Very soon New Year, so I want to show you how you can make beautiful New Year's gingerbread with icing. Painted gingerbread cookies can then be given to relatives, friends and acquaintances as a nice gift. And most importantly, your drawing will be unique, made with your own hands and with soul, and such gifts are very much appreciated.
Today I will show you exactly how to paint gingerbread in the form of Santa Claus and a snowman, and how to do it without special molds and stencils. In the same way, you can draw any other gingerbread that you like. 2018 is the year of the dog, but this does not mean that DIY New Year's gingerbread cookies should be made only in the form of dogs. And the more and more varied you make them, the more interesting your gifts will be.
The shelf life of gingerbread cookies can be up to a year, so you can make them in advance and not worry that they will deteriorate or dry out. This is very convenient, because on New Year's Eve, not everyone has a lot of time to paint.
New Year's painted gingerbread cookies are suitable for decorating any holiday cake, if you stick a long wooden skewer into a freshly baked gingerbread. This design has become popular not so long ago, but many people really like it, so I advise you to try it. I also advise you to look more if you don’t know which one is better to make them from.
Necessary:
- Gingerbread dough
- Powdered sugar - 150 g
- Egg white - 1 pc.
- Lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
- Food dyes - 5 colors
Painting New Year's gingerbread
I do not have stencils for New Year's gingerbread, but this is not a problem, because I found it on the Internet desired drawing, redrawn it on paper and you're done. Then I cut it out. Already ready dough I roll it out in an even layer, about 5 mm thick. Then I sprinkle it with a little flour, put a drawing on top and cut it out along the contour with a knife.
I do the same with the second piece. You can make them in any quantity and any size.
Next, I spread the blanks on a baking sheet with parchment or foil, at a distance from each other and bake at a temperature of 190 degrees, 6 minutes or until golden. it is important not to overcook them in the oven, otherwise they will be hard. After baking, I remove them from the baking sheet, transfer them to a wooden board and leave to cool.
Now I will briefly tell you the recipe for icing for gingerbread at home. I drive one protein into the mixer bowl, add lemon juice and powder. Then I beat it all at the lowest speed of the mixer, 2 - 3 minutes. The mass will become more magnificent, whiter, but at the same time there will not be many bubbles in it that will spoil the icing. Next, I divide it into as many parts as you need for drawings. I have one white color, which I leave without adding dye, and 5 others. I add the dyes of the desired colors to each part of the glaze and stir until smooth so that the dye is evenly distributed. The consistency of the glaze should be medium in order to fit both the contour and the fill. Run a spoon over it, this mark should disappear in 10 seconds, if it does not go away for a long time, then you need to add a little water to make it a little more liquid.
Before painting the gingerbread Santa Claus, I put a leaf on top of the gingerbread and with a toothpick I outline all the contours for filling with different colors. To do this, just enough to pierce the leaf in the right places without moving it.
I do the same with the blank for the snowman, piercing the necessary lines.
The technique of painting gingerbread with icing is not difficult, and you will see for yourself now. First of all, I fill in the bottom of the coat, the beard, the lapel on the sleeves and the bubo on the hat. Never pour two adjacent parts, because they will simply merge into one.
When the white color has dried for about 10 minutes, I pour evenly red color, and this is a hat, sleeves, mittens, coat and pants. And I make his face beige. Be sure to remember that after pouring each part, you need to shake the gingerbread to evenly distribute the fill.
When the main parts have dried up a little, and this is another 15 minutes, I finish all the other small details, such as mustaches, eyebrows, nose, eyes, buttons and boots. Here is such a cutie gingerbread Santa Claus turned out. The photo shows that all the details were filled in gradually, because there are contours, and the picture did not merge. Now I leave it to dry, and it takes from 12 hours to a day in time, at room temperature.
Now the next step is painting the gingerbread snowman. First of all, I fill in white, namely the face, arms and torso. But the gap between the arms and the body should be at least 5 minutes, otherwise they will simply merge into one continuous part.
After 10 minutes, I fill in the lapel of the cap, the bubo and part of the scarf, which are red. I let it dry again.
After that, I fill in the hat, draw a star on the tummy, then finish the scarf and carefully draw the mouth and eyes in black.
Then I make a neat carrot, and on the hat and scarf, using the thinnest brush for drawing, I draw snowflakes with white dye or a small amount of glaze. The snowman gingerbread is also ready, so I leave it to dry.
These are such cute New Year's gingerbread cookies with icing turned out, I hope you liked my master class and you can also make them. As you can see, there is nothing complicated in painting with glaze, the main thing is to do the filling gradually and in parts so that the details have time to dry out a little. Good luck and more inspiration!
All holidays have their own traditions, and they concern not only the features of the celebration, outfits and gifts, but also the table. For example, it is customary to serve a cake with candles for a birthday, pancakes for Shrovetide, and in winter they usually bake New Year's gingerbread with icing.
This pastry has already become a symbol of the new year, and gingerbread men are perceived by us as Santa Claus, Snow Maiden or a snowman. So we can't do without little men today.
Did you know that the gingerbread man came to us from America? There he is a very popular hero of a fairy tale, according to the plot of which he practically repeats the history of our kolobok. The little man was so appetizing that everyone he met wanted to eat him. Well, like the Earthen Pig - the totem of 2019, our New Year's dessert will like it.
Gingerbread Christmas gingerbread with icing
According to this recipe, traditional New Year's Eve is prepared in America. gingerbread men painted with lemon glaze. Oh, how they are spicy, fragrant, very tasty and beautiful. The dough is very easy to make. But the main advantage of this step by step recipe from the photo - it is fast (if you omit the hourly reclining of the dough in the refrigerator).
Ingredients
- High-grade wheat flour - 2 ¾ st.;
- Baking soda - ½ tsp;
- Fine salt - ¾ tsp;
- Powdered ginger - ½ tbsp;
- Cinnamon powder - ½ tbsp;
- Ground cloves - ¾ tsp;
- Ground Muscat - ½ tsp;
- Butter - 100-120 g;
- Brown sugar - ½ tbsp.;
- selective fresh egg- 1 PC.;
- Liquid buckwheat honey - 120 g;
- Powdered sugar - 100 g;
- Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.
How to cook Christmas gingerbread with icing at home
Mix the sifted flour with soda, salt and all spices.
With a mixer, beat soft warm butter with brown sugar. Then add the egg and continue beating.
Now pour the whole dry mixture of flour and spices into the general composition. Knead the dough until crumbly and evenly mix all the ingredients.
We divide the dough into two parts, form two koloboks and wrap them in a vacuum film. In this form, the dough should rest in the refrigerator for at least an hour.
After an hour, or maybe longer (the dough can be left at least all night), the chilled dough is rolled out into a 7-8 mm layer.
Gingerbread men should be sent for baking in a well-heated oven (180 ° C) for 14 minutes.
To prepare the glaze, you need to combine the sifted powder and lemon juice. Mix everything well and beat with a mixer at low speed for 2-3 minutes until a white thick mass is obtained.
Well, now you can start giving the image to the little men. We draw a silhouette, eyes and a smile for them with glaze.
Don't forget the buttons and pants.
More more recipes for cooking painted gingerbread at home you will find in this collection. Here you will learn all the secrets and tips for decorating baking with icing with your own hands.
Ingredients
- — 350 g + -
- Baking powder - 1.5 tsp + -
- - ¼ tsp + -
- - 1 tsp with a slide + -
- Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp + -
- - 175 g + -
- - 125 g + -
- - 1 PC. + -
- - 80 g + -
- Powdered sugar - 400 g + -
- Egg white - 2 pcs. + -
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp + -
Well, in continuation of the fabulous theme, the following recipe for New Year's gingerbread will be very relevant. Remember the original story about Hansel and Gretel, who had to live with a witch in a gingerbread house? But stories about a sweet hut are found in both Russian and French folklore.
This dessert has every chance of becoming an international symbol of the new year!
- We take a deep container and combine all the dry ingredients in it: sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and ginger powder, after which we mix everything.
- In the second container, combine and mix the egg with honey.
- In the third deep volumetric bowl, we combine soft butter with granulated sugar for 1 hour and beat with a mixer for 3-4 minutes.
For gingerbread the best way- brown molasses soft sugar, it gives baked goods a caramel flavor. Simple refined granulated sugar, this expensive product can be completely replaced.
- Without stopping the mixer, we begin to add the rest of the dough components. First, pour in a mixture of eggs and honey.
- After 1-2 minutes, add all the flour and knead the mass until a dense test homogeneous texture.
- We divide the finished dough into 2 parts, from which you need to make plump cakes. We wrap each of them in a vacuum film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.
To work with sand dough it is more convenient to cool it in two parts. When working in the heat, you can take 1 part of the dough. In this case, the remaining mass does not heat up and remains chilled.
We roll out the dough that has risen in the cold on a table dusted with flour into a layer 8 mm thick and cut out the details for the house using the templates previously cut out of paper with a knife.
At a time, we will be able to make all the blanks for 4-6 houses, depending on the scale of the matrix template you have chosen.
Gingerbread should be baked at a temperature of 170 ° C for 11-12 minutes until golden brown, and the baking sheet should be sent to a well-heated oven.
Cooking icing
- Grind the protein with powdered sugar and one teaspoon of lemon juice until a homogeneous thick mass.
- Then, at the lowest speed of the mixer, mix the icing for 2-3 minutes until the state of snow-white stable glaze.
- Decorate the finished cooled gingerbread cookies with thin lines of icing. We set a contour for each detail, draw tiles on the details of the roof, draw a door and an attic window on the front of the house, draw windows on the facade details and the back. Let the frosting dry for half an hour.
Now, using the same icing, we glue the details of the house, decorate the seams with dotted lines and leave it to dry for 1 hour.
Of such gingerbread houses, you can make the original composition "New Year's Village", which will become a chic holiday decoration.
New Year's gingerbread with icing
Snowflakes with caramel glass, shining with amber light, will be a delicious addition to New Year's menu. We chose the chocolate-orange dough recipe for such snowflakes. And we will make “stained-glass windows” from classic yellow lollipops.
Ingredients
- Granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. to the edge;
- High-grade flour - 3.5 tbsp. without a slide;
- Orange - 1 pc.;
- Selected egg - 2 pcs.;
- Butter - ½ pack;
- Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. with a slide;
- Cinnamon - 1/3 tbsp;
- Ginger - 1/3 tbsp;
- Ground cloves - ½ tsp;
- Muscat - ½ tsp;
- Baking soda - ½ tsp;
- Fine salt - ¼ tsp;
- Lemon candies-lollipops - 10 pcs.
- Wash the orange very carefully with soda, and then wipe it dry and rub the orange zest on a fine grater.
- We cut the fruit itself in half and squeeze the juice out of it. Juice should be ½ tbsp. If necessary, bring to the desired volume with plain water.
- We put Orange juice boil in a saucepan over medium heat.
- We put a pan on another burner, pour half a glass of sugar into it and, stirring, melt it and bring it to a state of caramel.
- Until the sugar begins to burn, pour it with boiled juice. We mix everything intensively, add the remaining granulated sugar, orange zest and add butter.
- Bring the mixture to a boil and turn off. Now it should cool down to 70-60 ° C.
- We sift the flour. Pour 1.5 cups into a separate plate and mix with all the spices, salt, soda and cocoa.
- After cooling the orange syrup to 70-60 ° C, beat the eggs into it and pour in the part of the flour that is mixed with spices. Beat everything with a mixer until smooth and leave to cool the mass. Cool to a temperature comfortable for kneading the dough with your own hands (40-35 ° C).
- From the warm mass, adding the rest of the flour, knead the plastic dough that falls from the hands.
- Wrapped in cling film, leave the dough to rest in the refrigerator overnight.
You can store this dough in the refrigerator for a month. Ready-made gingerbread cookies from this test also have a shelf life of 30 days.
- Roll out the rested dough on a flour table. The thickness of the layer should be no more than 7 mm. With the help of large snowflake molds, we cut out the gingerbread cookies, and with small molds we make holes in the snowflakes.
- We put the lollipops in a bag and break them into crumbs with a hammer or rolling pin.
- We shift the snowflakes to a silicone baking mat, and put candy crumbs in the holes.
- We remove the baking sheet with gingerbread in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for 8-10 minutes.
- We leave the finished gingerbread cookies to cool directly on the rug. We remove them after complete cooling and hardening of the caramel.
We paint the gingerbread with icing at our discretion. We circle the snowflake along the contour with thick icing, so the baking coating will be neat and even. We also make a contour around the holes.
Fill the gingerbread with a more liquid glaze. To do this, in the already prepared thick icing, you need to add a little water and dye as desired and mix the glaze thoroughly.
Today we told you not just how to cook New Year's gingerbread with icing step by step, but how to create a fabulous decoration for the holiday with your own hands. It can also become original gift for relatives and friends.
In many countries, on New Year's Eve and Christmas, gingerbread serves as a treat and decoration. holiday table.
Delicious and beautifully decorated New Year's gingerbread is a traditional souvenir of Catholic Christmas in Europe.
In Russia, honey gingerbreads are very popular, they are easy to prepare. Based on their recipe, many other varieties of gingerbread with the most intricate ingredients were invented.
New Year's gingerbread: the foundation of the basics
There are only three ingredients in the recipe - flour, honey and eggs. In two different bowls, beat honey (400 grams) and whites from 8 eggs (chilled) well. From whipping, both products should turn white, after which they are combined and whipped together. Then sift and add flour (400 grams) and mix until smooth. Ready dough fill greased molds and bake in the oven until done. Gingerbread is often smeared with sugar, or protein glaze, which is obtained by whipping egg whites and sugar.
We bring variety
In the process of stirring the dough - add nuts or raisins. You can divide the dough into parts and add different combinations of ingredients to each part, such as chocolate pieces and nuts, raisins and cinnamon.
Recipe 1. New Year's gingerbread with filling
Ingredients:
drain oil. 100 gr;
honey 3 tbsp. l;
water 50 ml;
soda ½ tsp;
flour 0.6 kg;
sugar 0.15 kg;
jam 200 gr.
Cooking:
1. Prepare the dough in a water bath: dissolve honey, butter, water and sugar. Carefully pour the resulting mass into the flour and mix.
2. Leave the resulting dough to rest for half an hour, then roll it out.
3. Cut circles with a mold or just an inverted glass. Put jam or other filling in the middle of each, cover with the second one on top, blind the edges together. In each gingerbread, pierce a hole above the filling and put on a baking sheet, laying paper, and bake until done. It should be noted that when baking, the gingerbread cookies will increase greatly in size.
Recipe 2. New Year's gingerbread on kefir
With the economy of the food component, a large yield of ready-made treats is obtained.
Ingredients:
0.2 kg of sugar;
350 ml of kefir (or curdled milk);
honey 1 tbsp. l;
oil rast. 3 art. l;
soda 1 tsp;
flour 0.8 kg.
For glaze:
sugar 6 tsp
Cooking:
1. Beat 2 yolks and 1 protein with honey and sugar. Then pour the resulting mixture into kefir, add oil and beat again. Mix the sifted flour with soda and knead the dough.
2. Roll out the dough, cut into circles with a shape or a glass, place on a baking sheet so that they do not touch and bake in the oven at 180 degrees.
3. For glaze, beat 1 protein and 6 tsp. sugar until stiff. When the gingerbread cookies are ready, grease them with a brush with glaze and put back for another 10 minutes.
Recipe 3. New Year's cottage cheese gingerbread
Ingredients:
120 gr. cottage cheese;
oils sl.70 grams;
80 gr. Sahara;
150 gr. flour;
baking powder for the dough;
orange peel.
Cooking:
1. Grind cottage cheese with softened butter, add egg yolk, salt, sugar. orange peel grate, pour into the mixture. Mix thoroughly, add flour and baking powder.
2. The dough will turn out soft, it will need to be rolled out and cut out gingerbread figures, laid out on a baking sheet, spreading baking parchment and baked until a pleasant ruddy color.
3. Decorate the finished cooled gingerbread cookies with protein glaze (from any recipe).
Recipe 4. Oatmeal Christmas gingerbread
Ingredients:
flour 250 gr;
sugar 200 gr;
oatmeal 250 gr;
oil sl. 50 gr;
soda ½ tsp;
honey, citric acid, salt.
Cooking:
1. Sift the flakes through a sieve, leaving loose particles without oat dust.
2. Add flour, eggs, soda, honey, sugar. Mix, add oil citric acid, nuts and knead the dough.
3. Roll it into a sausage, cut into equal "koloboks", form a gingerbread from each and bake in the oven until cooked.
Recipe 5. Christmas gingerbread with cherries
Ingredients:
flour 0.3 kg;
oil 80 gr;
honey 2 tbsp. l;
sugar 0.3 kg;
soda ½ tsp;
cinnamon 1 tsp;
cocoa 2 tbsp. l;
cherry 15 pcs.
Cooking:
1. Prepare the dough in a water bath. Put butter, 0.1 kg of sugar, egg and honey into a smaller saucepan, mix everything thoroughly.
2. Add soda and cocoa, hold the mixture in a boiling bath for 3 minutes, then remove and add flour and cinnamon. When the dough has cooled, knead it with your hands.
3. Having rolled out the dough with a sausage, divide it into 15 parts. Shape each into a gingerbread shape and place a pitted cherry in the middle. Form balls, spread them on a baking sheet with a distance of at least 3-4 cm, as the gingerbread cookies will greatly increase in volume, and bake until cooked.
4. Prepare sugar syrup: dilute sugar (0.2 kg) with water and cook for 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Drizzle the finished gingerbread with syrup and set aside.
Recipe 6. New Year's gingerbread
Ingredients:
flour 175 gr;
drain oil. 100 gr;
sugar 0.1 kg;
baking powder 1 tsp;
cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cocoa powder ½ tsp each;
For glaze:
eggs 1 pc;
powdered sugar ½ cup;
Cooking:
1. Sift flour with a slide, add baking powder, cocoa and ground seasonings to it. Grind this dry mixture with a fork with softened butter, the result should be flour lumps.
2. Mix them with egg and sugar, knead hard dough. Roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film or a bag and leave it in the refrigerator for two hours.
3. Roll out the dough and cut using cut-outs or paper stencils. Sprinkle a baking sheet with flour, spread the gingerbread cookies, coat with egg yolk on top and bake until cooked.
4. After baking, cool the gingerbread, then start painting with protein glaze. Prepare it as follows: beat the chilled proteins until a strong foam, then pour in the icing sugar in a stream. Add the juice of 1/2 lemon and beat again until smooth. You can color the frosting with food coloring.
Recipe 7. New Year's gingerbread with dates
Ingredients:
soft dates 150 - 200 gr;
cottage cheese 150 - 200 gr;
oatmeal 2 tbsp. l;
semolina 2 tbsp;
ginger (root) 2-3 cm;
powdered sugar.
Cooking:
1. Soften the dates with a fork, having previously cleared the pits. Grate half an apple on a coarse grater, a piece of ginger on a fine grater.
2. Mix dates, apple, semolina, ginger, cottage cheese and oatmeal. If the dough is too liquid, then add more flakes. If thick, then add grated apple.
3. Form small gingerbread cookies from the dough, lay them on a baking sheet, spread parchment and put them to bake. Sprinkle finished gingerbread with powdered sugar.
Recipe 8. Polish New Year's Gingerbread
Ingredients:
½ kg of honey;
½ kg flour;
200 grams of margarine;
0.1 kg of sugar;
spices and additives (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, coriander, candied fruit, walnuts);
2 tsp soda, jam.
Cooking method:
1. Put honey and sugar in a saucepan, melt over low heat until caramel color. Boil water in a kettle at the same time.
2. When honey and sugar are completely mixed, add 1 cup of boiling water. It is important to be careful not to get scalded by the hot foam that forms at this point. When the foam settles, you need to add margarine and spices and stir with a spoon until completely dissolved. Leave the mixture to cool down.
3. Peel and chop the nuts. Separate the yolks from the whites and beat the whites with a mixer. As soon as the mixture cools down, add the yolks to it and mix again, then add flour, spices and soda (no need to quench). Mix again and fold in the whites, gently mixing with a spoon.
4. Pour the dough into two rectangular shapes up to half, having previously greased them with margarine. Put in the oven for 50 minutes. Check readiness with a match or toothpick.
5. Remove both halves of the gingerbread from the mold, cover with a towel and cool. Then blind them, folding one on top of the other, after smearing with jam. Wrap in foil or oiled paper and let stand for at least 10 hours, preferably a day. Ready gingerbread can be coated with chocolate icing.
6. Cooking chocolate icing: 200 grams of chocolate, 25 grams of butter, 90 ml of cream, 40 grams of honey. Chop the chocolate and melt in a saucepan. Add cream, butter and honey to it and stir until smooth. Cover the gingerbread with the finished icing, put it in the refrigerator to harden.
Christmas gingerbread: gingerbread secrets and gingerbread tips
Exists different ways make the cookies soft. The first way: do not add all the flour at once according to the recipe, but do it gradually, making sure that the dough is elastic. The second way: instead of sugar, use honey, partially or completely. Third way: do choux pastry, that is, boil the flour hot sugar syrup. When rolling out the dough into a layer, make sure that it does not turn out to be too thin.
Before cooking gingerbread oatmeal flakes should be sifted through a sieve, separating the particles from the flour suspension.
If the honey has thickened and is difficult to mix, you can heat it in a water bath. In warm honey, other components of the recipe dissolve better.
Small and thin gingerbread cookies are usually baked for 10-15 minutes at 200-220 degrees, thicker ones made from steep dough are baked for 20-30 minutes at 180-220 degrees.
Pieces of gingerbread houses can be glued together with thick icing, which is usually prepared for painting, or with melted caramel. Lubricate the attachment points of parts, temporarily fix with toothpicks and allow to dry, after which the toothpicks are removed.
If the gingerbread cookies are not covered with icing or chocolate, then when ready they can be greased with a mixture of yolk and protein, then the gingerbread cookies will turn out with a shiny ruddy surface.
In the process of preparing the glaze, the whites are easier to whip if they are pre-cooled. If the eggs are stale, then salt can be added to the whites when whipping on the tip of a knife.
To knead the dough, it is better to use chilled water in the refrigerator.
If, according to the recipe, raisins are added to the baking, then it must be prepared: rinse thoroughly from grease and soak for 10 minutes in boiled water. If the raisins are put dry in the dough, they will take moisture from the dough. If the raisins are too wet, swollen, then it will give off excess moisture and break the consistency of the dough.
For baking, prepare walnuts as follows: peel off excess scales with your hands and break into approximately equal parts. Then spread on a baking sheet without oil in one layer and warm in the oven for 5 minutes. Such nuts will have a richer flavor than raw nuts, and will better convey their flavor to baked goods.
You can divide the egg into protein and yolk like this: pierce the egg with a thick needle from opposite sides. The yolk will remain inside the shell when the white flows out through the puncture.
If the dough is not very steep, it will stick to the hands and the rolling pin when rolled out. In this case, you can roll out the dough with an ordinary bottle, which must be filled before cold water. In this case, the dough will not stick to it.
When baking gingerbread for the first 15 minutes, do not open the oven so as not to knock down the splendor of the products.
If the gingerbread cookies are a little burnt, you can resort to such a trick: let them cool, then remove the burnt layer with the smallest side of the grater and sprinkle with powder or paint over with glaze.
Glazed gingerbread retains its freshness longer and is better stored.
If during the baking process some part of the gingerbread begins to burn, it is better to cover them with oiled paper.
If the gingerbread is too hard, you can soften it as follows: put the gingerbread together with the chopped apple in an earthenware dish, cover and leave for one night. Then transfer to a tightly closed container.
New Year holidays are a good occasion to show your culinary imagination, because sometimes we really want to create something beautiful and tasty that will pleasantly surprise the household. It is very good and right when the whole family is involved in this matter: both adults and children. The easiest way to create is with a dessert table: sculpt some sweets, cookies, and, of course, gingerbread.
How are New Year's gingerbread cookies different from ordinary ones? That's right, your appearance: New Year's gingerbreads are usually made in the form of various New Year's heroes and objects - Santa Claus, deer, Christmas trees, stars, snowflakes, etc. Creating a beautiful New Year's gingerbread this year, as well as cookies for the New Year 2019, for example, should take into account that the symbol of the coming year is a pig. The main thing you need to make New Year's gingerbread with your own hands is the appropriate molds. various kinds. Take care of them in advance, and everything else is very simple! Gingerbread for the New Year 2019 will be prepared in the same way as in all previous years, only in different molds and with a different design.
The ingredients of the dough for New Year's gingerbread remain basic, the recipe in any case will contain honey, flour, spices. Such a dough is made simply, sculpting from it is easy and pleasant. Feel free to take on the preparation of New Year's gingerbread, recipes for their manufacture will be mastered even by inexperienced housewives. Any recipes for New Year's gingerbread require their beautiful coloring with icing. It is in this operation that the whole family can take part, even the youngest generation usually plunges into this activity with pleasure.
Try also baking a traditional European treat - gingerbread. For the New Year 2019, they will be very appropriate, because. diversify our sweet table. It's also simple: New Year's gingerbread, the recipe using ginger is described in detail and does not present any difficulty.
If you want to somehow colorize your creation in an original way, take a look at the photos of New Year's gingerbread cookies available on the site, recipes with photos will definitely give you food for new ideas in decorating gingerbread cookies. For the New Year, recipes with photos always offer something new and interesting.
How to cook New Year's gingerbread? Take the recipe to your taste, they are offered by our masters. Here are some more simple tips:
To prepare gingerbread dough, use a mixture of rye and wheat flour, regular and whole grains are suitable;
Honey can also be taken differently, but their dark types are better suited, such as buckwheat;
Gingerbreads laid out on a baking sheet are baked until cooked in an oven preheated to 190 degrees;
If you plan to decorate a Christmas tree with gingerbread, then when forming gingerbread from dough, immediately provide a hole for the thread. You can use any round stick, cocktail straw, etc.;
For decorating New Year's gingerbread, you can use not only icing, but also various other confectionery decorations, pieces of dried fruit, raisins, etc. to your taste.
New Year holidays are the time when magic is in the air, it smells of tangerines and amazingly delicious gingerbread. Each housewife tries to surprise her relatives with something unusual, not only tasty, but also beautiful. New Year's gingerbread can be considered a real symbol of the winter holidays. There are a lot of recipes for making such sweets, and some of them can rightly be called old. New Year's gingerbread can become not only delicious dessert but also a great gift beautiful decoration for the Christmas tree.
What products are New Year's gingerbread made from?
For cooking New Year's sweets use a special gingerbread dough, which consists of flour, honey and spices. This dough is quite easy to prepare. It is easy and pleasant to work with him. If you want to cook New Year's gingerbread, but have absolutely no experience in such a matter, do not be afraid.
Even an inexperienced hostess can cope with such a task. Gingerbread is not just pastries, it is also a huge field for fantasies and activities. After all, it’s not enough just to cook pastries, it still needs to be beautifully decorated with colored icing. All family members, especially children, can participate in such interesting and entertaining work.
Gingerbread with cocoa
How to bake New Year's gingerbread? Recipes for making such sweets are very different. In our article, we want to give only some of them, so that readers can choose the most suitable option for themselves.
To prepare New Year's gingerbread with cocoa, we need:
- A kilogram of flour (wheat).
- Half a kilo of powdered sugar.
- Six eggs.
- Two teaspoons of cocoa.
- Eight tablespoons of honey
- 1.5 teaspoons of spices - anise, fennel, allspice, cloves, cinnamon, lemon zest.
- A teaspoon of soda.
In order to prepare New Year's gingerbread with cocoa, it is necessary to thoroughly mix the spices ground with sugar into a powder with honey, soda, powdered sugar and eggs until smooth.
Then pour in about half of the available flour (you need to use only sifted) and knead the dough, then put it on the board and knead, adding flour. The result should be a non-liquid dough. It may be slightly sticky to the hands. In order to make it easier to work with, the dough must be put in the refrigerator for an hour. After that, roll it into a thin layer (no more than 0.5 cm) and cut out gingerbread cookies with molds. Next, put them on a baking sheet and bake in a well-heated oven at a temperature of 200 degrees.
Glaze preparation
To prepare the glaze we need:
- Two eggs.
- Three hundred grams of powdered sugar.
Proteins must be separated from the yolks and beat with a mixer until the foam rises. Now you need to gradually introduce powdered sugar. There is one small nuance that should be considered when preparing the glaze. You need to understand for what purposes you need it. If it is intended for pouring a mold, it should have a slightly runny consistency. Such a glaze can be obtained by whipping the proteins at low speeds, gradually introducing the powder.
It is a completely different matter if you need a mixture with which you plan to paint homemade New Year's gingerbread cookies. Such a glaze should have a sufficiently thick consistency so that, on the one hand, it could be painted with it, and on the other hand, it should not spread. To obtain such a mixture, it is necessary to beat the proteins at high speeds, sometimes an additional portion of powder is even required. The resulting thick glaze is very convenient to draw on gingerbread.
Gingerbread: Ingredients
What could be better than New Year's gingerbread, which smells of fairy tales and holidays?! You can not only give and eat them, but also decorate the Christmas tree with them. These edible decorations will appeal to all children.
To prepare sweets we need:
- Liquid honey - 0.3 kg.
- Sugar - 270 g.
- Ground ginger - 2 tsp
- Butter - 0.2 kg.
- Ground cinnamon - 2 tsp
- Wheat flour - 0.75 kg.
- Vanillin.
- Baking powder - 4 tsp
- Cocoa - 2 tsp
- Orange peel - 2 tsp
gingerbread recipe
The amount of ingredients given by us is enough to make gingerbread cookies for a large family. If you don't need as many baked goods, then it would be wiser to reduce the amount of food.
To prepare the dough, you need to mix soft butter with eggs, honey and sugar. Dry ingredients should also be combined and added to the flour. Next, knead the dough and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour. After the lapse of time, we roll out the mass into thin layers 0.5-0.6 mm thick and cut out the gingerbread cookies using molds. Put the finished figures on a baking sheet with parchment and bake in a well-heated oven for 25-30 minutes. So the New Year's gingerbread cookies are ready. Now they need to be decorated, the easiest option is to sprinkle them on top with powdered sugar.
Cooking icing
If you want to make the most beautiful New Year's gingerbread with icing, then you should prepare icing to decorate them. What is icing? In other words, it's icing sugar. For children, it is perhaps the most tasty ingredient in gingerbread.
Christmas gingerbread cookies with icing are incredibly beautiful and delicious, they look festive and can become a real decoration for the Christmas tree. Aising is a universal tool for painting any pastry. And if you use food coloring, you can get a glaze of various shades, then the gingerbread cookies will become even more beautiful and fabulous.
So, to prepare icing for gingerbread cookies, we need the following ingredients:
- The white of one egg.
- A teaspoon of lemon juice.
- Powdered sugar - 160 g.
To prepare the glaze, you do not need so many products, one protein is enough to decorate a whole kilogram of gingerbread.
The egg white must be separated from the yolk and beat it at low speed with a mixer (you can also use a whisk). At this stage, we are not faced with the goal of obtaining a thick foam, we need to bring the protein to a homogeneous state. Next add the powdered sugar and mix well. Then you should add lemon juice, thanks to which the icing will shine and shimmer in the sun. Here is our frosting. If you need icing of different colors, then you need to decompose it into different containers and add multi-colored dyes.
Glaze drawing
With icing, you can draw lines, dots, and even fill the entire surface. For all these options, you will need glaze of different consistency. So, for example, for pouring gingerbread, icing should be more liquid. To do this, add some water to it and mix.
To make the drawing beautiful and clear, the outer contour of the gingerbread is drawn with a thick glaze, and the middle is filled with a more liquid one. It is more convenient to draw lines and dots with the help of confectionery syringes or confectionery bags. When working with glaze, you can show all your imagination. Even if you are deprived of the talent of an artist, the gingerbread will still turn out beautiful and appetizing. All family members can be involved in the drawing process, especially such work will appeal to children, whose imagination is richer than that of adults.
When the New Year's painted gingerbread cookies are ready, you need to allow the glaze to harden. As a rule, this does not take much time. The thickest icing dries for about half an hour, but liquid icing will take at least several hours.
Painting gingerbread is a fun and exciting process. If you have not used up all the glaze, it can be stored in a sealed box for several days, as it quickly hardens in air.
Instead of an afterword
In our article, we have given only a few recipes for wonderful New Year's gingerbread cookies. In fact, there are quite a lot of options for their preparation and design. Within the framework of one article, it is simply impossible to mention all of them. We hope that our information will help the hostesses to navigate this issue.
