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Delicious, very aromatic and a sweet eye-catcher are these honey cookies with cinnamon and other spices. They are easy and quick to make with ordinary ingredients. Snack on the honey pastry in between meals or serve it for dessert after dinner with a cup of coffee and tea.
It also passes perfectly as Christmas cookies and as a homemade gift from the kitchen. You can find a detailed honey cookies recipe with exact quantities and step-by-step instructions here at the very bottom.
What honey for cookies do I use?
Use a good quality aromatic honey for the cookie recipe. You can choose the type of honey according to your taste. The thicker your honey, the less flour you will need for the dough, and the fluffier the cookies will be.
Spices provide even more flavor
In addition to honey, various spices make these cookies even more flavorful. I made them with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg.
Of course, you can use other spices of your choice instead. For example, add vanilla, cardamom or gingerbread spice to the dough.
In addition to spices, you can add lemon or orange zest to the honey pastry for more flavor.
How to shape and decorate honey cookies?
From the honey dough you can make cookies of any shape. For example, use Christmas cookie cutters. Or cut out round cookies with a drinking glass, as I did this time. You can also just cut the rolled out dough into squares and bake the cookies in the shape of square or diamond.
To give the honey pastry a shiny golden color, I brushed them with an egg before baking. With a fork I drew a nice grid pattern on their surface. But all this is not a must. The honey cookies taste delicious without any decoration.
Winter honey pastry for the Advent season
With their spicy scent of honey and winter spices, the honey cookies are perfect for the Advent season. Already while baking the pastry, an irresistible aroma spreads in the kitchen, creating a Christmas mood.
The honey cookies not only taste delicious, but are also an eye-catcher to bite into. So you can also give them as a gift to your loved ones. Pack them in a pretty glass cookie jar and surprise those with a sweet tooth with this special gift from the kitchen.
These honey cookies are
- fluffy,
- soft,
- spicy,
- very tasty,
- incredibly aromatic,
- easy and quick to make with common ingredients,
- a sweet eye-catcher on the dining table,
- ideal for snacking in between, for dessert or as a gift,
- perfect for the Advent season.
Simple honey cookies recipe
The honey pastry recipe is very simple and quick. In about 30 minutes you can have the cookies on the table. Here you can get a rough idea of how the making goes, and what you need for it. The exact quantities and step-by-step instructions for making the aromatic honey cookies can be found in the recipe box below.
You will need
- honey,
- room-warm butter,
- sugar,
- egg,
- flour,
- baking soda (sodium bicarbonate),
- any spices – I had cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg,
- pinch of salt.
To coat the cookies, add an egg as an alternative.
How to make honey cookies: here’s how (Check out the detailed recipe at the bottom.)
- First, mix butter with sugar, then stir in honey, spices, salt, then egg, and then baking soda. Now add flour in batches and knead it into a soft dough.
- Roll out the dough, cut out cookies, brush with beaten egg and bake at 180 °C for about 10 minutes. Done!
How to make honey cookies: tips and tricks
- Use good quality honey, preferably not too runny, for the recipe.
- You can also refine the honey pastry with other spices of your choice.
- You can adjust the amount of sugar to your taste.
- The amount of flour given in the recipe may vary, especially depending on how liquid your honey is. The cookie dough must be very soft, not mushy, not dry and not too firm.
- Do not knead the dough too long, but only briefly to a homogeneous consistency, so that the cookies taste tender after baking.
- Don’t roll the dough too thin or the honey cookies might taste dry.
- Brushing the cookies with an egg before baking will give them a nice golden color. You can also omit the brushing.
- Do not bake the honey cookies longer than necessary or they may taste dry. Check with a toothpick if they are baked.
- Immediately after baking, while the cookies are still hot, they will be very soft, but will firm up as they cool.
Have you made honey cookies using this recipe? I look forward to hearing your results, your star rating, and your comment below here on how you liked and succeeded with the honey pastry.
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Honey cookies
Ingredients
- 70 g honey
- 100 g butter room-warm
- 120 g sugar
- 1 egg
- approx. 370 g flour
- 3 g baking soda (sodium bicarbonate)
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp ginger powder
- 1 pinch of nutmeg
- 1 pinch of salt
for the coating
- 1 egg
Instructions
- Mix softened butter with sugar.
- Add honey, cinnamon, ginger powder, nutmeg and salt and mix.
- Add egg and mix again until homogeneous.
- Add baking soda and stir it.
- Add flour in portions and knead briefly to form a soft dough.
- Roll out the dough on a sheet of baking paper to a thickness of approx. 0.5 - 0.7 cm, cut out circles or other figures from the dough or cut the rolled out dough into squares and distribute the cookies with a little distance from each other on a baking tray lined with baking paper.
- Whisk an egg, brush the cookies with it and then draw a grid pattern on each cookie with a fork.
- Bake the honey cookies in a preheated oven at 180 °C top and bottom heat for about 10 minutes.
Notes
- Use good quality honey, preferably not too runny, for the recipe.
- You can also refine the honey cookies with other spices.
- The amount of sugar can be adjusted according to taste.
- The amount of flour may vary, depending on how liquid the honey is. The cookie dough must be very soft, not mushy, not dry and not too firm.
- Do not knead the dough too long, but only briefly to a homogeneous consistency, so that the honey cookies taste tender after baking.
- Do not roll out the dough too thinly or the honey cookies may taste dry.
- Do not bake the honey cookies longer than necessary or they may taste dry. Use a toothpick to check if they are done baking.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the honey cookies at the top of the post.