in molasses. Reduce speed to low. Gradually add flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Divide dough into 3 portions, and and wrap each in plastic. Refrigerate for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. On a floured piece of parchment, roll dough to 1/4 inch thick. Slide dough and parchment onto baking sheets, and freeze for 15 minutes. (This makes the dough much easier to work with).
- Add a little flour to your cookie cutters and cut out desired shapes. Be sure to clean off the edges of the cutter after each application. Transfer to parchment-lined baking sheets, and freeze for 15 minutes.
- Bake cookies for 6 minutes. Remove sheets from oven, and tap them firmly on counter to flatten cookies. Return to oven, rotating sheets, and bake until crisp but not darkened, 6 to 8 minutes more. Let cool on sheets on wire racks.
- Let cookies stand at room temperature until set, at least 2 hours or overnight.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1107, Fat 33.9, SaturatedFat 20.3, Cholesterol 151.8, Sodium 835.8, Carbohydrate 191.1, Fiber 4.5, Sugar 95.9, Protein 14.7
HONEY-SPICE GINGERBREAD COOKIES
The cookie cutters for these cookies are available at downtowndough.com. To make the Woodlands Gingerbread House, use one batch of this dough to make the walls, and one batch of the Boiled Gingerbread dough to make the roof and chimneys. Get the gingerbread house template here.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Time 6h
Yield Makes about fifty-eight 3- to 4-inch cookies
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Whisk together flour, salt, baking soda, and spices in a large bowl. Beat together butter and granulated sugar with a mixer until pale and fluffy. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, then honey and molasses. Reduce speed to low, and gradually add flour mixture until well combined. Divide dough into thirds, and wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate until firm but still pliable, about 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Working with a third of dough at a time, roll dough out to 1/4-inch thickness on generously floured parchment. Brush off excess flour, transfer dough on parchment to a baking sheet, and freeze until firm, about 15 minutes. Cut into shapes with cookie cutters, rerolling scraps as needed. Transfer cookies to parchment-lined baking sheets, and freeze until firm, about 15 minutes. Bake until edges turn golden, about 15 minutes, rotating once and firmly rapping baking sheet halfway through baking to flatten any bubbles in cookies. Let cookies cool completely on baking sheets set on wire racks.
- Place icing in a pastry bag fitted with a small plain round tip (Ateco #0, 1, or 2). Pipe outlines and details on cookies. Immediately sprinkle with sanding sugar, and tap off excess. Let set completely, uncovered, at room temperature, at least 4 hours or (ideally) overnight.
HONEY-GINGERBREAD COOKIE DOUGH
This recipe for honey-gingerbread cookie dough from the December 2007 issue of Martha Stewart Living is used to make Television's Gingerbread Town-Square Cake of 2007.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Dessert & Treats Recipes Cookie Recipes
Yield Makes enough for about 2 dozen townhouse cookies
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Whisk together flour, baking soda, salt, and spices in a medium bowl.
- Beat butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment at medium-high speed until fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in honey and molasses. Reduce speed to low. Gradually add flour mixture, and beat until just combined. Divide dough into 3 portions, and wrap each in plastic wrap. Refrigerate at least 1 hour before using.
HONEY GINGERBREAD
Categories Dairy Ginger Dessert Bake Spice Spring Clove Bon Appétit Kidney Friendly Vegetarian Pescatarian Peanut Free Tree Nut Free Soy Free Kosher
Yield Serves 6
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350°F. Butter 8-inch square glass baking dish. Sift first 7 ingredients into medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter and sugar in large bowl until light and fluffy. Mix in honey and 1/4 cup minced ginger. Beat in eggs. Mix in dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with dry ingredients.
- Spread batter in prepared dish. Bake until gingerbread begins to pull away from sides of dish and is springy to touch, about 50 minutes. Cool in pan on rack. Serve warm or at room temperature, cut into squares and topped with whipped cream and chopped ginger.
HONEY GINGERBREAD
I was hungry for gingerbread and didn't have any molasses. I decided to see if I could adapt a recipe and come up with something that still tasted like gingerbread without the molasses. This turned out really good. A purist may miss the molasses, but we didn't! This was dark and fragrant with spices and sweetened perfectly with...
Provided by cindy sandberg
Categories Other Snacks
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- 1. Preheat oven to 375F. Combine the honey, sugar, yogurt, oil and vanilla. In another bowl whisk together the flour(s), baking soda, salt and spices. Add the dry to the wet and mix well. Pour into greased loaf pan or 8 in square pan. Bake 30-45 min. (depending on pan size) until cake tests clean with a toothpick. Cool in pan on wire rack and top with topping of choice. Pictured is caramel glaze with gingerbread man sprinkles!
Tips:
- Use fresh ingredients: Fresh ginger and honey provide the best flavor. If you can, use local, organic ingredients for the best quality.
- Don't overmix the dough: Overmixing the dough will make the gingerbread tough. Mix just until the ingredients are combined.
- Chill the dough before rolling: Chilling the dough makes it easier to roll and prevents it from sticking to the counter.
- Use a silicone baking mat: A silicone baking mat will prevent the gingerbread from sticking to the pan. You can also grease and flour the pan if you don't have a silicone baking mat.
- Bake the gingerbread until it is set: The gingerbread is done baking when it is set in the center. A toothpick inserted into the center should come out clean.
- Let the gingerbread cool completely before decorating: The gingerbread needs to cool completely before you can decorate it. If you decorate it while it is still warm, the frosting will melt.
Conclusion:
This honey gingerbread recipe is a delicious and festive holiday treat. It is easy to make and can be decorated in many different ways. Whether you are making it for a holiday party or just for a special occasion, this gingerbread recipe is sure to be a hit.
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