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 material and a 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, you will need to use special templates. On any site dedicated to the New Year theme, we find suitable options and print them out. 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 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 something so tasty and please 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 gladly agree, since the New Year is a family holiday. Currently, you can download templates for making online.

1. Everything is done quite simply. Pre-prepared cardboard templates, put on a bar.
2. Then we hammer in the carnations along 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, such 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 these templates cost 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 time and energy. Just in time for the New Year, your stencils will be mailed 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 it. 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.

Currently, there are a considerable number of online culinary stores where you can familiarize yourself with the main types of cooking molds. If you want to create something of your own and creative, then on a piece of paper you can draw a template. It is worth noting that small details should be avoided as they are very difficult to transfer onto stencils.

Using improvised means

Using several techniques, you will be able to create the best possible molds for the production of quality and delicious gingerbread. If you do not have time to make stencils and molds, then you can use the tools at hand.

In this case, it can be a wide variety of options:

Mugs, cups, glass, wine glasses
You can cut something yourself with a knife
Borrow toys from your child that he uses to make Easter cakes (just wash and disinfect them first)

There are many methods, but each person finds a method that is easiest for him to implement. The most important thing is the dough. If you made delicious cookies, then no one will pay attention to their shape. This method has already been practiced by many housewives. You can use a mug to make simple circles that you can decorate.

This cookie will be in great demand, so hurry up, the New Year is coming soon and you need to prepare for production. Cookies and gingerbread cookies can be prepared in advance, as they will not spoil, and for tea this is the best delicacy.

How to make stencils

Stencil, one of the simplest and most effective methods for creating optimal shapes for gingerbread. You will need to find on the network and download special templates for cutting ready-made forms. To complete the task, you will need: cardboard, scissors, template, stationery.

First, we cut out the template from the printed sheet, then we put the resulting sketch on the cardboard and also cut it out. Thus, we get a ready-made blank, which is fully suitable for making cookies. The required materials, you can find at home without any problems. The cardboard should only be from food products.

Do not use it on household appliances, shoes and other goods, as it has an unpleasant odor.
Roll out the dough and lay out stencils on top. Cut out a cookie for each and place it on a prepared baking sheet. Everything is simple, economical and efficient. With the minimum investment of money and time, you have achieved the best result.

Metal blanks

The second method is much more complicated and requires the use of more important materials. You will need a tin strip, hammer, nails, bar, scissors, cardboard, paper. You can make figurines of almost identical quality to those sold in the store.

You need to follow the instructions exactly:

1. Cut out the optimal template from cardboard, the contours of which will have a shape. In this case, you can show all your ingenuity.
2. Next, using a block, place the prepared stencil on it. You need to hammer nails around along the contour. In this case, their height should be about four centimeters. Nails are installed only in places where the stencil is bent.
3. Next, the resulting contour is wrapped with tape and bent where the nails are. The result is a ready-made mold that can be used at home.

It is worth not forgetting that for gingerbread cookies, all the molds must be of high quality. You can file the edges to make them sharper. If you do not know where you can print New Year's stencils for gingerbread, then you are given the opportunity to use all your artist's skill and draw them with your own hands.

Storage of stencils and molds

After you have used your stencils and molds, you need to save them. In this case, you will need to use several basic techniques that will protect the material from external factors. Actually, cookie stencils which are made of high quality food grade cardboard can be put in a plastic bag. Thus, they will be kept away from humid air and stored for a long time.

Metal molds require more careful handling. After you have used these parts, you need to wash them thoroughly. In this case, you will remove the dough leftovers, which can be a great place for the bacteria population. Then wipe it dry and put it in a closet in a dry place.

Gingerbread stencils:65 stencils for free download. How to make a stenciled gingerbread mold. The history of the gingerbread in Russia.

Stencils for gingerbread.

I grew up on the shores of the White Sea. Our northern region has long been famous for its most beautiful and delicious New Year and Christmas gingerbread - roe deer.

My mother always baked roes on New Year's Eve, and I helped her since childhood. I remember very well how sugar was smoking in the kitchen, how the house smelled of cinnamon and cloves, how delicious the glaze was - this is the smell of a cozy happy home for me. And when it was necessary to paint the gingerbread baked by my mother, we gathered with my girlfriends from the yard of our house and decorated them, came up with different options. From about 6-7 years old, I already fully participated in the manufacture of roe and their painting was entrusted to me.

How my mother (and now I already) make dough for roe and bake them, I wrote in an article with A in this article I will share with you how to prepare for this delicious amazing process and where to find stencils and forms for gingerbread.

How to download free gingerbread stencils?

I have prepared for you, dear readers of my site "Native Path", 65 ready-made gingerbread stencils. They included:

- our home stencils and forms that my mother gave me and which are familiar to me from my childhood and therefore are especially dear and loved (folder 1),

- several old stencils of traditional Arkhangelsk gingerbread from the book "Kozuli", published in Arkhangelsk 24 years ago (folder 2),

- modern stencils of European gingerbread (folder 3).

Gingerbread stencils you can download for free from Yandex.Disk. Click on this link and then click on the "download" button.

You can also make and paint your own stencils. You can take pictures from coloring pages or draw very generalized schematic images of different birds, animals, objects yourself without unnecessary details.

How to bake gingerbread cookies using stencils?

there is two ways to use stencils for baking holiday gingerbread

First way:

Step 1. Print stencils on a printer in the desired size. Roe - gingerbreads are traditionally quite large, the size of a palm or more (our forms are made for gingerbread 10-15 cm high) Small goats are not baked as gifts, but for tea as a treat.

Step 2. Cut them out carefully.

Step 3. Stick the cut-out silhouettes onto thick cardboard. It will turn out gingerbread patterns. These templates have been stored and used for several years.

Using cardboard templates, you will cut gingerbread from dough with a sharp thin knife. First, the general outline of the figure is cut, then small details.

Pros of this way of using a stencil: You can bake any form of gingerbread you need.

Cons of this way of using a stencil:tore content. It takes a very long time to carefully cut each figurine with a knife. Therefore, the second method is used more often.

Second way: make ready-made metal gingerbread forms using stencils. Or purchase ready-made forms for gingerbread in sets (they are sold in stores such as IKEA, Leonardo). Alas, in the case of using ready-made sets, you will have to put up with the figures that are in the set.

Advantages of this method:

- gingerbread cookies are cut from the dough very quickly, the process is easy and a pleasure.

- you can involve our beloved men in preparing for the holiday and instruct them to make forms for treats by participating in a common interesting business.

- ready-made metal forms serve for many decades and are very reliable, unlike cardboard templates.

Cons of this method: the mold making process is long. And making a mold to order is a very expensive business. Therefore, such forms are passed down from generation to generation.

Both ways are combined in our family. We use ready-made stencils, purchased forms. And if we want to make a special gingerbread, then we make it according to a cardboard template.

If you want to get your own individual family gingerbread cookies, then you need to make your own homemade forms and pass them on from generation to generation. Here are our family favorite gingerbread molds.

How to make a stenciled gingerbread mold with your own hands?

This is a man's business - therefore we entrust it to our beloved second halves :) And they will already guess how to do it more technologically and conveniently. This is how our home molds were made. Surely, there are other options for their manufacture.

Step 1. We cut out a long strip of tin (in our home forms this strip is cut from a jar from underneath green peas).

Step 2. We take the board. We put our paper stencil on it and fix it on the board. We fill nails along the nodal points of the silhouette of the figure (the nails should be where the line of the figure bends or where the corner of the figure is).

Step 3. We bend the strip of tin according to our silhouette, the nails help the exact bending trajectory of the strip.

Step 4. We fasten the strip as shown in the photo above. It turns out a closed silhouette.

We ensure the safety of using such a form - you need to process the edges of the strip well so that they do not cut your hands when cutting the gingerbread from the dough (the dough is tight, and it takes effort to cut the gingerbread from it).

These are the forms you get (you will find stencils for them in the download kit above).

But what comes out of these forms and stencils in this article - my ready-made gingerbread! :-).

Gingerbread ball in Arkhangelsk.

Visit a real gingerbread ball in Arkhangelsk! You will see wonderful gingerbread cookies, fairy tales gingerbread, dream gingerbread cookies and you will be able to feel how the new year is blowing from our northern fabulous goats!

The history of Russian gingerbread.

Are you curious to know when and how the festive gingerbread appeared in Russia? What size was the largest gingerbread and why was it baked? What are the gingerbread cookies?

For the most curious readers - "Gingerbread Story" in 2 parts!

Gingerbread is a popular piece of confectionery art in many countries. Everyday gingerbread is a simple geometric shape with white or colored glaze. Holiday, New Year's, Christmas, Easter gingerbread cookies are made of various, sometimes the most intricate forms, for example, gingerbread houses and castles. You can print stencils for gingerbread on a home printer, copied from a book, postcard or your baby's favorite toy.

Gingerbread is prepared from a specifically kneaded dough, into which spices, nuts, raisins, candied fruits and / or thick jam (jam) can be added for the "richness" of taste. In the form and with those components with which gingerbread is prepared to this day, they began to bake in the XII-XIII century. It was then that spices reached our region from the Middle East and India: nutmeg, ginger, cloves, chicken, star anise, coriander, mint, anise, vanilla, black and allspice, cardamom, etc.

In Russia, burnt sugar, dried and chopped cranberries, raspberries, bird cherry, and mint were added to the gingerbread dough to add color.

Interesting! Gingerbread in Russia was not just a confectionery. It was a truly "status", expensive gift for Forgiveness Sunday, before Lent, which was not even shameful to present even to the emperor himself. And the higher the status of the gifted person, the heavier the carrot was. The "Imperial" version of this delicacy was transported on a specially built sleigh, and this is a historically recorded fact.

Gingerbread "Kozuli"

These traditional gingerbread cookies are baked in the Pomeranian Territory - in the Arkhangelsk Region of Russia. Recipes have been stored and inherited literally for centuries. Gingerbread stencils need to be printed, the drawing should be transferred to cardboard and cut out.

Important! If you cut out a stencil for gingerbread from cardboard with your own hands, use only the one in which food products were packed: boxes from sweets, pasta, juices, etc. Shoe boxes or packaging from household appliances are not suitable for these purposes - they have an unpleasant smell.

Ingredients: 200 g of butter and sugar, 2 glasses of flour, 1 egg, 2 tsp. soda, 100 gr. powdered sugar, 2 tbsp. lemon juice. Spices: 1 tsp each cardamom and crusty, 2 tsp ginger powder.

1. Rub the soft butter with sugar, add the egg.
2. Put soda and spices in the flour, combine with the butter-sugar mixture, knead the dough. We put it in a cold place for half an hour.
3. Next, roll out the previously prepared dough with a layer of 5-7 mm.
4. Print stencils for gingerbread, cut out figures of snowflakes, angels, snowmen, gingerbread men, birds, bells, etc. Rationally, in order to get as little dough waste as possible, put gingerbread patterns on the dough, cut it out with a sharp knife.
5. We transfer to a baking sheet covered with baking paper, bake gingerbread.
6. On cooled roe deer, we apply a drawing with white glaze, or colored, using natural or food dyes.
7. White icing for gingerbread is prepared from 250 gr. powdered sugar and 1 raw chicken egg white. With a fork or spoon, these components are intensively mixed for 10-12 minutes until a homogeneous mass is formed.

Readiness is checked as follows: draw a line on the surface of the glaze with the device used for whipping. The surface of the finished glaze will return to its previous appearance within 10 seconds. If the consistency is too thick, you can correct it by adding cold boiled water drop by drop. Add a little icing sugar to too thin icing.

Colored gingerbread icing is obtained by adding a little food coloring to the white one. If there is a “handy” man in the house, he will make molds for you from dense food tin according to stencils. For this, jars of canned peas, corn, pineapples, mushrooms, etc. are suitable. Detailed information, videos and master classes contain numerous network resources.

To use more than once, gingerbread stencils can be printed and cut out of plastic, simple figures can be made from cans of drinks and beer, molds for making sand cakes can be very interesting (just do not forget to wash them thoroughly).

For the production of quality blanks or so-called molds, you need a little time and a creative approach. To date, you can find ready-made templates on the Internet, and you can download them in a matter of seconds. But you can make templates for the new year with your own hands. In this case, you will not need to spend a lot of time.

Working on a variety, especially when it comes to cooking, is inspiring. You can dream up and make themed cookies or gingerbread cookies that will delight you with their appearance. Children with great pleasure will devour the fruits of your culinary skills. But first you need to dwell on how to make figures for cutting out cookies from dough.

There are three main ways:

1. Using cardboard templates
2. Self-made tin molds
3. Buying ready-made blanks in the store

All three techniques are effective and do not require much skill. If you are going to cook cookies, then first knead the dough so that it is infused, and then get to work. In fact, it is very easy to achieve the desired result. Both presented methods have advantages and disadvantages, so you can choose the best option for yourself and implement it.

Making cardboard molds

At the initial stage of preparation for the New Year, the issue associated with finding the best baking options stops at cookies. In this case, it is easy to make, you do not need to spend a lot of time, and at the same time you can approach the tasks in a creative way. Today, gingerbread cookies are very popular, which you can make yourself. You just need to make stencils.

This will require:

Pencil
Paper
Ready template
Cardboard
Scissors

Stencils for begin to be made based on the templates used. They can be easily found on the web, as there are many sites where you can download them. Everything is presented completely free of charge.

1. First, cut out the template from paper. You can draw your own sketches and cut them out as well.
2. Next, using a stencil, we apply the contours to the cardboard and also cut it out.
3. As a result, we get ready-made silhouettes of future cookies.

How to use the resulting stencils

Having prepared the stencils, you need to start making cookies. Roll out the prepared dough, after it is infused. Next, put stencils on top of the resulting cake and cut out cookies along the contour with a knife. Next, lay out on a pre-greased baking sheet and send the baked goods to the oven. This kind of cookie cutter will last for years. The only problem is that you have to cut everything by hand. With metal molds, you can do everything much faster.

Delicious gingerbread cookies or gingerbread cookies, cooked in a new exquisite form, will be perceived with a bang. So don't miss your opportunity to experiment with stencils and create something pretty interesting. Almost all gingerbread stencils can be printed at home if you have a printer.

You can use any package for storage. Cardboard does not require specific conditions, so it will be perfectly stored anywhere. It is worth remembering that you can make this kind of blanks yourself at any convenient time.

How to make metal molds

Metal molds for gingerbread can be easily purchased at any grocery store or supermarket. In fact, they are also not difficult to make with your own hands. In this case, you will save a lot and will be able to make such blanks that are not available in any store. In order to make metal molds, you will need to complete all the previous steps, including downloading templates. The main materials will be: nails, a wooden block, a tin strip about 3 centimeters wide, cardboard, a hammer.

1. Cut out the downloaded template and transfer it to cardboard. In this case, you will need to cut a similar sketch from cardboard.
2. Next, we put the resulting cardboard stencil on a block.
3. We hammer nails along the contour of the resulting model of the workpiece, only in the bending points.
4. We use a tin strip and bend the resulting shape along the contour.
5. Tap with a hammer at the bend points to shape. The cookie cutter is ready.

Then you can start making delicious cookies and according to your recipe. In fact, this technique has the broadest application. Even many workshops use such options for the production of molds for culinary companies. Recently, the cost of blanks in stores has increased several times and not everyone can afford to buy molds for gingerbread cookies. In fact, with a little bit of desire and dexterity, you can create the best stencils.

The first method is optimal, since you won't be making cookies every day. Thus, by cutting out the required models or cookie options, you can remove the cardboard stencils and apply them again. The most delicious cookies and gingerbread cookies come when you experiment and try to make things beautiful. Therefore, try using the first method and please the children for the New Year with cookies in the form of Santa Clauses, snowmen and other fairy-tale characters.