Hello, friends! In the smoothly approaching pre-holiday fuss, for some reason, the following conclusion came to mind: how many people - so many gingerbread ... It seems that making gingerbread for the New Year will soon be more obligatory than cutting it yourself, His Majesty, OLIVIER.
Well, you must have noticed that in the last couple of years our greatest minds have been consumed by the Gingerbread Epidemic.
The overseas fashion for Christmas gingerbread cookies has been transformed in our country into a craze for gingerbread. For reasons I do not understand, this is how they began to call any shortbread biscuit, which includes honey and spices led by ginger. Every second self-respecting individual considers it necessary to cook, or at least buy a box of painted gingerbread for the new year. Not so much for food as 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 to Wikipedia who thought of this.
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Aaaaaa! Everything turned out to be extremely simple. The gingerbread comes from the word spicy, in the old Russian "ppryan" 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 fun!
The main ingredient in gingerbread is honey. And yet, real gingerbread is prepared on the basis of caramel syrup. It is he who gives the gingerbread this unique taste, which we all know since childhood.
But since December is already a difficult month, we will not complicate our lives with caramel and prepare gingerbread cookies 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 started on them. Although I myself am not a big fan of spicy sweets, with New Year's gingerbread I just like the process of fussing: cut out beautiful themed figures from the dough, bake them to fill the house with the spicy aroma of the holiday, and then paint them with multi-colored sugar icing.
I'm not a cool icing specialist, and I don't have time to learn. So everything is primitive and simple for me.
If you love and want something more complicated, I will refer you to this video, in which you will see that painting gingerbread is quite affordable, and at the same time look at a good example of how thick the glaze should be.
If you don't have such a thin tip for a pastry bag, you can make an envelope from ordinary baking paper (the ones in which grandmothers used to sell seeds in a bag to us, remember?). Or take disposable pastry bag and cut off a corner.
Recipe for gingerbread for the new year 2019:
From these ingredients, 50 pieces of gingerbread are obtained.
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.
In preparation, everything is simple:
Nowadays, icing for gingerbread you can buy ready made , but you can cook it yourself the old fashioned way.
To prepare the glaze we need:
- egg white - 1 pc.
- powdered sugar - ≈150 gr. (depending on protein size)
- 3 drops lemon juice
Making frosting:
- Using a silicone spatula, carefully grind the protein with powdered sugar until a homogeneous white glaze is formed.
- We shift the icing into a bag and paint our New Year's gingerbread cookies. You can add a few drops of food coloring if you like.
Use the finished glaze immediately otherwise it will cool.
- We let the painted gingerbread cookies harden for several hours, put them in bags or boxes, or hang them on a Christmas tree.
Here's an easy New Year's Eve gingerbread recipe you can make if you want to keep up with the current generation.
Have a good and carefree pre-holiday mood.
Good luck, love and patience.
If you have never baked the most New Year's sweet, you have lost a lot. What a pleasure to cook and then decorate New Year's gingerbread with the children! Moreover, there is nothing complicated in preparing this delicacy.
To bake New Year's gingerbread, you will need a minimum of ingredients. Mandatory components of this New Year's dessert are flour, any honey that is at hand, and spices (spices). Without them, New Year's gingerbread and not gingerbread at all, because even the name of this delicacy already implies the presence of spices in it.
But to decorate New Year's gingerbread, you will also need patience and a good mood. So stock up on both, take your loved ones to help and prepare New Year's gingerbread cookies for the festive table for a dessert of fabulous beauty. We are ready, in turn, to offer you several recipes, from the simplest to the most intricate, leaving the choice up to you.
Sweet honey New Year's gingerbread "Winter's Tale"
Ingredients:
4 tbsp. flour,
½ st. water,
3 eggs,
1 st. l. butter,
1 st. honey,
1 st. l. ground cinnamon,
½ tsp ground cloves,
½ tsp soda,
1 st. almonds.
For glaze:
1 egg white
1 st. powdered sugar
8-10 drops of lemon juice.
Cooking:
Put the mixture of water and honey on the fire and bring to a boil. Cool slightly, gradually add flour, soda, mashed eggs, butter, cinnamon, cloves and chopped almonds. Mix and place the dough on a table sprinkled with flour. Roll out the dough into a layer 1-1.5 cm thick and cut out the figures. Put the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and bake in an oven preheated to 200ºС for 10-15 minutes. Let the finished gingerbread cookies cool and cover them with icing. To prepare it, beat the protein with a whisk until it is increased 3-4 times. While beating, slowly add the icing sugar and then the lemon juice. Rub the icing until white and fluffy. Using a pastry bag or a simple plastic bag with the end cut off, simply spread the icing on the gingerbread cookies. You can sprinkle them with confectionery sprinkles in the form of stars, snowflakes, balls, and then wait until the icing hardens to admire the creation of your hands.
Unfortunately, such rich, lush gingerbread cookies are not suitable for drawing patterns on them. For this, the so-called kozuli are ideal - gingerbread made from a denser dough.
Gingerbread icing can be tinted to create intricate patterns. It is desirable to use natural products as dyes - cocoa, chocolate, beetroot, carrot or spinach juice, etc.
Chocolate Christmas gingerbread
Ingredients:
250 g honey
100 g sugar
150 g butter,
1 egg
500 g flour
1 tsp baking powder
25 g cocoa powder
2 cinnamon sticks
5 carnations,
pea-sized nutmeg
1 cardamom inflorescence,
some vanilla.
For glaze:
1 protein
180 g of powdered sugar,
a few drops of lemon juice
1 st. l. starch (without top).
Cooking:
Melt butter, honey and sugar in a saucepan, add 1 tbsp. l. spices ground in a coffee grinder. Leave the mass to warm up for another 5 minutes, but do not boil. Then mix the flour with cocoa, baking powder, add the egg, slowly pour in the hot mixture and mix. You should get a dough that resembles plasticine in consistency. Knead well, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for a couple of hours. Before cooking, remove the dough from the refrigerator and let it rest for another half an hour at room temperature so that it softens. On a table sprinkled with flour, roll out the dough into a layer 3-5 mm thick, cut out cockerel figures from it and put them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, send them to an oven preheated to 170ºС for 15 minutes, if you want the gingerbread cookies to turn out soft, or for 25-30 minutes if you prefer harder and more tanned. After baking, decorate the gingerbread cookies with glaze patterns. To prepare the glaze, mix all the ingredients thoroughly in a bowl. Keep an eye on the glaze, its consistency should be such that it can be painted.
Orange New Year's gingerbread "Yolochnye toys"
Ingredients:
7 art. flour,
2 tsp baking powder
3 eggs,
240 g butter,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
1-2 tbsp. l. honey,
2 tsp cocoa powder
2 medium sized oranges
2 tsp cinnamon,
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt,
icing - for decoration.
Cooking:
Remove the zest from the oranges, squeeze the juice from the fruit. Combine butter, eggs, flour, sugar and orange juice (about 100 ml), add cocoa, ginger, cinnamon, liquid honey, baking powder and zest to the mixture. Knead the dough. Divide it into 4 parts, roll each one alternately into a layer 3-5 mm thick. Remember that the thinner you roll out the dough, the firmer and crispier your gingerbread will be. Cut out the shapes. You can use a cocktail tube to make holes, then the gingerbread can be hung on a Christmas tree. Place the cut out figures on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in the oven preheated to 180ºС for 15 minutes. Then let the finished gingerbread cookies cool and decorate them with icing, which you can cook using the previous recipes or your own, which have already been repeatedly tested in practice.
New Year's gingerbread roes
Ingredients:
1 kg rye flour
1 st. honey,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
2 tbsp. water,
100 g butter.
1 g of cinnamon and cloves.
For glaze:
2 squirrels,
5 st. l. powdered sugar.
Cooking:
Mix sugar, honey and water and boil until the mixture turns brown. Cool it to 70ºС, add butter, cinnamon and cloves to it, stir in the flour and take out the finished dough in the cold, let it stand there for 1 hour. After that, the dough will become pliable, it will be possible not only to cut out of it, but also to fashion anything. It is worth noting that it is a little more difficult to work with rye dough than with wheat dough, but gingerbread made from rye dough is much tastier. Roll out the dough on a table sprinkled with flour into a layer, cut out the desired figures from it, which are then placed on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 200-220ºС. The figurines should be browned. An interesting fact is that while the gingerbread cookies are warm, they are soft, when they cool, they become harder, and after a couple of days they become softer again. Decorate the baked roes with colored glaze. To prepare it, beat egg whites with powdered sugar. Pour the finished icing into cups (there should be as many as the colors you will use), leave for 20 minutes. During this time, the powdered sugar will completely dissolve, and the mixture will be more homogeneous.
If you want the glazed gingerbread cookies to dry faster, you can dry them in the oven at a temperature of no more than 50ºС. And do not forget to control this process, looking to see if the drawing has changed color.
Forget about fat cream roses on store-bought cakes and conditionally edible icing on imported gingerbread cookies, make homemade New Year's gingerbread! Baked and decorated with their own hands, they are a thousand times tastier than store-bought desserts. And on our website you can always find even more New Year's recipes and tips on what to cook on the New Year's table.
Larisa Shuftaykina
Pork meat salad with mushrooms is a rural dish that can often be found on the festive table in the village. This recipe is with champignons, but if you can use forest mushrooms, then be sure to cook it this way, it will be even tastier. You don’t need to spend a lot of time preparing this salad - put the meat in a saucepan for 5 minutes and another 5 minutes for slicing. Everything else happens almost without the participation of the cook - meat and mushrooms are boiled, cooled, marinated.
Cucumbers grow well not only in a greenhouse or conservatory, but also in open ground. Cucumbers are usually sown from mid-April to mid-May. Harvesting in this case is possible from mid-July to the end of summer. Cucumbers do not tolerate frost. That's why we don't sow them too early. However, there is a way to bring their harvest closer and taste juicy handsome men from your garden at the beginning of summer or even in May. It is only necessary to take into account some features of this plant.
Polissias is a great alternative to classic variegated shrubs and woody ones. This plant's ornate round or feathery leaves create a strikingly festive curly crown, while its elegant silhouettes and modest personality make it a great candidate for being the largest plant in the house. Larger leaves do not prevent him from successfully replacing Benjamin and Co. ficuses. Moreover, poliscias offers much more variety.
Pumpkin cinnamon casserole is juicy and incredibly tasty, a bit like pumpkin pie, but, unlike pie, it is more tender and just melts in your mouth! This is the perfect sweet pastry recipe for families with children. As a rule, kids do not like pumpkin very much, but they never mind eating sweets. Sweet pumpkin casserole is a delicious and healthy dessert, which, moreover, is prepared very simply and quickly. Try it! You'll like it!
A hedge is not only one of the most important elements of landscape design. It also performs various protective functions. If, for example, the garden borders on a road, or a highway passes nearby, then a hedge is a must. "Green walls" will protect the garden from dust, noise, wind and create a special comfort and microclimate. In this article, we will consider the optimal plants for creating a hedge that can reliably protect the site from dust.
In the first weeks of development, many cultures need a pick (and not even one), while others need a transplant “contraindicated”. To "please" both of them, you can use not quite standard containers for seedlings. Another good reason to try them is to save money. In this article we will tell you how to do without the usual boxes, pots, cassettes and tablets. And let's pay attention to non-traditional, but very effective and interesting containers for seedlings.
Healthy Red Cabbage Vegetable Soup with Celery, Red Onion and Beetroot is a vegetarian soup recipe that can also be prepared on fasting days. For those who decide to lose a few extra pounds, I advise you not to add potatoes, and slightly reduce the amount of olive oil (1 tablespoon is enough). The soup turns out to be very fragrant and thick, and in fasting you can serve a portion of soup with lean bread - then it will turn out satisfying and healthy.
Surely everyone has already heard about the popular term “hygge”, which came to us from Denmark. This word is not translated into other languages of the world. Because it means a lot of things at once: comfort, happiness, harmony, spiritual atmosphere ... In this northern country, by the way, most of the time in the year is cloudy weather and little sun. The summer is also short. And the level of happiness at the same time is one of the highest (the country regularly ranks first in the UN global ranking).
Meat balls in sauce with mashed potatoes - a simple second course inspired by Italian cuisine. A more familiar name for this dish is meatballs or meatballs, but Italians (and not only them) call such small round cutlets meat balls. Cutlets are first fried until golden brown, and then stewed in a thick vegetable sauce - it turns out very tasty, just delicious! Minced meat for this recipe is suitable for any - chicken, beef, pork.
Chrysanthemum is called the queen of autumn, because it is at this time that its bright inflorescences adorn the garden. But you can grow chrysanthemums throughout the season - from February to December, and in heated greenhouses - in the winter months. If you organize the process correctly, then you can sell planting material and flowers of chrysanthemums all year round. This article will help you understand how much effort it takes to grow chrysanthemums in large quantities.
Homemade cupcakes - a simple recipe with figs, cranberries and prunes that even a beginner confectioner who is inexperienced in confectionery will submit to. A delicious kefir cake with cognac and dried fruits will decorate any home holiday, besides, such pastries can be prepared in less than an hour. However, there is one important point - dried fruits must be soaked in cognac for at least 6 hours. I advise you to do this on the eve of cooking - they will soak well overnight.
I think everyone knows about the taste and benefits of walnut fruits. Surely, many, taking tasty kernels out of the shell, wondered: “Shouldn’t I grow it on the site, moreover, from the nuts themselves, because in fact these are the same seeds as other plants?”. There are many horticultural myths and legends around the cultivation of walnuts. Half of them turn out to be false. We will talk about the features of growing a walnut from a nut in this article.
The airy laces of the most common maidenhair fern seem weightless. They are so different in appearance from the strict and elegant wai of the usual garden ferns that the plant is not easily recognized by everyone as their closest relative. Adiantum is so popular that it is firmly entrenched in the lists of the most unpretentious crops. In fact, it is quite capricious, but even inexperienced flower growers can grow it. The main thing is to create appropriate care for him.
Soft glazed gingerbread cookies with the aroma of honey and healthy spices, covered with a thin crust of citrus-sugar glaze, like the first ice in the puddles ... This is a wonderful winter treat for tea for children and adults! The aroma of ginger and cinnamon, oranges and fresh pastries immediately fills the House and soul with a pre-holiday, New Year's mood!
This homemade gingerbread recipe was invented on the basis of two - honey gingerbread, which we invented, in turn, on the basis of a honey cake; and gingerbread cookies. After the children really liked the custard with honey, I thought: what if we add spices to the dough - ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, turmeric? .. You should get fragrant New Year's gingerbread!
And they turned out :) But, I want to warn you - the children preferred just honey, without spices :) So the taste and color - if you like ginger and other seasonings, then bake! And if not really, then you can add vanilla or do not add any spices at all. It will be delicious either way!
It turns out a lot of gingerbread, they remain soft for a long time, they are well stored (if you don’t gobble it up on the first day, of course :) So you can bake gingerbread with the whole family on the day off and then give it to school, college, work ...
Ingredients:
For 25-30 pieces:
- 2 eggs;
- 2 tablespoons of honey;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 60-70 g butter;
- 2 teaspoons of baking soda (without a slide);
- 450-500 g wheat flour;
- 1 teaspoon ground ginger;
- 0.5-1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon (real, top quality, how to distinguish it from fake, I wrote in the recipe for cinnamon rolls);
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg;
- 1/6 teaspoon ground cloves;
- ¼ teaspoon turmeric;
- ¼ teaspoon salt.
For icing sugar:
- 100 g of powdered sugar;
- 1.5-2 tablespoons of lemon or orange juice.
How to bake:
The number of seasonings can be reduced, and their types can be varied according to your taste. For example, those who are not delighted with the aroma of cinnamon can replace it with vanilla (at the tip of a knife or a bag of vanilla sugar); and instead of nutmeg, you can take a pinch of cardamom!
Cooking custard honey dough.
Melt honey, sugar and butter cut into pieces over low heat or in a water bath until the butter and sugar grains melt.
Beat the eggs with baking soda and pour the fluffy mass into the heated mixture.
We mix quickly, and when the mass begins to foam with such small bubbles, remove from heat and immediately begin to add the sifted flour. Added - mixed with a spoon and look at the consistency of the dough. At first it is liquid, you can’t knead it with your hands, and besides, it’s hot. Further, the dough becomes thicker and becomes not so hot - yeah, you can move on to kneading with your hands. When you see that there is almost enough flour (the dough should turn out soft, so that it almost does not stick to your hands, but not too steep) - together with the last portion of flour, add spices: ginger, cloves, nuts, cinnamon and salt.
We mix. This is the dough for gingerbread: soft, warm, fragrant, pleasant brown!
Having dusted the table with flour, roll out the ginger-honey dough 1 cm thick and cut out circles with a glass.
We lay them out on a baking sheet, covering it with oiled parchment, leaving a distance of 2-3 cm between them, since the dough will fit during baking, and put in the oven, heated to 200-210C. While the first batch is baking (and this is a serving for 1.5-2 baking sheets), you can prepare the second.
Bake for 10-12 minutes, until the color of coffee with milk and light ruddy. The gingerbread will fit, become twice as high, redden - it's time to get it! Do not keep them in the oven for longer as they will harden. So that they are baked and remain soft, I put a ladle of water on the bottom of the oven, and cover the finished ones with a towel for 10-15 minutes.
And you can bake goodies not only in the form of circles, but different figures! Imagine how interesting they are! Christmas trees, bells, stars, even deer, sleds and bags with gifts!
That's what they look like after baking, pot-bellied (I mean, bags) - as if full of gifts!
These molds are handmade, if you like, please contact us, you can make to order :)
While the gingerbread cookies are cooling, we will make icing for them. Pour powdered sugar into a bowl, squeeze out citrus juice and mix with a spoon until smooth.
We glaze the cooled gingerbread cookies, it is convenient to pour the icing with a teaspoon on top and distribute it directly with your finger. And lick it slowly, while no one sees! 😀
When hardening, the glaze becomes matte white, as in store-bought ones.
And if you want to make it painted, then make the glaze a little thicker, put it in a confectionery bag, cut off the very tip of the corner and ... create! This is an amazingly fun activity for the whole family, children of all ages will especially enjoy painting yummy treats!
After half an hour, the icing will harden and turn white, each gingerbread will be covered with sugar patterns, like a frosty window with frost.
What a beauty! And it smells like - honey, spices, home comfort and New Year! You immediately feel the holiday spirit. You can decorate a Christmas composition with such sweets, or you can treat your friends by giving them a sweet gift of your own making!
And you can also cut out such homemade gingerbread cookies with cookie cutters, make holes in them, like in New Year's cookies, and decorate a delicious Christmas tree for kids! Only if the children are small, it is still better to use fewer spices, make the gingerbread cookies just honey. If you need a recipe without honey - there is also such a shortbread cookie, delicious and beautiful!
Enjoy your tea parties and New Year's mood!
Christmas gingerbread is top of the list of treats to help create a festive atmosphere. In addition to the fact that such pastries are tasty and fragrant, they can be decorated with colored icing and powder, and then given as a gift or used in design by hanging on a Christmas tree.
New Year's gingerbread may well be a healthy treat, and the following recipe is a prime example of this. Here, under the crispy ginger crust, a slightly viscous core with oatmeal and spices is hidden.
Ingredients:
- molasses - 85 ml;
- margarine - 65 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- flour - 155 g;
- oatmeal granola - ½ cup;
- sugar - 65 g;
- soda - 5 g;
- cinnamon, ginger - 1 teaspoon each.
Cooking
- Melt the molasses and margarine in a small bowl. Once the mass has cooled, beat it with the egg.
- Combine the bulk components from the list with each other and pour portionwise into the liquids, stirring continuously.
- Divide the soft mass into about 30 equal portions and form balls with a diameter of about 2.5 cm.
- Do-it-yourself simple New Year's gingerbread cookies are baked at 190 degrees for 10-12 minutes.
New Year's Eve Gingerbread is a recipe that can be easily adapted to suit your diet. By replacing wheat flour with spelled, butter with olive oil, and the sweetener with honey, you achieve the same texture as the classic version of this delicacy.
Ingredients:
- spelled flour - 185 g;
- baking powder - 5 g;
- cinnamon, ginger - 2 teaspoons each;
- honey - 95 ml;
- olive oil - 95 ml.
Cooking
- While the oven reaches 180 degrees, pass the dry ingredients through a sieve and mix with the rest of the ingredients from the list.
- Roll out the resulting “bun” to one and a half centimeter thickness and cut into a curly cut, or a simple mug.
- After spreading everything on oiled parchment, bake sweetness for 10-12 minutes.
You can make beautiful New Year's gingerbread not only for serving, but also for decoration using glaze painting. Having bought a pastry bag or a dense bag, decorate ready-made pastries with simple patterns or delicate lace.
Ingredients:
- flour - 310 g;
- cocoa - 45 g;
- a pinch of cloves and nutmeg;
- baking powder - 1 teaspoon;
- confectionery fat - 190 g;
- cane sugar - 115 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- honey - 115 ml;
- powdered sugar - 215 g;
- water - 25 ml;
- cream of tartar - ½ teaspoon.
Cooking
- Using a mixer, combine the first eight ingredients together until you get a dense and homogeneous dough.
- After forming the mixture into a ball, send it to the freezer for an hour, and then roll it out to a thickness of a quarter centimeter and cut it into shapes.
- New Year's gingerbread is baked at 170 degrees for 11-13 minutes.
- For the frosting, beat the icing sugar, water and cream of tartar well. The latter will help maintain the snow-white color.
- After pouring the icing into a bag or bag, paint the pastries with patterns to your taste.
Painting New Year's gingerbread is an interesting family entertainment. Get the kids involved in creating a sweet treat by transforming an ordinary baked dough into a favorite New Year's character - Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer - using chocolate and candies.
Ingredients:
- margarine - 180 g;
- powdered sugar - 210 g;
- flour - 345 g;
- egg - 1 pc.;
- yolk - 1 pc.;
- chocolate, red sweets - for decoration.
Cooking
- Before baking the New Year's gingerbread, the oven is left to warm up to 180 degrees.
- After whipping the sweetener and margarine into a fluffy whitish cream, beat a whole egg into it and add one more yolk in addition.
- Pour the remaining dry ingredients into the resulting mixture.
- After a 30 minute "rest" in the freezer, the mixture is rolled into a 3 mm disk and cut into circles.
- The recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home is almost complete, it remains only to bake them for 10-12 minutes, and then paint them with chocolate and decorate with sweets, guided by the image or relying on your own imagination.
Christmas gingerbread with icing
Why stop at the banal two-dimensional Christmas gingerbread, if you can build a whole three-dimensional structure in the form of a Christmas tree. Despite the apparent complexity, it is quite simple to assemble the levels of such a design together, and all you need is icing and a piping bag.
Ingredients:
- flour - 360 g;
- cinnamon, ginger - 1 teaspoon each;
- soda - 5 g;
- confectionery fat - 180 g;
- molasses - 185 ml;
- icing - 230 ml;
- milk - 35 ml.
Cooking
Gingerbread "Christmas Tree"
Want to modernize a classic gingerbread treat? Then try experimenting with the design, based on any of the above recipes. These minimalistic colored Christmas trees are good as a present or a replacement for the usual Christmas balls.
New Year's gingerbread "Snowflakes"
To give the shape of a snowflake, cut the rolled dough with a special steel cutting, which is easy to find in any pastry shop. After baking, the gingerbread will already look elegant, but a simple painting further details them.
If painting Christmas gingerbread is your hobby, then complicate the task by choosing a more detailed design. Depending on your skills and imagination, the surface of the gingerbread can be covered with fine lace using several glaze colors and sweet beads.
