Chocolate pryaniki – much tastier than store-bought

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These pryaniki with cocoa are chocolatey, fluffy and soft. You can easily make them at home using ordinary ingredients. They taste delicious all year round. You can find a detailed chocolate pryaniki recipe with the exact quantities and step-by-step instructions below.

Chocolate pryaniki recipe

Homemade instead of bought

Although you can buy pryaniki with chocolate flavor, just like the Bird’s milk sweets and the halva with sunflower seeds, in any Russian store and in some German supermarkets, they taste much better if you make them at home. You will also know what ingredients are in them. You can adjust the amount of sugar and cocoa to taste.

Adjust the amount of cocoa powder

Depending on how chocolaty you like your pryaniki, you can use a little more or less cocoa powder, just like for the kartoshka made from cookies. Only use unsweetened baking cocoa with no additives. After all, this ingredient is the most important in the recipe and determines the taste of the gingerbread cookies.

Russian pastry with cocoa

How to serve and store chocolate pryaniki?

You can enjoy the pryaniki with chocolate flavor at any time of year. They are ideal for dessert after a meal with a cup of tea or coffee, similar to the Napoleon puff pastry slices and the nut rogaliki. They are also perfect for snacking between meals. You can also easily take the chocolate pryaniki with you on the go.

Once the sugar icing has dried well, which can take up to 24 hours, pack the cookies in an airtight container. Just like the honey walnut gingerbread, the chocolate pryaniki stay fresh and fluffy for a long time thanks to the icing. Store them at room temperature.

These pryaniki are

  • chocolaty,
  • fluffy,
  • soft,
  • tender,
  • moderately sweet,
  • incredibly tasty,
  • aromatic,
  • long shelf life,
  • more delicious than those from the supermarket,
  • quick and easy to make,
  • ideal for a tea party, for snacking between meals or to take with you on the go,
  • popular gingerbread cookies of Russian cuisine.

Pryaniki with chocolate flavor

Easy chocolate pryaniki recipe

The chocolate pryaniki recipe, which you can find here at the end of the post in the recipe box, is very simple. You’ll quickly have the popular Russian pastry on your coffee table that tastes better than store-bought.

Step 1:

To make the dough, mix together milk, sugar, egg, vegetable oil and salt. Then add flour, cocoa powder and baking soda and knead into a soft, sticky dough, which you leave to rest for around 15 minutes.

Step 2:

Now roll out the dough on a floured work surface to a thickness of about 1 cm and cut out round cookies. Bake the chocolate pryaniki for around 15 minutes and leave to cool.

Step 3:

Boil the icing from sugar and water until it reaches 230 °F (110 °C). Then leave to cool to around 176 °F (80 °C). Now coat the chocolate pryaniki with the sugar icing and leave to dry.

How to make chocolate pryaniki

How to make chocolate pryaniki: tips and tricks

  • Only use unsweetened baking cocoa without additives for the recipe.
  • You can adjust the amount of cocoa powder slightly, depending on how chocolaty you like your pryaniki.
  • The amount of flour specified in the recipe may vary. Only add enough of the last portion of flour to the chocolate mixture until you have a soft, sticky dough.
  • Do not roll out the dough too thinly so that your chocolate pryaniki do not become too flat. They should be at least 1 cm thick before baking.
  • Depending on the size of your pryaniki with chocolate flavor, the baking time specified in the recipe may vary.
  • Do not bake the pryaniki longer than necessary. Do a stick test to check whether they are done baking.

Did you make the chocolate pryaniki using this recipe? I look forward to your result, your star rating and your comment below on how they turned out and tasted.

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Chocolate pryaniki recipe

Chocolate pryaniki

The pryaniki with cocoa are chocolatey, fluffy and soft. You can easily make them at home with this recipe using ordinary ingredients. The chocolate pryaniki taste delicious all year round.
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Resting time 15 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine Russian
Servings 25 pryaniki

Ingredients
  

  • 250 ml milk
  • 200 g sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 40 g cocoa powder
  • 40 ml vegetable oil
  • approx. 530 g flour
  • 15 g baking powder
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • flour for the work surface

for the sugar icing

  • 150 g sugar
  • 75 ml water

Instructions
 

  • Mix milk, sugar, egg, vegetable oil and salt to form a homogeneous mixture.
  • Mix 200 g flour, cocoa powder and baking powder.
  • Add the flour mixture to the milk mixture and stir.
  • Now add the remaining flour in portions and knead into a soft, sticky dough.
  • Cover the dough and leave to rest at room temperature for 15 minutes.
  • Roll out the dough on a well-floured work surface to a thickness of approx. 1 cm and cut out round cookies.
  • Spread the chocolate pryaniki out on a baking sheet lined with baking paper, bake in a preheated oven at 356 °F (180 °C) for approx. 15 minutes and leave to cool.

Preparation of the sugar icing

  • Put sugar and water in a small saucepan and bring to a boil over a medium heat, stirring constantly, so that the sugar dissolves before the syrup boils.
  • Leave the sugar icing to boil over a medium heat without stirring until it reaches 230 °F (110 °C).
  • Remove the sugar icing from the heat and leave to cool to 158 °F - 176 °F (70 °C - 80 °C) for approx. 7 - 10 minutes.

Coating the chocolate pryaniki with the icing

  • Brush a glass bowl quickly with the sugar icing so that the chocolate pryaniki do not stick.
  • Put some pryaniki in the bowl, pour some sugar icing on top and swirl the bowl back and forth if the icing is still too hot. Then quickly rub the icing onto the pryaniki with your hands as soon as it is no longer hot.
  • Spread the chocolate pryaniki in the sugar icing on a sheet of baking paper.
  • Repeat the process quickly with the remaining chocolate pryaniki and the remaining sugar icing.
  • Leave the chocolate pryaniki with the sugar icing to dry.

Notes

  • Only use unsweetened baking cocoa without additives.
  • You can adjust the amount of cocoa powder slightly, depending on how chocolaty you like your pryaniki.
  • The amount of flour specified may vary. Only add enough of the last portion of flour to the chocolate mixture until you have a soft, sticky dough.
  • Do not roll out the dough too thinly so that your chocolate pryaniki do not become too flat. They should be at least 1 cm thick before baking.
  • Depending on the size of your pryaniki with chocolate flavor, the baking time specified may vary.
  • Do not bake the pryaniki longer than necessary. Do a stick test to check whether they are done baking.
  • The time for cooling the chocolate pryaniki and the sugar icing is not included in the preparation time.
  • Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the chocolate pryaniki at the top of the article.

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