If you've never baked the most new Year's sweetness, you have lost a lot. What a pleasure it is to cook and then decorate New Year's gingerbread with the children! Moreover, there is nothing difficult in preparing this delicacy.
To bake gingerbread cookies, you need a minimum of ingredients. Mandatory components of this new Year's dessert are flour, any honey that is on hand, and spices (spices). Without them, New Year's gingerbread and not gingerbread at all, because even the name of this delicacy already implies the presence of spices in it.
But to decorate New Year's gingerbread, you will also need patience, and good mood... So stock up on both, take your loved ones to help and prepare New Year's gingerbread for a dessert of fabulous beauty for the festive table. We are ready, in turn, to offer you several recipes, from the simplest to the most intricate, leaving the choice up to you.
Sweet honey New Year's gingerbread "Winter's Tale"
Ingredients:
4 tbsp. flour,
½ tbsp. water,
3 eggs,
1 tbsp. l. butter,
1 tbsp. honey,
1 tbsp. l. ground cinnamon,
½ tsp ground cloves
½ tsp soda,
1 tbsp. almonds.
For glaze:
1 egg white,
1 tbsp. icing sugar
8-10 drops lemon juice.
Preparation:
Put the mixture of water and honey on fire and bring to a boil. Cool a little, gradually add flour, soda, add pounded eggs, butter, cinnamon, cloves and chopped almonds. Stir and place on a floured table. Roll out the dough into a 1-1.5 cm thick layer and cut out the figures. Place the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in an oven preheated to 200 ° C for 10-15 minutes. Let the gingerbread cookies cool and cover them with glaze. To prepare it, whisk the protein with a whisk until it increases 3-4 times. When whisking, add the icing sugar slowly, and then the lemon juice. Pound the frosting until white and a magnificent state. Using a pastry bag or a simple thick plastic bag with the tip cut off, simply apply the icing to the gingerbread cookies. You can sprinkle them with confectionery sprinkles in the form of stars, snowflakes, balls, and then wait until the icing hardens to admire the creation of your own hands.
Unfortunately, such rich, lush gingerbread cookies are not suitable for drawing patterns on them. For this, the so-called roesuli are ideal - gingerbread made from a denser dough.
You can tint the gingerbread frosting to create intricate patterns. It is desirable to use as dyes organic products - cocoa, chocolate, beet juice, carrot or spinach juice, etc.
Chocolate christmas gingerbread
Ingredients:
250 g honey
100 g sugar
150 g butter
1 egg,
500 g flour
1 tsp baking powder,
25 g cocoa powder
2 cinnamon sticks
5 carnations,
pea-sized nutmeg,
1 inflorescence of cardamom,
some vanillin.
For glaze:
1 protein
180 g icing sugar
a few drops of lemon juice
1 tbsp. l. starch (no top).
Preparation:
Melt butter, honey and sugar in a saucepan, add 1 tbsp. l. spices ground in a coffee grinder. Leave the mixture to warm up for another 5 minutes, but do not boil. Then mix the flour with cocoa, baking powder, add the egg, slowly pour in the hot mixture and stir. You should have a dough that resembles plasticine in consistency. Knead it well, wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a couple of hours. Before cooking, remove the dough from the refrigerator and let it sit for another half hour at room temperatureto soften it. On a table sprinkled with flour, roll out the dough into a layer 3-5 mm thick, cut out the figures of a cockerel from it and, putting them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, put in an oven preheated to 170 ° C for 15 minutes if you want the gingerbread cookies to be soft, or for 25-30 minutes if you prefer harder and more tanned. Decorate with icing patterns after baking. For the glaze, grind all ingredients thoroughly in a bowl. Watch out for the glaze, its consistency should be such that you can paint with it.
Orange Christmas gingerbread "Christmas toys"
Ingredients:
7 tbsp. flour,
2 tsp baking powder,
3 eggs,
240 g butter
2 tbsp. Sahara,
1-2 tbsp. l. honey,
2 tsp cocoa powder
2 medium-sized oranges
2 tsp cinnamon,
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt,
glaze - for decoration.
Preparation:
Remove the zest from the oranges, squeeze the juice from the fruit. Combine butter, eggs, flour, sugar and orange juice (about 100 ml), add cocoa, ginger, cinnamon to the mixture, liquid honey, baking powder and zest. Knead the dough. Divide it into 4 parts, roll each one in turn into a layer 3-5 mm thick. Remember that the thinner you roll the dough, the harder and more crisp your gingerbread will be. Cut out the figures. You can make holes with the help of a cocktail tube, then the gingerbread cookies can be hung on the tree. Place the cut out figures on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 15 minutes. Then let the ready-made gingerbread cookies cool and decorate them with icing, which can be prepared using the previous recipes or your own, which have already been repeatedly tested in practice.
Christmas gingerbread-goats
Ingredients:
1 kg of rye flour
1 tbsp. honey,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
2 tbsp. water,
100 g butter.
1 g of cinnamon and cloves.
For glaze:
2 squirrels,
5 tbsp. l. powdered sugar.
Preparation:
Combine sugar, honey and water and simmer until the mixture turns brown. Cool it to 70 ° C, add butter, cinnamon and cloves to it, stir in the flour and take out ready dough in the cold, let it stand there for 1 hour. After that, the dough will become pliable, it will be possible not only to cut out of it, but also to mold anything you want. It is worth noting that it is a little more difficult to work with rye dough than with wheat dough, but gingerbread cookies made from rye doughmuch tastier. Roll out the dough on a table sprinkled with flour into a layer, cut out the desired figures from it, which then place on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 200-220 ° C. The figures should be browned. An interesting fact is that while the gingerbread cookies are warm, they are soft, when they cool down, they become harder, and after a couple of days they become softer again. Decorate the baked goats with colored glaze. To prepare it, whisk the egg whites and icing sugar hard. Ready glaze pour into cups (there should be as many as the flowers you will use) and leave for 20 minutes. Over this time powdered sugar will completely dissolve and the mixture will be more homogeneous.
If you want the gingerbread decorated with icing to dry faster, you can dry them in the oven at a temperature of no more than 50 ° C. And do not forget to control this process, looking to see if the drawing has changed color.
Forget about greasy cream roses on shop cakes and conditionally edible icing on imported gingerbread cookies, make homemade Christmas gingerbread! They are baked and decorated with their own hands a thousand times tastier than purchased desserts. And on our website you can always find even more New Year's recipes and tips on what to cook for the New Year's table.
Larisa Shuftaykina
On the eve of the New Year, we offer to cook delicious gingerbread on New Year do it yourself according to our recipes with a photo. Ready gingerbread decorate 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.
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.
New Year's dessert is ready. It remains to cover the gingerbread cookies 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 the same glaze.
Gingerbread it is customary to paint 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.
If the icing seems to be too runny, you can add a little more icing 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.
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.
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.
Roe gingerbread - enough popular view New Year's delicacies. They are liked by both children and adults. Try to bake them for New Year with your own hands according to our recipe with a photo. The reaction of the household will not be long in coming.
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. You can decorate Christmas gingerbread very nicely with glaze!
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.
New Year Holidays filled with an indescribable mood of simultaneous warmth and celebration. You can create it using various attributes. These include cold snowy weather, tree branches crushed by large snowdrifts, a decorated Christmas tree, warm cocoa and, of course, New Year's gingerbread.
It is simply impossible to convey the pleasure of decorating self-made baked goods with close friends and children with the help of words, you just need to try it! Often people are stopped from this venture by the thought that in order to bake holiday sweets, it takes a lot of time, effort and ingredients. However, these fears are false, and we will tell you how to make gingerbread cookies.
In order to bake beautiful gingerbread cookies, you will need the following components:
Exactly last ingredient gives the gingerbread a characteristic smell and charges the mood for all the holidays. In order to decorate the prepared sweets, it is enough to have patience, imagination and good mood. After you have stocked up with everything you need, invite your loved ones, children and just loved ones for this fun activity... We offer you recipes with varying degrees of complexity that will suit both beginners and avid chefs.
In order to make these delicious gingerbread cookies, we need the following ingredients:
First of all, prepare the dough, for this you need to mix the indicated amount of water and honey, heat them until a solution of a uniform consistency is obtained, then add flour, soda, eggs, oil, almonds and spices. After thoroughly mixing and crushing all the lumps, you will achieve sufficient density of the dough, after which you need to lay it out on the surface of the desktop, after sprinkling it with flour.
Next, roll out the mass of dough into a sheet from one to one and a half centimeters thick and cut out the figures that you like. To do this, you can use special molds, glasses or glasses, as well as just a knife. Remember that the dough will come up slightly during baking. Put the finished figures on parchment paper and send it to an oven preheated to two hundred degrees for ten to fifteen minutes. After that, let the New Year's gingerbread cookies cool, and you yourself will do the icing with which you will cover your brainchild. Beat the egg white well, after increasing in volume, add lemon juice and powdered sugar, whisking the mixture again, let it brew for ten minutes so that all the elements of the future glaze dissolve, and a homogeneous mixture is obtained.
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After covering the gingerbread with glaze, you can sprinkle them with various stars and others sugar decorationspurchased from a store. If desired, you can add cocoa to the glaze, fresh carrot juice or even chocolate, which will add even more interesting color and flavor to your baked goods. This dish is ready, it will become an excellent sweet attribute of your holiday! Alas, such gingerbread cookies turn out to be quite lush, so it will not work to draw patterns on them, sweets made from denser types of dough are more suitable for this, then we will tell about them.
We need the following components:
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The recipe itself is quite simple, the first thing you need to do is melt the butter, the specified amount of honey and sugar over low heat in a saucepan. Then add one tablespoon of spices to the resulting mixture, previously ground with a coffee grinder. At this stage, the contents of the pan need to be melted and heated well, it is important not to bring it to a boil.
Dry the surface of the table well, pour flour on it, add baking powder to it and mix. After making a slide from the dough, squeeze out a depression in the center, where you can drive in an egg and add melted sugar and honey. Mix gently - you should end up with a dough that feels like plasticine or thick curd mass... It is important to mix it well to break up all the breasts and lumps. Next, you need to chill our dough, for which you put it in a bag or film for storing food and place it in the cold for two to three hours.
When our mass of their dough has cooled well, you can continue baking, remove the dough from the refrigerator, put it on the table so that it reaches room temperature. When the dough heats up a little and becomes softer, sprinkle flour on the dried table surface so that the dough does not stick to it, and roll it out with a rolling pin until a layer is five millimeters thick. Now you can cut your favorite figures from the dough layer. Then we need a baking sheet, you can put the gingerbread cookies directly on it, but it is better to lay parchment paper - it will prevent the gingerbread from sticking to the iron, and it will be easier to wash it this way. After that, send them to an oven preheated to 170 degrees for about fifteen minutes.
If you want the sweets to turn out more ruddy and tough, keep them in the oven for twenty-five minutes. To cook home glaze, you need to thoroughly grind the powdered sugar, starch and lemon juice in a bowl. You can use a dash of food coloring to give the glaze the color you want. After baking the gingerbread cookies, together with people close to you, decorate them with glaze in the form of patterns and drawings.
To bake gingerbread cookies beautiful name « Christmas decorations", We need the following products:
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First you need to peel the oranges from the peel, as it has a bitter taste and can spoil the taste of the gingerbread. Next, squeeze the juice from the resulting pulp of oranges and mix it with flour, eggs, cocoa powder, seasonings, baking powder and melted honey. After chopping a little zest in a blender, add it to the dough. After thoroughly kneading the dough, divide it into four equal parts, then roll each of them until a sheet is three to five millimeters thick. It will depend on this thickness whether the gingerbread will turn out to be soft or crispy.
Then you can cut out your preferred figures and make holes on their top using a cocktail tube - using these holes, gingerbread cookies can be hung on the tree and make a kind of sweet decorations. After covering a baking sheet with parchment paper, put the resulting figures on it and send them to bake at a temperature of one hundred and eighty degrees for fifteen minutes. After the gingerbread cookies have cooled, prepare the icing as described above and decorate the gingerbread cookies to your liking.
To prepare these thin and crispy gingerbread cookies, we need the following ingredients:
Add sugar, honey and the indicated amount of water to one bowl, then mix well and put on fire until a brown color appears. Then you need to cool the mixture to seventy degrees, melt the prepared butter in it, add spices, pour all the flour, mix well and put the resulting dough in the refrigerator for an hour. During this time, it will become more pliable, its consistency will become soft enough to mold or cut any figurines for future gingerbread.
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 for the New Year and decorate them 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.
For icing sugar:
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 kettle (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.
After a while, knead the dough a little and roll it out 0.5 cm thick. It cannot be kept at room temperature 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 the icing for them. First, combine the icing sugar and lemon juice.
Then pour in 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 spread 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 rolled up parchment paper, or in a regular thick 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!
For glaze:
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 - 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 during whipping. 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 add the 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 the gingerbread sugar glaze... To do this, 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!
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.
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 thick enough, I did not pour out the leftovers (about half a glass remained).
Knead the dough with your hands. It should turn out to 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 to the preheated oven. I can't 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.
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 it’s 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 sluggishly. We roll it 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.
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, pour in 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 set 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 frosting has set, the gingerbread can be served. Brew aromatic tea with lemon and call the household to the table. Enjoy your meal!
Gingerbread is a classic Christmas baked item. They can be stored for a long time in a tightly closed dry jar. You can paint them as you wish, decorate with multi-colored sprinkles or coconut flakes, chocolate, etc. Show your imagination, connect the children. They will definitely like this activity and you will have a great time together. Enjoy your holidays!
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.
Fragrant, tasty, funny. The design process will bring great pleasure to both children and adults.
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 protein with a mixer until firmly. While 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 icing dry. I used, in addition to glaze, gel flamasters
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.
As soon 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.
Remove the finished gingerbread 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 a 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 do that!
Or something like that.
And how delicious!