Baking is a very important and favorite part of our home menu. Sweet pies and buns, pies with meat, fish and vegetables, cookies and cakes. Everything is delicious.

Baking can also be a sweet dessert to delight us after a delicious lunch and a decoration for the holiday table. It can also be the main dish if it is made from nourishing and healthy ingredients.

How to prepare the dough correctly, how long to bake, what ingredients to use - all these are the secrets that lie within the art of delicious baking.

Our grandmothers and mothers pass them on to us from generation to generation, and we continue this chain by sharing our recipes with you. After all, it is so important to preserve the traditions of generations even in such a matter as home cooking.

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1. The cupcake tastes like a fragrant gingerbread, and the structure is like a sponge cake.
2. Part of the flour is replaced with zucchini - you won’t get fat, and there are health benefits. And based on the taste, you won’t guess that zucchini has been added.
3. Cinnamon- good for the skin as well blocks fat accumulation in cells.
4. Orange zest is a source of vitamins.

Mix 1 cup of grated zucchini with 1 cup of sugar.
Add 1 egg, 2 cups flour, 2-3 tbsp. spoons of vegetable oil,
1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/4 teaspoon baking powder, and
spices: 1 teaspoon cinnamon,
2 teaspoons orange or lemon zest (I dry the orange zest, crushed in a food processor, and then grind it in a coffee grinder, turning it into flour),
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg (powder),
1/4 teaspoon of ginger. Mix the dough well with a spoon. It should be quite thick.
Pour the dough into a heated and greased river. butter the mold, bake for 1 hour - 1 hour 10 minutes in the oven at 180, or on number 7 (if the gas stove is Hephaestus).

Cookies made from ready-made puff pastry without yeast with pineapple

Preparation:
I took 500 g of ready-made puff pastry without yeast, cut it into strips and wrapped circles of canned pineapples with these strips. Let's bake. Sprinkle the finished cookies with powdered sugar. I haven't tasted anything more delicious.

Flatbread with cheese

Ingredients:
Dough: For 1 cup of kefir: 2 cups of flour; salt, sugar to taste.
Filling: Grated cheese, herbs.
Preparation:
1. Knead elastic dough. Leave for 30-40 minutes. in a warm place. 2. Then roll out the dough, grease with vegetable oil, roll into a roll and set aside for 30 minutes. in the refrigerator. 3. Cut pieces from the finished dough, make flat cakes out of them, put the filling in the middle, fry in a frying pan in vegetable oil.

Napoleon cake made from puff pastry with butter cream

Dough for layer cake Napoleon: margarine or butter: 250g.,
1 egg
1/4 cup cold water,
400-450 g flour,
vanilla,
1 tablespoon table vinegar, a pinch of soda.
Preparation:
The flour is combined with soda, quenched with vinegar, water, egg, vanilla and margarine or butter, chopping with a knife. Mix everything thoroughly.
Oil cream:
Boil a glass of milk and a glass of sugar, stirring until the sugar is completely dissolved. Then cool. Soften 200 g butter at room temperature. Beat the butter in a food processor, gradually adding a tablespoon of cooled milk and sugar. Whisk until the milk is gone. Cool the resulting cream.
The dough is divided into 7 parts and 7 cakes are baked in the oven. Place the cooled cakes on top of each other and coat them with cream. Place the remaining cream on the top cake and smooth it out. The edge of the finished cake is cut with a sharp knife. The resulting crumbs are crushed and decorated with the top of the Napoleon layer cake. The cake is wrapped in cellophane and put in the refrigerator, where Napoleon should be soaked in cream. You can keep it there for a day, it will only taste better. But it is not recommended to store the cake for a long time.
This is a classic Napoleon layer cake recipe with buttercream.

Ingredients:
Carrots (finely grated) - 2 cups.
Semolina - 1 cup.
Flour - 1 cup.
Eggs - 2 pcs
Sugar - 1 cup.
Vanilla - 1 pack.
Soda (slaked with vinegar or baking powder) - 1 tsp.
Kefir (yogurt) - 1 cup.
Butter (margarine) - 150 g

Recipe:
1. Pour kefir over semolina and leave for 20-30 minutes
2. Grind the carrots on a fine grater.
3. Beat eggs with sugar, add vanilla, melted margarine and mix.
4. Quench the soda with vinegar and pour into the mixture.
5. Add sifted flour, mix and add carrots.
6. You can add raisins or dried apricots, poppy seeds - pre-cooked in sweet water.
7. Add the already swollen semolina and mix gently with a spoon.
8. Prepare the mold, grease with vegetable oil. I use a regular frying pan with thick walls. Spread the mixture and bake at 180-190 degrees for 40-45 minutes.

Curd donuts in vegetable oil

Dough:
250 g cottage cheese
flour: 2-3 cups, depending on the moisture content of the cottage cheese
egg 1-2 pcs.
sugar 3 tbsp, or to taste
baking powder 2 tsp.

Knead the dough, adding ingredients one at a time. Lastly, add flour. The dough should be soft and not stick to your hands. Roll out the dough into a layer 1 cm thick. Cut into strips. Fry in vegetable oil until browned. Over medium heat. Sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Puff pastry baskets with different fillings

Place your favorite filling on a sheet of prepared puff pastry. Cover with a second sheet of puff pastry and cut out “cupcakes” with a mold; they are baked in the oven on a baking sheet greased with vegetable oil. Vegetable filling: chopped cabbage, carrots, onions with salt and spices are stewed until tender in a frying pan. Mushroom filling: Boiled mushrooms are fried with onions and spices, and herbs are added. Potato filling: chopped potatoes, onions, carrots, fry and add spices and herbs to taste. Puff pastry baskets are served hot.

Oatmeal cake with carrots

2 tbsp. wheat flour, 1.5 tbsp. oatmeal, 1 pc. grated zucchini and carrots, 1.5 tbsp. milk, 1 egg, 0.5 tbsp. softened margarine, 0.5 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. l. baking powder, 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, 0.5 tsp. grated nutmeg, salt, ginger.

Pour milk over oatmeal and let stand for 5 minutes. Add egg and margarine. Add the flour mixture with sugar, baking powder, salt and spices. Add vegetables and knead the dough. Bake oatmeal muffins in pans for 20 minutes at 220 degrees. When serving, sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Cottage cheese - 200 g
Egg - 2 pcs.
Sour cream - 2 tbsp. spoons
Vegetable oil - 2 tbsp. spoons
Wheat flour - 300 g.
Sugar - 0.5 cups or to taste
Rose petal flour - 2 teaspoons or 1 packet of vanilla
Pumpkin, grated on a coarse grater - 4-5 tbsp. spoons
Soda - 2/3 teaspoon

Combine cottage cheese and 2 eggs, add 2 tbsp. spoons of sour cream, 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vegetable oil, flour, sugar, quenched baking soda, vanilla or rose petal flour, grated aromatic pumpkin.
Mix everything and place in the mold. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes, check doneness with chopsticks.

Quick oat bread

Ingredients:
Water (boiling water) 350 ml
Oat flakes Hercules (requiring cooking) 70g
flour 300-330 gr
dry yeast 2 tsp.
sea ​​salt 1.5 tsp.
sugar 2 tsp
olive oil 1 tbsp.
mold volume 30 cm/11 cm

Cooking method:
1. Pour boiling water over oatmeal, add salt, sugar, olive oil. Stir, cover and leave to cool (usually done overnight)
2. when the mass has become slightly warm, we begin to make the dough; if the rolled oats are soaked overnight, then warm them up a little. Pour in the yeast, mix and add the flour in portions. Mix with a spoon.
3. The dough should be very soft. Prepare a baking dish. Lay paper on the bottom, coat the pan and paper with olive oil so that the crust is very crispy. Pour a little oil into your palms, take our dough and place it in the mold. He doesn't look very presentable, but don't be upset! Then everything will level out.
4. Grease with olive oil and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Cover and leave to rise for 40-50 minutes.
5. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Bake for 40-45 minutes, until golden brown.
6. To keep the crust crispy, let the bread cool on a wire rack.

Recipes from country weeds

When it comes to homemade cookies, these are my top 5 recipes! Feast like this

Why do you sometimes want homemade cookies so badly? Its taste cannot be compared with store-bought ones... “Eh, not everyone can afford to cook homemade cookies, it takes too much time!” - you will think. We hasten to dissuade you: there are not only incredibly simple, but also quick recipes for making cookies with a taste that you want to taste again and again.
Stock up on quality ingredients you'll need for baking and treat yourself and your loved ones to delicious homemade cookies. 5 recipes that are familiar to everyone since childhood!
Italian cookies

Ingredients

250 g flour
100 g sugar
100 g butter
10 g baking powder
3–4 tbsp. l. warm water
2–3 tsp. cinnamon
a pinch of salt

Preparation

Sift flour with baking powder. Add a pinch of salt. Soften the butter in a steam bath, add warm water to it. Prepare the dough and set it aside for 10 minutes, stir the sugar and cinnamon. Form the dough into rings 10 cm long and 1 cm wide. Roll the rings in cinnamon sugar and pinch the ends. Bake these cute cookies for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.

Cookies with jam

Ingredients

100 g margarine
2.5 tbsp. flour
1 egg
0.5 tbsp. Sahara
0.5 tbsp. any jam
0.5 tsp. soda
a pinch of salt
oil for greasing the pan

Preparation

Mash the margarine with a fork. Beat the egg with sugar, add margarine, soda and a pinch of salt. Gradually add flour. Knead the dough and divide it in half. Roll out a rectangle to the size of the baking sheet, brush it with jam. Pass the rest of the dough through a meat grinder and place on top of the jam. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes until golden brown at 180 degrees. Cut the finished cookies into small portions.

Cookies with processed cheese


Ingredients

250 g margarine
100 g caster sugar/sugar
2 processed cheese
1 tbsp. flour

Preparation

An extremely easy cookie recipe! Grate lightly frozen margarine and processed cheese. Add flour and sugar to them, knead the dough. Roll out the cake, cut out figures from the dough and bake them for 15 minutes at 200 degrees. Decorate the finished cookies with marmalade.

Honey cookies

Ingredients

2 eggs
1 cup of sugar
1 cup flour (heaped)
2 tbsp. l. honey
1 tsp. vanillin
1 tsp. baking powder
vegetable oil

Preparation

Beat eggs with sugar, add vanillin and honey. Mix the mixture and add a little vegetable oil to it. The dough should be slightly greasy to the touch. Grease a baking sheet with vegetable oil, cut out circles and bake them for 10–15 minutes at 180 degrees. If desired, you can add nuts and dried fruits to the dough.

Curd cookies


Ingredients

250 g wheat flour
230 g cottage cheese
130 g butter
0.5 cups sugar
1 tsp. vanilla sugar
0.5 tsp. soda

Preparation

Combine the sifted flour with the butter, cut into cubes. Pour vanilla sugar into the dough, add grated cottage cheese and soda. Knead the dough, making sure it is not sticky. Roll out a thin cake 3 mm thick, cut out round cookies with a glass. Dip a circle in sugar on one side and roll the cookies so that the part with sugar is inside. Dip the dough into sugar again. Bake cookies for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.

Thinking about what dessert to serve with tea? Make homemade cupcakes. They are very tasty, soft, satisfying and perfect for family tea drinking. We will present you the simplest recipes for cupcakes in molds.

Silicone molds are the best option for baking. The cake won't burn in them, the middle will be well baked, and you won't have to spend money on baking paper.

Products for the recipe:

• four eggs;
• flour - 0.15 kg;
• granulated sugar - 0.2 kg;
• baking powder - 10 g.

Step by step steps:

1. Break the chicken eggs into a separate bowl. Shake the mixture with a whisk until white foam with bubbles appears.
2. Gradually add sugar while continuing to whisk. The granulated sugar should completely dissolve.
3. Pour baking powder into the flour and add everything together to the egg mixture.
4. Use a spoon to form the dough; it should be runny.
5. You can take one large silicone mold and then cut the cupcake into pieces with a knife, or take several small ones and bake beautiful little cupcakes.
6. Place the dough into the molds.
7. Turn on the oven in advance and set its temperature to 180 degrees.
8. Cook the dough in the oven for 25 minutes.
9. You can check how ready the treat is using a toothpick - just stick it into the cupcake. If the toothpick is dry, it means the dessert is completely baked.
10. Remove from the molds. You can decorate it in a variety of ways - sprinkle with powdered sugar, pour over chocolate or condensed milk.

A simple recipe - in a mug in 5 minutes

This recipe is for those who urgently need to serve something tasty for tea.

Grocery list:

• sugar - 50 g;
• dry cocoa - 30 g;
• one egg;
• vanilla - 3 g;
• flour - 100 g;
• milk - 70 ml;
• half a chocolate bar;
• vegetable oil - 40 ml.

Cooking method:

1. Pour flour, sugar and cocoa into a large non-iron mug. Mix dry ingredients.
2. Add the egg, add butter and milk.
3. Use a spoon to form a lump-free dough.
4. Add vanilla and chopped chocolate pieces.
5. Close the mug with the future cupcake in the microwave. Set the timer for 3 minutes.
6. Remove the finished dish from the mug. The entire cooking process takes 5 minutes. Bon appetit!

With milk

Recipe Ingredients:

• sugar - 160 gr;
• slaked soda - 8 g;
• milk - 0.2 l;
• sunflower oil - 90 ml;
• two eggs;
• vanilla sugar - 8 g;
• flour - 350 gr.

How to make a milk cake:

1. Mix two types of sugar together.
2. Pour them into a bowl of milk and break the eggs into it.
3. Pour soda with sifted flour and pour in sunflower oil.
4. Knead the airy dough, first stirring with a spoon and then with your hands.
5. Prepare the molds in advance. They can be made of silicone or ordinary iron. Grease them with oil inside.
6. Fill out the forms with dough.
7. Bring the oven on to 180 degrees. Cook the pastries for 25 minutes. Bon appetit!

On kefir

With kefir, the dough comes out more tender and fluffy.

You will need:

• butter or margarine - 0.1 kg;
• kefir - 220 ml;
• sugar - 150 gr;
• three eggs;
• baking powder - 24 g;
• first grade flour - 270 g;
• vanilla sugar - 20 gr.

How to make cupcakes with kefir:

1. Pour raw eggs from their shells into a mixture of regular and vanilla sugar.
2. Take a piece of butter out of the refrigerator, soften it in the microwave and pour it over the eggs.
3. Add kefir to the same bowl. Bring all ingredients until smooth.
4. Gradually add flour, followed by baking powder.
5. Thus, by kneading we get a slightly liquid, homogeneous dough.
6. Place the cake mixture in a baking dish lined with special paper.
7. Preheat the oven to medium temperatures. Cook the pechevo for 50 minutes.
8. After using a toothpick to determine that the cupcakes are ready, cool them, remove them from the mold and sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Homemade chocolate cupcakes

This incredibly tasty and beautiful chocolate cupcake will look great on any holiday table.

Required ingredients:

• granulated sugar - 180 gr;
• milk - 150 ml;
• cocoa - 65 gr;
• two chicken eggs;
• baking powder - 9 g;
• margarine - 60 g;
• wheat flour - 0.2 kg;
• chocolate drops - 100 gr.

How to make cupcake batter:

1. Melt margarine in a water bath or in the microwave.
2. Pour milk into margarine, add eggs.
3. In another bowl, combine flour, cocoa powder and sugar, crushed on a sieve.
4. Add bulk products to the container with liquid ingredients. Mix.
5. Take special paper muffin cups and pour batter into each of them.
6. Do not add it to the edges of the molds; the dough will still rise in the oven.
7. Set the oven temperature to 180 degrees and bake for 15 minutes.
8. You can add chocolate chips to the dough as a surprise.

Delicate and fluffy delicacy in a slow cooker

Amazingly delicious muffins are made in a slow cooker. In this recipe we will bake one large muffin. A multicooker bowl will serve as a baking dish.

You will need:

• condensed milk - 380 g;
• soda - 5 g;
• flour - 200 gr;
• egg - 2 pcs;
• salt - 3 g;
• half a lemon with skin.

Algorithm of actions:

1. Pre-treat the walls of the bowl with vegetable oil.
2. In a separate deep container, bring the raw eggs to a yellow mass with foam using a mixer.
3. Pour condensed milk there.
4. Peel the lemon, grind the rind into zest, and squeeze out the juice separately.
5. Add both zest and juice to the main mixture.
6. Separately combine flour, baking soda and salt.
7. Pour them into the future dough and process with a mixer.
8. Pour the finished dough into the slow cooker. Set its mode to the “Baking” function. Time - 50 minutes.
9. Use a toothpick to check if the cake is ready; if the stick is wet, continue cooking for another 10 minutes.
10. Cut the warm cake into pieces and serve.

How to bake raisin cupcakes at home?

Main products:

• chicken eggs - 3 pcs.;
• margarine - 0.2 kg;
• raisins - 200 gr;
• flour - 0.26 kg;
• sugar - 0.2 kg;
• vanilla sugar - 10 g;
• baking powder - 16 gr.

How to bake a cupcake at home:

1. Sort out the raisins, add warm water and leave for 20 minutes.
2. Roll the dried raisins in flour and leave them there.
3. Soften the margarine and mix it with both types of sugar.
4. Break the eggs into the main mass. Mix everything.
5. Add raisins, baking powder, processed flour. Make the dough.
6. Grease a special mold with sunflower oil and place the dough in it.
7. Bake the cake at 180 degrees for 45 minutes.

milk - 40 ml;

two eggs;

lemon zest - 15 g;

butter 60 g;

baking powder - 12 g;

salt - 6 gr.

How to make a cake in a bread machine:

1. Combine flour, salt and baking powder in a bowl.
2. In another bowl, add milk, eggs and sugar. Bring the mixture until smooth with a slight foam.
3. Pour flour mixed with salt and baking powder into milk, stirring with a whisk.
4. Sprinkle in lemon zest and coconut.
5. Pour the resulting dough into the mold.
6. Place the pan in the bread maker and cook in the “Cake” program. Bon appetit!

With liquid filling - a la fondant

Main products:

• four eggs;
• one and a half bars of dark chocolate;
• flour - 90 g;
• butter - 170 g;
• powdered sugar - 0.2 kg.

Cooking method:

1. Melt a piece of butter.
2. Turn on the oven in advance to preheat it.
3. Break the eggs, add powdered sugar and pass through this mixture with a mixer.
4. Melt the chocolate bars in a water bath and mix them with soft butter.
5. Pour the warm chocolate mixture over the eggs.
6. Slowly add flour, stirring gently with a spoon.
7. Take silicone molds and grease them with liquid oil.
8. Sprinkle the molds with cocoa powder.
9. Place the chocolate dough and place the molds and their contents into the oven.
10. Cooking time: 10 minutes.
11. The edges of the cake will be baked, but the center will remain runny.