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Desserts with honey: learn 3 recipes full of flavor

02/09/2020

In addition to its pharmacological properties, honey can also be included on your kitchen shelves. After all, it serves as an excellent sweetener to replace refined sugar, which gives you the possibility to make delicious desserts with honey, making them even tastier and healthier!

For you to discover different alternatives and start using honey in the kitchen, check out 3 dessert recipes that we have separated below!

1. Banana, cinnamon and honey ice cream

Ingredients

6 chopped bananas

1/4 of cup of lemon juice

1/2 spoon of cinnamon powder

Honey

Preparation mode

Place the chopped bananas in a container and take it to the freezer; When it's frozen, hit the blender or with a mix and add the lemon juice and cinnamon; Use honey as a syrup when serving.

2. Honey bread

Ingredients

Pasta

1 Cup of milk

2 cups of wheat flour 

1/2 cup of chocolate powder

1 brown sugar cup

2 spoons of bicarbonate of soda

2 spoons of cinnamon powder

1/2 cup of honey

Filling

You can opt for different options, such as condensed milk with grated coconut, brigadeiro or fruit jellies.

Roof

500g of melted milk chocolate.

Preparation mode

Bring the milk to a boil, turn off the heat and set aside; In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and cinnamon and cinnamon. Then add the brown sugar and mix well; Add honey and hot milk and mix until you get a smooth dough; Grease and flour molds suitable for honey bread and pour the dough halfway; Place all the molds on a baking sheet and take it to the oven, which must be preheated to 180ºC; In the first 10 minutes, lower the oven temperature to 160º. Then, increase the temperature to 180º again, and bake for about 30 minutes; Wait for the buns to cool, cut them in half, put the chosen filling. Then, wrap the buns in the melted chocolate and let it dry at room temperature. After the frosting dries, pack them individually in bags and serve.

3. Struffoli with honey syrup

Ingredients

small cakes

2 cups of wheat flour

1 pinch of salt

1 teaspoon of yeast 

1 egg

50g unsalted butter at room temperature

Frying oil

honey syrup 

1/2 cup of honey

1/4 of cup of water

2 spoons (dessert) of sugar 

1 tablespoon of orange blossom water

Preparation mode

Sift the flour and mix it with all the dry ingredients. Make a hole in the middle, break an egg and mix until it comes away from your hands; Let the dough rest covered for half an hour; Cut the dough and roll it like gnocchi. Cut each roll into small pieces of 1 to 2 cm and roll into a ball; Fry, little by little, in hot oil and drain; To make the syrup, boil the sugar with water until thin. Turn off, add honey and orange blossom water; To serve, assemble the balls on a platter and drizzle with the syrup.

In this post, we gave you three dessert ideas to try at home, with different degrees of difficulty. But it is important to point out that there are many other ways to use honey in the kitchen. You can even invent your own recipes!

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