Gingerbread for latecomers. You can make it at the last minute and it will turn out great

Cheesecake and gingerbread – these are the cakes that dominate the Christmas Eve table. The problem is that the latter baked product, made according to a traditional recipe, must be aged and its assembly is quite time-consuming. Fortunately, there is a solution for latecomers and busy people – quick last minute gingerbread – no stress and no waiting.

should be baked a few weeks before Christmas. Fortunately, there is a faster alternative. We add cereal coffee to the dough for quick gingerbread to make it a bit moister and have a delicate, coffee flavor and a darker color. Typically, we fill it with jam and decorate it with chocolate icing.

What ingredients do we need to make quick gingerbread for latecomers?

Ingredients for the cake:

• 300 g of wheat flour;
• 250 g of milk;
• 170 g of brown sugar;
• 125 g of butter;
• 50 g of honey;
• 2 eggs;
• 3 tablespoons of instant grain coffee;
• 2 tablespoons of plum jam;
• 3 teaspoons of gingerbread spice;
• 2 teaspoons of baking soda;
• 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

Ingredients for the chocolate icing:

• 80 g of cream 30%;
• 100 g of dark chocolate.

Additional ingredients:

• 1 jar of plum jam for filling the cake;
• nuts or almonds for decoration.

First, heat the butter and sugar in a pot over low heat. When the butter melts, add honey, plum jam, gingerbread spice and cinnamon. Heat everything up for a few more minutes.

Then we remove the pot from the heat and add eggs, milk and coffee and mix everything again. Add wheat flour and baking soda to this mixture and mix everything again until a smooth, uniform mass is obtained.

Pour the quick gingerbread into a cake tin lined with baking paper and bake it in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 50-55 minutes.to a dry stick.

After cooling, remove the cake from the pan and cut it horizontally into 2 parts. Spread the dough with jam and fold it again.

Finally, prepare the chocolate icing. To do this, heat the chocolate and cream in a pot over low heat. Finally, we cover the quick gingerbread with it and decorate it with crushed nuts or almonds.