Gingerbread - Recipe for the Holidays
Gingerbread is the true essence of Christmas flavor and tradition. Prepared from natural ingredients, it gains a deep aroma and exceptional consistency thanks to the aging process. Long ripening gingerbread requires a bit of patience, but the end result, full of spicy notes and home warmth, makes every day of waiting worth it.
Gingerbread recipe
Ingredients
Ingredients for the maturing gingerbread
- 300 g wheat cake flour
- 80 g whole wheat flour
- a pinch of salt
- 1 heaped teaspoon of baking soda
- 300 g honey
- 100 g butter
- 40 g milk
- 1 egg
- 20 g gingerbread spice mix
Ingredients for the filling
- 300 g plum jam
Ingredients for the icing
- 200 g chocolate 64%
- 80 g butter
- 1 tablespoon honey
Preparing the gingerbread
Preparing the gingerbread sheets
Melt the butter in a pot, do not boil. When the butter cools down slightly, add the honey and mix well. Combine the liquid ingredients, i.e. milk and egg. Add to the butter-honey mixture.
Prepare the dry ingredients. Combine the flour, salt, gingerbread spice and baking soda and mix in a bowl. Then mix everything together until smooth. A thick and compact dough will form.
Place the resulting gingerbread dough in a container and cover it with a cloth made of natural fabric. It is important that moisture from the dough can escape through it.
Place the gingerbread dough in the refrigerator for about 7 days to mature and absorb the spices.
After a week, remove the dough from the fridge, knead lightly to form a ball and divide into 3 pieces. Bake in narrow cake tins lined with baking paper. Baking time: about 25 minutes in a preheated oven at 180C.
Baked gingerbread layers are sandwiched with plum jam. Wrap the dough in baking paper, place in a baking tin and weigh it down with something heavy so that the gingerbread layers stick together nicely and absorb the aroma of plums. Place in the fridge, preferably for a whole day.
Preparing the icing
Place the chocolate, honey and chopped butter in a pot. Stir constantly and heat the mixture over low heat until the chocolate melts and a smooth glaze is created.
Then pour the prepared chocolate icing. Decorate with chopped walnuts.
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