Master class on painting gingerbread with icing and dough for them. How to make New Year's gingerbread cookies

Hi all! Now there is a lot of work and very little free time, so I appear here in bursts. But my conscience did not allow me to leave you without a New Year's recipe gingerbread))) So take it)) I think I’ve written everything down in detail, but if you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask))

For gingerbread you will need:

For the test:

Honey	200 gr.
Egg	1 PC.
Flour	500 gr.
Sugar	100 gr.
Butter	130 gr.
Cocoa powder	1 tbsp.
Baking powder	1 sachet (10 g.)
Ground ginger	1 tsp.
Cinnamon	0.5 tsp
Vanilla sugar	1 sachet (25 gr.)
Nutmeg	0.5 tsp

For the glaze:

Egg white	1 PC.
Powdered sugar	about 250 gr.
Lemon juice	1 tsp
Food dyes	optional

First you need to heat the honey with sugar and spices. The taste of gingerbread will depend on the type of honey. I like it more delicate taste, so I use regular flower honey. If you want a rich taste, use buckwheat honey. The same goes for spices. You can optionally add cardomom, citrus zest, ground cloves, etc. It's a matter of taste. Place honey, sugar, spices in a small saucepan, vanilla sugar, baking powder and cocoa powder. And put it on the stove to heat, stirring constantly.

After a few minutes, the mass will lighten and begin to foam. When the contents of the saucepan are a creamy mass, remove from heat. In this photo I showed how the finished mass should look.

Pour the hot mixture into a bowl and add softened butter. Mix well. Then beat in the egg and mix again. It is not necessary to use a mixer or whisk. Simply stir well with a spatula or spoon. Gradually add flour and knead the dough. You may need a little more flour than indicated in the recipe. It all depends on the flour itself. The dough should not be very elastic and should not stick to your hands.

Ready gingerbread dough Wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator to “ripen” for 1.5 - 2 hours.

Prepare cookie cutters and disposable piping bags.

After the dough has “ripened”, take it out of the refrigerator and roll it out into a layer about 4 - 5 mm thick. If the dough is rolled out too thin, the gingerbread cookies will not be soft. Gingerbread is baked at 180 degrees for about 7 - 12 minutes. If the gingerbreads have lightened and the edges are slightly browned, then the gingerbread is ready. It can still be very tender and soft, so you need to remove the gingerbread cookies from the baking sheet carefully and preferably with a flat, wide spatula. It is better to cool on a wire rack or on parchment paper to prevent the gingerbread from getting soggy from the steam.

While the gingerbread cookies are cooling, make the glaze. To prepare protein glaze, use only fresh, well-washed chicken eggs. Lightly beat the egg whites with a whisk. You don't need to beat it for long, just enough to create bubbles. If you beat the protein too much, the glaze will turn out to be very fragile and will crumble and crumble as it dries on the product. Gradually add powdered sugar, which is best sifted through a fine sieve. You will need approximately 250 grams of powder. The glaze should not be liquid, but not very thick either. The photo below shows the correct consistency.

We divide the glaze into parts equal to the number of colors we need + one part for the outline. Add a few drops of lemon juice or concentrate to each. Add dye. The amount of dye depends on how intense the color you want. I use gel dyes. And to the part of the glaze that we left for the outline, add a little more powdered sugar to make the glaze a little thicker.

Transfer the icing into piping bags. To do this, put the bag on a long glass and turn out the edges, as shown in the photo. Pour the icing into the bag and tie it shut. You need to tie it so that when drawing the glaze does not flow out in the opposite direction. We cut off the excess part of the bag so that it does not interfere with us. If you don't have piping bags, use paper files or heavy-duty plastic bags (those designed for freezing and long-term storage products).

To make it convenient to draw with icing, you need to hold the bag correctly. Place it in your palm, gripping the base with your thumb. Grasp the bag with all four fingers; in the future you will work with these fingers, squeezing out the icing.

Cut off the tip of the bag and draw the outlines of the future design on the cooled gingerbread cookies. Let the contour dry for half an hour.

Well, now we paint the gingerbread cookies with colored icing, filling it with the space outlined by the outline. Use a toothpick to push the frosting into hard-to-reach places (corners, for example)

To ensure that the glaze is evenly distributed over the surface of the product, lightly shake the gingerbread from side to side.

If you want to fill several colors, then you need to do this before the first color dries. So don't get distracted and act quickly)))

After the gingerbread cookies are filled with glaze, leave them to dry for 2 - 3 hours.

After the main fill has dried, you can finish painting the small details of the gingerbread.

AND The final stage- daily drying. We leave the gingerbread cookies to dry for a day. During this time, the glaze will dry well and the gingerbread cookies can be packaged. Gingerbread can be stored for up to 90 days, since honey, which is part of the dough, is a good natural preservative. To prevent gingerbreads from becoming stale, it is better to store them in an iron jar or in a tight Ziploc bag. And to prevent the glaze from fading, it is better that the gingerbread cookies are stored in a dark place where there is no direct sunlight.

If you make holes in the gingerbread cookies with a cocktail straw before baking, you can use the gingerbread cookies as decorations for the Christmas tree or build a whole gingerbread garland.

You can also make these funny melted snowmen using additional marshmallows and melted chocolate.

Bake! Create! Make your loved ones happy! With coming!))

Hello dear subscribers and guests of the blog! I hasten to please you with another sweet dessert that you can make today for New Year’s Eve. In the last post we cooked, and in this one we will learn how to make gingerbread cookies and decorate them beautifully.

After all, a miracle will very soon knock on your home and all your cherished wishes will certainly come true. So, if you want to treat or surprise your invited guests even more, then make this sweet dish in the form of gingerbread or cookies. By the way, you can decorate a Christmas tree with them and give them as Christmas gifts.

Look how beautiful it turns out, as if you bought it all in a store, but you can easily learn this art. But I’ll tell you about this in more detail in my next notes, so don’t miss new articles, bookmark the site and come visit more often. Today you will learn how to bake and decorate gingerbread cookies in New Year's style.

Make cookies in the shape of funny and funny people, Christmas trees, months and decorate them with icing. What could be more beautiful, wrap them in a gift bag, tie a bow and a cozy homemade gift is ready.

We will need:

flour - 175 g
sugar - 75 g
ground ginger - 1 tsp
cinnamon - 1 tsp
vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
butter - 80 g
egg - 1 pc.
honey - 2 tbsp
powdered sugar- 3-4 tbsp

Cooking method:

1. Mix all dry ingredients in a bowl; flour, sugar and spices. Stir and then add butter room temperature. Mix with a fork until crumbly.

2. This is how the crumb will turn out.

3. Then separate the yolk and white, add the yolk and two tablespoons of liquid honey.

4. Knead the dough with your hands, and then put it in the refrigerator for one hour. After it has rested, roll out the dough on the table, sprinkling it lightly with flour.

5. Take the cutters and cut out the cookies.

6. Then place the blanks on a baking sheet and cover it with parchment paper. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 7 minutes.

7. Make the glaze, mix the egg whites with powdered sugar with a mixer to make a real cream.

8. Well, the creative process remains, this is coloring the cookies. Make different patterns using a pastry bag or syringe and place all the prepared goodies in a plate. This fairly simple and easy option can be done even at home, whether for beginners or ordinary housewives. Treat your family and friends!

Gingerbread cookies with icing - the easiest recipe

Now let's make chocolate gingerbread cookies so that they turn out great too, follow all the proportions. Cinnamon and honey will add a special taste and create an unforgettable experience.

Instead of brown sugar, you can use regular white sugar and you will succeed too. And how happy the children will be, that’s for sure!

We will need:

Cooking method:

1. You must first combine all the dry products in one bowl, namely flour, cinnamon, ginger, soda, cocoa and nutmeg. Mix everything with a whisk.

In a separate container, mash the egg and sugar with a regular whisk, then add honey and melted butter.

2. Well, now, as you probably guessed, gradually add the flour mixture in small portions. Knead soft and elastic dough. Wrap it in a plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator to rest for 2-3 hours.

3. Then roll it out into a large layer approximately 4-5 mm thick. The dough will be quite tight, but at the same time elastic, cut out the figures.

Using regular cocktail straws, make holes in the circles to make it look like New Year's balls to the Christmas tree.

Place the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet covered with special paper and bake the gingerbread cookies for 10-12 minutes at 180 degrees, the oven must be preheated.

4. We will decorate the sweets with icing, so make it in a separate bowl. This type of painting is also called icing. So, to prepare it you need:

Add powdered sugar and lemon juice to one egg white, mix and then beat. You can beat it either with a regular whisk by hand or use a mixer.

Important! It is better to add powdered sugar gradually.

The mass should turn out white and dense.

5. Distribute the cream among the cups to make it different colors. After all, decorating cookies with colored icing is more interesting than with snow-white icing.

Color the icing in the required colors; to do this, add a drop of dye to a bowl, stir and cover with a bag so that it does not dry out.

6. Using a culinary bag, decorate the people and balls with any curls and patterns. Use your imagination, let it be simple, but with humor.

7. And here they are, such mischievous and cool cookie friends. Cook for your health and please your loved ones, bon appetit!

Cooking ginger treats at home with Yulia Vysotskaya

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New Year's gingerbread 2018

Where in New Year And even without gingerbread, this doesn’t happen in the West at all; in our country this tradition has only just begun to take root. And I’ll tell you, it’s probably already caught on, because the whole Instagram is just in awe of such pictures.

If you are tired of ordinary sweets and want something more, then the moment has come when you can easily make honey-ginger cookies and feed them to the whole family and more.

We will need:

honey - 2 tbsp
butter - 70 g
sugar - 200 g
flour - 280 g
soda - 0.5 tsp
lemon juice - 1 tbsp
chicken egg - 2 pcs and plus one white
ginger - 1 tbsp
cinnamon - 1 tbsp

Cooking method:

1. Mix butter, honey and sugar in a deep glass bowl. Then melt in a water bath.

Add cinnamon and ginger, stir, break two eggs and mix the mixture. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate the dough overnight, or at least 1 hour if you want to make the gingerbread today.

3. Divide the dough into 5-6 parts and roll into large flat cakes. Then make different shapes: animals and geometric figures.

Bake sweets in the oven at 180 degrees for 5-10 minutes.

Important! Don’t forget to sprinkle the baking sheet with flour before baking; no need to grease it.

4. These are the delicacies that turned out, very tasty and crumbly, but at the same time soft inside.

5. Mix the protein with powdered sugar until homogeneous mass with a regular whisk, and then pour in a drop of lemon juice. Stir.

6. To prepare colored glaze, put some of the cream in another container and add food coloring.

7. And now the most crucial moment, painting and decorating the gingerbread cookies.

8. Do it the way you know how, even if it doesn’t work out, it doesn’t matter, over time you will learn, and if you take simple compositions, like here, it will definitely come out great.

The gingerbread cookies turn out golden brown and very tasty! Bon appetit!

Traditional Christmas Cookie Recipe

Now we’ve reached the most complex recipe, but it’s the one that makes these cookies simply melt in your mouth. True, you will have to tinker a little with the dough. If you have the time and energy, then get to work, but if you don’t want to, then take another option. But this dough is just perfect, it’s really cool and super, it doesn’t tear or crack!

We will need:

sugar - 500 g
boiling water - 200 ml
butter - 200 g
soda - 1 tsp
ginger - 1 tsp
cinnamon - 1 tsp
nutmeg - 1 tsp
allspice - a pinch
cardamom - 1 tsp
egg - 1 pc.

For icing:

protein - 1 pc.
powdered sugar - 200 g
starch - 0.5 tsp
lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
dyes

Cooking method:

1. Place a pan on the stove, add sugar and it should melt, you will get caramel. The sugar should turn brown, remember to stir constantly so that nothing burns.

Important! Cook over low heat.

Then, after all the sugar has melted, there should be no crystals or grains, pour a glass of boiling water into it in a thin stream. This will begin to hiss and seethe. Perhaps the mass will rise, so every now and then, remove from the heat, stir and place again.

2. Cool the entire resulting mass, add the egg, then add flour in parts and knead the dough. It should be soft and not stick to your hands, but do not overfill it with flour.

Place in a bag and cool in the refrigerator for 4 hours.

3. Then roll out the dough and press out shapes with molds. Place them on a sheet covered with parchment paper and bake in a preheated oven for 5-10 minutes at 180 degrees.

4. Beat the egg whites at low speed with a mixer, then gradually add powdered sugar, and finally starch and lemon juice. After this, divide into bowls to add the desired dyes.

5. Decorate cookies with icing and delight your loved ones! Bon appetit!

Video on how to prepare and decorate gingerbread cookies for the New Year

Now I offer you one to watch good recipe, which I hope will help you understand even better the entire technology for making this sweet dessert:

Preparing a sweet dessert in the form of a gingerbread house

It has become popular to make such houses specifically for the winter holidays, probably because they look great on any holiday table. And it’s as if we’ll be in a fairy tale, both children and adults will obviously like such a fairy tale.

You can make these gingerbread cookies in the shape of a house together with the kids, they will obviously really like this activity, I suggest you check out the master class.

We will need:

honey - 165 g
sugar - 100 g
butter - 125 g
cinnamon - 1 tsp
egg - 1 pc.
soda - 2 tsp
flour - 500 g

Cooking method:

1. Let's make the dough first. Prepare all products according to the list.

2. Take a ladle and place honey and also granulated sugar into it. Next, sprinkle with one teaspoon of cinnamon. Place the ladle on the stove and bring the mixture to a boil; the sugar should dissolve well. Remove from stove. Add soda, stir.

Important! Don't forget to stir constantly so that nothing burns!

The dough turns out sticky and you won’t be able to handle it, put it in a bag or plastic bag and put it in the refrigerator to rest for a couple of hours, preferably overnight, of course.

4. After you take it out of the refrigerator, it will not stick to your hands. Sprinkle the table with flour and move on!

Now roll out a large layer of this dough and mark it into parts, roof, base. That is, make blanks, use templates.

This can be made from plain paper, then wrap them with tape, you can take cardboard. Make the roof dimensions 14x10 cm, then the base of the house 9x6x9.5 cm, shown in the figure. The side wall is 6x8.5 cm, the base for the house is more than 17.5x15 cm.

5. After you have marked, bake the figures in the oven at 180 degrees on special paper for 10 minutes, until ready.

Roof - 2 parts, side walls - 2 parts, base of the house - 2 parts, base for the house - 1 part.

8. Then for work you will need waffle pictures, they need to be purchased in advance and also colored sugar in yellow and green.

Make the glaze for the house according to any recipe, take them from the previous options. You will need three colors: green, pink and white, you can use more colors.

9. First, use a pastry bag to draw outlines on the house. Draw a window, a door and decorate the doors with colored sugar in yellow.

Important! Draw the contours with thick icing, but the filling needs to be liquid, that is, add a little water to the glaze for this purpose and the mass will become thinner.

10. Then glue a picture of Santa Claus on the second wall, outline this picture with cream, and then lift the picture and paint the circle with cream, now put it down and the picture will stick.

Fill the empty space with rose frosting.

11. The walls can be decorated with various decors, for example, using a toothpick.

12. You can draw such curlicues or any landscape you like.

15. And such a friendly family of houses awaits you in the end. It lifts your spirits and delights those around you. Eat and cook for your health! Bon appetit!

That's it for all my good friends! See you in the next articles, see you soon! May all your wishes come true and the New Year's days bring only positive things. Bye everyone!

The most magical holiday is getting closer and closer - New Year! We all think about how to decorate our home, what to treat our loved ones, what to give to friends on holiday. holidays. We invite you to bake ginger cookies. It has long become a symbol of New Year and Christmas. These cookies are perfect for decorating your home for the holidays. They are ideal for tea parties on winter days with your favorite people. Any person will be pleased to receive handmade spicy patterned cookies as a gift.

Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

So that you can please your loved ones and friends, we offer you the following recipe for cookies and icing.

Required ingredients:

flour - 200 g;
eggs - 1 pc.;
ground ginger - 3 tsp;
cinnamon - 1.5 tsp;
cardamom - 1.5 tsp;
cloves - 1.5 tsp;
butter - 100 g;
honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
soda - on the tip of the knife.

Cooking steps:

Tip: To make sure the cookies can be hung on ribbons from the tree branches, cut out small holes with a cocktail straw before baking.
Once the cookies have cooled, you can decorate them with icing. Ready ginger cookies can be stored in a tin box for 3-4 months.

How to make glaze

List of ingredients:

powdered sugar - 1 tbsp;
egg white - 1 pc.;
lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.

Preparation:

Mix all ingredients and beat with a mixer.
Place the finished glaze in a pastry syringe and decorate the gingerbread cookies with it. Let dry.

Tip: the glaze can be divided into several parts and colored with the juices of carrots, beets, cherries, blueberries or turmeric; for getting Green colour add a few drops of chlorophyll, blue juice to the glaze red cabbage; There is nothing easier than getting a brown color - mix cocoa powder or instant coffee into the glaze.

Well, your imagination will tell you what patterns to draw with colored icing on cookies!

Decorating gingerbread cookies with icing for the New Year

Cookies decorated with simple white icing along the outline already look elegant. Additionally, you can apply snow patterns and snowflakes.

Patterns of colored icing make baked goods more festive. Bright ginger cookies will bring joy and evoke pleasant childhood memories in your soul.

Gingerbread cookies with holes are perfect for decorating a Christmas tree and interior. Using bright ribbons, you can hang them from branches or collect garlands.

Gingerbread cookies with glaze: recipe with photo of the finished treat

Now you can put the cookies to dry, and when they are dry, serve.

Bake cookies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 8-10 minutes. The given amount of ingredients will yield 8-10 trays of gingerbread cookies.

Preparing classic ginger cookies begins with combining all the dry ingredients. Separately, butter at room temperature is whipped with granulated sugar and an egg, grated ginger root is sent there, and with it a little milk. After combining the dry ingredients with the creamy butter mixture, knead the dough and let it rest for a couple of hours in the cold. Roll out the cookie base into a layer of uniform thickness and cut with a glass or a cutter. The delicacy should be baked at 165 degrees for 7-10 minutes.

Kneading ginger dough

Cooking

Ingredients:

Mix lemon syrup and powdered sugar in a saucepan, place on low heat and cook, stirring, until the glaze thickens evenly.

We form products

How to decorate gingerbread cookies? To do this you will need icing, as well as a pastry syringe and a brush.

Baking process in the oven

Any glaze can give baked goods an amazing taste and incredibly beautiful appearance. This decoration is prepared quite quickly and easily. It should also be said that the glaze for ginger cookies can be different: chocolate, sugar, honey, mint, etc. We will present some methods of preparing the mentioned delicacies right now.

We present it to the table correctly

How should you bake gingerbread cookies for the New Year? To do this, you need to take a baking sheet, grease it with lard or oil, and then carefully place all the cut out products on it. In this form, semi-finished products need to be sent to a preheated oven for 7-12 minutes. It should be noted: the thicker the products, the longer they should be baked. However, it is also not recommended to overdry the cookies. It should just brown slightly, become aromatic and very tasty.

Gingerbread cookies with glaze: recipe with egg

So, in this article we decided to present you with several detailed ways to prepare delicious homemade baked goods. In addition, we will tell you how and with what help you should decorate such products.

So, for a full baking sheet of cookies you will need:

Why exactly cookies became a symbol of the holiday is unknown, but both Germany and Scandinavia smell of ginger; neither the Swiss nor the British refuse the ginger delicacy. Ginger, well known as a cold remedy, has become an indispensable spice in winter baking. Gingerbread cookies and gingerbread are not only baked for the family table, they are also a wonderful gift and home decoration. Christmas markets and New Year's bazaars are flooded with fragrant gingerbread cookies; cookies in the shape of funny men have become heroes of folk tales and are popular both among children of many countries and their parents.
Prepare icing for decorating cookies. Why 2 egg whites beat until stiff peaks form. Continuing to beat, gradually add 150 g of powdered sugar. Make from parchment paper cornet, fill it with protein glaze. Decorate cookies with icing as your imagination allows. You can also sprinkle cookies with special colored sprinkles. Some cookies can be left undecorated.
Ingredients:
Pour water into a saucepan, dissolve sugar in it, boil and carefully remove the resulting foam. Then remove the dishes from the stove, cool the finished glaze and add any flavorings to taste - vanilla, rum, almonds. Now again thoroughly cool the mass to a warm state and proceed to glazing. Apply glaze to large gingerbread cookies or gingerbread cookies with a brush and place the baked goods on a wire rack so that excess syrup drips off and the rest hardens and turns into gingerbread glaze.
freshly squeezed orange juice – 1 tbsp.;
Caramel icing
Using food coloring while preparing the above-mentioned delicacy, you can make a very beautiful New Year's dessert. If you cut out cookies in the shape of a Christmas tree, then you need to grease them with green icing and wait a while until the sweetness hardens. Next, the product must be decorated with “balls” using red, orange or yellow sugar syrup. Finally, all cookies should be placed in the refrigerator and then immediately presented to the table.
Before decorating gingerbread cookies, you should prepare the icing properly. For this we need:
Now you know how to make Christmas gingerbread cookies. After they have been heat treated, they should be carefully removed from the baking sheet and placed on a common plate. After cooling the products in the cold air, you can safely begin decorating them. Ready-made cookies should be served on the New Year's table along with tea or another drink.

Making the dough

Before making such a dessert, you need to decide what herbs and spices you want to add to it. Of course, in mandatory ginger should be used. As for other spices, it is recommended to choose them according to your desire and personal taste.

250 grams of premium flour;

Product formation process

Already in the early Middle Ages, gingerbread cookies were baked in Germany, similar in composition to the current mint ones, and later the tradition spread throughout Europe. For example, in Switzerland the recipe was enriched with black pepper and thus ginger, and Norwegians like to add cardamom and citrus zest. It is interesting that most of the spices that make up New Year's baked goods began to be brought to Europe during the times of great geographical discoveries. Spices were incredibly expensive, so they were only allowed to be added in holiday dishes. Such delicacies were highly valued and were often saved until the next celebration.

How to bake correctly?

Almost all the New Year holidays have passed. Today we celebrate

Serve homemade dessert

flour - 240 g;

Spicy delicacies dominate our tables during the cold season, and among others, aromatic ginger cookies are the most popular and sought after dish. Bake several types of this authentic New Year's sweet, regardless of the season, using the recipes we have collected below.

What icing can be used to decorate cookies?

powdered sugar - 4 tbsp. spoons.

Making sugar icing

Ingredients:

Using this principle, you can decorate all baked gingerbread cookies of any shape. However, proceed to this process should only be done after the products have cooled completely after heat treatment. Otherwise, the glaze will spread, and the dessert will not turn out as beautiful as we would like.
high fat milk - dessert spoon;
There are many options for preparing this delicacy. The classic one was presented above. If you want to make a more satisfying dessert, we suggest using the method below. By the way, glaze for gingerbread cookies also has several recipes. We will describe them a little further.
So, how to make gingerbread cookies with icing? The (classic) recipe for this delicacy requires the mandatory use of a flavorful additive such as vanillin. Thanks to it, your baked goods will turn out very tasty. By the way, the thinner you roll out the dough, the crispier the dessert will be.
80 grams of brown sugar;

Cooking method

The prim English prefer very sweet sugar cookies made from delicate shortcrust pastry, which are baked, always involving children and observing the old proportions of products left over from the times of Queen Victoria.

White and dark chocolate icing for cookies

Old New Year

ground ginger, cinnamon - 1 teaspoon each;
Ingredients:
Cooking
brown sugar - 0.5 tbsp.;
By the way, if ginger dessert is made for the winter holidays, then it can be additionally decorated with regular powdered sugar. This sweetness on the products will look like just fallen New Year's snow.

Fast cooking process

powdered sugar - ½ cup;

Preparing orange glaze

So, we need:

So, to make ginger cookies for the New Year, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:
70 grams butter or margarine for baking;

Quick cooking method

Legend of the monk

Decorate the dessert with multi-colored glaze

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soda - 5 g;

For cookies:

Squeeze the juice from the orange through a juicer, pour it into a saucepan and gradually add powdered sugar. Now mix the mass thoroughly, adding powder until the glaze reaches the desired, slightly runny consistency.

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Cookie icing

powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.;

The glaze gives the baked goods a stunning and incredibly appetizing look. It cooks quite quickly, but even an ordinary cake will immediately turn into a festive and celebratory delicacy. Icing for cookies can be different: sugar, mint, honey, chocolate, etc.

sea salt - a pinch;

sifted white flour - approximately 400 g;
Fresh liquid honey of any kind - 4 large spoons;
1 egg;
Many countries want to get the title of discoverer of ginger cookies, each telling their own stories and making their own assumptions. For example, in Germany they believe that the first person to bake such a delicacy was a local monk who lived in one of the remote monasteries back in the twelfth century. According to legend, a monk performing his obedience in the kitchen on the eve of Christmas decided to please his brethren with sweets. True, he only had spices in abundance, so cookies in the shape of angels and crosses, according to the holiday, turned out to be very fragrant.
ginger cookies

vegetable oil - 210 ml;

flour - 360 g;

Colored icing for cookies

butter – 2 tbsp. spoons;

Sugar icing for cookies

non-rancid butter (you can use high-quality margarine) - about;

fine granulated sugar - ½ cup;

1 tablespoon cocoa powder;

Be that as it may, the monks liked their brother’s cooking, and from then on they began to bake gingerbread every year. The surplus was even taken to a fair held near the monastery walls, which made the delicacies popular in all the nearby villages.

granulated sugar - 140 g;
Baking powder - 1 1/2 teaspoons;
This glaze is often used even by professional confectioners. When hardened, it perfectly retains any bright colors and becomes hard. Great for decorating cakes and cupcakes and frosting cookies.
milk – 3 tbsp. spoons;

Ingredients:

fresh chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;

non-rancid butter - approximately 120 g;

½ teaspoon baking powder.

The tradition of cutting out figures of deer, men, houses and Christmas trees from dough dates back to much more recent times. The first such gingerbread cookies appeared only in the century before last, at which time even entire towns and castles began to be made from cookies. This is probably where the plots of fairy tales are drawn from, where the heroes end up in a gingerbread house or the main mountain itself - the gingerbread man.
Delicious ginger cookies are truly a New Year's treat. It has a subtle pleasant aroma and unusual spicy taste. The color of these cookies is also quite exotic and attractive. The brown tint exudes warmth and, coupled with the smell, evokes appetite.
egg - 1 pc.;

soda - 3/4 teaspoon;

Ingredients:

vanilla - to taste.

milk - 1 teaspoon;

As a rule, decorating gingerbread cookies does not take much time. But before you begin this process, you should make the glaze correctly. To do this you need to melt cooking oil in a small metal bowl, and then gradually add the rest of the ingredients (powdered sugar, fresh milk and sea salt). Subsequently, all ingredients must be carefully mixed with a whisk until a creamy mass is formed. At the end, vanillin should be added to the resulting glaze to taste.
fine sand-sugar - about 180 g;

sifted white flour - 2 full glasses;

The set of spices for gingerbreads and cookies can vary depending on the housewife’s preferences, but the classic set includes a teaspoon of the following ground spices:

There is also some truth in German fairy tales. In ancient times, it was through the German city of Nuremberg that the road passed along which all the caravans carrying ginger passed to Europe. This means that the first gingerbread could have been baked here.

To make the dessert even more attractive, you can decorate it. The glaze for gingerbread cookies is prepared very quickly and does not require large quantity products. And you can use it to decorate finished baked goods with a variety of designs, which will add a certain variety to the appearance of the delicacy.

molasses - 55 ml.

ground ginger (dried) - 1/2 teaspoon;
powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.;
Cooking
powdered sugar - 0.5 tbsp.;
This is perhaps the fastest and simple glaze, which is very popular among those with a sweet tooth. To prepare it we will need:

high fat milk - 10 ml;

ginger (root) chopped (grated) - about 3 dessert spoons;

Ginger biscuits are considered a traditional English delicacy, but they have long and firmly taken root in other countries due to the availability of ingredients, ease of preparation and bright taste. This dessert is prepared for holidays and on weekdays; for many people it serves as an integral part of cozy gatherings with family or closest friends. And in England and some European countries, cookies with the taste and aroma of ginger are a traditional symbol of Christmas. For us, this is simply a delicious variety of long-known and beloved gingerbread, which adults and children eat with pleasure. But even in Russia it is often served with festive table, and in this case the issue of suitable elegant decor is important. How to decorate gingerbread cookies? Let's see!

Today, fragrant curly gingerbread cookies are an invariable attribute of Christmas. They are prepared for baking in advance, and they are literally baked by the whole family.

The basis for the glaze will be one glass of sugar, and do not forget that it should be powder.
Cooking

butter - 85 g;

milk - 2 teaspoons;

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Melt the butter in a saucepan, pour in the milk and add the brown sugar. Let the mixture boil and boil for exactly one minute. Then remove the mixture from the heat and add a little powdered sugar. Beat well, cool, add vanilla and remaining powdered sugar. Beat again until the glaze is ready.

Gingerbread cookies with glaze - recipe

salt - a pinch;

high fat milk - large spoon;

corn starch - a large spoon;
baking powder - dessert spoon;
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It’s interesting that in Rus' they learned to use ginger in baking before the Europeans. Long before the German monks, gingerbread with ginger and cardamom was baked by Arkhangelsk housewives or the ancestors of the great Lomonosov, who lived even further north than the Pomors. Tula, the gingerbread capital of Russia, is also famous for its printed gingerbreads, which you can enjoy not only on New Year or Christmas, but literally at any time of the year. On making these culinary masterpieces The whole family also worked. Men made skillful molds, and women baked gingerbread cookies themselves, which became not only a treat for tea, but also an assurance of friendship, a gift for a wedding or the birth of a child, for name days or for Christmas.
The entire egg will not be needed, but only its white, which will need to be carefully drained.
While the oven is preheating to 175 degrees, make the gingerbread cookie dough, which is made by combining the dry ingredients separately from the liquids and then mixing them into a single pliable mass. To prevent the dough from sticking, refrigerate it before rolling it out, and after using a rolling pin, cut it into portions. Cookies should be baked for no more than 10-12 minutes, after which they should be cooled completely.
egg - 1 pc.;
food colorings;
Lemon glaze

Butter – 1 teaspoon;

sand sugar - large spoon;
ground ginger - 1.5 dessert spoons;

aromatic vanillin - a small spoon;

How to decorate gingerbread cookies with icing?

Such gifts were also kept for almost a whole year, and the gingerbread remained fresh and fragrant, as when it came out of the oven.

How to make classic gingerbread cookies: recipe

One tablespoon lemon juice will add taste and aroma to the glaze.

Tear off the heads of the clove buds and crush them in a mortar. We should get 1 teaspoon of ground cloves. The process, I must say, is not fast. Very painstaking work.
cane sugar - 240 g;
sugar syrup - 2 teaspoons;
This glaze has a characteristic lemon taste and gives the finished baked goods an unusual and piquant sourness.
vanilla - to taste.
white or dark chocolate - 2 bars;
Baking powder - 1.5 dessert spoons;

ground cinnamon - a small spoon (use as desired);

There are many recipes for dough for making cookies with ginger. They allow you to bake products of different hardness, as well as vary the degree of expression of spices in the delicacy. However, many women are surprised by the lighter color of the baked goods compared to the photo on the Internet. To get an appetizing mid-brown shade, against which the decorations look brighter and more beautiful, add a little dark syrup, cocoa or burnt sugar to the dough.

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Carnation

Almost the entire December in both Europe and North America is marked by baking. In preparation for the holiday, housewives try out new recipes and begin stocking up on cookies for the celebration. It's not just about the love of eating sweets. They like to exchange cookies, which they have been doing with pleasure, for example, in America for more than half a century. This is a wonderful gift and, of course, an indispensable table decoration.

Syrup

Put powdered sugar in a cup and carefully pour the egg white into it, add a spoonful of lemon juice. All the ingredients are in a cup, and it’s time to start stirring. Stir the glaze until it reaches the desired consistency.

Dough

Heat the dark sugar syrup over medium heat until bubbles appear. Add salt, ground ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Stir and add butter. Stir until the butter melts. Then cool to room temperature.

fresh grated ginger root - 1 teaspoon;

almond extract.

Cookie

Ingredients:

Cooking

non-rancid butter - dessert spoon;

chopped cinnamon - a couple of pinches (you don’t need to add).

Decoration

fine sea salt - to taste;

Ginger cookies are usually served in a themed decor for New Year's holidays and Christmas or Easter. It can also be presented as a gift, hung on the Christmas tree along with toys. For New Year and Christmas, gingerbread cookies are baked in the shape of snowflakes, gingerbread houses and men, snowmen, mittens, bells, Christmas trees, hearts. For Easter these are eggs, bunnies, chickens, Easter cakes, flowers, butterflies. Without a doubt, today you can buy any cookie, and before the holidays many Americans go not to the kitchen, but to the supermarket. But the desire to create a miracle with my own hands cannot be destroyed by any, even the most beautiful factory-made cookies, so housewives look in advance for new molds, buy sugar decorations and beads, stock up on icing and food coloring, as if they were preparing to fill not a traditional box with cookies, but at least a kitchen. The density of the mass depends on the purpose for which it will be used. If you plan to cover the entire cookie with glaze, it should be liquid so that it spreads well over the surface of the baked goods. If the dessert is decorated with drawings, then it would be more advisable to make it thicker and hold its shape. In a bowl, beat eggs with granulated sugar.milk - 15 ml.

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Cooking

powdered sugar - 3 tbsp.;

Ingredients

Now we’ll tell you how to prepare icing for cookies. So, first take the butter, put it in a bowl and heat it over low heat. Then gradually add the remaining ingredients: milk, powdered sugar, salt, and gently stir everything with a whisk until a creamy mass is obtained. Add vanilla to the prepared mixture to taste.
Vanillin is aromatic - use to taste.
Ginger cookies with glaze, the recipe for which we are considering, turns out to be more fluffy and satisfying than what was presented above. This is due to the fact that chicken eggs are used during the preparation of the dough.

Icing for gingerbread cookies

crushed allspice - a couple of large pinches (use as desired);

Edible masterpieces are decorated with melted chocolate, grated nuts, cinnamon, coconut flakes. But the most popular is still sugar icing of different colors: bright, elegant and colorful. Moreover, each holiday has its own traditional color scheme. New Year's and Christmas cookies are decorated with white, red and green icing. For Easter, pastel and bright colors are used. You can use the same glaze to make inscriptions with congratulations and wishes. If the dessert is being prepared for a family celebration or just for no reason, then the shape, colors and decor can be absolutely anything. We will look at the details of how to decorate gingerbread cookies with icing below.

On the eve of the holidays, many families hold homemade gingerbread parties, where, in addition to cookies and gingerbread, they offer champagne, mulled wine and cruchon.

When you have achieved the desired consistency, the icing should be passed through a strainer fine enough so that there are no lumps in it that will interfere with the uniform appearance of the cookies. When this procedure is completed, you can safely pour the glaze into the syringe and begin decoration.

Carefully pour in the cooled syrup, continuing to whisk.

For the glaze:

Let's figure out how to decorate cookies with icing. Mix powdered sugar with milk, add sugar syrup, flavoring and beat until the glaze becomes smooth and shiny. Then we put the mixture into cups, put the desired dye in each, mix, and then dip the cookies in the colored mixture, or apply it with a brush in an even layer.

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butter – 100 g;

White icing for cookies

About gingerbread and spices

Ginger cookies with chocolate icing are the most delicious and aromatic. To make sure of this, we suggest doing it yourself. To do this, slabs of white or dark delicacy (depending on what kind of icing you want) should be broken into small pieces and placed in a metal bowl. Next, you need to add high-fat milk, granulated sugar and butter to the chocolate. In this composition, the dishes must be placed in a water bath and heated slowly. Stirring the mixture regularly, you should get a thick, uniform glaze of brown or white color.

So, to knead the base, you need to soften the cooking fat at room temperature, add granulated sugar to it and beat thoroughly with a mixer. Next, add chicken eggs one at a time to the resulting mass and repeat the mixing procedure. Finally, a bulk mixture consisting of sifted white flour must be gradually added to the base. corn starch, grated ginger root, baking powder and cinnamon. As a result of long and active mixing, you should get an elastic mass.

Crushed cloves - 3 buds (use as desired).

Great cookies and gingerbreads are actually quite easy to bake. To do this, you really need molds to cut out your favorite themed figures from the rolled out dough. Today trade around the world offers the most different variants. From traditional angels and crosses, to stars, houses, deer and snowmen.

Fiction and truth

Icing for gingerbread cookies can be not only white, but any color of the rainbow, depending on the dye added to it. When decorating baked goods, you can use white layer, and for decoration blue, orange, green and so on.

Add soda and sifted flour. Knead the dough with your hands. Roll the dough into a log and wrap it in cling film so as not to get too windy. For convenience, you can divide the dough into 2 parts, and only then wrap it in film. Place the buns in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours.

egg whites - 2 eggs;

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Icing for gingerbread cookies

lemon juice – 2 tbsp. spoons.

Modern traditions

Ingredients:

If you need a bright orange decoration for gingerbread cookies, we recommend preparing it using citrus fruit. For this we need:

Gingerbread cookies with glaze turn out delicious and beautiful, no matter what ingredients you use for the dough. But before you start baking and decorating such products, they should be formed correctly. To do this, the kneaded dough must be rolled out into a layer 5-8 centimeters thick, and then cut into any shapes. If you make such a delicacy for New Year's table, then it’s better to make cookies in the form of Christmas trees, snowmen, men, houses, etc. If you decide to just please your guests delicious dessert, then you can cut the products in the form of circles or squares.

Baking gingerbread

Start preparing ginger New Year's cookies follows from kneading the dough. To do this, sift white flour into a metal bowl, and then add baking powder, vanillin, grated ginger root, sea salt, ground cinnamon, allspice and powdered clove buds. If the taste of the last three components does not suit you, then you don’t have to use them.

The main ingredients for the glaze are powdered sugar and egg white, which rise to a foamy consistency. Some recipes suggest adding a little water, lemon juice, vanillin, salt, full fat milk. Some additional components serve to obtain a more liquid glaze, which is more convenient to apply over large areas, while others allow you to achieve the desired shades of taste. Initially, the glaze turns out white; food coloring is needed to add different color tones.

When the gingerbread cookies are baked, all kinds of decorations, any sugar beads, multi-colored sprinkles in the form of stars and balls, snowflakes and geometric shapes will come in handy. The brighter the cookies turn out, the richer the coming year will be, the more joy it will bring, so there’s no need to skimp here.

Gingerbread cookies with glaze can be decorated with sugar. Then it will turn out bright and interesting. To make the design colorful, you need to pour a glass of sugar into a plastic bag and add one drop of dye to it.

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After 6-8 hours, remove the dough from the refrigerator. Dust the table with flour and roll out the dough into a layer 3 mm thick. Using cutters, cut out various shapes. Cover the baking sheets with parchment paper in advance and place the cut-out pieces on it.

powdered sugar - 240 g.

Ingredients:
Cooking
lemon juice – 8 tbsp. spoons;
freshly squeezed orange juice - a full glass;
Now you know that it is quite easy to form your own gingerbread cookies. How to cook it in the oven? To do this, all cut-out products should be transferred to a greased sheet, which subsequently needs to be sent to the oven. It is recommended to bake the dessert for ¼ hour at a temperature of 204 degrees. During this time, the cookies will rise and lightly brown.
Having prepared the bulk part of the dough, you should start preparing the other. To do this, you need to soften the cooking fat at room temperature, and then add it to the flour and rub it thoroughly with your hands until you get fine crumbs. As for liquid honey and granulated sugar, they should be combined in a metal bowl and melted over low heat. The resulting syrup must also be added to wheat flour with butter.

The resulting glaze should be transferred to pastry syringes or bags; in the absence of which, ordinary plastic bags will do. But with the latter it is not so convenient to carry out complex drawings and inscriptions. Apply the glaze to the cooled cookies. To cover the entire surface, first make an outline and then pipe the frosting inside it. To even it out, use a brush. A glaze with a thinner consistency can also be applied directly with a brush. The decor will completely harden for at least 2-4 hours; ideally, it is better to leave the cookies overnight in the refrigerator in a closed container. If storage conditions are violated, the dessert may become too hard or lose its natural flavor.

Gingerbread cookies with glaze, the recipe for which we will consider below, are ideal for the New Year or Christmas table. It should be noted that there is nothing complicated in preparing such a delicacy. You just need to properly knead the dough, shape the products, bake them and decorate them. By the way, it is the last action that determines how your dessert will look. Using a special glaze for gingerbread cookies, you can make a very tasty and beautiful delicacy that neither an adult nor a child can refuse.

So, in this article, we decided to present you with several detailed ways to prepare delicious homemade baked goods. In addition, we will tell you how and with what you should decorate such products.

Gingerbread cookies with glaze: recipe with photo of the finished treat

Before you make such a dessert, you need to decide what herbs and spices you want to add to it. Of course, you should definitely use ginger. As for other spices, it is recommended to choose them according to your desire and personal taste.

So how do you make gingerbread cookies with frosting? The (classic) recipe for this delicacy requires the mandatory use of a flavorful additive such as vanillin. Thanks to it, your baked goods will turn out very tasty. By the way, the thinner you roll out the dough, the crispier the dessert will be.

So, to make ginger cookies for the New Year, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:

Kneading ginger dough

You should start preparing ginger New Year's cookies by kneading the dough. To do this, sift white flour into a metal bowl, and then add baking powder, vanillin, grated ginger root, sea salt, ground cinnamon, allspice and powdered clove buds. If the taste of the last three components does not suit you, then you don’t have to use them.

Having prepared the bulk part of the dough, you should start preparing the other. To do this, you need to soften the cooking fat at room temperature, and then add it to the flour and rub it thoroughly with your hands until you get fine crumbs. As for liquid honey and granulated sugar, they should be combined in a metal bowl and melted over low heat. The resulting syrup must also be added to wheat flour with butter.

After intensively mixing all the ingredients, you should get an elastic and soft mass, which is recommended to be placed in the refrigerator for half an hour.

We form products

Before baking gingerbread New Year's cookies, they should be formed correctly. To do this, you need to remove the previously kneaded dough from the refrigerator and roll it out to a thickness of 5 millimeters. The resulting layer must be cut into figures (houses, Christmas trees, bunnies, people, etc.), using pastry knives. If you don’t have such a device, then you can take a regular glass or shot glass.

Baking process in the oven

We present it to the table correctly

Now you know how to make Christmas gingerbread cookies. After they have been heat treated, they should be carefully removed from the baking sheet and placed on a common plate. After cooling the products in the cold air, you can safely begin decorating them. Ready-made cookies should be served on the New Year's table along with tea or another drink.

Gingerbread cookies with glaze: recipe with egg

There are many options for preparing this delicacy. The classic one was presented above. If you want to make a more satisfying dessert, we suggest using the method below. By the way, glaze for gingerbread cookies also has several recipes. We will describe them a little further.

So, we need:

sifted white flour - approximately 400 g;
non-rancid butter (you can use high-quality margarine) - approx.
fresh chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
fine sand-sugar - about 180 g;
high fat milk - 10 ml;
corn starch - a large spoon;
ground ginger - 1.5 dessert spoons;
baking powder - 1.5 dessert spoons;
crushed cinnamon - a couple of pinches (you don’t have to add it).

Making the dough

Gingerbread cookies with glaze, the recipe for which we are considering, turn out to be more fluffy and satisfying than what was presented above. This is due to the fact that chicken eggs are used during the preparation of the dough.

So, to knead the base, you need to soften the cooking fat at room temperature, add granulated sugar to it and beat thoroughly using a mixer. Next, add chicken eggs one at a time to the resulting mass and repeat the mixing procedure. Finally, a loose mixture consisting of sifted white flour, corn starch, grated ginger root, baking powder and cinnamon must be gradually added to the base. As a result of long and active mixing, you should get an elastic mass.

Product formation process

Gingerbread cookies with icing turn out delicious and beautiful, no matter what dough ingredients you use. But before you start baking and decorating such products, they should be formed correctly. To do this, the kneaded dough must be rolled out into a layer 5-8 centimeters thick, and then cut into any shapes. If you are making such a delicacy for the New Year's table, then it is better to prepare cookies in the form of Christmas trees, snowmen, men, houses, etc. If you decide to simply please your guests with a delicious dessert, then you can cut the products in the form of circles or squares.

How to bake correctly?

Now you know that it is quite easy to form your own gingerbread cookies. How to cook it in the oven? To do this, all cut-out products should be transferred to a greased sheet, which subsequently needs to be sent to the oven. It is recommended to bake the dessert for ¼ hour at a temperature of 204 degrees. During this time, the cookies will rise and lightly brown.

Serve homemade dessert

After the ginger treat is baked in the oven, it must be removed and placed on a plate. When all the products have completely cooled down, you can start decorating them. How and with what help this is done, we will tell you a little further.

It is advisable to serve the finished delicacy to the festive table along with hot tea. Enjoy your meal!

What icing can be used to decorate cookies?

Any glaze can give baked goods an amazing taste and an incredibly beautiful appearance. This decoration is prepared quite quickly and easily. It should also be said that the glaze for ginger cookies can be different: chocolate, sugar, honey, mint, etc. We will present some methods for preparing the mentioned delicacies right now.

Making sugar icing

Before decorating gingerbread cookies, you should prepare the icing properly. For this we need:

high fat milk - dessert spoon;
powdered sugar - ½ cup;
sea salt - a pinch;

Cooking method

As a rule, decorating gingerbread cookies does not take much time. But before you begin this process, you should make the glaze correctly. To do this, melt the shortening in a small metal bowl and then gradually add the remaining ingredients (icing sugar, fresh milk and sea salt). Subsequently, all ingredients must be carefully mixed with a whisk until a creamy mass is formed. Finally, vanilla should be added to the resulting glaze to taste.

White and dark chocolate icing for cookies

This is perhaps the fastest and easiest glaze, which is very popular among those with a sweet tooth. To prepare it we will need:

high fat milk - large spoon;
sand-sugar - large spoon;
white or dark chocolate - 2 bars;
non-rancid butter - dessert spoon;
aromatic vanillin - use to taste.

Fast cooking process

Gingerbread cookies with chocolate icing are the most delicious and aromatic. To make sure of this, we suggest doing it yourself. To do this, slabs of white or dark delicacy (depending on what kind of icing you want) should be broken into small pieces and placed in a metal bowl. Next, you need to add high-fat milk, granulated sugar and butter to the chocolate. In this composition, the dishes must be placed in a water bath and heated slowly. Stirring the mixture regularly, you should get a thick, uniform glaze of brown or white color.

Preparing orange glaze

If you need a bright orange decoration for gingerbread cookies, we recommend preparing it with a citrus fruit base. For this we need:

freshly squeezed orange juice - a full glass;
powdered sugar - 4 large spoons.

Quick cooking method

This glaze is made quite quickly. First you need to mix powdered sugar with freshly squeezed orange juice, and then put them on low heat and warm them slightly. As a result of these actions, you should get a bright orange, homogeneous glaze with a liquid consistency.

Decorate the dessert with multi-colored glaze

How to decorate gingerbread cookies? To do this you will need icing, as well as a pastry syringe and a brush.

Using food coloring while preparing this delicacy, you can make a very beautiful New Year's dessert. If you cut out cookies in the shape of a Christmas tree, then you need to grease them with green icing and wait a while until the sweetness hardens. Next, the product must be decorated with “balls” using red, orange or yellow sugar syrup. Finally, all cookies should be placed in the refrigerator and then immediately presented to the table.

Using this principle, you can decorate all baked gingerbread cookies of any shape. However, this process should be started only after the products have cooled completely after heat treatment. Otherwise, the glaze will spread and the dessert will not turn out as beautiful as you would like.

By the way, if ginger dessert is made for the winter holidays, then it can be additionally decorated with regular powdered sugar. This sweetness on the products will look like just fallen New Year's snow.

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Easter is a special holiday for Orthodox Christians. on this day it is customary to invite loved ones to dinner and treat them to the most delicious dishes. But they should not only have excellent taste, but also be beautifully decorated.

You will need

For cookies;
- 1 egg;
- 200 g butter or margarine;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 2 cups of sifted flour.
For cream:
- 1 sachet of gelatin;
- 50 g sugar;
- 1 egg;
- 1 pinch of vanillin;
- 50 ml milk;
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice;
- 50 ml water;
- baking soda on the tip of a knife;
- 1 pinch of salt.
- food colorings.
For decoration:
- marmalade;
- chocolate;
- confectionery toppings;
- dragee;
- straw;
- multi-colored coconut flakes.

Instructions

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Preparing ginger cookies

Sweet pastries are an integral part of various holidays. But if pies, cakes and cupcakes are baked for different occasions, then ginger cookies are considered exclusively a New Year's or Christmas delicacy. Usually it is baked in the form of figures and decorated with icing, cream and other methods, and then hung on the Christmas tree. However, most of the gingerbread cookies never reach their destination - they are so fragrant and crumbly that it is simply impossible to pass them past the mouth.

In the West, ginger dough is very popular. Of course, its taste is of great importance here, but not only that. Recently, people are increasingly beginning to appreciate natural, healthy products, and beneficial features ginger is known to almost everyone. But when you are preparing (and especially eating) ginger cookies surrounded by children and loved ones, the last thing you think about is the benefits. This creative process brings pleasure to literally everyone: everyone tries to decorate their Christmas tree or star in such a way as to surprise others. If you have never baked gingerbread cookies before, be sure to do so. All you need is a certain set of products and desire, and the recipe is in front of you.

Preparing the Gingerbread Cookies recipe:

Step 1

For cookies we need flour, sugar, egg and spices. Butter should be at room temperature.

Combine ground ginger and cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, baking powder and flour - mix well.

Combine butter, sugar and egg.

Stir well until the mixture becomes homogeneous.

Add it to the dry ingredients.

Knead the dough, as a result it should become elastic, homogeneous and easily leave your hands.

Roll out the dough on the table to approximately 5 mm thick and press out the cookies using cookie cutters. If there are no molds, then you can simply squeeze out the mugs with a glass.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place cookies.

Bake in an oven preheated to 170°C for 12-15 minutes until golden brown.

Step 10

For the glaze, beat the whites of 1 egg and 150 grams of powdered sugar with a mixer.

Step 11

When the cookies have cooled, apply the glaze through a piping bag.

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Carnation

Tear off the heads of the clove buds and crush them in a mortar. We should get 1 teaspoon of ground cloves. The process, I must say, is not fast. Very painstaking work.

Syrup

Heat the dark sugar syrup over medium heat until bubbles appear. Add salt, ground ginger, cinnamon and cloves. Stir and add butter. Stir until the butter melts. Then cool to room temperature.

Dough

In a bowl, beat eggs with granulated sugar.

Carefully pour in the cooled syrup, whisking continuously.

Add soda and sifted flour. Knead the dough with your hands. Roll the dough into a log and wrap it in cling film to prevent it from getting too dry. For convenience, you can divide the dough into 2 parts, and only then wrap it in film. Place the buns in the refrigerator for 6-8 hours.

Cookie

Try making holes in some of the pieces with a toothpick. You can then thread a thread into the resulting ear of the finished cookies. And hang the decorated figures on the New Year tree.

Bake cookies in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 8-10 minutes. The given amount of ingredients will make 8-10 trays of gingerbread cookies.

Feel free to involve your children in cutting out the cookies. My little son cut out cookies with such excitement and speed that I barely had time to roll out the dough. Children like these activities.

Decoration

Prepare icing for decorating cookies. Why beat 2 egg whites until stiff peaks form. Continuing to beat, gradually add 150 g of powdered sugar. Make a cornet from parchment paper and fill it with protein glaze. Decorate cookies with icing as your imagination allows. You can also sprinkle cookies with special colored sprinkles. Some cookies can be left undecorated.

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Ginger cookie

“Ding-di-ling,” the gingerbread man sang, and I realized that I was not sleeping.

Ding-di-ling! The New Year is rushing by, the bells are ringing, the snow is creaking under the runners of the sled! It smells like frost, tangerines and gingerbread! Ding-di-ling!

The holidays are getting closer and closer, the aromas of spices and traditional Christmas pastries are in the air, you want to sing, dance and just smile for no reason. Ding-di-ling, the house is filled with comfort, gingerbread men have settled in, joyfully and well! Would you like me to share my mood with you? Here, take it: a couple of thin crispy cookies, homemade mulled wine, a checkered blanket and a stupid New Year's comedy with the inevitable Santa Clauses, Christmas trees and ginger cookies!

Ingredients for Gingerbread Cookies Recipe

100 g butter;
1 tbsp. l. “with the top” of honey;
2 tbsp. l. molasses or any syrup;
100 g sugar (preferably dark, it is what gives the cookies a rich brown color);
2 tsp. ground dry ginger;
1.5 tsp. cinnamon;
1 tsp. spices to taste (cardamom, allspice, black pepper, pink pepper, cloves, zest);
1 egg;
1/3 tsp. salt;
300 g flour.

Making classic ginger cookies

Some recipes contain baking powder or soda - I don’t add it on principle, I like it when the cookies turn out a little dense and incredibly crispy. As an experiment, you can try adding 1 tsp to the dough. baking powder (or half a teaspoon of soda) - see if you like it and whether it’s worth doing. It’s possible (and most likely) that your taste preferences differ from mine, so try both ways and look for “your” version.

So, put the butter in a bowl.

Ice cream, softened, chopped, grated - it doesn't matter. I had it straight from the freezer - a large piece broke off.

And add molasses. Considering that the average housewife, most likely, like me, does not have such a treasure in her kitchen, we replace the molasses with any thick and dark syrup. I'm in equal proportions I mixed carob and date syrup, rosehip syrup is suitable, you can take maple, cherry, cherry, blackberry, blueberry. Or you can make invert syrup, it’s simple.

Honey. Thick and, of course, dark is better (for example, buckwheat). I had a linden one - incredibly tasty and aromatic, it opened up in ginger cookies in a completely unusual way, giving it a subtle taste and a subtle aroma.

And we put all this luxury in a water bath. There is no need to warm it up for a long time - just enough for the oil to combine with honey and syrup (molasses).

Remove from the water bath and add sugar, salt and

� and spices.

I’ll probably dwell on them a little longer, because spices are the main thing in the gingerbread cookie recipe.

Cookie spices

As far as I know, there is no classic and single combination of spices for gingerbread cookies. All recipes and sources give different sets of ingredients and their proportions. Cinnamon and ginger are mandatory components, all the rest change and “run around”. I personally see the only way out is to try, try and try. Start small - make cookies with cinnamon, ginger and, for example, cardamom. This is not such a rich palette, of course, but you can clearly identify all three spices and understand whether it interferes with your taste buds cardamom (of course, you should not add it in the amount of a teaspoon; a third of it will be enough). If you make friends with cardamom, next time combine it with cloves, then add a little allspice, try black pepper, and so on. Eventually you will find “your” combination of spices, which will be part of your personal signature recipe.

There is one more point that is not customary to write about. Do you always cook with apothecary precision? Today I ran out of cinnamon and the cookies only took a little less than a spoon and a half. And yesterday it wasn't pink pepper, and I took a tiny pinch of chili. Sometimes I don’t have cloves at home, so I take a little more cardamom. Or I replace it with completely unexpected and non-standard coriander or star anise. I don't follow the letter of the recipe exactly to the last comma, I use common sense and always experiment boldly. And I advise you!

So, spices for gingerbread cookies. Ground. You can put them in a mortar and grind them with a pestle. I don’t like it - with this effect, the spices release a lot of oil, it turns out good, but not perfect. By the way, when adding the resulting mass to the dough, you must sift it through a strainer, shake your head sadly, looking at the remainder, then grind it again in a mortar, sift it again. And still get a fairly large balance.

Can be ground in a coffee grinder. I have a special mill, which is essentially the same thing. The result is a very fine, dry, pleasant mixture.

After putting everything together, I sift again - believe me, clove pieces on your teeth are not much fun. I make an exception for black pepper - but only because I incredibly love this spice.

Gingerbread Cookie Dough

So, add spices to the heated butter, syrup and honey, stir and leave to cool to room temperature. The sugar should completely melt during this time.

Add the egg to the cooled mixture and stir until smooth.

Sift the flour.

And knead the dough - not dense, quite soft, tender and sticky.

We collect it into a ball and - read here more carefully! – we throw it properly on the table. And once again, we raise our hands higher and forcefully throw the dough down. And again - ten times. This moment is important: you will give the dough special elasticity, it will become pliable and easy to work with.

We form a ball, hide it in a bag and put it in the refrigerator. For an hour or two - that’s what everyone writes and absolutely everyone recommends. And if you are used to it, do so.

I do not. Differences in working with chilled dough and I don’t see what was just mixed at all, so I start cutting immediately after kneading.

So, we separate a small piece of dough from the general piece.

Baking cookies

And roll it out thinly. Thin is 1-2 mm. It is clear that it is extremely difficult to transfer cookies cut from dough of such thickness to a baking sheet, so I recommend rolling them out immediately on a sheet of parchment paper.

And yes, once again: it should be subtle. Otherwise, you will not get gingerbread cookies, but gingerbread cookies - tasty and aromatic, but not crispy and ringing.

We cut out shapes using molds.

Remove excess dough and gather it into a ball.

If you wish, you can make cookies with a hole through which you pass a thread, decorated with icing, like this Christmas decorations They will greatly revive your Christmas tree.

We admire it and place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 190 degrees for 6 minutes.

Don't overdo it! The cookies are thin and burn quickly.

How to make gingerbread men

In anticipation of the upcoming holidays, I want to be especially kind, so, so be it, I’ll reveal another secret today.

I hate extra dishes. A bunch of nice little things like, for example, a knife for slicing bananas make me angry: I don’t like low-functional devices. Cookie cutters with New Year and Christmas themes are beautiful and, undoubtedly, wonderful, but they are needed only once a year. Buy them so that they drive me crazy for the rest of the 364 days? No, thank you! Nevertheless, all these glorious symbols of the New Year holidays - naive horses and pot-bellied snowmen, shaggy Santa Claus hats and cute mittens - are so cute that you still want them to appear in the house!

There is an exit. I ask the Universal Mind what he thinks, for example, about the gingerbread man template, the Universal Mind quickly answers. As a rule, I like the answer - I save it on my computer, then open it in any image viewer, scale it according to my ideas about the acceptable size of gingerbread men. Then I take a felt-tip pen and a piece of baking paper, apply the sheet to the monitor and trace the contours of the figure. I cut it out.

I roll out the dough – thinly, remember? I put a template on top - the parchment paper sticks perfectly to the dough prepared according to this gingerbread cookie recipe. AND sharp knife I cut out a man.

Everything is ready - you can bake. Rare birds, boxes with gifts and Santa Claus's sleigh, huts on chicken legs and bags of candy are also carved in the same way. By the way, it’s still better to just throw away the template after work - next year you’ll draw a new one.

In general, that's all. The cookies are thin, crispy and very fragrant - ready! It is incredibly similar to its Swedish ancestor - the legendary Pepperkakkor, which we know from the IKEA assortment. In a tightly closed container, such ginger cookies can be stored indefinitely, but who will give it to them?

How to decorate gingerbread cookies

By the way, if you wish, you can decorate gingerbread cookies (this name is also acceptable - although in our culinary tradition Such baked goods are more like cookies; they are partially similar to gingerbreads in the technology of preparing the dough, which is why many people call Pepperkakkor that way). To do this, take half the protein (20 g).

Beat it into a light foam.

Gradually add 100 g of powdered sugar, stir until smooth.

Roll a cornet out of parchment paper, fill it with icing and create! Weight on finished products dries quickly and holds well, without crumbling or pilling.

OK it's all over Now. Create and surprise your loved ones. Turn your holiday into a fairy tale: every adult dreams of being in it at least once a year. So this is not a recipe for children - gingerbread cookies, Christmas trees, stars and gingerbread men :). Sometime next time I’ll tell you about making gingerbread - subscribe for updates).

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There is probably no person who is indifferent to such extraordinary, fabulous celebrations as New Year and Christmas. And no matter how different the traditions of different countries of the world may be, almost throughout Europe winter holidays are associated with an abundance of sweets, fragrant baked goods, gingerbread and cookies.

Why exactly cookies became a symbol of the holiday is unknown, but both Germany and Scandinavia smell of ginger; neither the Swiss nor the British refuse the ginger treat. Ginger, well known as a cold remedy, has become an indispensable spice in winter baking. Gingerbread cookies and gingerbread are not only baked for the family table, they are also a wonderful gift and home decoration. Christmas markets and New Year's bazaars are flooded with fragrant gingerbread cookies; cookies in the shape of funny men have become heroes of folk tales and are popular both among children of many countries and their parents.

About gingerbread and spices

Already in the early Middle Ages, gingerbread cookies were baked in Germany, similar in composition to the current mint ones, and later the tradition spread throughout Europe. For example, in Switzerland the recipe was enriched with black pepper and thus ginger, and Norwegians like to add cardamom and citrus zest to their baked goods. It is interesting that most of the spices that make up New Year's baked goods began to be brought to Europe during the times of great geographical discoveries. Spices were incredibly expensive, so they were only allowed to be added to holiday dishes. Such delicacies were highly valued and were often saved until the next celebration.

Legend of the Monk

Many countries want to get the title of discoverer of ginger cookies, each telling their own stories and making their own assumptions. For example, in Germany they believe that the first person to bake such a delicacy was a local monk who lived in one of the remote monasteries back in the twelfth century. According to legend, a monk performing his obedience in the kitchen on the eve of Christmas decided to please his brethren with sweets. True, he only had spices in abundance, so cookies in the shape of angels and crosses, according to the holiday, turned out to be very fragrant.

Be that as it may, the monks liked their brother’s cooking, and since then they began to bake gingerbread every year. The surplus was even taken to a fair held near the monastery walls, which made the delicacies popular in all the nearby villages.

Fiction and truth

The tradition of cutting out figures of deer, men, houses and Christmas trees from dough dates back to much more recent times. The first such gingerbread cookies appeared only in the century before last, at which time even entire towns and castles began to be made from cookies. Probably, this is where the plots of fairy tales are drawn, where the heroes end up in a gingerbread house or the main mountain itself - the gingerbread man.

There is some truth in German fairy tales. In ancient times, it was through the German city of Nuremberg that the road passed along which all the caravans carrying ginger passed to Europe. This means that the first gingerbread could have been baked here.

Today, fragrant curly gingerbread cookies are an invariable attribute of Christmas. They are prepared for baking in advance, and literally the whole family bakes them.

Gingerbread in Rus'

It is interesting that in Rus' they learned to use ginger in baking before the Europeans. Long before the German monks, gingerbread with ginger and cardamom was baked by Arkhangelsk housewives or the ancestors of the great Lomonosov, who lived even further north than the Pomors. Tula, the gingerbread capital of Russia, is also famous for its printed gingerbreads, which you can enjoy not only on New Year or Christmas, but literally at any time of the year. The whole family also worked on the production of these culinary masterpieces. Men made skillful molds, and women baked gingerbread cookies themselves, which became not only a treat for tea, but also an assurance of friendship, a gift for a wedding or the birth of a child, for name days or for Christmas.

Such gifts were also kept for almost a whole year, and the gingerbread remained fresh and fragrant, as when it came out of the oven.

Modern traditions

Undoubtedly, today you can buy any cookie, and many Americans before the holidays head not to the kitchen, but to the supermarket. But the desire to create a miracle with your own hands cannot be destroyed by any, even the most beautiful factory-made cookies, so housewives look in advance for new molds, buy sugar decorations and beads, stock up on icing and food coloring, as if they are preparing to fill not a traditional box with cookies, but at least a kitchen .

On the eve of the holidays, many families hold home gingerbread parties, where, in addition to cookies and gingerbread, they offer champagne, mulled wine and cruchon.

Baking gingerbread

Gorgeous cookies and gingerbreads are actually quite easy to bake. To do this, you really need molds to cut out your favorite themed figures from the rolled out dough. Today, trade around the world offers a variety of options. From traditional angels and crosses, to stars, houses, deer and snowmen.

It’s good if there are syringes for applying glaze in the house, then children will be able to enjoy drawing on gingerbread cookies to their heart’s content. Don’t forget about regular powdered sugar, almond and coconut flakes, and, of course, spices, the first place among which is ginger.

Ginger cookie

No matter how diverse the traditions are, there are not so many recipes for ginger cookies. To prevent the cookies from turning out cloying, you should not put a lot of sugar in the dough, and the sweetness will be compensated by the icing and sugar decorations. But you don’t need to skimp on spices. They should tickle your nose, and after cooking, the kitchen will smell fragrant for several days, like an overseas ship from India carrying precious spices.

So, for a full tray of cookies you will need:

250 grams of premium flour;
80 grams of brown sugar;
70 grams of butter or margarine for baking;
1 egg;
1 tablespoon cocoa powder;
½ teaspoon baking powder.

The set of spices for gingerbread and cookies can vary depending on the housewife’s preferences, but the classic set includes a teaspoon of the following ground spices:

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How to decorate gingerbread cookies?

Ginger biscuits are considered a traditional English delicacy, but they have long and firmly established themselves in other countries due to the availability of ingredients, ease of preparation and bright taste. This dessert is prepared for holidays and on weekdays; for many people it serves as an integral part of cozy gatherings with family or closest friends. And in England and some European countries, cookies with the taste and aroma of ginger are a traditional symbol of Christmas. For us, this is simply a delicious variety of long-known and beloved gingerbread, which adults and children eat with pleasure. But even in Russia it is often served at the festive table, and in this case the issue of suitable elegant decor is important. How to decorate gingerbread cookies? Let's see!

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Gingerbread as a holiday dessert

There are many recipes for dough for making cookies with ginger. They allow you to bake products of different hardness, as well as vary the degree of expression of spices in the delicacy. However, many women are surprised by the lighter color of the baked goods compared to the photo on the Internet. To get an appetizing medium brown shade that makes your decorations look brighter and more beautiful, add a little dark syrup, cocoa or burnt sugar to the dough.

Gingerbread cookies are usually served in themed decorations for the New Year holidays and Christmas or Easter. It can also be presented as a gift, hung on the Christmas tree along with toys. For New Year and Christmas, gingerbread cookies are baked in the shape of snowflakes, gingerbread houses and men, snowmen, mittens, bells, Christmas trees, and hearts. For Easter these are eggs, rabbits, chickens, Easter cakes, flowers, butterflies.

Edible masterpieces are decorated with melted chocolate, grated nuts, cinnamon, and coconut flakes. But the most popular is still sugar icing of different colors: bright, elegant and colorful. Moreover, each holiday has its own traditional color scheme. New Year's and Christmas cookies are decorated with white, red and green icing. For Easter, pastel and bright colors are used. You can use the same glaze to make inscriptions with congratulations and wishes. If the dessert is being prepared for a family celebration or just for no reason, then the shape, colors and decor can be absolutely anything. We will look at the details of how to decorate gingerbread cookies with icing below.

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How to decorate gingerbread cookies with icing?

The main ingredients for the glaze are powdered sugar and egg white, which rise to a foamy consistency. Some recipes suggest adding a little water, lemon juice, vanillin, salt, or full-fat milk. Some additional components serve to obtain a more liquid glaze, which is more convenient to apply over large areas, while others allow you to achieve the desired shades of taste. Initially the glaze is white; food coloring is needed to add different color tones.

It is not difficult to prepare and decorate gingerbread cookies with icing; this delicacy does not require much practice, special skills or time. But it invariably pleases adults and children with its wonderful taste and spicy aroma.