Bright and incredibly tasty gingerbread prepare the whole family for the kindest holidays!

Almost everyone associates gingerbread with icing (recipe with photo) with the holiday. Many people bake them on New Year and to match they are decorated with multi-colored or just white glaze. Everyone is happy with the result - children and adults. If you make small holes in the blanks before baking, then it is very convenient to hang such gingerbread cookies on a Christmas tree. Children are very fond of treating themselves to them, removing them from the branches of the Christmas tree.

• soft butter - 100g;
• chicken egg - 1 piece;
• wheat flour - 200 grams;
• honey - 3 teaspoons;
• sugar - 110 grams;
• baking soda - 1.5 teaspoon;
• ground ginger - 2 teaspoons;
• ground cardamom - 1 teaspoon;
• cinnamon - 1 teaspoon.

For icing sugar:

• icing sugar - 150 grams;
• lemon juice - 2 teaspoons;
• cold boiled water - 1 tablespoon;
• dyes at your request.

Take honey and warm it up in a water bath. You don't need to boil it, it just needs to become liquid. To do this, you can simply take a deep plate of honey and put it in a very hot water... You can also hold a plate over a weakly boiling teapot (first open its lid and put a sieve on it, into which place a plate of honey).

Place in a separate bowl soft butter and sugar. Mash them or beat with a mixer at low speed.

Add liquid honey (not hot) and one egg to the egg-sugar mixture.

Then use a mixer and beat all the ingredients until smooth.

Now take another bowl and sift flour into it, also put the necessary spices in the specified amount and soda. Mix everything well.

Add the free-flowing mixture to the oily mass in small portions, stirring the dough well. Make sure that the finished dough is smooth and lump-free. It should feel a little sticky to the touch. Once the dough is ready, put it in a bag or wrap it in cling film, then refrigerate for two hours. So it will freeze a little, and it will be easier to roll it out.

Over time, knead a little dough and roll it out to a thickness of 0.5 cm. When room temperature you cannot keep it for a long time, so do not wrinkle it for a long time. Then squeeze out the figures with the help of molds. If there are no molds, you can use a regular round cup or glass. Then prepare a baking sheet - cover it with parchment or grease with butter. Transfer the blanks to it. Do this carefully, you can use a knife to pry the dough pieces.

The laid out workpieces should not be placed close to each other, as they will rise slightly during the baking process. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the gingerbread cookies for about seven minutes. Do not overdo it so it doesn't dry out.

Baking that has just been removed from the oven will be soft. Remove it from the baking sheet, it will become harder in a few minutes.

After the gingerbread cookies are ready, make icing for them. Mix first icing sugar and lemon juice.

Then add a tablespoon of water little by little and mix everything well. Do not rush, if necessary, then add more powder or water.

As a result, you should get a thick and viscous mass. The readiness of the glaze can be checked as follows. If you drip a little onto a clean surface and the drop sticks without spreading, then the icing is perfect. At this stage, dyes can be added to it if desired. If you will be using several of them, then arrange the icing into cups and add to each of your colors.

Now you can start decorating the gingerbread. The glaze should be placed in pastry bag or minimized parchment paper, or into an ordinary dense bag with a cut off hole. Well, then start decorating. Unleash your imagination. In a round cookie, you can draw any pattern in the form of snowflakes or Christmas balls.

Elegant gingerbread cookies are ready. By the way, they can be great delicious gift for any occasion for your friends and family. Box with gingerbread cookies will always be appropriate for any occasion. Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 2: homemade gingerbread

• Butter - 200 gr.
• Sugar - ¾ tbsp.
• Honey - 3 tablespoons with a slide
• Baking powder - 1 tsp.
• Turmeric - 1 tablespoon
• Nutmeg - 1 tablespoon
• Ginger - 2 tablespoons
• Cinnamon - 1 tablespoon
• Flour - 4 tbsp.
• Salt to taste
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.

For glaze:

• 1 protein
• 200-250 grams of powdered sugar

Usually standard set spices in gingerbread - this is actually ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves! But on personal experience the taste of cloves is quite sharp and specific, not everyone likes it. I replaced the cloves with turmeric and got bright, fragrant orange gingerbread cookies - well, very light and tasty! All the kids are delighted !!! So, we figured out the spices.

We first take out the butter from the refrigerator. Let it lie on warm kitchen and will become soft. We put it in a container convenient for work. Add sugar.

Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until a fluffy mass is obtained. The butter will lighten enough while beating. Now add honey. My spoons were so full that the proportion of honey probably doubled - the gingerbread cookies turned out to be quite sweet.

Beat the creamy mass with honey. The result is an air mass that looks like a sweet cloud. Now we add baking powder. The main spice component is ginger, we put it in two parts in proportion to the rest of the spices (the amount is indicated in the recipe). Now add the rest of the spices - turmeric, cinnamon and nutmeg.

Whisk. The result is such a yellow, bright mass. Add chicken eggs and beat thoroughly with a mixer at high speeds.

The test base is ready. It remains to add flour. We put it in parts.

Mix the first part (about 2.5 glasses) with a mixer.

We mix the rest with our hands. Here is thick dough happened. We cover it with cling film and put it to rest in the refrigerator for 2 - 2.5 hours.

The dough has become dense and now it is very convenient and easy to work with it.

Begin. Sprinkle work surface flour, take a piece of dough, roll it out in a thin layer and cut out various figures.

I have such a funny set of stars, crown, bell and antennae.

We spread the figures on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 200 degrees for literally 7-10 minutes.

Once the gingerbread is browned, you can put the following.

You can decorate gingerbread icing sugar... For this we take one egg white and 200 grams of powdered sugar - beat until the mass lightens and the state when the drop freezes on a whisk. This is literally 5-6 minutes at high mixer speeds.

Done! Now we are packing New Year's gingerbread cookies in gift Baskets and make our dear people happy!

Recipe 3, step by step: iced gingerbread

Nothing could be better for a holiday or just a cute family tea party! The sight alone is so uplifting! And already on Christmas and New Years - you can't do that at all! Not to mention children's parties) So I'd better start telling you how to make the most fragrant gingerbread.

• Sugar - 100 grams
• Honey - 165 grams
• Ground ginger - 1.5 tsp
• Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
• Ground cloves - 1 tsp
• Soda - 2 tsp without slide
• Butter - 125 grams
• Egg - 1 pc.
• Flour - 500 grams

We take a small saucepan, add sugar, add honey and three types of spices - cinnamon, ginger and cloves. We put on the burner and heat until the mass becomes liquid, of course, stir constantly.

Without removing from the stove, add soda and mix quickly.

The mass will immediately turn white and rise a little, become more magnificent.

We remove the pan from the stove and immediately add the creamy little to the honey-spicy mass and mix until it dissolves.

As soon as the mass has cooled slightly, break the egg and mix quickly with a whisk.

It remains only to add flour. Its amount can be slightly varied, according to the recipe there is quite a lot of it, I just added in parts, when it seemed that the dough was already quite dense, I did not pour out the leftovers (about half a glass remained).

Knead the dough with your hands. It should be crumbly like shortbread dough.

Roll out the dough into a very thin sheet, about 2 millimeters, the thinner the better.

And we cut out the figures. I had such a big shape.

We put it on a baking sheet (you can not grease it with anything, because there is a lot of oil in the dough and the cookies will not stick). We send it to the preheated oven. I will not say for sure about the temperature, I had about 190-200 degrees. But they are baked very quickly, since the dough is thin, so do not go far, you need to follow without leaving.

That's all, delicious, aromatic, spicy gingerbread is ready! Can be served hot, hot.

You can also decorate the gingerbread by whipping the protein with sugar.

Recipe 4: how to make gingerbread with cocoa and honey

• Wheat flour - 650 g
• Honey - 85 g
• Butter - 90 g
• Powdered sugar (+200 g in glaze) - 210 g
• Chicken egg - 4 pieces
• Soda - 1.5 tsp.
• Spices - 3 tsp
• Cocoa powder - 3 tsp
• Egg white (in the glaze) - 1 piece

Melt honey and butter in a water bath.

Beat eggs with powdered sugar.

Melted honey with butter COOL OFF! If added hot, the dough will be rubbery, it will be very difficult to roll it out.

Add to beaten eggs and stir.

Add baking soda, spices and cocoa. Mix. Here's what happens.

Sift flour.

Mix. I first do this with a mixer:

Here's what happened:

And then with your hands. Knead well. If you do not mix well, then there will be bubbles.

Everything sticks at first. But not scary. We divide all this mass into 4 parts. We take one part, form a lump and into a plastic bag.

Put the dough in the freezer for 15-20 minutes.

The dough has cooled down. We take out a piece. With me lightly. Roll out. Roll out so that there is no air in the dough. Now there was a revelation for me. If you roll it out thinly, thinly, in mm, then the cookies will turn out to be thin, crispy, but ... crooked. Therefore, the thicker the cookie, the smoother it is at the exit. I tried to make it 3-4 mm thick. This, in my opinion, is optimal.

We cut everything out. Gently transfer to a baking sheet. I baked on a silicone mat. By the way. If the rug is thin, then it can heave in the oven, and then the gingerbread will also be uneven.

I baked at 150 degrees. When I increased the temperature, the gingerbread cookies began to bubble. That is, they became uneven again.

The gingerbreads are brownish, so you can take them out.

Paint with glaze.

Recipe 6: how to make gingerbread at home

• Wheat flour, premium 500 gr.
• Butter (or margarine for baking) 100 gr.
• Chicken egg 1 pc.
• Sugar 125-150 gr.
• Honey (any sort without bitterness) 250 gr.
• Coriander (dried) 3 teaspoons
• Cloves 50 pcs.
• Cinnamon (ground) 1 teaspoon
• Ginger (fresh) 3 cm.
• Cocoa powder - 10 gr.
• Baking powder 2 teaspoons
• Lemon juice 40 ml.
• Sugar powder 100 gr.

Put honey, butter and sugar in a shallow saucepan, set to heat on medium fire until the sugar is completely dissolved. At the same time, do not forget to stir constantly.

Then remove the pan from the heat. We take cloves and coriander, and grind with a coffee grinder, then sift through a sieve. Grind the ginger in the same way. Add it all to honey mass, pour more cinnamon and mix thoroughly. Next, add cocoa powder, mix until a homogeneous mass is formed and leave to cool.

Then we drive an egg into a saucepan, add flour and baking powder, knead soft, elastic dough... We leave it for 3 hours in a warm place, covered with a towel.

We put to preheat the oven to a temperature of 180-200 degrees. We take baking paper and roll out the dough on it with a rolling pin, about 3 cm thick.Then, using special molds, cut out the figures. We remove the excess dough, and transfer the paper with gingerbread to a baking sheet and set to bake in a preheated oven for 15-18 minutes.

At this time, mix two tablespoons of lemon juice and powdered sugar in a shallow bowl. You can already remove the baking sheet from the oven.

Put the finished icing in a pastry bag and paint the gingerbread.

Once the icing has set, the gingerbread can be served. Brew aromatic tea with lemon and call the household to the table. Enjoy your meal!

Recipe 7: gingerbread and nutmeg gingerbread (step by step)

Gingerbread is a classic Christmas baked item. They are stored for a long time in a tightly closed dry jar. You can paint them at will, decorate with multi-colored sprinkles or coconut flakes, chocolate, etc. Show your imagination, connect the children. They will definitely enjoy this activity and you will have a great time together. Enjoy your holidays!

• Wheat flour top grade 450 g
• Butter 125 gr
• Sugar 125 gr
• Chicken egg 1 pc
• Honey 125 gr
• Ginger 1 tsp
• Cinnamon 1 tsp
• Nutmeg ½ tsp
• Cloves 1/3 tsp
• Baking dough 1.5 tsp
• Soda ½ tsp
• Salt 1 pinch

Mix flour with spices, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and a pinch of salt.

Add chilled diced butter.

Grind into crumbs.

Add egg, honey and 1 tbsp. cold water.

Knead an elastic dough.

Roll out the dough into a layer 4-5 mm thick.

Put on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake for 12 minutes at 170C. Cover with icing or white chocolate if desired.

Recipe 8: beautiful gingerbread for the holiday (with photo)

Fragrant, tasty, funny. The design process will bring great pleasure to both children and adults.

• flour (with a slide) - 1 stack.;
• butter - 100 g;
• sugar - 0.5 stack.;
• egg - 1 pc;
• baking powder - 1.5 tsp;
• cocoa powder - 1 tsp;
• ground ginger - 1 tsp;
• ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp;
• salt (pinch);
• egg white (for glaze) - 1 pc;
• icing sugar (for glaze) - 0.5 stack.;
• lemon juice (for glaze) - 1 tablespoon;

Sift flour, baking powder, cocoa, ginger, cinnamon through a sieve. Add butter to the crumb, chopped with a knife. Add sugar, add an egg, quickly knead the dough.

Roll into a ball, wrap in plastic wrap, put in the refrigerator for 1.5-2 hours.

Roll out the chilled dough on a floured table into a layer 7-8 mm thick.

Place paper stencils (or use curly cutters) and cut out the gingerbread. Place the gingerbread cookies on a floured baking sheet. Bake for 15-20 minutes at 180 ° C.

Beat the cooled egg white with a mixer until firmly. Continuing to beat, add in small portions powdered sugar, lemon juice. Beat for another 15-20 seconds. If desired, you can add to the glaze food coloring.

Decorate the gingerbread with icing and let the glaze dry. I used, in addition to glaze, gel flamasters

Bonus: icing for delicious homemade gingerbread

• 1 pc egg
• 150 gr icing sugar
• 10 g lemon juice
• vanillin
• food colorings

Separate the egg white into a clean bowl. This must be done carefully, because if even a drop of yolk gets in, the glaze will not work. Chilled egg white is best whipped.

To get started, just break the protein with a mixer.

When it becomes a homogeneous consistency, add lemon juice, vanilla and a little powdered sugar.

After each addition, beat until all the grains are dissolved.

When the mass becomes similar in consistency to kefir, the glaze is ready. If you add a little more sugar, the frosting thickens and can be used to paint patterns. Divide it into portions, in which we add food coloring, and place in a pastry bag.

Gingerbread - Traditional new Year's treat European countries. Gingerbread man - irreplaceable attribute winter holiday along with a Christmas tree, garlands and a Coca-Cola advertisement. Despite the abundance of hot spices, and primarily ginger, it turns out to be a sweet and aromatic treat. What Christmas baking can be without these spicy flavors? The smell of homemade gingerbread cannot be conveyed in words. Various molds allow you to cut out gingerbread cookies in the form of a Christmas tree, snowflakes, various animals, houses, hearts and so on from the dough. Great New Year's Eve entertainment that kids can connect to. Christmas cookies can be presented by tying with a beautiful ribbon, or hung on a Christmas tree as an edible decoration. And from this dough you can make a beautiful and edible decoration under the Christmas tree - ginger gingerbread house.

Christmas gingerbread would not be so festive if not for their painted decoration. Icing, or royal icing, is quite simple to prepare, but there are many nuances, so I recommend looking at a separate icing recipe. The color of the dough depends on the amount of spices: more cinnamon is darker, less is lighter. Experience suggests that the longer the dough lasts, the tastier, darker and smoother the gingerbread. Therefore, let the dough rest for at least an hour. Better if the dough is in the freezer for a week. I suggest you detailed recipe with a photo of gingerbread with glaze. All proportions in the recipe are matched perfectly, we adjust the thickness of the gingerbread ourselves. Thin gingerbread will be crispy, while thicker gingerbread will be soft on the inside. By the way, it is not at all necessary to cook such gingerbread cookies only for the New Year, although they are the decoration of this holiday. Such pastries can be prepared for Valentine's Day, March 8, and Birthday, if you select the appropriate molds and prepare a beautiful multi-colored icing. But the most important thing is to cook with love.

I propose to cook just Christmas gingerbread in the form of snowflakes and Christmas trees. The aroma that fills the house while baking the dough is special, magic scent, it generates good New Year spirit and encourages singing "Jingle bells" right in the kitchen. Christmas baking is a great tradition that can help keep families together and keep them busy. useful business children.

Ingredients:

• 250 g (2.5 tablespoons) premium flour;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• 1 egg;
• 100 g butter;
• 70 g sugar;
• 1 tbsp with a slide of honey (about 30 g);
• 1 tsp ground ginger;
• 2 tsp cinnamon;
• 1 tsp anise;
• pinch nutmeg;
• a pinch of cardamom;
• a pinch of cloves.

How to cook gingerbread at home, recipe.

1. Combine egg, sugar, soft butter and honey. Sugar will do both regular white and brown. We take honey to taste, or whatever it is. In the West, honey is often replaced by pataca.

2. Beat everything with a mixer until smooth.

3. In a separate bowl, combine all the spices, flour and necessarily soda - this ingredient will make the gingerbread lush. You do not need to extinguish the soda, it will react with honey.

4. Mix the contents of the two bowls.

5. Knead the dough with a spoon until it darkens and begins to separate. By the way, the final color of the dough depends on both the spices and the type of honey. From light varieties (linden, acacia), gingerbread cookies of a pleasant brownish hue will turn out, and if you take buckwheat honeythen the dark ones will come out, practically chocolate gingerbread.

6. Gradually roll the dough out of heterogeneous lumps into a smooth ball.

7. Flatten it (it will cool faster this way) and wrap it in cling film. We send it to the refrigerator for at least an hour. It is easier to cut gingerbread from cold dough, they turn out to be smoother and more accurate.

8. Divide the dough into 2 parts. We will roll out one, and the second can be put in the refrigerator for now.

9. Roll it into a layer on parchment or between two sheets (so the rolling pin does not stick, and you don’t need to sprinkle anything with excess flour, which will clog the dough). If the rolling pin is varnished, smooth (like mine), then you can only do with parchment from below. The shape of the gingerbread also depends on the thickness of the layer: if you roll it too thin, you get crispy cookies, not gingerbread.

10. Now the most interesting thing: we begin to push through the layer with molds. If there are no special molds, you can use a regular glass or cut out the dough with a knife. Our Christmas or New Year's gingerbread cookies can be of the usual round shape, snowflakes and Christmas trees can be drawn on them with icing. We try to use the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe dough as much as possible, but leave a small distance between the gingerbread cookies - when baking, the gingerbread cookies will slightly disperse both wide and high. Carefully remove the excess dough and roll it out again into a ball, only on another sheet of parchment. The main thing is not to let the dough heat up, otherwise it may begin to stratify and lose its shape. If the dough is hot, put it in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes, and cut it out again. It is very convenient to transfer the gingerbread cookies to a baking sheet along with a sheet of parchment - the molds are not deformed, the gingerbread cookies are smooth and beautiful. In this form, we send our snowflakes to the preheated oven to bake until tender. It is enough for them from 7 to 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Readiness is determined with a toothpick, there should be no traces of dough on it. Gingerbread can start to burn pretty quickly and our goal is to prevent this from happening. And, although it is quite difficult to determine from the first time by the color of the baking whether it is burnt or not, this affects the taste very noticeably. Therefore, we take it out and try it. By the way, hot gingerbread is softer, and when cooled down - crisp.

11. Recipe gingerbread at home has come to an end. But you need to decorate them to create a festive atmosphere of Christmas and New Year.

12. Still, without icing, gingerbread is not enough festive look, so we put them in a separate container to cool down and start cooking royal icing.

13. Proteins of five quail eggs add to 250 g of finely ground powdered sugar.

14. Knead the cream of a thick consistency, first with a spoon, then with a mixer at minimum speed. It will take about 7 minutes in total.

15. We breed icing boiled water a few drops and knead. The icing that matches the consistency should reach for the spoon.

16. We decorate the gingerbread cookies with a pastry bag: the lines stretch and then go down. Dry the jewelry for about 30 minutes.

17. New Year's gingerbread is ready. Bon appetit and Happy New Years!

As I think about New Year, I immediately hear music from the ballet "Nutcracker" and the magic dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. And with them come the aromas of pine needles and spices, the taste of New Year's gingerbread on the tongue, so fragrant and elegant! What are you doing in December? And I go to visit and give everyone gingerbread! New Year's and merry, I bake them myself, and then decorate! No, there is no New Year without refreshments! And if so, today we will bake Gift Gingerbread. If you want to decorate the tree with them, you want to present it to your friends.

So, we don't need anything special. It's very simple: flour, honey, sugar, butter, spices, eggs.

First, let's prepare the spices.

Grind the spices in a coffee grinder.

Be sure to sift to remove large particles.

Grind the sugar in a coffee grinder, at the same time it will be saturated with the aromas of spices. You can use the icing sugar right away.

Sift flour with powdered sugar.

Melt honey with butter in a microwave oven.

Break eggs into a bowl, add salt and spices, mix.

Add honey with butter and flour in portions. Knead a soft dough.

Roll out the dough and cut out the gingerbread cookies. Bake at 190 degrees until browned. Gingerbread is baked quickly! 7-10 minutes. I do not grease the sheet, I sprinkle it with flour.

Ready gingerbread remove from the sheet after cooling.

While the gingerbread cookies are cooling, I will prepare the icing for decoration. I don't use any icing mixer! I rub everything with a fork. For the glaze, you need the protein of one egg, powdered sugar, a few drops of lemon juice and dye.

The glaze should be of a paintable consistency, not runny, but not flowing either. Divide the glaze into 2 parts. Leave 13 white for drawing. Paint the rest in the colors you need for decoration.

Using a pastry envelope, trace the outline of each gingerbread.

I paint a little green glaze to decorate the Christmas trees.

I fill the outline with green glaze.

And I decorate, for example, like this!

And if you try a little more, then you can!

Or something like that.

And how delicious!

On the eve of the New Year, we suggest making delicious gingerbread cookies for the New Year with our own hands according to our recipes with a photo. Ready-made gingerbread is decorated with white or chocolate icing to choose from (see photo below). If desired, the baked goods are painted in brighter colors.

For lovers chocolate baked goods you will like this simple and original recipe... For the gingerbread to have a more pronounced chocolate flavor, you can add grated or melted chocolate. Ordinary confectionery tiles are fine. If using cocoa, adjust the amount to your liking.

Ingredients:

• honey - 250 g;
• sugar - 100 g;
• vanillin;
• butter - 150 g;
• cardamom - 1 inflorescence;
• egg;
• nutmeg;
• flour - 500 g;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• cocoa - 25 g;
• cinnamon - 2 sticks;
• carnation - 5 inflorescences.

Preparation:

1. Mix honey, sugar and butter in a bowl. To those who don't love too much sweet pastries, it is recommended to use less sugar.
2. Grind the spices in a coffee grinder. Add them to the above ingredients.
3. Put the mass on fire. Let it warm up, but do not bring it to a boil.
4. Combine dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
5. Beat the egg. Add dry ingredients and beat into the mixture on the stove. If done correctly, ready dough the structure will resemble plasticine.
6. Roll it into a ball and wrap it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate the dough for an hour. If you want it to cool faster, you need to put it in the freezer.
7. Before cutting out gingerbread blanks from the dough for the New Year, remove it from the refrigerator or freezer and let it sit warm for 30 minutes.
8. Powder the surface with flour. Roll out the dough. Cut out the figures.
9. Line a baking sheet with baking paper and place the gingerbread cookies on top of it. Simmer in the oven for 15 minutes at 175 degrees. If you want the gingerbread cookies to be denser and crisper, bake them within half an hour.

Custard gingerbread for the New Year 2018

Making custard gingerbread (see photo) with your own hands for the New Year is not much more difficult than chocolate. Of course, the recipe is slightly different from the one presented above. To the top ready-made baked goods looked more attractive, it can be smeared with whipped yolk.

ANDingredients:

• sugar - 200 g;
• butter - 40 g;
• flour - 2.5 tbsp.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• honey - st. l .;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• boiling water - ½ tbsp.

Preparation:

1. Whisk eggs and sugar. They should turn into a homogeneous mass.
2. Bring water and honey to a boil. Wait for the honey to dissolve.
3. Pour in gently egg mixture... Stir.
4. Add all the other ingredients. Stir again.
5. Remove from heat and knead the dough again, but more thoroughly.
6. Wait for the dough to cool. During this time, it should become a little thicker.
7. Roll it out. Using molds, you need to cut out figures.
8. Bake the gingerbread cookies at 200 degrees for no more than 10 minutes.

New Year's dessert is ready. It remains to cover the gingerbread cookies with icing or leave them in their original form. If the baking turned out to be very thin, it is easy to build a Christmas tree from it, pouring the layers with cream or all the same glaze.

How to prepare the glaze for painting?

It is customary to paint New Year's gingerbread with glaze. There are many recipes for its preparation. We offer you to get acquainted with the most common of them. Its main advantage is that it does not crumble. When the glaze dries, it becomes perfectly smooth and even. The gingerbread cookies decorated with it look very festive.

Ingredients:

• protein - 1 pc .;
• icing sugar - 200 g;
• lemon juice - tbsp. l.

Preparation:

1. Drive the egg into the glass. Separate the protein.
2. Remove fibers. Sift the icing sugar.
3. Whisk it with protein. Add powder in portions.
4. Add juice at the end. Whisk again.

If the icing seems to be too runny, you can add a little more powdered sugar. If the mass came out fairly thick, it is almost impossible to perfectly draw a smooth surface on the gingerbread. But draw thin lines thick glaze the best thing.

To decorate the gingerbread bright colors, use food coloring in your preferred shades. Remember, frosting dries quickly. To prevent this from happening, cover it with cling film.

Fancy orange gingerbread

To surprise your household and guests, cook orange gingerbread with your own hands for the New Year (see photo). Dessert baked at home is much tastier and healthier than the purchased one. Children and adults will remain crazy about such gingerbread.

Ingredients:

• flour - 7 tbsp.;
• baking powder - 2 tsp;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• butter - 240 g;
• sugar - 2 tbsp.;
• honey - 2 tbsp. l .;
• cocoa - 2 tsp;
• orange - 2 pcs.;
• cinnamon - 2 tsp;
• ginger - 1 tsp;
• salt - 1 tsp

Recipe:

1. Squeeze the juice out of the oranges, after removing the zest from them.
2. Whisk butter with eggs, flour and sugar.
3. Add there too orange juice (no more than 100 ml).
4. Add all other ingredients to the mixture.
5. Stir. Knead the dough into a homogeneous dense mass.
6. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour, after wrapping it in plastic.
7. Remove from refrigerator and divide into 4 portions.
8. Roll out the dough as thin as possible. Cut out figures from it.
9. Bake the gingerbread cookies for 15 minutes at 170 degrees.
10. Decorate with icing when the baked goods have cooled.

Ready gingerbread can be put in a beautiful dish on new Year's table, or make small holes in them before baking and hang them on the Christmas tree, taking beautiful ribbons as a basis.

How to make gingerbread roe?

Gingerbread Roe - Enough popular view New Year's delicacies. They are liked by both children and adults. Try to bake them for the New Year with your own hands according to our recipe with a photo. The reaction of the household will not be long in coming.

Ingredients:

• rye flour - 1 kg;
• honey - 1 tbsp.;
• sugar - 2 tbsp.;
• water - 2 tbsp.;
• butter - 100 g;
• cinnamon - 1 g;
• cloves - 1 g;

Preparation:

1. Add sugar and honey to the water. Put on fire.
2. Do not turn off the gas until the liquid turns dark.
3. When the water has cooled slightly, add the butter.
4. Send spices there too. Add flour and knead the dough.
5. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour. During this time, it should become more malleable.
6. Powder the surface with flour. Roll out the dough into a very thin layer.
7. Cut the figures to your liking.
8. Bake at 220 degrees for up to 15 minutes. This time is enough for the gingerbread cookies to have time to brown.
9. Decorate the gingerbread with icing.

Preparation:

1. Dissolve honey in water. Put the liquid on fire.
2. When the water has cooled, add the flour. Add soda there.
3. Rub the eggs. Add them to water and other ingredients.
4. Chop the almonds. Add it to the rest of the ingredients.
5. Add cinnamon, cloves and butter there.
6. Mix all ingredients well. Roll out the dough into a thin layer.
7. Line a baking sheet with paper. Put the gingerbread there.
8. Bake for up to 10 minutes at 180 degrees. Let the gingerbread cookies cool.

While the baked goods are cooling, you can make icing for them. To do this, beat the protein - it should increase several times. Add powdered sugar and lemon juice there. Continue whisking until tender. Glaze can be very beautiful to decorate New Year's gingerbread!

Cook gingerbread cookies (see photo) using one of the recipes, not only for New Year, but also for Christmas. DIY baked goods can be a great gift for your loved ones.

Look at my gingerbread herringbone 3d. Made it for the New Year, for decoration festive table... Such a beautiful Christmas tree can also serve wonderful decoration New year cake, if you make it on a wooden skewer and then just stick it into the cake. I think my master class on the gingerbread tree, on New Year's Eve, will come in handy for many and you will delight your family with such handmade beauty. If you do not know from which test they can be made, I advise you to look at one of my favorite options from which they are obtained.

It is not very difficult to make New Year's gingerbread with your own hands, the main thing is to do everything gradually, not to rush and not to neglect the advice. I offer you a fairly understandable master class on painting gingerbread with glaze, according to which everything will turn out just as beautifully and original. Different templates for gingerbread for the New Year can be found on the Internet, or you can copy them from different children's coloring pages.

It is necessary:

• Ready-made gingerbread - 4 parts
• Edible beads - optional
• Egg white - 1 pc.
• Lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
• Powdered sugar - 150 g
• Water - will go
• Blue food coloring - 1 - 2 drops
• Satin ribbon

Master class of Christmas gingerbread with glaze

I will not show you how to cook delicious gingerbread at home, since I have already done this many times. I'll tell you briefly, I cut out special blanks from the dough, this is the Christmas tree itself, a snowflake ball and a round stand. Maybe you don’t understand why I need both a snowflake and a ball, but I decided to do both the one and the second option, because I could not decide what I liked the most. Therefore, if you like it with a snowflake, leave it, and if with a ball, then take it. Immediately after baking, I make a hole in the ball with an ordinary cocktail tube, and cut the desired hole in the stand. And in order to get a beautiful New Year's gingerbread tree, you need to fill it with white glaze right away. For the glaze, I mix the powder, protein and lemon juice, then beat everything with a mixer at low speed for 3 minutes. Now look at the thickness, if the glaze is thick, then add a few drops of water, mix and check again.

I make the glaze of one medium consistency, if you hold it with a fork, a trace should remain, which disappears in 6 - 8 seconds. Then I transfer a small amount of it to another container, add a blue dye and mix until smooth, the resulting color is also transferred to a pastry bag. I outline the contours of the Christmas tree with white icing and fill it. Gently shake the gingerbread several times so that the filling is evenly laid down. I also do it with a stand and a ball. Then I leave them for several hours so that they dry completely, but it is better to wait 12 to 24 hours. Further in blue I draw a wavy line.

Using a brush, gently blend the line and immediately attach the beads there.

I do exactly the same all over the tree to make beautiful snow-covered twigs. As you can see, gingerbread for the new year is not hard to do with your own hands and this is quite an interesting activity.

While it dries, I cover the snowflake with blue, drawing its lines. By the way, to make such a snowflake, I used special plungers that are squeezed out of the dough, different figures... I also make a dotted outline on the Christmas tree, ball and stand in white.

In conclusion, I paint the balloon itself carefully and decorate the stand a little. Now I leave them to dry well, after which you can thread the ribbon into the snowflake and into the ball. Next, I try on both options on the Christmas tree and choose the one that I like best. Do-it-yourself gingerbread tree made of gingerbread is beautiful and rather unusual, especially since it can be eaten.

Here is such a gingerbread herringbone came out for me. And I also like that it is like 3D and will be a wonderful decoration for a festive table or even a cake! If you make a cake with a flat top, then you can put such beauty on top, but then immediately after baking, stick a skewer into the tree to make it easier to install, and then you don't need to make a stand. If you are making Christmas trees for a gift, be sure to wrap them in special bags and tie them nicely with a ribbon. You can also find transparent round boxes for such products in stores. Prepare for the holidays in advance, and if you do not know how much gingerbread is stored, then believe me that this period is more than three months. Inspiration for you in the kitchen!