Kefir baked goods in the oven usually turn out to be very magnificent and rises well.
After all, kefir contains acid, which, interacting with soda or honey, makes the dough grow.
General principles of kefir baking
You can take kefir not the freshest, but yesterday’s and even the day before yesterday, it’s impossible to poison anyway: the temperature in the oven is very high. However, if the taste of kefir seemed too sour to you, you can add more sugar or other sweet ingredients.
We will focus on sweet pastries on kefir in the oven, but in principle, unsweetened pie (say, with fish or potatoes) or something ultra-fast in a pan - pancakes, pancakes, cakes, can be made on the basis of kefir.
You can add a variety of ingredients to the kefir baked goods in the oven: raisins and dried fruits, jam and honey, apples and berries. Kefir dough usually goes well with everything that the hostess and her household like.
If you decide to put raisins or other dried fruits in a sweet pastry on kefir in the oven, and they are too dry, they should be soaked in cool water for half an hour. You should not take hot water: you 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. Kefir dough is usually quite liquid: it should flow in a thick wave, and not flop. By consistency, it resembles a dough for fritters.
Cooking sweet pastries on kefir in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, sometimes a little less. Her readiness is checked with the help of a splinter, which must be stuck in the middle of the cake or cake, and then get out and see if it is dry. If it is still wet and with sticky dough, the kefir baking in the oven is not yet ready.
Recipe 1. Sweet kefir baked in the oven: oatmeal cookies with dried apples and peanuts
Ingredients
Hercules - one and a half glasses
Wheat flour - one and a half cups
Kefir - 5 tablespoons
Sugar - a glass
Dried apples are a good handful
Butter - Half Pack
The egg is one
Peanuts - Half a Cup of Chopped Nuts
Honey - 3 tablespoons
Soda - half a spoon
Cinnamon, sesame seeds, vanilla sugar - to taste and desire
Cooking method
Melt the butter in a bowl. If it is warm, wait until it cools. Beat the egg, pour the kefir and add the honey. Beat everything with a whisk or mixer.
Cut the apples into small pieces with scissors, roast the peanuts and chop not very finely, slightly flake the hercules flakes. Combine cereal, 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 about 15 minutes, then form round cookies from it (make balls and flatten them).
Cover a baking sheet with parchment and put a cookie on it. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes at a temperature of 190 degrees.
Recipe 2. Kefir baking in the oven: apple muffins
Ingredients
Kefir - 150 ml
Apple juice - 100 ml
Apples - 2 pieces (it is better to choose hard)
Flour - 2 cups
Sugar - half a cup
Powdered Sugar - 3 tablespoons
Egg - 1
Soda - a teaspoon
Salt - a pinch
Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
Cashew nuts - half a cup
Cinnamon, vanilla sugar, etc. - taste
Cooking method
Mix kefir, juice, soda and 2 tablespoons of oil in a container. Drive an egg there.
In another bowl, mix the flour with sugar, salt and nuts, which must first be dried in a pan and rolled with a rolling pin.
Combine the contents of both containers and mix thoroughly. The dough should turn out to be quite liquid, something like pancakes.
Cut the apples in half, remove the core and cut into slices about 2 mm thick. In a frying pan, heat a spoonful of oil, spread slices of apples there, quickly fry them on both sides, spread on a plate and sprinkle with powdered sugar.
Put 2 - 3 slices of apple into paper or silicone molds on the bottom, and then pour the dough so that they are 2/3 full.
Put the molds in the oven and bake at 180 degrees, this will take about 25 minutes.
Recipe 3. Oven-sweet kefir baked goods: coconut cake
Ingredients
Kefir - 1 cup
Egg - 1 piece
Coconut flakes - half a cup or 2/3 cup
Flour - one and a half glasses
Sugar - one and a half cups
Baking powder - teaspoon
Vanilla
Cream 23% - half a glass
Cooking method
Mix the egg and kefir. Add half the total amount of sugar and mix well with a mixer or combine. Add flour and baking powder, knead the dough.
In a separate container, mix the dry ingredients: the remaining sugar, coconut, vanilla sugar. This is the filling.
Place the dough into the mold, spread it with baking paper, and pour the filling on top of it with an even layer. 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 cream on top of it.
Recipe 4. Kefir baked in the oven: cake "Coffee"
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
Cooking method
To soften (but not to melt!) A pack of butter, mix it with 2 cups of sugar and eggs.
In a glass of kefir, mix 5-6 spoons of instant coffee. Pour into an egg-oil mixture. Pour 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 in a suitable form (it is better to cover it with parchment) and bake for 30-40 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
While the cake is baked, beat the sour cream with the remaining sugar and 5-6 tablespoons of coffee.
Cut the finished biscuit (preferably with a fishing line) into two layers and layer with cream. The top can also be anointed with cream and garnished with coffee beans in chocolate.
Recipe 5. Sweet kefir baked in the oven: quick cake with berries
This baking on kefir in the oven requires neither a long cooking time, nor expensive ingredients, nor a special talent of the pastry chef, but it turns out to be an excellent dessert, of course, seasonal.
Ingredients
Cottage cheese - 200 g
Kefir - 100 g
Butter - 150 g
Sugar - one and a half cups
The egg is one
Vanillin, baking powder - 1 spoon each
Flour - 200 g
Berries (blackcurrant, strawberries, seedless cherries, etc. or a mixture) - 300 - 400 g
Cooking method
Melt the butter, mix it with granulated sugar (leave about half a cup), egg, vanilla and baking powder. Beat lightly. Add, all the while stirring, sifted flour.
Separately mix the cottage cheese with the remaining sugar and berries.
Put the dough in the prepared form, and on it - cottage cheese and berry filling.
Bake for 30 minutes in the oven at medium temperature (170 - 180 degrees).
Recipe 6. Kefir Baking in the Oven: Banana Cake
Ingredients
Wheat flour - 2 cups
Bananas - 3 pieces
Eggs - 4 pieces
Kefir - a glass
Cream 30% - 0.5 L
Sugar - 2 cups
Baking powder (can be replaced with soda) - teaspoon
Cooking method
Beat eggs with sugar (one and a half cups). Add kefir, put baking powder. Add a little to the sifted flour, continuing to knead the dough.
Place the finished dough in a smeared and paper-laid form. 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 and cut bananas into thin slices. Spread a little cream on the lower crust, put the circles of banana, then grease with cream again and cover with the upper crust. Decorate the top of the cake with cream.
Recipe 7. Sweet kefir baked in the oven: jam pie
Perhaps this is the easiest sweet pastry on kefir in the oven: the dough can be prepared in a matter of minutes, and the pie is not baked for long. Ideal for a sudden visit to the sweet tooth.
Ingredients
Any jam, better with berries - about a glass
Kefir - also 1 glass
Honey - 2-3 tablespoons
Soda - a little, with half a spoon
Eggs - 2 pieces
Flour - 2 cups
Cooking method
Beat eggs with honey and kefir, pour baking soda there. Put jam in a bowl, mix and add, mixing, sifted flour.
Knead a thin dough. Pour it into a mold that is pre-coated with parchment.
Bake in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
If desired, the finished cake can be layered with jam (hot) or cream (cooled).
Recipe 8. Kefir baked in the oven: chocolate-sour cream cake
A simple but sophisticated recipe for sweet pastries on kefir in the oven.
Ingredients
Flour - 1 cup
Sugar - one and a half cups
Kefir - 1 cup
Cocoa powder - 2-3 spoons with top
Dark chocolate - half a bar
Soda (baking powder) - a teaspoon
Sour cream 30% - a pound
Vanillin, crushed 5-6 walnut kernels - optional
Cooking method
When preparing the dough, it is better to use a mixer or a combine.
Beat kefir with cocoa and soda. Pour half the sugar into the dough, continuing to beat, pour the flour in parts. If desired, you can add vanillin and chopped walnut.
Pour the dough into a mold (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 the readiness with the help of a speck.
Remove the finished product carefully from the mold, cut into two or three layers and cool.
Sour cream with the remaining sugar in a cream. Layered with this cream cake, anoint on top and sprinkle with coarsely grated chocolate.
Recipe 9. Sweet pastry on kefir in the oven: pie with poppy seeds (on yeast)
Ingredients
Flour - 2 - 2.5 cups
Poppy - half a glass
Kefir - a glass
Dry yeast - a teaspoon
Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons
Eggs - 2 pieces
Sugar - a glass
Vanilla sugar
Cooking method
Poppy pour water overnight.
Kefir is slightly heated in the microwave (it should be a little warm), pour yeast and a spoonful of sugar into it, let stand in a warm place for about 15 minutes.
Drive 1 egg in a bowl, pour half a glass of sugar and half flour, add vegetable oil and kefir with yeast. Add the rest of the flour a little, kneading a soft, elastic dough.
Put in a warm place until the volume doubles.
Roll out the dough into a thin layer. Drain and poppy pop a little in the bowl. Mix it with sugar, put on a layer of dough and twist a long roll.
Put the roll in a spiral shape, grease it with a beaten egg.
Bake for about half an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Kefir baking: tricks and tips
Sieve the flour: baking will become 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 magnificent.
Sour cream or whipped cream will help make the pastries truly festive.
