Baking on kefir in the oven usually turns out to be very lush and rises well.
After all, kefir contains acid, which, interacting with soda or honey, causes the dough to grow.
General principles of baking on kefir
Kefir can be taken not the freshest, but yesterday and even the day before yesterday, it is still impossible to get poisoned: the temperature in the oven is very high. However, if the taste of kefir seemed too sour, you can add more sugar or other sweet ingredients.
We will focus on sweet pastries on kefir in the oven, but in principle, on the basis of kefir, you can make a savory cake (say, with fish or potatoes) or something ultrafast in a pan - pancakes, pancakes, flatbread
In pastries on kefir in the oven, you can add a variety of ingredients: raisins and dried fruits, honey and honey, apples and berries. Kefir dough usually goes well with everything that likes the hostess and her household.
If you decide to put raisins or other dried fruits in the oven baking on kefir in the oven, and they are too dry, they should be soaked in cool water for half an hour. Hot water is not worth taking: get compote.
The dough for baking on kefir in the oven must be done in advance and let it stand before baking so that all the ingredients have time to interact and then bake well. The dough on kefir is usually quite liquid: it should flow in a thick wave, and not flop. On consistency, it resembles dough for pancakes.
Preparing sweet pastries on kefir in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, sometimes a little less. Her readiness is checked using a splinter, which should be inserted into the middle of a cake or cake, and then pulled out and see if it is dry. If while damp and with the stuck dough, baking on kefir in the oven is not yet ready.
Recipe 1. Sweet pastries on kefir in the oven: oatmeal cookies with dried apples and peanuts
Ingredients
“Hercules” - one and a half cup
Wheat flour - one and a half glasses
Kefir - 5 tablespoons
Granulated sugar - glass
Dried apples - a good handful
Butter - half a bag
Egg - one
Peanuts - half a cup of chopped nuts
Honey - 3 tablespoons
Soda - half spoon
Cinnamon, sesame, vanilla sugar - to taste and desire
Method of preparation
In a bowl, melt the butter. If it is warm, wait until it cools. Beat the egg, pour the kefir and add honey. Beat everything with a whisk or a mixer.
Apples are cut into small pieces with scissors, roast and chop the peanuts not very finely, hercules flakes also slightly chop. Mix flakes, apples, nuts, flour and sugar in a second bowl. Stir the contents of both bowls, add soda and spices to taste.
Let the dough stand for 15 minutes, then form round-shaped cookies from it (make balls and flatten them).
Cover the baking sheet with parchment and put cookies on it. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees.
Recipe 2. Baking on kefir in the oven: apple cupcakes
Ingredients
Kefir - 150 ml
Apple Juice - 100 ml
Apples - 2 pieces (it is better to choose solid)
Flour - 2 glasses
Sugar - half a cup
Iced sugar - 3 spoons
Egg - 1Soda - teaspoon
Salt - Pinch
Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
Cashew Nuts - Half a Cup
Cinnamon, vanilla sugar, etc. - taste
Method of preparation
Mix kefir, juice, soda and 2 spoons of oil in a container. Beat the same egg.
In another bowl, mix the flour with sugar, salt and nuts, which must first be dried in a frying pan and rolled with a rolling pin.
Combine the contents of both containers and mix thoroughly. The dough should be quite liquid, approximately like a pancake.
Apples cut in half, remove the core and cut into slices with a thickness of about 2 mm. Heat a spoonful of butter in a frying pan, spread out apple slices, quickly fry them on both sides, spread on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Put 2 - 3 apple slices on the bottom in paper or silicone tins, and then pour the dough so that they are 2/3 full.
Put the molds in the oven and bake at 180 degrees, it will take about 25 minutes.
Recipe 3. Sweet pastries on kefir in the oven: coconut cake
Ingredients
Kefir - 1 cup
Egg - 1 piece
Coconut chips - half a cup or 2/3 cup
Flour - one and a half glasses
Sugar - one and a half glasses
Baking Powder - Teaspoon
Vanilla
Cream 23% - half a cup
Method of preparation
Mix egg and kefir. Add half the total amount of sugar and mix well with a mixer or a combine. Add flour and baking powder, knead the dough.
In a separate container, mix the dry ingredients: the remaining sugar, coconut chips, vanilla sugar. This is a filling.
Place the dough into the mold, put it in baking paper, and pour the filling over it evenly. Bake in a hot oven (at 200 degrees) for 15 minutes, then cover the surface with foil and continue to bake for another 15 minutes.
Take out the cake and immediately pour the cream over it.
Recipe 4. Baking on kefir in the oven: “Coffee man” cake
Ingredients
Eggs - 4 pieces
Kefir - a glass
Sugar - 3 cups
Butter - 1 pack
Instant coffee - 10 - 12 spoons
Flour - 250 g
Baking Powder - a pair of teaspoons
Sour cream 30% - 500 g
Method of preparation
Soften (but not melt!) A pack of butter, mix it with 2 cups of sugar and eggs.
In a glass of kefir stir 5-6 tablespoons of instant coffee. Pour into the egg-oil mixture. Add flour and baking powder and knead the dough. It is better to use a mixer with a special nozzle or a food processor for this purpose.
Put the dough into a suitable form (it is better to cover it with parchment) and bake for 30 - 40 minutes in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees.
While the cake is baking, beat the sour cream with the remaining sugar and 5-6 spoons of coffee. Ready biscuit cut (better fishing line) into two cakes and sandwich cream. Top can also be anointed with cream and decorate with coffee beans in chocolate.
Recipe 5. Sweet pastries on kefir in the oven: a quick pie with berries
This pastry on kefir in the oven does not require either a long cooking time, no expensive ingredients, or any special talent of the pastry chef, and it turns out an excellent dessert, of course, seasonal.
Ingredients
Cottage cheese - 200 g
Kefir - 100 g
Butter - 150 g
Sugar - one and a half glasses
Egg - one
Vanillin, baking powder - 1 spoon
Flour - 200 g
Berries (black currants, strawberries, pitted cherries, etc., or a mixture) - 300 - 400 g
Method of preparation
Melt the butter, mix it with sugar (leave about half a cup), egg, vanilla and baking powder. Beat lightly. Add, stirring all the time, sifted flour.
Separately mix the cottage cheese with the remaining sugar and berries.
Put the dough into the prepared form, and curd-berry filling on it.
Bake 30 minutes in the oven at an average temperature (170 - 180 degrees).
Recipe 6. Baking on kefir in the oven: banana cake
Ingredients
Wheat flour - 2 glasses
Bananas - 3 pieces
Eggs - 4 pieces
Kefir - a glass
Cream 30% - 0.5 l
Sugar - 2 glasses
Baking powder (can be replaced with soda) - a teaspoon
Method of preparation
Beat eggs with sugar (one and a half cups). Add kefir, put baking powder. Gradually fill the sifted flour, continuing to knead the dough.
Place the finished dough in a mold and paper lined. Bake the cake for half an hour in the oven at 180 degrees. Check the readiness and, if everything is in order, remove the biscuit from the form. Cut with a knife or fishing line into two cakes and allow to cool well.
At this time, whip the cream with the remaining sugar. Peel bananas and cut into thin circles. Spread some cream on the bottom cake, put banana circles, then smear with cream again and cover with the top cake. Top of the cake also decorate with cream.
Recipe 7. Sweet pastries on kefir in the oven: cake from jam
Perhaps, this is the simplest sweet pastry on kefir in the oven: the dough can be cooked in a matter of minutes, and the cake is baked for a short time. Ideal for a sudden visit to the sweet tooth.
Ingredients
Any jam, better with berries - about a glass
Kefir - also 1 cup
Honey - 2-3 spoons
Soda - a little, with half a spoon
Eggs - 2 pieces
Flour - 2 glasses
Method of preparation
Beat eggs with honey and kefir, pour soda there too. Put jam in a bowl, mix and add, stirring, sifted flour.
Knead dough thin. Pour it into the form, which pre-lay the parchment.
Bake in the oven for 30 - 40 minutes at 180 degrees.
If desired, the finished cake can be sandwiched with jam (hot) or cream (cooled).
Recipe 8. Baking on kefir in the oven: chocolate sour cake
A simple but refined recipe for sweet pastries on kefir in the oven.
Ingredients
Flour - 1 cup
Sugar - one and a half glasses
Kefir - 1 cup
Cocoa powder - spoons 2-3 with top
Bitter chocolate - half tiles
Soda (baking powder) - teaspoon
Sour cream 30% - half a kilo
Vanillin, crushed 5-6 walnut kernels - optional
Method of preparation
When making dough, it is better to use a mixer or a combine.
Beat kefir with cocoa and soda. Pour half the sugar into the dough, continue to beat, pour the flour in pieces. If desired, you can add vanilla and chopped walnut.
Pour the dough into the form (do not forget to cover it with parchment or oiled paper) and bake in the oven (180 - 200 degrees) for about half an hour, checking readiness with the help of a splinter.
To get the finished product carefully out of shape, cut into two or three cakes and cool.
Sour cream with the remaining sugar in the cream. Sandwich the cake with this cream, spread on top and sprinkle with coarsely grated chocolate.
Recipe 9. Sweet pastries on kefir in the oven: cake with poppy seeds (on yeast)
Ingredients
Flour - 2 - 2.5 glasses
Mac - half a cup
Kefir - a glass
Dry yeast - a teaspoon
Vegetable oil - 2 spoons
Eggs - 2 pieces
Sugar - glass
Vanilla sugar
Method of preparation
Poppy pour water overnight.
Warm up the kefir in the microwave (it should be slightly warm), add yeast and a spoonful of sugar into it, let stand in a warm place for about 15 minutes.
Pound 1 egg in a bowl, pour half a cup of sugar and half of the flour, add vegetable oil and kefir with yeast. Gradually add the rest of the flour, kneading soft, elastic dough.
Put in a warm place to double the volume.
Roll the dough into a thin layer. Poppy strain and pot a little in a bowl. Mix it with sugar, put on a layer of dough and roll a long roll.
Spiral roll out the form, brush it with a beaten egg.
Bake for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Baking on kefir: tricks and useful tips
- Be sure to sift flour: baking will be much more magnificent and tastier.
- The baking powder can be replaced with soda slaked with lemon.
- If you add a little sparkling water, baking on kefir in the oven will become even more porous and fluffy.
- Sour cream or whipped cream will help to make baking really festive.
