Mint, chocolate and almond Pryaniki/Пряники

Mint, chocolate and almond Pryaniki/Пряники

 

 Usually we wouldn’t put up variations on our recipes, mostly because this blog is really meant to be new things we try and we consider variations not to be a ‘new type of thing’ to make. However, it being Christmassy time and these being yummy, we thought we should! This is of course a variation of Пряники/Pryaniki, which I feel are such a Christmassy thing too with all the spices! 

Also, we proudly found out that if you google ‘vegan pryaniki’ this blog is the first search result! :) We felt we should surely add up this version so. This recipe is along the same lines, but we made half the amount (as we were baking other things too!)

Ingredients:

- 3/4 cups self raising flour

- 1/3 cup sugar

- 1/4 cup golden syrup

- 1/4 cup dairy free butter (or oil even)

- 1/6 cup soya milk (or other milk, or water)

- 2 tbsp treacle

- 2 tbsp cocoa powder

- 1/2 cup ground almonds

- 1 tsp peppermint essence

- Spices: 4-5 tsp cinnamon, 4-5 tsp mixed spice, 1-2 tsp ginger

- A little icing sugar (for glaze)

1. Mix the flour, spices, cocoa powder and ground almonds in a bowl.

2. Put sugar, butter, treacle, golden syrup and essence (the rest of the ingredients) in a pot and cook on a low heat until the butter melts and the sugar dissolves.

3. Add the mixture in the pot to the flour mix and mix until a mouldable dough.

3. At this point take hand chunks out and roll them into balls, or roll out the dough and cut out shapes, or press on it for designs.

5. Place on a greased tray and glaze with a little soya milk. Cook at 180⁰ for about 12-15mins

5. Once done, mix some icing sugar with water to make a watery but white glaze and spread over the pryaniki. Dust with some icing sugar as well if you like.

Lovely to sit down and eat with some chai tea… (and yummy for dipping)