Fragrant gingerbread cake covered with sugar glaze is a wonderful treat for tea.
It is necessary
- - 250 g butter;
- - 200 g brown sugar;
- - 7 tablespoons of lemon juice;
- - 1 bag of vanilla sugar;
- - 4 eggs;
- - 250 g of ground almonds;
- - 180 g of corn flour;
- - 1 bag of baking powder for dough;
- - a pinch of salt;
- - 2 tablespoons of grated ginger root;
- - a pinch of a mixture of spices for baking;
- - 250 g icing sugar.
Instructions
Step 1
To make a dough, thoroughly grind softened butter with sugar. Add 3 tablespoons lemon and vanilla. Add eggs to the mass, one at a time, while mixing everything thoroughly after adding each egg.
Step 2
Add ground almonds, cornmeal, a pinch of salt, and baking powder. Grate the ginger root on a fine grater and add it to the mass.
Step 3
Add a pinch of baking spices. You can buy a ready-made spice mix at the store or you can make it yourself. To do this, you need to take in equal proportions ground cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. you need to add very little spices to the dough, because otherwise you can easily interrupt the aroma of ginger.
Step 4
Take 4 silicone muffin molds, grease them with butter and fill 2-3 times with dough. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the muffins in it for 30 minutes. Take out the forms, leave to cool slightly. Then flip the muffins onto the wire rack. leave the baked goods on it until they cool completely.
Step 5
Decorate the finished gingerbread muffins with icing. Sift the icing sugar through a sieve. Mix it with 4 tablespoons of lemon juice. Cover the cooled muffins with this icing and let dry completely.
