New Year's gingerbread is a beautiful and tasty home decoration for everyone's favorite holiday. This pastry is universal, since the products can not only be placed on the table. Homemade New Year's gingerbread cookies can be used as Christmas tree decorations, be sure to attach pieces of paper with wishes. These traditional baked goods are often given as gifts to family and friends. Here are some tasty options.
Chocolate gingerbread dough recipe
Combine half a pack of soft butter with one hundred grams of sugar. It is recommended to add a pack of vanillin. The main thing at this stage is to mix the ingredients very thoroughly with a mixer for five minutes. If the sugar does not completely dissolve, then the New Year's gingerbread will not be smooth, and its surface will not be uniform. Next, we continue to beat, gradually adding three large spoons of cocoa, a little cinnamon, orange zest, twenty grams of finely grated ginger and one large egg. All ingredients should be completely dissolved and the mass should become completely homogeneous.
In a separate bowl, mix 260 grams of flour with half a teaspoon of soda. Now we begin to gradually add the mixture to the dough. When it becomes dense, it is recommended to knead with your hands. The even distribution of flour determines how neat the New Year's gingerbread cookies prepared at home will be.
Place the dough, which should look like plasticine, in the refrigerator for half an hour, or better yet, overnight. It is necessary to cool it well so that the oil hardens. In this case, it will become very convenient to work with the semi-finished product. Now you can move on to the next stage.
Rules for working with dough for chocolate gingerbread
Before you start baking, it is recommended to make a test product. This will allow you to see, firstly, how much they will increase in volume, and secondly, whether the baked goods hold their shape. If the future New Year's gingerbread immediately melts, becomes greasy, and problems arise when transferring it to a baking sheet, then you need to add flour. Be sure to distribute it well, thoroughly re-knead and leave to cool.
If everything is in order, then it is recommended to divide the dough into four parts during the process. We leave one of them, put the rest in the refrigerator. The dough needs to be rolled out on parchment. Do not rub the rolling pin with flour or sprinkle it on the semi-finished product.
Gingerbread cookies "Merry Family" and "Snowmen"
You can decorate your Christmas tree with this original pastry. We offer the following recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home.
The products should be thin and crispy. Therefore, the dough should be rolled out to a thickness of no more than 3 mm, since it will increase during the cooking process. Make figures using molds and place them in the oven for 6-10 minutes. The temperature should be no more than 175 degrees. But it is recommended to make a test gingerbread so as not to spoil all the dough.
Cool the prepared products very well. Only in this case do we remove them from the tray. Otherwise they will crumble. Now we decorate with icing.
You can hang products on the Christmas tree.
Recipe for honey gingerbread dough
Put a third of a glass of liquid honey, a small spoonful of cinnamon, starch, vinegar, ground ginger and a little salt into a saucepan. Place the mixture in a water bath and, stirring constantly, turn it into This recipe for New Year's gingerbread can be supplemented with a pinch of ground cloves. The result will be very aromatic baked goods.
Now add two-thirds of a stick of soft butter to the mixture and leave to cool completely. At this time, beat two eggs with a glass of sugar. Mix everything together and begin to gradually add flour. You only need three glasses. Of course, it all depends on the quality of the flour. Place the well-kneaded dough in the refrigerator for a day. Now you can start molding.
New Year's gingerbread "Christmas tree" made from honey dough
Such products will be an excellent decoration for the main table, or they can be used to crown a birthday cake. But these are not only original, but also very tasty New Year's gingerbread cookies. You can make toys and beads from glaze for your Christmas tree with your own hands.
The finished New Year's gingerbreads with your own hands then need to be cooled very well. Meanwhile, prepare the green glaze. We form Christmas trees by greasing each layer and gluing them from largest to smallest. We leave the products for three to four hours. Now you can put them on the festive table or decorate a cake.
Recipe for honey gingerbread dough without eggs
The proposed option is an excellent semi-finished product for those who do not consume animal products. Despite the fact that there are no eggs in this recipe, the final product will not lose at all in its taste characteristics.
Grind 150 grams of low-fat sour cream very thoroughly with 300 grams of sugar. Add soft butter to the mixture. You will need a third of the pack. Add 190 grams of liquid honey, a little salt and cloves, a teaspoon each of soda and ground ginger. Mix everything and gradually add half a kilo of sifted flour.
Knead the dough very well and roll it into a ball. Next, wrap the semi-finished product in cling film and leave to cool overnight. If possible, then it is possible for a longer period. Because, no matter how good the recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home, only well-chilled dough will be elastic and pliable. The semi-finished product is ready for cooking. It must be rolled out to a thickness of at least 10 mm.
Recipe for New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze "Gift"
Such products are an excellent option for gifts. The proposed recipe for New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze can be changed and supplemented. To prepare them you will need chocolate or honey dough (with or without eggs), a knife, different molds, a little patience, more imagination and a good oven.
You can prepare the following products: Christmas trees, shoes and staves. They will make the children very happy.
And the next gift option is more suitable for adult guests.
An original gift could be a gingerbread assortment of chocolate and honey products, elegantly decorated. Making them is not at all difficult.
Finally, let’s look at how to properly prepare the glaze. This can be done very simply. However, there are some rules and basic steps that need to be followed.
Be sure to sift 200 grams of powdered sugar. To obtain high-quality glaze, it is recommended to repeat this procedure two or three times. Next, add it to the protein and begin to beat the mixture until a stiff foam is obtained. Gradually add a small spoon of starch and pour in a little lemon juice. If you need colored glaze, add food coloring.
We apply it using a special culinary syringe. You can also use a thick bag for this purpose. Fill it with glaze, cut off a corner and gently press, applying patterns.
How to store finished products
Whatever the recipe for New Year's gingerbread, the clear advantage of this baking is that the products can be stored for some time. The main thing is to organize this process correctly.
Gingerbread can be stored in a special container for up to fourteen days if the temperature is about 18 degrees and the relative humidity is about 75 percent. In this case, the products will become softer every day.
New Year's celebrations awaken people's faith in miracles, memories of how the celebration took place in childhood, the desire to give gifts to their family and friends, and make surprises. One of the best and most pleasant gifts for your loved ones will be delicious homemade baked goods, for example, New Year's gingerbread cookies with icing.
What you will need
Most gingerbread recipes contain the following required ingredients:
- Flour;
- Eggs;
- Sugar;
- Salt;
- Glaze;
- Butter;
- Spices and seasonings.
Almost every housewife has her own secret recipe for making New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze. The first step is always to prepare the dough for baking, then the icing to decorate it.
Homemade recipe
You can hear a large number of recipes on how to make Christmas cookies with icing from friends and acquaintances, but, as always, you want to use the simplest one in order to get delicious baked goods and spend a minimum of effort and time on their preparation.
A simple recipe will require the following ingredients:
- 350-360 g flour;
- A pinch of nutmeg;
- 160-170 g sugar;
- Two teaspoons of cinnamon;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- 50-60 g honey;
- Two teaspoons of ginger;
- A pinch of salt;
- A pinch of cloves;
- 110-120 g butter;
- Egg.
Having collected the necessary ingredients for making gingerbread cookies with glaze, you should start rolling out the dough and start preparing the powdered sugar.
Preparing the dough:
- Place all the ingredients except the egg in a blender bowl, and first cut the stick of butter into cubes.
- All components of the future test are mixed together.
- Next, the resulting mass is laid out on the working surface of the table.
- A depression is carefully made in it, into which a chicken egg is broken. Everything is mixed until a dough is obtained.
- The finished dough needs to be slightly flattened and wrapped in cling film, put in the refrigerator for half an hour.
After the dough has rested and cooled, you need to roll it out to a layer one centimeter thick. Next, using special molds from the finished layer of dough, you can cut out New Year's figures so that Christmas gingerbread cookies with glaze create a joyful mood. Most often, figurines of Christmas trees, festive balls for the Christmas tree, bunnies, bears and stars are made from dough.
Next, the gingerbread cookies are laid out on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and placed in a preheated oven for 15 minutes. Ready-made Christmas gingerbreads must cool. While they are cooling you can make the frosting for the Christmas cookies. To prepare it you will need egg white, lemon juice and powdered sugar. The glaze is made as follows:
- The protein is ground with powdered sugar until smooth.
- New Year's cookies are painted with the finished glaze.
- The painted gingerbread cookies must harden so that the design does not smear.
An interesting recipe for gingerbread dough from TV presenter Yulia Vysotskaya. To prepare it you will need the following products:
- 100-120 g brown sugar;
- One egg;
- 250-260 g flour;
- 10-12 g ginger;
- 100-120 g butter;
- 50-55 ml maple syrup;
- Half a teaspoon of dry ginger;
- 100-110 g cream;
- Spoon of baking powder;
- Three umbrellas of carnations;
- Spoon of cinnamon.
To make it, you need to grind cinnamon and cloves into powder and mix with dry ginger. Fresh root vegetables are peeled and grated. Syrup, grated ginger, cream and spices are poured into a suitable container and placed on the stove. The mixture is brought to a boil and cooled.
The butter is ground with sugar, an egg and half of the flour are driven into it and everything is mixed, then a mixture of cream and spices is poured in, the remaining flour and baking powder are added and the mixture is beaten. The finished dough is placed in the refrigerator for 12 hours. After the mass has cooled, you can make gingerbread with icing for the New Year from it.
Video of preparing and painting Christmas gingerbread cookies
Types of glaze
White icing looks especially attractive on gingerbread cookies. To make it, you need to knead a bar of white chocolate and melt it in a water bath, add a spoonful of milk or cream, and a little powdered sugar. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed using a blender.
Classic icing for Christmas cookies is made from egg whites, powdered sugar and lemon juice according to the method described above.
You can surprise guests who decide to wish them a happy holiday with gingerbread cookies with caramel glaze. To do this you will need:
- ½ cup brown sugar;
- Vanillin;
- Three large spoons of milk;
- A glass of powdered sugar;
- 20-30 g butter.
It is prepared as follows:
- Melt the butter, pour milk into it and add brown sugar, boil for a minute.
- Add half a glass of powdered sugar to the resulting mixture, beat and let cool, add the rest of the powder and vanilla. Beat again.
To obtain colored glaze to decorate New Year's cookies, you will need the following products:
- Two teaspoons of powdered sugar;
- 0.4 teaspoon almond extract;
- A glass of powdered sugar;
- Two teaspoons of sugar syrup.
The preparation looks like this:
- The powder is mixed with milk, and sugar syrup is added to the resulting composition. Everything is whipped.
- The finished glaze is laid out in small containers, and food coloring of the desired color is added to each of them.
Orange glaze will add an unusual taste to holiday cookies. For it you will need:
- 3 large spoons of orange juice;
- ¾ cup powdered sugar.
To make the orange glaze, follow these steps:
- Pour the juice into a container and gradually add powder to it.
- Mix the juice and powder thoroughly. The consistency will be liquid.
Painting New Year's gingerbread cookies using chocolate glaze is also very popular. To do this you will need:
- Two large spoons of cocoa;
- Two glasses of powdered sugar;
- 20-22 g butter;
- Vanillin;
- 4 large spoons of milk.
Softened butter is mixed with powdered sugar, vanillin and cocoa. The mass is ground, milk is added to it, everything is mixed until smooth.
How to frost and decorate a Christmas gingerbread cookie
Before applying the glaze to the gingerbread, you need to lightly moisten its surface with ordinary boiled water. Next, using a pastry syringe, carefully trace the outline of the gingerbread, and then you can paint it as your imagination dictates.
To make the glaze dry faster, the painted cookies should be placed in a preheated oven for a couple of minutes.
Christmas gingerbread cookies can be made in the shape of snowmen, snowflakes, keys, Christmas trees, etc. Most often, cookies of any shape are covered with completely white or cream icing; New Year's toys, twigs, snowflakes and everything that can be associated with New Year's symbols are drawn on it.
A beautiful Christmas gingerbread made with your own hands can become not only a great holiday gift, but also a wonderful original Christmas tree decoration if, during its preparation, you make small holes in the dough into which you can pass ribbons.
Hello, friends! In the smoothly approaching pre-holiday bustle, for some reason the following conclusion came to mind: how many people - so many gingerbread... It feels like making gingerbread for the New Year will soon be more obligatory than cutting it yourself, His Majesty, OLIVIER.
Well, you've probably noticed that over the last couple of years, our greatest minds have simply been swallowed up by the GINGERBERRY EPIDEMIC.
The overseas fashion for Christmas gingerbread cookies has transformed into a craze for gingerbread cookies. For reasons unknown to me, this is what they began to call any shortbread cookie that contains honey And spices led by ginger. Every second self-respecting individual considers it necessary to prepare, or at least buy a box of painted gingerbread cookies for the New Year. Not so much for food, but for a souvenir or hang on the tree.
Read my entire list of selected New Year's cookies.
Have you ever thought about the name “gingerbread”? What a funny word... I’ll go and look up who came up with this idea.
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Aaaaah! It turned out to be extremely simple. Gingerbread comes from the word spicy, in ancient Russian “pypyrian” meant "pepper". And in other languages of the world, gingerbread means peppered cake. In Swedish, for example, it sounds like "peperkaka" In short, she's still a lot of fun!
The main ingredient in gingerbread is honey. Also, real gingerbread cookies are made with caramel syrup. It is he who gives gingerbread this unique taste, which we all know from childhood.
But since December is already a difficult month, we will not complicate our lives with caramel and will prepare gingerbread according to a simple recipe. Moreover, they contain both spices and honey, so we have every reason to call them gingerbread.
I started making gingerbread cookies for the New Year even before the gingerbread BOOM began. Although I’m not a big fan of spicy sweets myself, with New Year’s gingerbread cookies I just love the process of fiddling around: cutting out beautiful themed figures from the dough, baking them to fill the house with the spicy aroma of the holiday, and then decorating them with colorful sugar icing.
I'm not an expert in glaze painting, and I don't have the time to learn. So everything is primitive and simple for me.
If you like and want something more complicated, I will refer you to this video, in which you will see that painting gingerbread cookies is quite accessible, and at the same time look at a clear example of how thick the glaze should be.
If you don't have such a thin nozzle for a pastry bag, you can make an envelope from ordinary baking paper (the kind in which grandmothers used to sell us seeds in a bag, remember?). Or take disposable piping bag and cut off a corner of it.
Gingerbread recipe for New Year 2019:
These ingredients make about 50 gingerbread cookies.
Compound:
- flour - 350 gr.
- sugar - 160 gr.
- ground cinnamon - 5 gr.
- nutmeg - 1 pinch
- ginger - 5 gr.
- cloves - 1 pinch
- soda - ¼ tsp.
- salt - 1 pinch
- butter, cold - 110 gr.
- honey - 50 gr.
- egg - 1 pc.
The preparation is simple:
Today's gingerbread icing you can buy ready-made , or you can cook it yourself the old fashioned way.
To prepare the glaze we will need:
- egg white - 1 pc.
- powdered sugar - ≈150 gr. (depends on the size of the protein)
- 3 drops lemon juice
Making the glaze:
- Using a silicone spatula, thoroughly rub the egg whites with powdered sugar until a homogeneous white glaze is formed.
- We put the glaze into a bag and paint our New Year's gingerbread cookies. If desired, you can add a few drops of food coloring.
Use the finished glaze immediately, otherwise it will cool down.
- We let the painted gingerbreads harden for several hours, put them in bags or boxes, or hang them on the Christmas tree.
Here is a simple recipe for gingerbread cookies for the New Year that you can prepare if you want to keep up with the current generation.
Have a good and carefree pre-holiday mood.
Good luck, love and patience.
Waiting for the New Year is not only about decorating the house and creating a festive menu. As a rule, every family bakes on the eve of December 31st. Not only grandiose cakes and delicate rolls, shortbread cookies and crispy “brushwood” are created. Delicious homemade gingerbread cookies with icing become a real hit on the table during the holiday. It's incredibly beautiful and delicious! Such baked goods bring their mood, warmth, comfort, and a true feeling of happiness to the atmosphere of the house. In addition, the process of painting gingerbread cookies in the kitchen can unite the whole family. Surely everyone will want to make their own copy!
Honey New Year gingerbread with glaze
Delicious honey gingerbread for the New Year is a great opportunity to diversify the standard menu and add variety to the well-ordered range of appetizers and salads. It will turn out very tasty and impressive thanks to painting the finished aromatic confectionery with sugar icing. This is not so difficult to do at home.
Cooking time – 1.5 hours.
Number of servings – 12.
Ingredients
To bake this version of New Year's gingerbread you need:
- honey – 100 g;
- egg – 4 pcs.;
- peeled rye flour – 250 g;
- cocoa – 3 tsp;
- wheat flour – 400 g;
- butter – 90 g;
- egg white – 1 pc.;
- soda – 1 tsp;
- powdered sugar – 400 g;
- spices – 2 tsp.
Note! You can add spices to New Year's honey gingerbreads: cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, etc. But you shouldn't use everything at once. Take 2-4 spices for the dough.
Cooking method
The process of making New Year's gingerbread is not particularly difficult. If you use the proposed step-by-step recipe with photos, then all problems and difficulties can be avoided.
- First we need to prepare all the components for our gingerbread cookies and glaze.
- If all the ingredients are collected, you can begin the process of creating confectionery products for the holiday. To do this, combine butter and honey in a common bowl. The container with the components is placed on low-low heat. Everything needs to be melted down systematically. You can also use a water bath for this.
- In a separate bowl, mix powdered sugar and eggs.5
- When the melted butter-honey mixture has completely dispersed, add soda to it. There is no need to extinguish it with vinegar, honey will do that. As a result, foam forms on the surface of the mixture.
- Carefully pour the egg mixture into this mass, continuously breaking it with a mixer.
- Both types of flour should be sifted separately. Then this needs to be done again, but by mixing together spices, cocoa and both types of flour - rye and wheat. The dry mass should be poured in a thin stream into the mixture of honey and eggs. The mass is stirred. You need to make dough out of it. First you need to mix it with a mixer.
- Then you will have to knead the dough by hand. It is divided into 4 equal portions. The pieces are wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for an hour.
- The chilled honey gingerbread dough is rolled out into a layer no more than 5 mm thick. Try to achieve homogeneity of the dough, without bubbles. Gingerbread cookies are cut out from the resulting layer using stencils or molds.
On a note! If you plan to decorate the New Year tree with ready-made confectionery products, then at this stage make holes for the fasteners. For this purpose, it is optimal to use cocktail straws.
- The baking sheet is covered with parchment. Our gingerbread cookies are laid out on it. They should be placed in the oven, which is heated to 150 degrees.
- It will take 10 minutes to bake the sweetness, maximum 12. The main thing is to wait for the formation of a golden crust.
- Now you need to make the icing to decorate the gingerbread cookies. To do this, powdered sugar (200 g in total) is whipped with raw chicken protein. The resulting viscous dense mass is sent to a pastry bag or syringe. You can take an ordinary file or a package. The tip of the bag is carefully cut off, just a little bit, so that the contours are created smooth and neat.
- All that remains is to paint the New Year's gingerbread cookies, guided by your imagination.
As you can see, making New Year's gingerbread cookies with your own hands is not so difficult!
Gingerbread New Year's gingerbread
New Year's gingerbread with icing has become a real classic. Their rich taste is associated with cozy winter evenings spent in the kitchen with the whole family. It is not surprising that such pastries, decorated with glaze, will take their rightful place at the holiday table. After all, as you know, New Year is a family holiday.
Cooking time – 1 hour.
Number of servings – 5.
Ingredients
To prepare this version of New Year's gingerbread, you need:
- butter – 200 g;
- ginger – 2 tsp;
- granulated sugar – ½ kg;
- cinnamon – 1 pinch;
- water – 200 ml;
- flour – 900 g;
- nutmeg – 1 pinch;
- salt – 1/3 tsp;
- ground red pepper – 1 pinch;
- soda – 1 tsp.
For the glaze, which we will use to decorate the finished gingerbread cookies, you need:
- lime or lemon – ½ piece;
- powdered sugar – 400 g;
- protein – 2 pcs.;
- gel type dyes – 4 drops.
Cooking method
So, if you decide to diversify your holiday table with New Year's gingerbread cookies, take note of the proposed recipe with step-by-step photos. This will make it easier for you to cope with baking, especially if you are making such a dessert for the first time.
- First, prepare all the necessary ingredients and don’t forget about the molds for cutting out figures from gingerbread dough. You can make not only funny little people. Stars, Christmas trees, mittens, and images of Santa Claus will fit perfectly into the holiday atmosphere. You can even just use a glass to cut out charming circles.
- Take a thick-bottomed pan or cauldron. All the sugar is poured into the container. The dishes are placed on the fire.
- During the first 5 minutes, the sugar should dissolve without your participation, on its own. It should not be disturbed, touched, tasted or removed from the stove.
- When the bottom layer of granulated sugar disperses and changes color slightly, you should start stirring the mass.
- There is no need to increase the fire. Don't make it overly strong. Let the sugar gradually and gradually dissolve. As a result, it should disperse entirely. The liquid mass will acquire a dark, rich color. When the syrup is ready, you will need to boil a kettle of water. You only need to take 200 ml of boiled water. They should be poured into the burnt sugar as carefully as possible.
Note! When you pour water into the sugar syrup, the mass will begin to “shoot”. So be extremely careful not to get burned.
- The resulting composition must be mixed thoroughly so that its consistency becomes homogeneous. You will need to add butter, previously cut into small squares, into the mixture. The mass must be stirred and waited until it becomes completely homogeneous due to the dissolution of the oil.
- Add cinnamon and salt to the gingerbread preparation for the New Year. The composition must be diluted with nutmeg and soda. Ground red pepper also comes here.
- The preparation must be stirred thoroughly. It should double in size. The mass will turn into a fluffy and dense foam.
- The flour should be sifted twice so that the finished gingerbread cookies are tender and tasty. The mass is removed from the stove, and you will need to pour the prepared flour into it in several passes.
- After adding each part of flour to the dough, the composition must be thoroughly stirred. After adding the entire portion of flour, the dough should become manageable and elastic. Some stickiness will be present, but not excessively. The mass is wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for an hour. It is optimal to leave the dough in the cold overnight.
- In the meantime, you need to start preparing sugar icing (icing) for painting future gingerbread cookies. To do this, it is worth preparing the necessary components.
- Raw egg whites should be poured into an empty bowl. Fine powdered sugar is poured onto them in a thin stream, which is sifted through the finest sieve before adding to the composition.
- The ingredients should be stirred with a fork or whisk. All the powder should be saturated with protein mass, as a result of which the composition will turn a little white. Then you should continue beating with a mixer or blender. The device should be set to high speed so that the mixture becomes thick and fluffy. The resulting shade should be crystal white. While whipping, squeeze the juice from half a lemon or lime into the mixture.
On a note! The total duration of whipping the icing is about 5 minutes.
- Our glaze is ready for decorating gingerbread New Year's cookies for serving on the holiday table. The icing will need to be divided into several portions and diluted with a specific dye. The glaze is covered with film and sent to the refrigerator.
- They must be placed in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. The optimal mode for baking is 7 minutes.
- When the baked goods have cooled completely, they should be painted with the prepared icing.
The result is excellent, delicious New Year's gingerbread.
Video recipes
To make your New Year's gingerbread cookies a success, first check out the video recipes:
It is difficult to say how many gingerbread cookies you will get from this amount of ingredients, because it will depend on both the thickness of the gingerbread cookies and the size of the molds. You can see approximately how many gingerbread cookies I got in the photo at the end of the recipe.
Pour 100 grams of sugar into a thick-walled saucepan or frying pan and heat it over medium heat until the sugar melts. The sugar can be gently stirred with a wooden spatula, but it is better to simply shake the pan so that the sugar melts evenly
Carefully pour boiling water into the pan. Be careful not to get burned! Add another 100 grams of sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved
Reduce heat and add butter. Stir until you have a nice caramel sauce
Remove the pan from the heat and cool. Add the egg to the cooled sauce and stir. Add sifted flour, soda, spices and knead the dough
The dough should not be hard. It will be very thick and viscous. Cover the pan with cling film or a silicone lid and refrigerate for several hours, or overnight
When you take the pan of dough out of the refrigerator, don't be alarmed; the dough will be very firm. Take the dough in parts and start kneading it with your hands. Due to the warmth of your hands, the dough will become soft and pliable, like plasticine. Dust your work surface with flour, roll out the first portion of dough and use cutouts to cut out the gingerbread cookies. Roll out not very thin - these are gingerbread cookies :), about 6-7 mm high
Carefully transfer the gingerbread cookies onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper or a silicone mat. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 8-12 minutes (I baked for exactly 10 minutes). Attention, this is very important, try not to dry out the gingerbread!!!
Let the finished gingerbreads cool slightly and remove from the baking sheet. Also bake gingerbread cookies from the rest of the dough.
For the glaze, add 2 tablespoons of water to the gelatin and let it swell for 7-10 minutes.
Pour 2 tablespoons of water over the sugar, place over medium heat and wait until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Remove the resulting syrup from the heat and add the swollen gelatin to it, stir
Pour the resulting transparent mass into a mixing container and beat with a mixer at high speed for 5-7 minutes until the mass turns from transparent to...
thick, snow-white glaze
Pour the icing into a pastry syringe, or a piping bag, or just into a bag with a corner cut off (I have a special decorator for painting with icing). Turn on your imagination and start drawing on gingerbread cookies
Somehow I’m not very good with imagination and with drawing too :), so it turned out what you see :) Thanks to my daughter Alina, who helped me with everything when preparing these gingerbread cookies. I really like this glaze, but it has one drawback - due to the presence of gelatin, it thickens quickly. Therefore, you need to draw and cover gingerbread cookies with glaze very quickly. If you see the glaze starting to thicken, add 1-2 tablespoons of milk until the consistency is the same. Additionally, for decoration, in addition to icing, I used sugar sprinkles and confectionery pencils
When the glaze dries on the gingerbread cookies, they can be stored in a tin box. There they will remain soft and fragrant for a long time. These gingerbread cookies are not only delicious baked goods, but also a wonderful handmade gift that you can give to friends and family.
On New Year's Eve, I want to congratulate all the readers of my favorite site and, first of all, Lenochka and her family, on the upcoming holidays! I would like to wish everyone peace, love, happiness and the fulfillment of all your wishes:) Happy New Year!
