The New Year is very soon, so I want to show you how you can make beautiful New Year's gingerbread cookies with icing. Painted gingerbreads can then be given to relatives, friends and acquaintances as a lovely present. And the most important thing is that your drawing will be unique, made with your own hands and with a soul, and such gifts are very much appreciated.

Today I will show you exactly how to paint gingerbread in the form of Santa Claus and a snowman, and how to do it without special molds and stencils. In the same way, you can draw any other gingerbread you like. 2018 is the year of the dog, but this does not mean that DIY New Year's gingerbread should be made only in the form of dogs. And the more and more varied you make them, the more interesting your gifts will be.

The shelf life of gingerbread can be up to a year, so it is possible to make them in advance and not worry that they will deteriorate or dry out. This is very convenient, since on New Year's Eve, not everyone has a lot of time to paint.

New Year's painted gingerbreads are suitable for decorating any holiday cake, if you stick a long wooden skewer into the freshly baked gingerbread. This design has become popular not so long ago, but many people really like it, so I advise you to try it. I also advise you to look more if you do not know which one is better to make them.

Necessary:

• Gingerbread dough
• Powdered sugar - 150 g
• Egg white - 1 pc.
• Lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
• Food dyes - 5 colors

Christmas gingerbread painting

I do not have stencils for New Year's gingerbread, but this is not a problem, because I found the desired drawing on the Internet, redrawn it on paper and it's done. Then I cut it out. I roll out the finished dough in an even layer, about 5 mm thick. Then I sprinkle it with a little flour, put a drawing on top and cut it out along the contour with a knife.

I do the same with the second workpiece. You can make them in any quantity and any size.

Next, I spread the blanks on a baking sheet with parchment or foil, at a distance from each other and bake at a temperature of 190 degrees, 6 minutes or until golden brown. it is important not to overexpose them in the oven, otherwise they will be hard. After baking, remove them from the baking sheet, transfer them to a wooden board and leave to cool.

Now I will briefly tell you a recipe for icing for gingerbread at home. I drive one protein into the mixer bowl, add lemon juice and powder. Then I beat all this at the lowest speed of the mixer, 2 - 3 minutes. The mass will become thicker, whiter, but at the same time there will not be many bubbles in it, which will spoil the icing. Then I divide it into as many parts as you need for the drawings. I have one white color, which I leave that way, without adding dye and 5 others. I add dyes of the desired colors to each part of the glaze and stir until uniform so that the dye is evenly distributed. The consistency of the glaze should be medium in order to fit both the contour and the fill. Sweep a spoon over it, this trail should disappear in 10 seconds, if it does not go away for a long time, then you need to add a little water to make it a little more liquid.

Before painting the Santa Claus gingerbread, I put a leaf on top of the gingerbread and with a toothpick I outline all the contours for filling with different colors. To do this, it is simply enough to pierce the leaf in the right places without moving it.

With the preparation for the snowman, I do the same, puncturing the necessary lines.

The technique of painting gingerbread with glaze is not difficult and you yourself will see for yourself now. First of all, I fill in the bottom of the coat, the beard, the lapel on the sleeves and the bubo on the hat. Never fill in two adjacent parts, because they will simply merge into one.

When the white color has dried for about 10 minutes, I fill in the red color evenly, and this is a hat, sleeves, mittens, coats and pants. And I make his face beige. Be sure to remember that after pouring each part, you need to shake the gingerbread to evenly distribute the fill.

When the main parts are a little dry, and this is another 15 minutes, I finish painting all the other small details, such as the mustache, eyebrows, nose, eyes, buttons and boots. Here is such a cutie gingerbread Santa Claus turned out. The photo shows that all the details were filled in gradually, because there are contours, and the drawing did not merge. Now I leave it to dry, and it takes from 12 hours to a day in time, at room temperature.

Now the next step is to paint a gingerbread snowman. The first step is to fill in white, namely the face, arms and torso. But the gap between the arms and the body should be at least 5 minutes, otherwise they will simply merge into one continuous part.

After 10 minutes, I fill in the lapel of the hat, the bubo and part of the scarf, which are red. Let me dry again.

After that, I fill in the hat, draw a star on the tummy, then finish the scarf and carefully draw the mouth and eyes in black.

Then I make a neat carrot, and on the hat and scarf, using the thinnest paintbrush, I paint snowflakes with white dye or a small amount of glaze. The snowman gingerbread is also ready, so I leave it to dry.

These are such cute New Year's gingerbread cookies with icing, I hope you liked my master class and you can also make them. As you can see, there is nothing difficult in drawing with glaze, the main thing is to fill it gradually and in parts, so that the details have time to dry out a little. Good luck and more inspiration!

To make unusual gingerbread and cookies for the New Year, you can find or come up with your own templates; there are a considerable number of sites on the Internet that provide interesting options for making New Year's gingerbread. In fact, there are two main ways to make these stencils.

One of which is simpler and cheaper, the other requires a more professional approach.
Nowadays, good stencils can be made without any particular problems. To do this, you need the material and the desire to get your way. The dough that is rolled out for cookies has a thin layer, so certain figures can be easily cut out of it, you just need to make a stencil out of cardboard.

• Cardboard stencils

Cardboard stencils

It is very easy to create stencils or so-called cookie figures at home. You only need a little patience and as a result, you will achieve the optimal version of the blanks. Below are instructions on how to do and how to use cardboard blanks. They are done in a matter of minutes.

1. For the implementation of the task, the use of special templates will be required. On any site dedicated to the New Year's theme, we find suitable options and print them. If you want to do something creative, you can draw your templates yourself on paper.
2. Next, the resulting sketch is transferred to a thick cardboard from under food products. We cut out the resulting figure and our stencils are obtained. You can use them for several years.

By and large, New Year's stencils for gingerbread and cookies can be printed right at home, for this you do not need to go anywhere. Therefore, prepare the dough and start producing these stencils. In fact, the work is not difficult at all, you just need to be good at scissors.

It is rather inconvenient to use such received templates. Everything is connected with the fact that you need to cut out cookies with a knife for each individual template. In this case, the technique is suitable if you want to make some large and one-time options for gingerbread. But for the constant use of stencils, you will need to use the second production method.

Metal stencils for New Year

On New Year's Eve, we begin to think about how to make such a tasty one and please the children. In this case, cookies are great, but you need to approach work with enthusiasm. The stores sell a wide variety of stencils that you can buy, if you do not want to spend money, then we can advise one fairly simple method of making. In this case, you need a husband.

To make stencils you will need:

Wooden block
Nails
Hammer
Thin tin
Future cookie template

The presented materials can be found at home without any particular problems. If you ask your husband to help you, he will be happy to agree, since the New Year is a family holiday. Currently, you can download templates for manufacturing online.

1. Everything is done quite simply. Pre-prepared cardboard templates, put on a bar.
2. Further, we hammer in the carnations at the places of the bends. Thus, we get a volumetric model.
3. From a tin, we make a strip, about 3 centimeters wide. We carefully bend around all the carnations.
4. We get a ready-made stencil for the production of cookies or gingerbread. For convenience, you can process the edges of the resulting workpiece so as not to cut yourself.

Using the resulting gingerbread stencil, you can easily make delicious cookies. In this case, the resulting metal blanks do not need maintenance. You can wipe them with flour and hide them until next use. In some families, these stencils are passed down from generation to generation, thereby emphasizing the value of the product.

Professional blanks for gingerbread

Many people may not like these methods. You can also use a third method if you want your own cookie cutter size. Today you can contact a specialized workshop, where professionals will make interesting stencils according to your proposed sketches. In fact, their method will not be too different from the previous one, so it is best to entrust the work to your husband. At the same time, the cost of the services of a master will cost more than the cost of these templates in the store.

Today, there are a considerable number of sites on the Internet that provide a variety of gingerbread cookie stencils at the best prices. By ordering products through them, you can save your energy and time. Just in time for the New Year, your stencils will be delivered by mail at below market value.

New Year is a holiday for children, which should be filled with sweets. If you have never made various gingerbread or cookies, then you should start doing this. In this case, using our advice, you can make a variety of stencils for cookies. Your children will be satisfied and will ask you to cook them gingerbread or cookies using stencils over and over again.

In recent years, patterns for the New Year for gingerbread have become very popular and widespread. You can print these stencils completely free of charge from this material, but we would like to tell you about how to make delicious gingerbread cookies and how to decorate them with icing so that you get not only a delicious, but beautiful and bright dessert.

In Europe, gingerbread is prepared for Christmas and is considered an important element of gifts and desserts during the entire period before the New Year. In our country, both Christmas and New Year are equally loved, so curly gingerbread can be cooked in the festive winter, whenever your heart desires. Figures for gingerbread cookies can be very different, but they certainly have a New Year or Christmas theme: bears and Christmas trees, mittens, boots, a crescent moon and a horseshoe, a snowman, stars and snowflakes, deer and much, much more.

It's very easy to make such a treat yourself. Several recipes for a suitable dough are given in this material, but in fact, here you can choose a recipe for any baking such as cookies or gingerbread, and just cut out figures from the dough. Once again, we remind you that you can download stencils for cookies directly from this material and this is done very simply. You just need to enlarge a picture or a few pictures that you like. Left-click and save to your computer, therefore open and print or translate directly from the screen.

Of course, there can be many recipes for a dessert of this kind and it is not necessary to do everything as described in our material. If the family has any family recipes, then you can safely take them as a basis, and then just make not round cookies, but take holiday stencils as the basis. If you don't have time to look for some recipe for a suitable test, then use this New Year's classic.

What you need for the dough: A glass of natural honey and 80 grams of butter, 60 grams of sugar, one chicken egg and a pinch of baking powder, 350 grams of flour, a pinch of cinnamon and ginger, salt, food coloring if desired.
Initially, in preparation, you need to mix honey with sugar and send to the fire to bring the mixture to a boil. Then immediately remove from heat and cool. Mix flour and egg separately, add salt, baking powder and spices. Mix all products and knead into elastic dough.

Cut out figures from cardboard according to the stencils downloaded from this article or simply from the Internet. Now roll out the dough into a thin layer, apply cardboard templates and cut out shaped cookies. How to do it.

Spicy christmas cookies

For the dough, you need 800 grams of sugar and a glass of boiling water, three chicken eggs and two packs of butter, one and a half kilograms of flour in a teaspoon of soda, ground cardamom and cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg, cloves. Do not be afraid to use as many different spices as possible so that the dough, and then the cookies, turns out to be fragrant.

If the dough according to this recipe is very sticky to your hands, this is bad. You can fix the situation by adding a little flour to the dough. Then roll out an even layer and attach cardboard stencils, cut out figures from the dough and transfer them to a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. It remains to put a baking sheet with cookies in the oven, which by this time has already been heated to 200 degrees. Bake for 20 minutes, no more.

How to make frosting

To decorate New Year's and Christmas cookies, if you wish, you can make your own colored icing. Everything here is extremely simple and understandable. Add powdered sugar to the water. Leave one part of the mass white, add blue dye to one, and add green dye to another.

It is clear that depending on your desire and imagination, you can take the icing of any color and decorate the Christmas New Year's cookies at your discretion. It is important that it turns out to be fun and elegant. See how to cook

To make unusual gingerbread and cookies for the New Year, you can find or come up with your own templates; there are a considerable number of sites on the Internet that provide interesting options for making New Year's gingerbread. In fact, there are two main ways to make these stencils.

One of which is simpler and cheaper, the other requires a more professional approach.
Nowadays, good stencils can be made without any particular problems. To do this, you need the material and the desire to get your way. The dough that is rolled out for cookies has a thin layer, so certain figures can be easily cut out of it, you just need to make a stencil out of cardboard.

• Cardboard stencils

Cardboard stencils

It is very easy to create stencils or so-called cookie figures at home. You only need a little patience and as a result, you will achieve the optimal version of the blanks. Below are instructions on how to do and how to use cardboard blanks. They are done in a matter of minutes.

1. For the implementation of the task, the use of special templates will be required. On any site dedicated to the New Year's theme, we find suitable options and print them. If you want to do something creative, you can draw your templates yourself on paper.
2. Next, the resulting sketch is transferred to a thick cardboard from under food products. We cut out the resulting figure and our stencils are obtained. You can use them for several years.

By and large, New Year's stencils for gingerbread and cookies can be printed right at home, for this you do not need to go anywhere. Therefore, prepare the dough and start producing these stencils. In fact, the work is not difficult at all, you just need to be good at scissors.

It is rather inconvenient to use such received templates. Everything is connected with the fact that you need to cut out cookies with a knife for each individual template. In this case, the technique is suitable if you want to make some large and one-time options for gingerbread. But for the constant use of stencils, you will need to use the second production method.

Metal stencils for New Year

On New Year's Eve, we begin to think about how to make such a tasty one and please the children. In this case, cookies are great, but you need to approach work with enthusiasm. The stores sell a wide variety of stencils that you can buy, if you do not want to spend money, then we can advise one fairly simple method of making. In this case, you need a husband.

To make stencils you will need:

Wooden block
Nails
Hammer
Thin tin
Future cookie template

The presented materials can be found at home without any particular problems. If you ask your husband to help you, he will be happy to agree, since the New Year is a family holiday. Currently, you can download templates for manufacturing online.

1. Everything is done quite simply. Pre-prepared cardboard templates, put on a bar.
2. Further, we hammer in the carnations at the places of the bends. Thus, we get a volumetric model.
3. From a tin, we make a strip, about 3 centimeters wide. We carefully bend around all the carnations.
4. We get a ready-made stencil for the production of cookies or gingerbread. For convenience, you can process the edges of the resulting workpiece so as not to cut yourself.

Using the resulting gingerbread stencil, you can easily make delicious cookies. In this case, the resulting metal blanks do not need maintenance. You can wipe them with flour and hide them until next use. In some families, these stencils are passed down from generation to generation, thereby emphasizing the value of the product.

Professional blanks for gingerbread

Many people may not like these methods. You can also use a third method if you want your own cookie cutter size. Today you can contact a specialized workshop, where professionals will make interesting stencils according to your proposed sketches. In fact, their method will not be too different from the previous one, so it is best to entrust the work to your husband. At the same time, the cost of the services of a master will cost more than the cost of these templates in the store.

Today, there are a considerable number of sites on the Internet that provide a variety of gingerbread cookie stencils at the best prices. By ordering products through them, you can save your energy and time. Just in time for the New Year, your stencils will be delivered by mail at below market value.

New Year is a holiday for children, which should be filled with sweets. If you have never made various gingerbread or cookies, then you should start doing this. In this case, using our advice, you can make a variety of stencils for cookies. Your children will be satisfied and will ask you to cook them gingerbread or cookies using stencils over and over again.