Yes, yes, I already showed you this house last year. But I never wrote down the recipe for it. Now I am urgently correcting myself, while there is time before the New Year. I made it together with delicious Christmas gingerbread, but this year I probably won’t dare to repeat it :)) But I’ll definitely bake gingerbread, along with my friend Olya, and of course I won’t forget about the delicious Christmas fruit cake from Irina Chadeika.
I’ll make a reservation right away - the dough for the house is very tasty, but it gets stale quickly. Those. choose for yourself, or you make it and eat it right away, or just use it as an entourage for the New Year. Although ... maybe you have strong teeth or you like to dip "crackers" in tea :)
The result looks stunning, amaze all the guests - I promise!
Products for 1 house:
1 kg. honey
1/4 l. water
650 g rye flour
600 g premium flour
100 g chopped candied lemon and orange peels
40 g gingerbread spices
30 g baking soda
2 tbsp. l. lemon juice
3 squirrels
300 g powdered sugar
1. Cut candied fruits into cubes and roll a little in flour.
2. Prepare spicy spices. It can be a mixture of cocoa, cinnamon, grated nutmeg and ground ginger, cloves. Focus on your taste.
3. Boil honey with water and let cool.
4. Sift flour into a large bowl, add chopped candied fruits and spices. In the middle you need to make a recess and pour chilled honey with water into it. Mix everything well and finally add baking soda(DO NOT EXTINGUISH!). knead smooth hard dough. Cover it or wrap it in foil and leave it to age for 1-2 days to make it softer.
5. Cut out a template for the house from cardboard. The template is here.
a) The biggest detail in the center is the base. It is better to make it out last of all from the remnants of the test. On the left are the roof elements. On the right - the sides, front and back of the house.
b) Do not forget about the fence, pipe, door and window shutters. I did all this on my own, I calculated the exact dimensions already from the ready-made patterns of the house.
c) If you want the side walls and front of the house to look like logs, I'll show you how I did it.
For me it looked like this
6. Cut out or sculpt all the necessary details from the dough. They need to be baked on a greased baking sheet at a temperature of 200 degrees until browning. After baking, all parts must be well cooled.
7. This is how I baked the front and back of the house. She twisted small rollers and laid them on the lined surface of baking paper. It is not necessary to make all the side parts even here, then all this can be corrected.
After the details were baked, I immediately gave the desired shape with a sharp knife, and also cut out a window and a door. This must be done while the dough is hot and soft.
8. The sides are already baked, as well as the door and the pipe. Note that the door and window at the front of the cabin have already been cut out.
9. Here I have already baked the base and two parts of the roof. I made the roof from rectangular strips of dough, which I laid out next to each other. When baking, they are all tightly connected.
10. Don't forget the details. So I baked a fence from the leftover dough. You can also bake Christmas trees.
11. After all our parts have cooled down well, we need to assemble our house. The book advises collecting with the help of protein glaze, but to be honest, this is not a very suitable option. I played it safe and cooked thick sugar syrup, with which I glued all the details. After you glue everything, you need to leave it for at least a few hours (or better at night) so that all the parts adhere well to each other.
12. Now it's time to decorate our gingerbread house. To do this, prepare the glaze - very carefully mix the protein with powdered sugar and lemon juice. Let's fill a cornet* with this glaze and decorate our house with "drifts of snow"
*Cornet 
13. The final result is shown in the very first picture. Here I will show you the different details. I also made a little bunny with carrots from marzipan, how to do it - I spied Alexander Seleznev in the program.
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, please tell me, have you ever met 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
Gingerbread house
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.
Alexander Seleznev, the most famous confectioner in our country, the host of culinary programs on television, the author of several books on confectionery, told AiF.ru what simple and light desserts can be prepared for the New Year, why alcohol is so important in confectionery art and how to work with glaze.
Maria Tikhmeneva, AiF.ru: Alexander, what are the trends in New Year's baking this year? What is fashionable to cook?
Alexander Seleznev: European confectioners recommend cooking vegetable cakes. For example, I will do Apple pie, many of my friends will make pumpkin or carrot cakes, and one - even from celery. I think that classic cakes with creams - it is better not to do. With vegetables, it will turn out both tasty and healthy. Take a look at the pumpkin: very a good option. You can always add your favorite spices to pumpkin pie: cloves, cardamom, vanilla sugar. It will turn out interesting and fragrant.
If we talk about traditional pastries… Stollens are often baked in Europe, and apple tart tatins are often baked in France. Our hostesses prefer Soviet cakes: "Flight", "Napoleon", honey cake. But even in these classic cakes, I would recommend adding fruits: apples, bananas, tangerines, oranges, persimmons, you can still baked pumpkin. With one of these additives, the same “Flight” will turn out to be original and festive.
And if you cook not a cake, but something easier and simpler?
fit various variations panna cotta and tiramisu, you can make jelly from chocolate, white and milk. And serve these desserts in bowls, decorate with berries.
For example, you can take any cream cheese(mascarpone, philadelphia, ricotta), add a little liquor or port wine, whipped cream, powdered sugar, you can add a little honey. Savoyardi sticks soak in syrup, fruit juice or alcohol. Put them on the bottom of the creamer, whipped on top butter cream, cool and garnish with pomegranate seeds, raspberries, strawberries, as desired. It turned out to be a light and spectacular New Year's dessert.
Is alcohol mandatory in holiday desserts?
Alcohol gives the dessert a twist. If you don’t add it, it turns out just sweet, and in order for a real dessert to be born, you need to use alcohol. And this applies not only to holiday desserts.
What is the best thing to add? Rum, various brandies and cognacs, Calvados, Cointreau and Grand Marnier orange liqueurs. Any alcohol that you like can even be quite strong: the alcohol will disappear, but the taste and aroma will remain.
What New Year's desserts are ordered from you this year?
Usually they order a variety of cakes, this year - with horseshoes and horses. Sometimes they ask to make on the cake an image of a broken Snow Maiden in a bathing suit and with Santa Claus: small, with a belly and with a bottle in his hands. Gingerbread houses and gingerbread toys, gingerbread men are also very popular.
If you make ginger figurines yourself, please tell us how to decorate them.
Glaze. It is 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.
New Year's desserts from Alexander Seleznev from the book “Festive Baking. Simple Recipes»
Christmas honey cake "Elka" Photo: Eksmo Press Service
Christmas honey cake "Yelka"
Even if you have already decorated a Christmas tree in the house, another fabulous "Christmas tree" on the table will not hurt at all. Moreover, she has the taste of everyone's favorite honey cake!
200 g sugar
200 g butter
40 ml rum
2 tsp soda quenched with vinegar
700 g sour cream
5 pieces. kiwi
50 g cranberries
Step 1. Mix honey, sugar and butter.
Step 2. Heat the mixture in a water bath and beat with a whisk.
Step 3: Whisk the yolks with the rum and vinegar and add to the hot mixture.
Step 4. Sift the flour and stir into the honey mixture.
Step 5. Brew the dough with a whisk, remove from heat. Then refrigerate.
Step 6 Divide the dough into 12 pieces.
Step 7. Roll into layers and bake alternately at a temperature of 190 ° C for 10 minutes.
Step 8 Spread each layer with sour cream and refrigerate to soak.
Step 9. When the cake is soaked, cut it into a Christmas tree shape.
Step 10 Peel the kiwi and cut into slices.
Step 11 Decorate the top of the kiwi cake with cranberries.
Christmas cookies Photo: Eksmo Press Service
Christmas cookies
Christmas has its own unique smell: spruce, crisp snow, and, of course, special Christmas cookies!
250 g sugar
175 g butter
5 st. l. lemon juice
1 tsp cinnamon
1 st. l. cocoa
3 art. l. Roma
Protein-drawing mass:
150 g powdered sugar
1 tsp lemon juice
Step 1. Mix honey, sugar and butter.
Step 2. In a water bath, heat this mixture and remove from heat.
Step 3. Add the egg and cinnamon, mix.
Step 4. Sift flour and mix with cocoa.
Step 5. Add flour, rum and lemon juice to the honey mixture and knead into a smooth dough.
Step 6. Leave it to air cool to room temperature.
7. Roll out the dough into a layer 5 mm thick.
8. Cut out cookies in the form of men and stars from the dough.
9. Bake the cookies at 200°C for 15 minutes.
10. Decorate the cooled cookies with protein-drawing mass.
Protein-drawing mass:
Beat the protein with powdered sugar and lemon juice until a stable mass forms. Tint the mass with food coloring and transfer to a cornet.
Cake made of brushwood "Christmas tree" Photo: Press service of the Publishing House "Eksmo"
Cake from brushwood "Christmas tree"
If you collect the brushwood cookies, beloved by many, in a special way, you will get an elegant New Year's tree!
7 art. l. flour
a pinch of salt
1 st. l. vodka
500 ml vegetable oil for deep frying
Caramel:
200 g sugar
70 ml water
Step 1. Sift flour and mix with eggs and salt. Knead the dough.
Step 2. Put the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Step 3. Roll out the dough and cut into strips of different lengths.
Step 4 Vegetable oil heat up on the stove.
Step 5 Dip the strips of dough into the oil for a few seconds.
Step 6 Remove and dry on a paper towel.
Step 7. Glue the brushwood in the form of a Christmas tree with caramel.
Step 8 Decorate the top of the Christmas tree with caramel threads.
Caramel:
Heat sugar and water on the stove until brown. Then lower the pot of caramel into the container with cold water for 30 seconds.
In addition to products, the following materials may come in handy for making cookies, gingerbread, houses:
1. Cookie cutters (very handy if you're cooking with your kids)
2. Or printouts of templates (can be downloaded from the Internet)
3. You can use children's molds from kits for creativity
4. Baking paper
6. Pastry bags for painting
7. Or bags of food bags, office files or baking paper.
8. Food colorings or sugar pencils
9. Confectionery sprinkles
10. And of course, prescription products.
Recipes for Christmas and New Year's gingerbread, there are a lot of cookies and there are different national traditions. Let's start with gingerbread and houses.
gingerbread
Soft fragrant gingerbread cookies have long become a symbol of Christmas. Gingerbread baking is an art that has been especially developed in the last century, since gingerbread has been gaining popularity in Europe. In Medieval Europe, where fairs were widespread, gingerbread was sold in various forms, often gilded and decorated with spices. The fairs became known as "Ginger Fairs" and their participants bought gingerbread as a present from the fair.
Nuremberg in Germany is known as "Gingerbread Capital of the World" due to its central location in the northern trade routes. It was here that the art of making gingerbread of exquisite shapes and ornaments appeared. German fairy tale about "Hanz and Gretel", in which the children discovered a house built entirely of gingerbread dough, sweets and sweet pies, marked the beginning of the tradition of creating various buildings from gingerbread dough.
Nowadays, for many, gingerbread is associated with Christmas, but in fact it is delicious and original gift at any time of the year - a treat for the whole family. Whether it's a whole castle or a gingerbread cookie wrapped in pretty paper or in a box and tied with a ribbon, this is a very nice gift. WE WORK WITH GINGER DOUGH There are a few rules to remember when working with gingerbread dough for the first time:
1. You may find it easier to roll out the dough in a large layer and cut with a cookie cutter on a baking sheet so that the products are not distorted when you transfer them from the table to the baking sheet.
2. Unless the recipe says otherwise, leave some space on the baking sheet between the gingerbread cookies so they can rise. 3. Gingerbread, unlike other cookies, does not become dense and crispy when taken out of the oven. So it's very hard to tell if it's done, especially since the baking time depends so much on the oven. As a rule, if the gingerbread has slightly risen and browned around the edges, it is ready.
4. Leave it on the baking sheet for a few minutes, during which it will begin to become crispy (if the gingerbread is still soft, return it to the oven for a few minutes). It is very common for gingerbread to lose its shape during baking, but this can be easily fixed by trimming it properly after baking. 5. Large flat pieces of gingerbread must be refrigerated and stored on a flat surface, otherwise their shape will be distorted. It may be more convenient to bake the gingerbread the day before decorating. If you do this, let it cool completely and then wrap it in parchment or plastic wrap.
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RECIPE GINGERBOOT look .
RECIPE OF GINGER COOKIES FROM YULIA VYSOTSKA
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LENTEN CHRISTMAS COOKIES RECIPE
gingerbread house recipe
RECIPE OF GINGERBERRY AND HONEY SUGAR DOUGH
RECIPE "GINGERY HOUSE-HUT"
RECIPE "GINGERY VASES"
RECIPE "POMORIAN KOZULES"
Kozuli or goats - made from dough, decorated and baked figurines. Name roe deer formed not from a word goat or roe, but from the Pomeranian denoting "curl", "snake"
Roe deer were originally a national delicacy of Pomors (inhabitants of the Arkhangelsk province), who made them only for Christmas. At the moment, roes are made in the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions, as well as in the Urals. Kozul is also considered to be a kind of gingerbread. Roe deer made by children are also used as toys.
NIKOLAICHIKI for Saint Nicholas Day
Saint Nicholas Day is not only children's holiday. The morning of December 19 is also eagerly awaited by adults. Firstly, to see the joyful and enthusiastic faces of their children, and secondly, in the hope that the Wonderworker Nicholas in the person of a husband or wife, daughter or son will also reward them for good behavior.
The most popular gifts on this day, both in the Orthodox and Catholic worlds, are toys, sweets, cakes, fruits, nuts, etc. But among the Slavs, kind Nikolai gave obedient children also "Nikolaychiks" - honey cookies.
It is necessary to prepare "Nikolaychiki" for this magical holiday with your own hands. Every nation has its own traditional recipe, which has some distinctive features. But the meaning and purpose of making gingerbread is the same - to honor the memory of St. Nicholas, who is the guardian and protector of our children.
RECIPE NIKOLAICHIKOV we look
PAINTING OF gingerbread and cookies
HOW TO MAKE A SNOWMAN
Aising at home
Idea from last year, but this video has ideas on how to decorate cookies.
And finally, a small selection of Christmas gingerbread and cookie painting ideas for your inspiration!
