The tasting can wait! Let this house first serve as a cute New Year's decoration, and only then - a sweet treat.
For test:
- 250 g wheat flour
- 250 g rye flour
- 125 g brown sugar
- 25 g cocoa
- 250 g honey
- 125 g butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- ¼ tsp ground cloves
- ¼ tsp ground ginger
- ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
- 1 tsp soda
For glaze:
- 1 protein
- 230 g powdered sugar
- a pinch of citric acid
Sift the flour and mix all the flour, cocoa, ground nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger. Divide the mixture into 2 parts.
In a saucepan, mix sugar, honey and butter. Heat until sugar dissolves.
Pour in half of the flour mixture and mix well.
Then add the eggs and mix quickly so that the eggs do not curdle.
Add some more flour and baking soda. Mix everything thoroughly.
Transfer the dough to a worktop and knead well with your hands.
Let the test rest for a few hours. Roll out the dough into a layer 5 mm thick.
According to the template, cut out all the walls and roof of the house from the dough.
Bake the dough in the oven at 200°C for 20 minutes.
GLAZE. Beat the protein a little and gradually pour the powdered sugar into it, continuing to beat. At the end, add citric acid.
Glue the cooled parts of the house and paint with glaze. Let it freeze.
New Year's log
A log-shaped sweet roll is a traditional sweet treat for Christmas in Europe and America.
- 6 eggs
- 6 tbsp Sahara
- 140 g flour
- 3 tbsp cocoa
- ½ tsp baking powder
For filling:
- 200 ml milk
- 2 tbsp flour
- 500 g cream cheese
- 1 egg
- 10 g vanilla sugar
- 5 tbsp powdered sugar
- 2 large bananas
Separate the yolks from the whites. Beat egg whites with half the sugar until peaks form. Beat the yolks with the second half of the sugar until fluffy.
Mix cocoa with flour, baking powder and add to the proteins. Then mix the protein mixture and yolks.
Transfer the dough to a baking sheet with parchment and bake at 210 ° C for 7 minutes.
For the filling, sift the flour. Heat milk with flour, stirring constantly, until a paste-like consistency. Then remove the mixture from heat and add the egg, stirring.
Let cool completely. Whip the cooled cream and butter room temperature. Add vanilla sugar, powdered sugar and mix.
Apply the cream on the biscuit, smearing it with a thin layer. Peel the bananas and arrange them whole along the long edge of the dough. Carefully roll up the roll.
Decorate the roll with the remaining cream and decor. Put the roll in the refrigerator for 3 hours soak with cream and harden.
Meringue "Snowmen"
Cute snowmen made from meringue circles can serve not only as a treat, but also as a sweet gift for your guests.
- 3 egg whites
- a pinch of salt
- 60 g granulated sugar
- 60 g powdered sugar
For decoration:
- chocolate candies
- candied fruit
- marzipan mass
- icing(see icing recipe in gingerbread house recipe)
Beat egg whites with salt with a mixer until fluffy foam and peaks form. Gradually add sugar while continuing to beat.
Finally add the sifted icing sugar and beat again until peaks form.
Transfer the whipped egg white to a piping bag and pipe three different sizes of circles onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.
Bake the meringues for 1 hour at 100°C. Leave the oven door open for the first 15 minutes.
Fold the finished meringue on top of each other, glue with icing in the form of snowmen and decorate with decor.
To the book « New Year's sweets» , which was published by the Eksmo publishing house, the most famous confectioner of the country and a great friend of our magazine, Alexander Seleznev, included the best New Year's recipes to create an unforgettable holiday and a special cozy atmosphere. Cakes, pastries, biscuits and cupcakes... Do you want to become a famous pastry chef? Try making a festive dessert with recipes from the new book! All the recipes selected for her are quite simple and do not require the purchase of rare and expensive products.
Increasingly on New Year and Christmas bake gingerbread. Housewives purchase molds in advance so that the treat is not only tasty, but also beautiful. The kids love the gingerbread men. After all, you can still play with them! ..
famous confectioner Alexander Seleznev shared his signature gingerbread man recipe.
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Dough Ingredients:
- 350 g honey
- 125 g brown sugar (you can also use white sugar)
- 125 g butter
- 540 g flour
- 2 teaspoons of soda (extinguish with lemon juice)
- 1 st. a spoonful of a mixture of different spices (cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, ginger)
- 1 egg
- Glaze Ingredients:
- 1 egg white
- 1 st. a spoonful of lemon juice
- 180 g powdered sugar
Cooking:
- Mix honey, sugar and butter in a saucepan. Then, stirring constantly, heat the mixture until the oil dissolves.
- In a separate container, add soda to the flour, previously quenched with lemon juice.
- Pour the heated mixture of honey, sugar and butter into the flour. Add fragrant spices and an egg. Knead the dough.
- Leave the dough overnight room temperature. (And this is the first professional secret from Alexander Seleznev. After all, many housewives leave the dough to “rest” in the refrigerator.) Then roll it out, cut out the little men and bake for 12 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
- Cool the cakes and paint with glaze.
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The confectioner also spoke about the secret of its preparation:
Made from raw protein, powdered sugar and lemon juice. The last ingredient must be added - with it the glaze will harden faster. Powdered sugar should be taken as small as possible so that there are no grains in the glaze later. And eggs are always the freshest, dietary ones, they are the safest.
When you beat the protein and add the powder, the icing should not drain from the whisk, but solidify on it in a dense triangle. So the amount of powder must be adjusted by eye, put more - the glaze will harden in a lump, less - it will turn out liquid.
Once the icing is kneaded, pour it into a confectionery syringe or bag, and cover the rest with cling film - otherwise it will dry out quickly, dry pieces will come across in it and get stuck in the syringe or bag.
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Some subscribers of Alexander Seleznev's personal blog admitted that they had already tried gingerbread made according to this recipe. Here is one of the reviews:
Thanks a lot for the recipe! Gingerbread cookies are fragrant and do not dry for a long time, it is a pleasure to work with this dough.
Do you bake gingerbread men for the New Year?
Gingerbread is a tasty and fragrant delicacy that has been a symbol of Christmas for several centuries. Today we will tell you where and how gingerbread, we will give tips on their preparation, recipes for dark and light gingerbread, and at the end of the article a surprise awaits you: ready-made templates for cutting gingerbread and examples of painting them with icing!
A bit of history
Gingerbread is a very ancient delicacy. The prototype of gingerbread was known even before our era in ancient Egypt. In Russia, gingerbread appeared in the ninth century, they were called "honey bread" because of the large amount of honey in their composition. Various spices began to be added much later, when they were brought from the countries of the Middle East and India. Gingerbread cookies were baked in the shape of various animals, so they were not only a tasty treat, but also toys for children.
Great Britain is considered the birthplace of gingerbread. Legend has it that the recipe for gingerbread and ginger itself were brought by medieval crusaders. Ginger was a symbol of health, so it was added to many Christmas sweets. Since then, it has been a tradition among Catholics to bake gingerbread for Christmas.
By the way, in Europe and the USA, gingerbread in the shape of a man, the so-called Gingerbread Man, is very often baked. This is a popular character from an old fairy tale, similar in plot to the fairy tale "Gingerbread Man".
Now the German city of Nuremberg is called the “gingerbread capital of the world”. There is a whole market where you can buy gingerbread made according to an old recipe.
Source: lidovky.cz
- In addition to ginger, use cinnamon, cloves, coriander, cardamom, nutmeg, allspice, and for even more spice - orange peel or cocoa.
- To make the gingerbread fragrant and acquire a pleasant color, use natural dark honey instead of sugar.
- Instead of baking soda, you can add two teaspoons of cognac as a baking powder.
- The dough can be raw or custard. Raw dough is obtained when all the ingredients are simply mixed together. Custard - when honey is heated with water (milk) and butter.
- Gingerbread is also a great Christmas decoration. Before baking, make a hole in them for the thread.
- Before you put the gingerbread cookies in the oven, brush them with an egg - this will give them a glossy shine.
- It can be difficult to know if the gingerbread is ready or not yet. If they are browned around the edges, have risen a little, then you can take them out of the oven.
- Lay the finished gingerbread cookies on a flat surface so as not to spoil their shape.
- Decorating gingerbread is not necessary immediately. It is better to bake them in the evening, and paint them in the morning. Protein glaze can be tinted with berry juice.
- It turns out that gingerbread cookies need to “ripen”, that is, they need time to become more tasty and fragrant - at least a week. Place the gingerbread in glass jar and put an orange peel or an apple slice on them. Close the lid tightly. Every day for a week, do not forget to change the skin of an orange or an apple for a fresh one.
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Chocolate gingerbread
Ingredients:
- flour, 175 g
- ground ginger, 1 tsp
- ground cinnamon, ½ tsp
- ground cloves, ½ tsp
- baking powder or soda, 1.5 tsp
- salt, pinch
- cocoa, 1 tsp
- butter, 100 g
- sugar or honey, 100 g
- egg, 2 pcs.
- powdered sugar, ½ tbsp.
- lemon juice, 1 tbsp.
Cooking:
Sift flour, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, baking powder or soda, a pinch of salt, cocoa into a bowl. Add soft cubes of butter and mix the dough with your hands - you should get a crumbly mass. Then add sugar or honey, one egg (leave the second for protein glaze or lubrication of gingerbread to make them shine) and knead the dough. Roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and refrigerate for two hours. After that, roll out the dough and cut out the gingerbread cookies using the templates that you can find at the end of the article. Sprinkle a baking sheet with flour (or cover with parchment paper) and put the gingerbread cookies on it. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15 minutes.
Chilled gingerbread must be painted with protein glaze. To do this, beat one protein to stable peaks (this is when it does not pour out of the bowl, if you raise it above your head), gradually adding powdered sugar. At the end, add lemon juice and beat again for 10 seconds. Put the resulting icing in a pastry bag and decorate the gingerbread cookies as your fantasy tells you. Let the frosting dry for about half an hour.
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Light gingerbread
Ingredients:
- flour, 250 g
- ground ginger, 1.5 tsp
- ground cinnamon, 1 tsp
- ground nutmeg, ½ tsp
- ground cloves, ½ tsp
- baking powder or soda, ½ tsp
- yolks, 4 pcs.
- sugar, 150 g
- milk, 1 tbsp.
- honey, 150 g
- butter, 50 g
- protein, 2 pcs.
- powdered sugar, ½ tbsp.
- lemon juice, 1 tbsp.
Cooking:
Sift flour, ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and baking powder (soda) into a bowl. Whisk the yolks with sugar. Pour milk, honey and butter into a saucepan. Heat it all up, stirring, bring to a homogeneous mass, but do not let it boil. Then pour this mixture and the yolks with sugar to the dry ingredients, knead the dough. After that, roll it out and cut out the gingerbread cookies using the templates that you can find at the end of the article. Lay the cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for 15 minutes. Decorate the cooled gingerbread cookies with protein glaze - in the same way as described in the previous recipe.
New Year's shooting is a great occasion to meet friends. Magazine OK! decided to arrange a small holiday for his authors - Alexander Seleznev and Yana Laputina, who are more common abroad than in Moscow. At the Balcony restaurant, culinary gurus and beauty experts shared with OK! with their childhood dreams and prepared a gingerbread house.
Pavel Tantserev The New Year decorations of the Balcony restaurant inspired a special mood for creating culinary miracles. This is probably why Alexander and Yana's gingerbread house turned out to be a little fabulous.
A lexander, Yana, tell me, please, have you ever celebrated the New Year in an unusual setting?
Yana: I am a terrible conservative, so I always celebrate the New Year with my family in Moscow. True, once my husband and I had a non-standard decision to fry kebabs in the yard of our house for the New Year. And everything would be fine, but the house is located on Tverskaya, a five-minute drive from Red Square. At midnight, we, as expected, celebrated the New Year at home, and an hour later, when our friends pulled up to us, we all together pulled the barbecue out into the street, put the French champagne in a snowdrift to cool and began to play snowballs, a lot of amusing neighbors in that holiday night. (Smiling.)
Alexander: And I'm not as conservative as Yana, and I like to celebrate the New Year in different countries. True, now I am more and more inclined to believe that the sensations are brighter when you celebrate in the winter, and not under the hot sun. In his youth, he always spent this holiday with his family, preparing salads, duck, and cakes. Now, on December 31, there is no energy left for culinary exploits: every year in mid-December my food show takes place in Gostiny Dvor, and this requires serious preparation. So at the end of December, I usually want to escape from the pre-New Year's fuss. For several years in a row I ran away to Barbados. My friends and I even have a tradition of celebrating the New Year on this island in accordance with different time zones, that is, our holiday stretches for a whole day, and by the time the Barbadian New Year comes, forces are usually running out. (Laughs.) I also remember when I worked as a pastry chef at the Alexandria coffee house, on the last day of the outgoing year, due to the large number of orders, I was able to leave the coffee house only at ten in the evening. I got into a taxi and got stuck in a traffic jam on the Enthusiasts Highway. There he met the New Year.
Photo: Pavel Tantserev
What do you associate this holiday with?
A .: I associate it with the aroma of baking: in addition to salads and hot dishes, my mother and I always made a lot of desserts - necessarily a honey cake and gingerbread.
Me: And my mother bakes a pig every time. Generally our New Year's table quite ascetic. In addition to the pig, it has jelly, Olivier with crab meat and champagne. We have long ceased to build pyramids of salads and snacks - it seems to me that this is a relic of the Soviet past.
That is, you do not take any breaks for detox after long holidays?
Y .: In food, I used to control myself, but it’s not always possible to refuse another glass of champagne on New Year’s week. So as soon as the holidays subside, on the sixth of January I will get on a plane and fly to Germany, where I will drink mineral water and bathe in mineral springs.
A .: And for me, the New Year is a holiday of permissiveness: I eat whatever I want, and from the second of January - a new life. (Laughs.)
Do you remember what gifts you asked Santa Claus as a child?
A .: The most desired gifts were a dog and a bicycle. And I got both! I found a new bike under the tree almost every year, as I grew out of the old one. But Grandfather Frost always brought me a bicycle with a frame, but I wanted without it, so I complained about Grandfather Frost to my grandmother. (Smiling.) I still believe in miracles. I have a tradition: every year on December 31st I make a wish list. Not gifts, but desires: what I want to achieve next year, what projects to implement. I put this list in a Japanese vase and hide it so that no one at home can find it. Believe it or not, every year these wishes come true.
Y.: I had a story with skates: I really wanted to receive them as a gift - they were in short supply then. I remember that my parents could not immediately agree with Santa Claus, and he brought them to me only a year later. And everything worked out with them right away - probably because my dad was great at skating. This winter I will actively train with my three-year-old daughter, who started skating a year ago. In general, Teya shares many of my hobbies. Just recently, while my grandmother did not see, she climbed into her mother's cosmetic bag with her favorite palettes and lipsticks and made herself such an expressive make-up that at any Halloween party she would be mistaken for her own. (Laughs.)
Does Thea already know what she wants to receive as a gift for the New Year?
Me: Of course! She very clearly expressed her desire six months ago. Said, "When it's New Year's, I want a live pink horse." With the approach of December 31, my husband and I are in a state of panic, because we still have no idea how to help Grandfather Frost find this wonderful animal. (Laughs.)
Photo: Pavel Tantserev
Ingredients:
- 350 g honey
- 250 g wheat flour
- 250 g rye flour
- 125 g brown sugar
- 25 g cocoa
- 125 g butter
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp carnations
- 1/4 tsp ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp soda
- 3 eggs
- 300 g powdered sugar
- 3 art. l. lemon juice
- liquid purple food coloring
Cooking:
- Pour honey into a saucepan, put butter, pour brown sugar. Heat the mixture, stirring constantly. In a separate container, mix both types of flour with soda.
- Pour warmed honey with butter and sugar into the mixture, add egg, cocoa, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger. Knead the dough in a mixer, wrap it in a film and place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm.
- Using a cardboard stencil, we cut out four walls and the roof of the house. We send for 20 minutes to bake at a temperature of 200 ° C. For glaze, separate the protein from the yolk, add lemon juice and beat, gradually pouring in powdered sugar.
- In a separate container, mix half of the glaze with the dye. We begin to paint the cooled gingerbread cookies. We cover each wall of the house with purple glaze and draw white windows. We glue the walls of the house with glaze, and cover the roof with it.
