Gingerbread cookies with tea are a great start to the day. Such a confectionery masterpiece is prepared quickly and easily. You just need to mix the ingredients into the dough and bake the finished figurines for 8-10 minutes in the oven. The sweet treat contains ginger, and it is famous for its usefulness in all dishes and raw. It's just a brilliant idea to combine sweet culinary pastries with a healthy root. This is appreciated by all the sweet tooth, which is why gingerbread cookies have become so firmly entrenched in the list of favorite recipes. Below are several step-by-step descriptions with a photo of making a little joy. Among them, you can find classic gingerbread cookies, the recipe of which does not provide for additional ingredients, and, accordingly, additional costs.

This drug is popular in that it contains ginger. He is famous for many positive qualities. Thanks to the large list of vitamins and minerals, ginger is able to strengthen the immune system, normalize digestion, and even be a pain reliever. It does not lose its advantages during processing, and it is still useful even in dry powder form. Therefore, you should always have a bag of ground ginger in the kitchen, the composition of which can be added to tea or dough at any time.

You can not eat foods with ginger at elevated temperatures, and advanced forms of gastritis and ulcers.

Cinnamon gingerbread cookie

For those who want to try cookies with a sweet-burning aftertaste, it is better to add cinnamon to the composition. A recipe with a photo step by step of gingerbread cookies with cinnamon will help make your dream come true. It will take 2 cups of flour (the volume of a glass is 150 grams), a glass (the same size) of sugar, 1 chicken egg, 2 large ginger roots. Additional components will be one hundred grams of butter, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, the same amount of cinnamon and 5 pieces of cloves.

Preparation:

Rice flour in gingerbread base

Rice flour gingerbread cookie recipe is recommended for dieters. For unusual cookies, you will need 100 grams of rice flour, which will include 2 tbsp. tablespoons of grated or dry ginger. Additional ingredients of the dough will be an egg, 50 grams of hazelnuts, 150 grams (incomplete glass) of powdered sugar, half a tablespoon of baking powder.

Preparation:

Glazed Gingerbread Cookie

Gingerbread cookies with icing, a recipe with a photo of which will help to create this sweet in detail, is liked by everyone. Take 50 grams of sifted flour and 2 teaspoons of dry powdery root on it. To create a delicious dough, prepare 2 teaspoons of baking powder, 100 grams of butter, the same gram of black molasses, 3 teaspoons of lemon juice, 1 egg and 2 egg whites. Add sweetness to the liver with 180 grams of brown sugar and 350 grams of powdered sugar.

Preparation:

A light brown cookie is a sign of readiness.

Cocoa gingerbread cookie

You will need 1.5 cups of flour for chocolate gingerbread cookies, which is approximately 200 grams. To make the dough, you need to stock up on 0.5 cups of black molasses, 75-100 grams of butter, half a teaspoon of baking powder and 1 teaspoon of powdered root, cocoa, sugar, ground cinnamon, and cloves. For flavoring, take each gram of salt, black pepper and nutmeg.

Preparation:

Gingerbread

The dough for gingerbread is dense, which allows you to sculpt many different figures from it. Prepare 180 grams of flour on them, 1 teaspoon each of powdered root and cinnamon, 75 grams each of powdered sugar and butter, 2 tbsp each. tablespoons of fresh honey and molasses, and a quarter teaspoon of soda.

Preparation:

Those who want to get the dark color of gingerbread should replace the powdered sugar with dark sugar.

Gingerbread cookies are not only a sweet and healthy treat, they can also serve as a Christmas tree decoration. Cookie Christmas toys are as quick and easy to make as regular gingerbread cookies. Bon appetit and bright holidays to you!

Video recipe for making ginger dough

Shortbread cookies with ground ginger and cinnamon, decorated with colored sugar icing have become a traditional decoration for New Year and Christmas. To make colored icing, you need food coloring and fine-hole pastry tips for applying the icing.
It takes 120 minutes to make the Stars on the Christmas Tree gingerbread cookie, and from the ingredients listed in the recipe, you get 4 servings.

Taste Info New Year's recipes / Cookies

Ingredients for the dough:

• wheat flour - 220 rubles;
• soda - 3 gr.;
• sugar - 90 gr.;
• butter - 90 gr.;
• milk - 30 ml;
• chicken egg (yolk) - 1 pc .;
• ground ginger - 5 gr.;
• ground cinnamon - 5 gr.;
• nutmeg - 1 pc.

For glaze:
chicken egg (protein) - 1 pc .;
icing sugar - 180 gr.;
food color blue - 2 gr.;

How to make New Year's gingerbread cookies with "Stars" icing

Making a dough for gingerbread cookies: mix soft butter and sugar in a mixer. Beat the mixture for 4 minutes, then add the egg yolk and milk. Mix again, add flour, soda, ginger and cinnamon. Rub the nutmeg on a fine grater, also add to the dough. Wrap the finished dough in foil, put it in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.


If you don't have a cookie cutter, then a picture with a star and a special place for a hole through which you can thread the tape will come in handy. We print the drawing on thick paper, cut out a star 8 centimeters high.


Sprinkle flour on the table. Roll out the dough into a layer 5-6 millimeters thick. We cut out cookies with an ordinary kitchen knife, attaching a template.


We bake the cookies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees Celsius on a dry baking sheet for 8 minutes.

In the cooled cookies, make holes for the ribbons with a drill.


Prepare two colors of sugar icing. In a porcelain bowl, mix egg white and sifted icing sugar. Thoroughly grind the glaze with a regular spoon, divide it in half. Add blue dye to one part at the tip of the knife. Rub the dye so that no colored grains remain in the glaze. Transfer the blue frosting to a pastry bag with a cream attachment. To work with glaze, you need a nozzle with a 1-2 mm hole.


Apply blue frosting to all the star cookies. Leave to dry at room temperature for 30 minutes.


When the blue glaze is completely dry, apply small dots around the perimeter of the stars with white glaze using the thinnest pastry nozzle.

Surely, on the Internet or at Christmas markets, you saw iced cookies, gingerbread or other pastries that looked almost like works of art. As a rule, icing sugar is used as such a decoration. Today I will tell you how to quickly and skillfully cook such beauty!

Ingredients

• egg white 1 pc.
• icing sugar 150 g
• lemon juice 1 teaspoon

Preparation

To prepare the glaze, we need only two main ingredients - egg white and powdered sugar. A fairly large amount of glaze is obtained from one large egg, which is enough for a good kilogram of cookies. Wash the egg thoroughly with soap. Separate the egg white from the yolk very carefully. Beat the protein with a mixer at a low speed, whisk or fork. Whipping the protein into a lather is not our goal. It is necessary that the protein only becomes a homogeneous liquid mass.

Now add lemon juice, from which the icing will shine and sparkle a little in the light, and mix. The glaze is ready. Further, if you need glaze of different colors, then we divide it into different containers and add food coloring. I am using Americolor gel color. The amount is determined by what intensity you want the color to be.

Glaze can be drawn as dots, lines, or fill the entire surface of the cookie. To prepare the mass for pouring, add a few drops of water to the glaze and mix. If the icing is still thick, then add more water and so on until the required consistency is reached - it must be liquid enough to spread over the surface of the cookie. We do the fill as follows: first, draw a line around the perimeter of the future fill with thick glaze, and then fill the inner space with a thinner glaze. We spread our mass into pastry bags. You can use regular bags if you don't have piping bags or a piping syringe.

Cut off the edge and start drawing. The main thing is not to be afraid to do this. Such cookies will still decorate any tea party and will look very elegant! I have quite a bit of talent as an artist, but it turned out pretty well, I think.

Look at the photo, some of the cookies are decorated with dots, and the cloud in the foreground is almost completely filled. The glaze dries in different ways: thick in 30 minutes, liquid under the filling dries for a couple of hours at room temperature. If a thick layer of glaze was laid on the biscuit, then the time increases. For a couple of days, the glaze will dry for sure!

Hello friends! Today I went to Maria Ra, who does not know, this is such a store and now I heard the song "Friends-cookies are our cookies ..." And so to speak, thoughts flooded over me to offer you recipes for gingerbread cookies. Wow, it's popular now.

Obviously you have heard about it and even tried it, I am convinced of this. If you want to learn how to cook this sweet delicacy, so let's understand its intricacies and nuances of cooking with me.

To prepare this dessert, you will need to knead the dough and make the icing, and decorate such a creation beautifully. By the way, it is interesting that someone calls such sweets cookies, and someone calls gingerbread, but how are you used to it?

There are quite a few recipes for this type of dough. But still the classics remain unchanged. This is my favorite option, it is ideal, because the gingerbread cookies are quite tasty, even and beautiful, and most importantly, they are also fragrant.

This dough is ideal in taste and shape, cracks do not work, which is very important.

We need:

• sugar - 500 g
• boiling water - 200 ml
• butter - 200 g
• soda - 0.5 tsp
• salt - 1 tsp
• ginger - 1 tsp
• cinnamon - 2 tsp
• cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, allspice, anise - 1/4 tsp each
• egg - 1 pc.
• flour - 800-900 g
• honey - 1 tbsp. l optional

Cooking method:

1. Take a saucepan with a thick bottom. Send it to the stove, turn it on medium heat, and start melting the granulated sugar.

It is important to note that you do not need to stir at first, wait until the bottom layer starts to melt.

2. Then start stirring with a spatula to help the sugar dissolve evenly.

3. After that you should see such a consistency, be careful, you do not need to bring this mixture to the point of burning, otherwise your cookies will have a bitter taste.

Important! Do not forget before the next step, check if there are any grains of sugar, it should completely dissolve.

Boil caramel until amber dark, then remove the pan from heat and pour in boiling water in a thin stream. Be prepared for the mass to bubble and hiss because the temperature is high.

Important! Remember to stir constantly as you pour in the boiling water.

4. The syrup will be dark in color, after the mass is homogeneous after pouring water, send butter at room temperature. And while stirring slowly, put the pan on the fire to melt the butter.

5. After dissolving the oil, add 1 tsp of baking soda, salt and spices. Take spices to your taste, but without them, keep in mind that the aroma of the finished products will not be so pleasant. Stir.

The baking soda will cause the mixture to sizzle and slightly increase in size. At this stage, you can add a spoonful of honey, but remember that honey is a strong allergen and not everyone assimilates it, especially children. And if you cook gingerbread to order, it is better not to add honey, so that there are no problems.

6. Refrigerate the mass and the foam cap should fall off. Add the chicken egg as the mixture reaches room temperature. Stir.

Important! If such proportions are large for you, then you want to make it half as much, then it will be enough to add only the yolk.

Introduce the sifted flour in portions, slowly knead. Stir the dough first in a saucepan with a whisk or spatula, then, as it becomes impossible to do, transfer to a floured table.

7. The dough should be soft and slightly sticky. After it is in the refrigerator, it will become denser and easier to work with.

Put the dough in the refrigerator overnight, wrap it in a food bag.

8. Cut the desired piece from the dough and roll it into a thin cake. The dough can be stored both in the refrigerator itself for about 1 month and in the freezer for 3 months.

Roll out the mixture on a Teflon mat so that the surface of the gingerbread cookies is even and smooth. For rolling out the dough, it is very convenient to use wooden rulers or strips so that the cake has the same thickness everywhere.

Then, using special molds or as they are also called cutting, make the necessary figures.

You can use a special rolling pin, of course it is much more convenient with it, who often makes such goodies, also to order, then I recommend purchasing.

9. Bake cookies in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 6-7 minutes on a Teflon mat. The advice is also so that the product does not turn out tough, you do not need to clog the dough with flour, and secondly, you do not need to overexpose in the oven.

If the dough after baking is too deformed, then this means you put in little flour, but if it bubbles, then a lot. If the surface is uneven, place a cutting board on the hot gingerbread cookies.

10. Gingerbread cookies keep their shape well, but inside they should still be soft and porous. Smooth and very pretty on the outside, but also tasty and fragrant. Good luck in the kitchen!

Proven gingerbread recipe

According to this option, the cookies do not stale for a long time, as they say it is very pleasant. It is also quite tender and amazingly tasty, in general, I advise you to cook this miracle too:

A simple gingerbread cookie recipe

Moving on and for a start, I want to suggest that you do the simplest version of the test. You can decorate it in the most usual way, sprinkle it with powdered sugar, or make the icing, which you will find further in this article.

Usually, according to this recipe, New Year's are baked or, in the West, this tradition has long been carried on and everyone is treated to such creations, in Russia it has only now become popular to cook these sweets.

From this number of products, you will get about 41 things, again depending on what kind of molds you have.

We need:

• flour - 2 tbsp.
• sugar - 150 g
• chicken eggs - 1 pc.
• butter - 100 g
• baking soda - 1 tsp.
• ground cinnamon - 1 tsp.
• ground ginger - 1 tsp
• egg whites - 1 pc.
• icing sugar - 50 g

Cooking method:

1. Take the butter and leave it in the kitchen beforehand to bring it to room temperature. Then place it in the microwave and melt, as long as it becomes soft.

2. Add granulated sugar and an egg to the butter, mix, then add cinnamon, ginger and soda.

Interesting! If you want to taste honey, add 1 teaspoon of honey and vanilla sugar.

Mix everything with a tablespoon so that there are no lumps. The color of the dough will change slightly and will have a slightly brown tint. Add flour and knead well on the table.

3. After all this, wrap the dough in a bag and send it to the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.

4. Next, roll out the dough into a large cake, the thickness should be about 4-5 mm, use a special rolling pin, as in the previous version, I showed you the photo. And then use the molds to make any funny figures in the form of men, hearts, balls and whatever. After all, you can use different shapes to create a festive atmosphere, for example, for Valentine's Day or Easter.

Interesting! You can make punctures and hang cookies on a Christmas tree, or make toppers by sticking sticks into the dough, which will decorate any

Put the resulting figures on a baking sheet, cover the baking sheet with parchment paper in a preheated oven to 180-200 degrees for five minutes. Remember that the biscuits swell a little after baking, so space between the shapes a little when baking.

Determine the readiness of the cookies in this way, if it is browned and a little brown, then it is ready.

By the way, you can make bears and give them a nut, they will also look nice and great.

5. Now let's prepare the icing. Alternatively, you can simply sprinkle the caster sugar over the prepared treats. The easiest way to make a fondant is to whisk the icing sugar with a whisk with the protein. By the way, you can use another one, remember, for Easter, I shared my best practices with you.

6. So, using a mixer and a whisk attachment, beat the protein and powder until you see a white mass that looks like a cream. By the way, if you have absolutely no desire to make such a cream, you can simply melt the chocolate and pour it over the gingerbread cookies, or anoint it with condensed milk.

7. You must come up with various drawings on cookies yourself, if you are just starting out, then do not get up too much, just apply icing in the form of circles and all kinds of symbols and this will already create a holiday atmosphere, but if you all have such a desire, then detailed instructions and a master class for applying glaze to gingerbread cookies, see the following articles.

Pack in a branded box, tie a bow and give or treat your family and friends. Delicious discoveries!

By the way, such delicious treats can be made together with children in the form of crafts for any celebration or event.

We bake gingerbread without honey

As for the next recipe, of course children simply adore it, because there is no honey, which means there is no most important allergen. Let's make such nice painted gingerbread cookies. The recipe couldn't be simpler.

There is nothing supernatural in the composition, but they have an amazing taste, they are light and crunchy.

We need:

• flour - 300 g
• chicken egg - 1 pc.
• baking powder - 1 tsp
• butter - 200 g
• sugar - 150 g
• vanilla to taste

Cooking method:

1. Beat the softened butter with a sugar mixer. Then add one egg.

In a separate container, sift the flour and stir the baking powder with the flour. Gradually introduce to butter and sugar.

2. After the dough is ready, add cinnamon and ground ginger directly onto it. Mash on the table.

Place the gingerbread dough in the refrigerator, wrap it in a bag for 1 hour. The dough is soft, after it lies down it becomes more elastic and denser.

Place the 4 mm cookies on a silicone mat on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until cooked for 6 minutes.

4. Draw on a piece of paper a blank of what you will draw on the gingerbread. Then take a multifork and place the sheet in it.

5. Make a protein glaze, for this combine the protein with powdered sugar and beat with a food processor or mixer. At the very end, add lemon juice, literally a drop, you can replace it with citric acid.

Draw a stork using a pouch. Then use a stick or a toothpick to smooth out the structure of the cream.

6. Leave this charm to dry until next morning. Then slowly remove from the multifor.

7. In the same way, make drops of a different color. Use a black gel dye to paint the eyes, eyebrows and eyelashes.

8. Cover the cookie itself, paint it with glaze, circle the contour, and then fill in the entire surface, lay out the stork blanks and the muzzle.

9. After everything is dry, write on.

10. Then wrap in bags and attach bows. Beauty and nothing more. A real gift for any occasion, like in this case for the birth of a child.

Making classic gingerbread cookies

This option will be quite interesting and very spicy, we will use some powder and cloves. It will turn out quite original and at the same time remind the taste of childhood.

Let me tell you a secret, it is not necessary to decorate with glaze, you can cheat if you do it in the form of beads or garlands on a ribbon. In general, read on and see for yourself.

We need:

Cooking method:

1. Prepare all ingredients for work. To do this, in a mortar or in some other container, rub a clove with a pestle, you can use a coffee grinder or a blender, but I think this is superfluous, since you need very little of it.

2. By the way, it is better to sift the flour through a sieve several times in advance, this will noticeably saturate the finished products with oxygen, the dough will rise better.

3. Melt the butter and add granulated sugar, whisk with a mixer whisk. Add honey and egg, beat again until the mass becomes homogeneous in consistency.

4. Now start adding flour in portions and whisk. Take your time, gradually beat until all the flour is gone.

5. It will seem to you that the dough turned out to be rather stringy and soft, as it should be. Divide it in half and wrap part of the dough in plastic wrap and send to the refrigerator in the freezer.

Then mix well, roll into a bag and send to the refrigerator and in the freezer for 1-3 hours.

7. Next, take parchment or baking paper and dust it with a little flour. Remove the dough from the freezer and roll it out thinly on paper, then use the molds to make flowers, hearts, or maybe you have bunnies and cats.

Roll out the second portion of the dough and cut out various kinds of images. In some shapes, make holes with a stick. Tear off excess dough and place the parchment leaf with the products on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven for 6 minutes at 180 degrees.

8. After the gingerbreads have cooled down, insert a ribbon into the holes or knit as if it were a gift. Treat your loved ones to the health!

Delicious treat with honey and cinnamon

Do you know that such cookies in Latvia are called piparkukas, which means cookies with pepper. Of course, you can try this if you come to visit this country, I suggest you do it yourself at home, there is nothing difficult, see everything yourself, and then write your review below to this site.

Ikea-style gingerbread cookie recipe

The Ikea store sells ready-made dough for these sweet flour products, so I propose to use it and I think the result will also please you. Moreover, from the finished dough, work always goes faster, there is no unnecessary trouble and troubles. The main thing is to find it))).

By the way, you know that cinnamon, ginger and cloves in its composition have antiseptic properties and help our immune system.

We need:

• ikea dough for gingerbread or cookies - 500 g
• protein - 1 pc.
• icing sugar - 1 tbsp.
• cocoa powder - 0.5 tsp
• turmeric - 0.5 tsp

Cooking method:

1. Defrost the dough by placing it in the refrigerator for 1 day. Open the package, it smells very tasty, such a honey shade. Roll it out with a rolling pin 3-5 mm thick.

The dough is very flexible and easy to roll out. It's a great idea to be honest))).

The layer turns out to be huge, now make what you want out of it, hearts, Christmas trees and other shapes. Do it tightly so that there is less excess dough left.

2. The blanks are ready, place them on baking paper and bake this dessert in the oven for 8 minutes at 180 degrees.

It is better, of course, to bake on a silicone or Teflon mat, then nothing will burn and the surface of the cookies will be even.

3. Now make the protein-sugar dressing. To do this, beat the protein with a mixer until peaks, then add powdered sugar and plus a few drops of lemon juice. If the cream turns out to be liquid, then add a little more powdered sugar. The glaze will turn out to be snow-white.

Divide it into several pieces to make several colors. For example, you can add cocoa to one, turmeric in another, and nothing in the third, let it be white.

Important! Do not prepare the glaze in reserve, it must be made and applied immediately to the flour product, because it dries quickly.

4. Take a cooking syringe and decorate the gingerbread cookies, or you can make a cooking bag out of a regular bag or parchment paper. Get used to it and it will turn out smoothly and beautifully.

5. Now all this beauty needs to go to dry in the oven at a temperature of 70 degrees just a little bit. Because they used raw protein, and it could contain salmonella, and at a temperature of 70-100 degrees, they will die.

These are the gourmands, of course, if there is no ready-made dough, then do it yourself, take any of this selection!

Classic gingerbread cookies with icing

It seems to you that it is quite difficult to apply the glaze. Yes, you may be right, but if you had a special device, take a look:

However, there are several ways to apply glaze to gingerbread, but we will talk about them in the next post, so do not miss it, and you will already decide whether it is easy or difficult, expect a detailed master class.

As for this recipe, it will be a classic style and we will make toppers for the cake, and by the way, you saw my new note on cakes, if not, then go ahead and

We need:

• natural honey - 3 tablespoons
• sugar - 2 tablespoons
• cinnamon - 2 tsp
• ground ginger - 2 tsp
• ground coriander - on the tip of a knife
• nutmeg - on a knife bump
• soda - 1 tsp
• chicken egg - 1 pc.
• flour - 370 g
• icing sugar - 180 g
• protein - 1 pc.
• food coloring of different colors

Cooking method:

1. Place two tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon, ground ginger, coriander, nutmeg and honey in a saucepan. Turn the heat to low and stir constantly until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Then let the mixture cool down. Next, beat in one chicken egg and add flour in parts. The dough should be soft. Let it rest, put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.

2. Then use the rolling pin to make a large circle 5 mm thick. The dough can be divided into 5 parts for easy rolling out.

Use molds to make shapes. Place them on a baking sheet, cover it with parchment paper and bake at 160 degrees for 15 minutes.

3. Insert a stick into each cookie you receive. And now it remains to decorate with glaze. To do this, beat the protein until steep peaks and add powdered sugar to it, you should get a real tasty cream.

Divide the frosting into several bowls and add dye to each.

4. In order to make it easier, draw the characters of the characters with a pencil. They can be from cartoons, fairy tales, or invented by you.

5. Use a cooking bag and carefully draw and paint over the surface.

6. These are such cute creatures. Patience and perseverance. Enjoy your meal! Bake another cake and invite your guests to drink tea!

The recipe for a sweet treat from Julia Vysotskaya

Well, one more variant that you can watch and take note of from the popular TV presenter We Eat at Home:

Incredibly simple and very beautiful, don't you agree? Then try to do it, and then share your opinion below under this article.

Learning to paint with glaze

And finally, I found you a gift in the form of this video, after watching which you could easily decorate these sweet treats, watch and repeat step by step and you will also be able to paint beautifully:

This concludes this post, I hope you liked the note and you will definitely share it on social networks and join me in a group in contact. Best wishes! See you everyone! Until!

To bake a classic gingerbread cookie, you need the following ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 0.25 kg;
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• Powdered sugar - 0.1 kg;
• Butter - 100 g;
• Cocoa - 1 tsp;
• Ground ginger - 2 tsp;
• Ground cardamom - 0.5 tsp;
• Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp;
• Ground cloves - 0.5 tsp;
• Flower honey - 1 tablespoon;
• Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp;
• Baking soda - 0.5 tsp;
• Salt to taste.

In addition, you need to prepare:

• forms for gingerbread cookies;
• rolling pin;
• cling film;
• parchment for baking.

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Step-by-step recipe for gingerbread cookies with photos

1. Combine cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, pepper, baking soda, and cloves in a deep bowl.
2. Add salt - a pinch is enough to add a spicy flavor to the baked goods.
3. Take a sieve and sift flour and then cocoa. Add them to the spices.
4. The butter must be softened - in the microwave oven, or by putting it out of the refrigerator in advance.
5. Rub the butter and icing sugar. By the way, you can take cane sugar instead, crushing it in a coffee grinder. Then the cookies will come out darker and acquire a delicate caramel flavor.
6. Heat the honey in a water bath to bring it to a liquid consistency.
7. Add honey, egg, butter, rubbed with sugar to a bowl of spices and flour. All this must be thoroughly beat with a mixer, and then knead the dough with your hands.
8. The dough will come out sticky and will stick to your hands at first. To avoid this effect, it is necessary to wrap it in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for 1-2 hours. It will become very flexible and comfortable to work with.
9. Roll out the dough on the parchment. If you want the cookies to be thin and crunchy, then you need to roll them out to a thickness of 3-4 mm. Well, if the layer turns out to be more than 5 mm, then gingerbread will turn out - also an excellent option, but they should be baked a little longer.
10. Squeeze figures out of the dough using pre-prepared molds - for example, in the shape of hearts.
11. Bake the cookies for 5-6 minutes at 180 degrees. If you decide to make gingerbread, then increase the time to 8-10 minutes.
12. Gather all the trimmings together and mix them into a homogeneous piece of dough. You will use it to make a second batch of treats.

Remember: according to this recipe, gingerbread cookies after baking are very soft, and they cannot be removed from a flat surface for half an hour, until they finally harden and take a stable shape.

How to decorate gingerbread cookies

Usually, such baked goods are decorated with a special sugar-protein glaze - icing. It is easy to cook it at home:

1. Take 1 egg white, 150 grams of powdered sugar, 20 ml of lemon juice, and food colors.
2. Beat the protein until firm foam.
3. Add to it the powder previously sifted through a sieve.
4. Pour lemon juice into the mixture.
5. Add dye of the desired color.
6. Mix everything well until smooth.
7. Put the mass into a pastry syringe.
8. Now you can draw any patterns on the finished cookie!

Tip: Before donating, pack your pastries in cardboard boxes filled with paper shavings and tie them up with beautiful satin ribbons. You can put a photo of the addressee from your personal photo archive under the bow.