Painting cookies and Christmas gingerbread is a matter of mood! And I have it! A wonderful New Year's mood in my kitchen reigns from the very beginning of December. I baked gingerbread cookies and cookies - and the aroma for the whole house. Decorate as you wish sugar icing. Painting - thicker glaze, and filling gingerbread - more liquid glaze. If you want the icing to last longer and not crumble from your cookies, then add vinegar, and if you eat the cookies quickly, you can get by with lemon juice.
So, to prepare colored icing for cookies, take an egg, powdered sugar very good quality. I use Raspak powder. Food coloring gel, but water-based is also suitable.
Separate the protein from the yolk.
No matter how good the powdered sugar is, it must be sifted!
With a fork, grind the sugar and protein. Hurry, do not take the mixer. Your frosting will then not run. Not very suitable for filling. This one is ready to fill.
And I’ll add more powder to this one, I’ll draw with it!
Estimate how much colored cookie icing you need and what color, and divide into bowls. Add dye to desired color and stir.
We draw an outline on our cookies.
Fill it with colored glaze and leave to dry, and then draw what we want!
And maybe so! Let's dry...
And we paint...
You can, of course, better, but I'm not an artist ... alas .. but I try .. That's how it turns out somehow.
And the trees are already dry. Insert the ribbons and carry on the Christmas tree!
Let the holidays be delicious! Happy New Year!
Hello friends! Today I went to Maria Ra, who doesn’t know, this is such a store and I heard the song “Girlfriends-cookies are our cookies ...” And so to say, thoughts flooded me to offer you recipes for gingerbread cookies. Wow, it's popular now.
Obviously you have heard about it and even tried it, I am convinced of this. If you want to learn how to cook this sweet delicacy, so let's understand its intricacies and nuances of cooking with me.
To prepare this dessert, you will need to knead the dough and make the glaze, and beautifully decorate such a creation. By the way, it is interesting that someone calls such sweets cookies, and someone calls them gingerbread, but how are you used to?
There is enough a large number of recipes for this type of dough. But the classic remains the same. This is my favorite option, it is perfect, because the gingerbread cookies are quite tasty, smooth and beautiful, and most importantly, fragrant.
This dough is ideal in taste and shape, cracks do not work, which is very important.
We will need:
- sugar - 500 g
- boiling water - 200 ml
- butter- 200 g
- soda - 0.5 tsp
- salt - 1 tsp
- ginger - 1 tsp
- cinnamon - 2 tsp
- cloves, cardamom, nutmeg, allspice, anise - 1/4 tsp each
- egg - 1 pc.
- flour - 800-900 g
- honey - 1 tbsp. l optional
Cooking method:
1. Take a saucepan with a thick bottom. Send it to the stove, make medium heat and start melting the granulated sugar.
It is important to note that you do not need to stir at first, wait until the bottom layer begins to melt.
2. Then start stirring with a spatula to evenly help the sugar dissolve.
3. After you should see such a consistency, be careful not to bring this mixture to the point of burning, otherwise your cookies will have a bitter taste.
Important! Before the next step, do not forget to check if there are grains of sugar left, it should completely dissolve.
Boil the caramel until a dark amber color, then remove the pan from the heat and pour in the boiling water in a thin stream. Be prepared for the mass to start bubbling and hissing, because the temperature is high.
Important! Do not forget to stir constantly when pouring boiling water.
4. The syrup will be dark in color, after the mass is homogeneous after pouring water, send the butter room temperature. And slowly stirring, put the pan on the fire so that the butter melts.
5. After dissolving the oil, add 1 tsp of soda, salt and spices. Take spices to your taste, but without them, keep in mind that the aroma of finished products will not be so pleasant. Stir.
The baking soda will cause the mixture to sizzle and expand slightly. At this stage, you can add a spoonful of honey, but remember that honey is a strong allergen and not everyone absorbs it, especially children. And if you cook gingerbread to order, then honey is better do not add, so that there are no problems.
6. Cool the mass, and the foam cap should fall off. When the mass becomes room temperature, add egg. Stir.
Important! If such proportions are large for you, then you want to make half as much, then it will be enough to add only the yolk.
In parts, add the sifted flour, slowly knead. Stir the dough first in the pan with a whisk or spatula, then, as it becomes impossible to do, transfer it to a table sprinkled with flour.
7. The dough should be soft and slightly sticky. After it lies in the refrigerator, it will become denser and easier to work with.
Put the dough in the refrigerator overnight, wrap it in a food bag.
8. Cut off the desired piece from the dough and roll it into a thin cake. The dough can be stored both in the refrigerator itself for about 1 month, and in the freezer for 3 months.
Roll out the mass on a Teflon mat so that the surface of the gingerbread cookies is even and smooth. For rolling out the dough, it is very convenient to use wooden rulers or planks so that the cake has the same thickness everywhere.
Then, using special molds or as they are also called cuttings, make the necessary figures.
You can use a special rolling pin, of course it is much more convenient with it, who often makes such goodies, also to order, I recommend purchasing it.
9. Bake cookies in a preheated oven to 180 degrees for 6-7 minutes on a Teflon mat. The advice is that the product does not turn out tough, you do not need to hammer the dough with flour, and secondly, you do not need to overexpose it in the oven.
If the dough after baking is too deformed, then this means you put a little flour, but if it bubbles, then a lot. If the surface is uneven, place a cutting board on the hot gingerbread.
10. Gingerbread cookies keep their shape well, but inside they should still be soft and porous. Smooth and very beautiful on the outside, but also tasty and fragrant. Good luck in the kitchen!
Proven Gingerbread Recipe
According to this option, the cookies do not get stale for a long time, which, as they say, is very pleasant. It is also quite tender and amazingly tasty, in general, I advise you to cook this miracle too:
Easy Gingerbread Cookie Recipe
Moving on, and for starters, I want to suggest that you do the most simple version of the test. You can decorate the most in the usual way, sprinkle with powdered sugar, or make the icing, which you will find later in this article.
Usually, according to this recipe, New Year's or New Year's are baked, in the West this tradition has long been carried out and everyone is treated to such creations, in Russia it has only now become popular to cook these sweets.
From this number of products, you will get about 41 things, again depending on what molds you have.
We will need:
- flour - 2 tbsp.
- sugar - 150 g
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.
- butter - 100 g
- baking soda - 1 tsp
- ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
- ground ginger - 1 tsp
- egg whites - 1 pc.
- powdered sugar - 50 g
Cooking method:
1. Take the butter and leave it in the kitchen in advance so that it comes to room temperature. Then put it in the microwave and melt, the main thing is that it becomes soft.
2. Add granulated sugar and an egg to the butter, mix, then add cinnamon, ginger and soda.
Interesting! If you want to make with the taste of honey, then add 1 spoon of honey and vanilla sugar.
Mix everything with a tablespoon so that there are no lumps. The color of the dough will change slightly, and will have a slightly brown tint. Add flour and knead well on the table.
3. After all this, wrap the dough in a bag and put it in the refrigerator for at least 1 hour.
4. Next, roll out the dough into a large cake, the thickness should be about 4-5 mm, use a special rolling pin, as in the previous version, I showed you the photo. And then with the help of molds, make any funny figures in the form of little men, hearts, balls and anything. After all, you can use different forms to create a festive atmosphere, such as Valentine's Day or Easter.
Interesting! You can make punctures and hang cookies on the Christmas tree, or make toppers by sticking sticks into the dough, which will decorate any
Put the resulting figures on a baking sheet, cover the baking sheet parchment paper in a preheated oven to 180-200 degrees for five minutes. Keep in mind that the cookies will puff up a little after baking, so leave some space between the shapes as you bake.
Determine the readiness of the cookies in this way, if it is browned and slightly browned, then it is already ready.
By the way, you can make bears and give them a nut, they will also look nice and great.
5. Now let's prepare the glaze. Or you can just sprinkle powdered sugar over the finished treats. Most easy way to make fudge is to beat the powdered sugar with a whisk with protein. By the way, you can use another one, remember, by Easter I shared my best practices with you.
6. So, with the help of a mixer and a whisk attachment, beat the protein and powder until you see a white mass that looks like a cream. By the way, if you have absolutely no desire to make such a cream, you can simply melt the chocolate and pour over the gingerbread cookies or anoint with condensed milk.
7. You have to come up with various patterns on cookies yourself, if you are just starting, then don’t get up much, just apply icing in the form of circles and all sorts of symbols and this will already create a holiday atmosphere, but if you all have such a desire, then detailed instructions and a master class for applying icing on gingerbread cookies, see the following articles.
Pack in a branded box. Tie a bow and present or treat your family and friends. Delicious discoveries!
By the way, such sweets can be made with children in the form of crafts for any celebration or event.
We bake gingerbread without honey
As for the next recipe, of course, children simply adore it, because there is no honey, which means there is no most important allergen. Let's make such nice gingerbread cookies for painting. The recipe couldn't be easier.
There is nothing supernatural in the composition, but they taste amazing, they are light and crispy.
We will need:
- flour - 300 g
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- baking powder - 1 tsp
- butter - 200 g
- sugar - 150 g
- vanilla to taste
Cooking method:
1. Beat softened butter with sugar with a mixer. Then add one egg.
In a separate bowl, sift the flour and stir in the baking powder. Gradually add to butter and sugar.
2. After the dough is ready, add cinnamon and ground ginger directly to it. Knead on the table.
Place the gingerbread dough in the refrigerator, wrap it in a bag for 1 hour. The dough is soft, after it lies down it will become more elastic and denser.
Place 4 mm thick cookies on a silicone mat on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven at 180 degrees until done, 6 minutes.
4. Draw on a sheet of paper a blank of what you will draw on the gingerbread. Then take the multifork and put the sheet in it.
5. Make protein glaze, for this, combine the protein with powdered sugar and beat with a food processor or mixer. At the very end, add lemon juice, literally a drop, can be replaced with citric acid.
Draw a stork with a bag. Then use a stick or a toothpick to smooth the structure of the cream.
6. Leave this charm to dry until the next morning. Then slowly remove from the multifora.
7. In the same way, make drops of a different color. Make eyes, eyebrows and cilia with black gel dye.
8. Cover the cookie itself, paint with icing, circle the outline, and then fill the entire surface, lay out the blanks of the stork and the muzzle.
9. After everything is dry, paint further.
10. Then wrap in bags and attach bows. Beauty and more. A real gift for any occasion, such as in this case for the birth of a child.
Making classic gingerbread cookies
This option will be quite interesting and very spicy, we will use some kind of powder and cloves. It will turn out quite original and at the same time will remind the taste of childhood.
I will tell you a secret, it is not necessary to decorate with icing, because you can cheat if you do it in the form of beads or garlands on a ribbon. In general, read on and see for yourself.
We will need:
Cooking method:
1. Prepare all the ingredients for work. To do this, in a mortar or in some other container, rub a clove with a pestle, you can use a coffee grinder or a blender, but it seems to me that this is superfluous, since it needs quite a bit.
2. By the way, it is better to sift flour through a sieve several times in advance, this will noticeably saturate finished goods oxygen, the dough will rise better.
3. Melt the butter and add granulated sugar into it, beat with a mixer whisk. Add honey and egg, beat again so that the mass becomes homogeneous in consistency.
4. Now start adding flour in portions and whisk at the same time. Take your time, beat gradually so that all the flour is gone.
5. It will seem to you that the dough turned out to be quite viscous and soft, as it should be. Divide it in half and wrap part of the dough in cling film and send it to the refrigerator in the freezer.
After mixing well, roll in a bag and send to the refrigerator and in freezer for 1-3 hours.
7. Next, take parchment paper or baking paper and sprinkle it with a little flour. Remove the dough from the freezer and roll it thinly on paper, then use the molds to make flowers, hearts, or maybe you have bunnies and cats.
Roll out the second portion of the dough and cut out various kinds of images. On some figures, make holes with a stick. Tear off the excess dough and place the parchment leaf with the products on a baking sheet. Bake in the oven for 6 minutes at 180 degrees.
8. After the gingerbread cookies have cooled, thread a ribbon into the holes or tie it as if it were a gift. Treat to the health of your loved ones and relatives!
Delicious treat with honey and cinnamon
Do you know what cookies are in Latvia called piparkukas, which means cookies with pepper. Of course, you can try this if you visit this country, I suggest doing it yourself at home, there is nothing difficult, see everything for yourself, and then write your review at the bottom of this site.
Ikea gingerbread cookie recipe
The IKEA store already sells ready dough for these sweet flour products, so I suggest using it and I think the result will also please you. Especially from ready dough work always goes faster, there is no extra fuss and troubles. The main thing is to find it))).
By the way, you know that cinnamon, ginger and cloves in its composition have antiseptic properties and help our immunity.
We will need:
- Ikea dough for gingerbread or cookies - 500 g
- protein - 1 pc.
- powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.
- cocoa powder - 0.5 tsp
- turmeric - 0.5 tsp
Cooking method:
1. Defrost the dough, for this, place it in the refrigerator for 1 day. Open the package, it smells very tasty, such a honey shade. Roll it out with a rolling pin 3-5 mm thick.
The dough is very plastic and easy to roll out. This is a great idea to be honest.
The layer turns out to be huge, now make whatever you want out of it, hearts, Christmas trees and other shapes. Make it close so that there is less excess dough.
2. The blanks are ready, place them on baking paper and bake this dessert in the oven for 8 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Of course, it is better to bake on a silicone mat or Teflon, then nothing will burn and the surface of the cookies will be even.
3. Now make a protein-sugar topping. To do this, beat the protein with a mixer until peaks, then add powdered sugar and plus a few drops of lemon juice. If the cream turns out to be liquid, then add a little more powdered sugar. The frosting will be white.
Divide it into several parts to make several colors. For example, you can add cocoa to one, turmeric to another, and nothing to the third, let it be white.
Important! Do not prepare the glaze for a reserve, it must be made and applied immediately to flour product because it dries out quickly.
4. Take a culinary syringe and decorate gingerbread with them, or you can make a culinary bag out of a regular bag or parchment paper. Get used to it and it will turn out smoothly and beautifully.
5. Now all this beauty needs to go to dry in the oven at a temperature of 70 degrees just a little bit. Because raw protein was used, and it could contain salmonella, and at a temperature of 70-100 degrees they will die.
These are the gourmets that turned out, of course, if there is no ready-made dough, then do it yourself, take any of this selection!
Classic gingerbread cookies with icing
You may think that applying glaze is quite difficult. Yes, you may be right, but if you had special device, take a look:
However, there are several ways to apply glaze on gingerbread, but we will talk about them in the next note, so don't miss it, and you will already decide whether it is easy or difficult, expect a detailed master class.
As for this recipe, it will be in a classic style and we will make cake toppers, and by the way, you have seen my new note on cakes, if not, then go ahead and
We will need:
- natural honey - 3 tbsp
- sugar - 2 tbsp
- cinnamon - 2 tsp
- ground ginger - 2 tsp
- ground coriander - on the tip of a knife
- nutmeg - on the tip of a knife
- soda - 1 tsp
- chicken egg - 1 pc.
- flour - 370 g
- powdered sugar - 180 g
- protein - 1 pc.
- food coloring in different colors
Cooking method:
1. Place two tablespoons of sugar, cinnamon, ground ginger, coriander, nutmeg and honey in a saucepan. Make a small fire and constantly stir the mixture until the sugar is completely dissolved.
Then let the mixture cool down. Next, beat in one chicken egg and add flour in parts. The dough should be soft. Let it rest, put it in the refrigerator for 1 hour.
2. Then use a rolling pin to make big circle 5 mm thick. The dough can be divided into 5 parts for easy rolling.
Make shapes using molds. Place them on a baking sheet, cover it with parchment paper and bake at 160 degrees for 15 minutes.
3. Insert a stick into each cookie received. And now it remains to decorate with icing. To do this, beat the protein to steep peaks and add powdered sugar to it, you should get a real tasty cream.
Divide the icing into several bowls and add coloring to each.
4. To make it easier, draw the characters' faces with a pencil. They can be from cartoons, fairy tales or invented by you.
5. Use a piping bag and carefully and slowly draw and paint over the surface.
6. These are such cute creatures. Patience and perseverance. Enjoy your meal! Bake another cake and invite guests to drink tea!
The recipe for a sweet treat from Yulia Vysotskaya
Well, and one more option that you can watch and take note of from the popular TV presenter We eat at home:
Incredibly simple and very beautiful, do you agree? Then try to do it, and then share your opinion below under this article.
Learning to paint with glaze
And finally, I found you a gift in the form of this video, after watching which you could easily decorate these sweet treats, watch and repeat step by step and you will also be able to paint beautifully:
This is where I end this post, I hope you liked the note and you will definitely share it in in social networks and join me in the group in contact. Best wishes! See you all! Bye!
realhousemoms.comIngredients
For cookies:
- 240 g butter;
- 150 g of sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 240 g flour;
- 40 g cocoa;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 2 tablespoons of milk.
For glaze:
- 90 g butter;
- 3 tablespoons of cocoa;
- 2 tablespoons of milk;
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- confectionery topping - optional.
Cooking
Beat butter, sugar and vanilla with a mixer. Add flour, cocoa, baking powder, soda and salt and beat until smooth. Pour in the milk and mix well again.
Roll out the dough and cut out circles or figures of the desired shape. Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 13 minutes.
While the cookies are cooling, make the frosting. To do this, put the butter, cocoa and milk in a saucepan and cook over medium heat until the butter is melted. Remove from heat, add powdered sugar and mix thoroughly.
Drizzle with chocolate icing and decorate as desired. confectionery topping. You need to do this right away, because the glaze hardens quickly. If the glaze has thickened, simply heat it over the fire for 15-20 seconds, stirring constantly.
thecreativebite.com Ingredients
- 180 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 egg;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 320 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg;
- 140 ml sour cream.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar until creamy. Add egg and vanilla and mix well. Put flour, baking powder, soda, salt, nutmeg and sour cream and knead the dough. Wrap it up in cling film and refrigerate overnight or at least a couple of hours.
Roll out the dough and cut out shapes. Put them on a baking sheet covered with parchment and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 10-12 minutes. The cookies should brown slightly. Let it cool before applying frosting. You will find three glaze recipes at the end of the article.
homecookingmemories.com Ingredients
- 240 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 60 g of powdered sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 1 teaspoon mint extract - optional
- 1 egg;
- 300 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon red food coloring
Cooking
Beat butter, sugar, powdered sugar, vanillin, mint extract and egg in a mixer. If you can't find mint extract, replace it with a pinch of cinnamon. The cookies will have a different, but no less pleasant winter taste and aroma. Then add flour, baking powder and salt and mix well.
Divide the dough into two equal parts. Add food coloring to one of them to make a bright red dough. Wrap each piece in cling film and refrigerate for 3-4 hours.
Then pinch off some of the dough from both pieces. Using your hands, roll them into thin sausages about 12 cm long. Roll them into a pigtail and form a “candy cane”. Do the same for the rest of the test.
Place the cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until lightly browned. Finished cookies can be decorated with powdered sugar.
spaceshipsandlaserbeams.com Ingredients
- 240 g butter;
- 130 g of sugar;
- 2 eggs;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- ½ teaspoon baking powder;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon + more for garnish
- 360 g flour;
- ½ cup chopped walnuts+ a little more for decoration;
- ½ cup white chocolate chips + more for garnish
- 1 large apple;
- ¼ cup caramel sauce.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add eggs, vanilla, salt, baking powder, soda and cinnamon. Stir until smooth. Gradually add flour, constantly stirring the dough.
Add chopped nuts and chocolate chips to the dough. You can make it yourself: just finely chop the white chocolate. Peel the apple, remove the core and cut it small cubes. Add the apple to the batter and stir.
Shape the dough into small balls and place on a foil-lined baking sheet. Slightly flatten the balls with your hand, make a small indentation in the middle of each and fill it with caramel. Sprinkle with nuts chocolate chips and cinnamon. Flatten the cookies with a spatula to make them flat.
Place the baking sheet in a preheated oven at 180°C for 12 minutes until the cookies are browned. Cool it completely before serving. By the way, the next day these cookies will be even tastier than immediately after cooking.
recipes-plus.com Ingredients
- 220 g butter;
- 5 tablespoons of sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 240 g flour;
- 240 g chopped walnuts;
- 200 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer until creamy. Then add vanilla and salt. Gradually add flour, constantly beating the dough. Add nuts and mix thoroughly. Divide the dough in two, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 45 minutes.
With your hands, form small balls with a diameter of about 2.5 cm from the chilled dough. Place them on parchment-lined baking sheets and bake in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 12-14 minutes, until the cookies begin to brown. Don't bake too long or the balls will break apart.
Roll the still warm cookies in powdered sugar. Let it cool and roll in the powder again.
bettycrocker.com Ingredients
For cookies:
- 300 g flour;
- 2 teaspoons of baking powder;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 250 g sugar;
- 120 g butter;
- 100 g ricotta;
- 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest;
- 2 eggs;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife.
For glaze:
- 280 g of powdered sugar;
- 3-4 tablespoons of lemon juice.
Cooking
Mix flour, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, beat the sugar, softened butter, ricotta and lemon zest with a mixer. Continuing to beat, add the eggs one at a time. Add flour mixture and vanilla and mix until smooth. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
Shape the cooled dough into balls about 2.5 cm in diameter. Place the balls on parchment-lined baking sheets, slightly flattening them at the bottom. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 9-11 minutes until lightly browned.
While the cookies are cooling, mix in the icing sugar and lemon juice. If the frosting is too thick, add a little more lemon juice. Drizzle ½ teaspoon of frosting over each cookie. If desired, you can decorate cookies with confectionery sprinkles.
dinneratthezoo.com Ingredients
- 120 g butter;
- 30 large marshmallows (can be replaced with soft marshmallows);
- 1 ½ teaspoons green food coloring
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 350 g corn flakes;
- a little vegetable oil;
- red dragees - for decoration.
Cooking
Melt the butter in a saucepan. Add marshmallows and stir until completely dissolved. If you are using marshmallows, cut them into small pieces and pour a little water into the pan.
Remove saucepan from heat, add food coloring, vanilla, and corn flakes. Mix everything thoroughly. Spread a tablespoon of this mixture on parchment, greased vegetable oil. While the mixture has not cooled down, use your hands to form New Year's wreaths from it and decorate the dragee. Leave cookies to cool on parchment at room temperature.
And this video clearly shows the process of making these "wreaths":
bhg.com Ingredients
For cookies:
- 240 g butter;
- 200 g of sugar;
- 1 teaspoon baking powder;
- ¼ teaspoon salt;
- 1 egg;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 270 g flour;
- 1 tablespoon cocoa;
- 1 tablespoon of powdered sugar.
For filling:
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 30 g butter;
- 2 teaspoons of ground coffee;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- some milk.
Cooking
Make the dough first. Mix butter, sugar, baking powder and salt with a mixer. Add the egg and vanillin and achieve a homogeneous consistency. Gradually add flour and knead the dough. Divide the dough into two parts, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
On a floured surface, roll out the dough into thin sheets. Cut out figures from the dough, put them on parchment-lined baking sheets and bake in an oven preheated to 190 ° C for 8-10 minutes.
Mix ingredients for filling, adding milk as needed. You should be able to thick cream. Spread a teaspoon of coffee filling on one cookie and cover with a second one. Combine cocoa and icing sugar and sprinkle over sandwiches.
wellplated.com Ingredients
- 200 g of sugar;
- 240 g butter;
- 80 g cream cheese;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 1 egg;
- 270 g flour.
Cooking
Mix sugar, softened butter, cream cheese, salt, vanillin and egg yolk until smooth. Gradually add flour, constantly stirring the dough. Wrap it in cling film and refrigerate overnight.
Turn the chilled dough out onto a floured board and roll into a thin sheet. Do not roll too thin, otherwise the cookies will turn out hard. If there is too much dough, just put the excess in the refrigerator until the next time.
Cut out shapes from the dough and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 190°C for 7-10 minutes until lightly browned. Let the cookies cool before decorating.
cookingclassy.com Ingredients
- 120 g butter;
- 150 g of sugar;
- 100 g of honey;
- 1 large egg;
- 2 tablespoons of water;
- 320 g flour;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- ½ teaspoon salt;
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger;
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon;
- ½ teaspoon ground nutmeg;
- ½ teaspoon ground cloves.
Cooking
Beat butter and sugar with a mixer. Add honey, egg and water and stir. In another bowl, mix the rest of the ingredients and gradually add them to the dough, stirring constantly. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for half an hour.
Roll out the dough into a thin layer on a floured surface. Cut out figures of men from the dough and put them on baking sheets greased with vegetable oil or covered with parchment. Bake in a preheated oven at 180°C for 8-10 minutes until the cookies are golden brown.
Now that you've baked some delicious, fragrant cookies, it's time to make them a real decoration. holiday table. With a variety of molds, delicious glaze, food coloring and a cooking syringe, you can create real works of art. Here are some ideas for inspiration:
1. Classic glaze
thekitchn.com Ingredients
- 250 g of powdered sugar;
- 4 tablespoons of milk;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife.
Cooking
Beat all ingredients with a mixer until smooth. The icing should not spread, but at the same time, you should be comfortable decorating the cookies.
If the frosting is too thick, add a little more milk. Keep in mind that it will increase in volume even more. Then, if desired, you can add food coloring.
This glaze dries for several hours. But if you want to decorate cookies with some kind of confectionery topping, then it is better to do this immediately after applying the icing. So the jewelry will grab better.
There are many original designs for New Year's cookies:
2. Protein glaze
kingarthurflour.com Ingredients
- 2 egg whites;
- 2 teaspoons of lemon juice;
- 330 g of powdered sugar.
Cooking
Beat with a mixer egg whites and lemon juice. Add the sifted icing sugar and beat until smooth. If the frosting is too thin, add a little more powdered sugar, and if it's too thick, add a little water.
Here are some ideas on how to decorate cookies with egg white frosting:
3. Butter glaze
taste.com.au Ingredients
- 75 g melted butter;
- 500 g of powdered sugar;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife;
- 5 tablespoons of milk.
Cooking
Beat all ingredients with a mixer until creamy. If the frosting is too runny, add some milk.
See how easy it is to decorate cookies with buttercream icing:
You can decorate with such beautiful cookies Christmas tree. To do this, you need to make holes in the cookies before baking, and then insert thin ribbons there. And it can also be an unusual gift.
In the preparation of each dessert, there are processes that can be omitted (the delicacy will not suffer much from this), but if you are not too lazy, then the eaters will receive not only gastronomic, but also aesthetic pleasure. So, icing for cookies will give home baking individuality and unique beauty.
Chocolate icing for cookies
Such a glaze is easy to prepare and hardens quickly enough after being applied to cookies, but there is a limitation in terms of color scheme. It can be, like chocolate, dark brown, light brown (from milk chocolate) and white. fondant color from white chocolate can be changed to fat soluble food coloring, but they are unlikely to be found in an ordinary kitchen.
So, dark (milk or white) chocolate icing is made from:
- 100 g of chocolate;
- 60 ml of milk;
- 10 g butter;
- 250 g of powdered sugar.
Step by step preparation:
- Do steam bath. Pour milk into a bowl over boiling water and put a piece of butter in it.
- When the butter has melted, add a bar of finely broken chocolate. After all three ingredients become a homogeneous liquid mixture, sift the powder. Mix carefully.
strawberry recipe
A bright fudge with a rich berry flavor to cover gingerbread, donuts and cookies can be made from fresh or frozen berries. Raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, cherries, cranberries or, as in this example, strawberries are suitable for making glaze in this way.
For berry glaze based on strawberries, you should take:
- 200 g finely ground powdered sugar;
- 100 g fresh or frozen strawberries;
- 15-30 ml of drinking water.
Work sequence:
- Washed and dried berries are smashed with a blender into homogeneous mass, which should then be filtered through a sieve to weed out the seeds and the remaining intact berry fibers.
- Add to sifted icing sugar hot water and mix. Then pour in small doses and rub the berry base with a spoon. You need enough strawberry puree so that all the powder dissolves, and the fudge becomes shiny and uniform, but at the same time viscous and thick.
- Berry glaze should be used immediately, because during storage the fermentation process may begin, which is fraught with digestive problems.
You can find out the recipe and cook New Year's cookies with icing for your family, pampering your loved ones delicious dish made by hand. So, let's begin.
Cooking process
Cookie icing recipes are simple, they use the most regular ingredients. But the result will exceed all your expectations. These dishes are not only tasty, but also look spectacular. original cookie will become a real decoration of the table.
Cookie Cooking
To prepare glazed cookies according to our recipe, you need to prepare molds in the form of various figures. The cookies themselves can be bought, but if you cook them yourself, it will turn out much tastier, and there will be no chemicals in the composition.
Now we will share one of the easiest cookie recipes for.
Ingredients:
- flour - 200 g;
- powdered sugar - 60 g;
- 1 egg;
- salt.
Cooking process
Mix flour, salt and powder. Add butter to this, after cutting it into cubes. We mix all this.
The dough must be prepared so that there are no small crumbs, then add the egg.
We collect the dough into a ball and roll it out so that its thickness is about 3 mm. We put the workpiece in the freezer for half an hour. Then we take out the dough and cut out the figures, which also need to be put in the freezer for 15 minutes. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the sweetness for about 5 minutes.
Glaze preparation
Making glaze is a responsible process, which we will do now. Let's share a few the best recipes how to prepare colored icing for cookies. Also we have better ways how to cook for cookies.
classic glaze
- powdered sugar - 200 g;
- juice of 1 lemon;
- 1 protein.
Cooking process
We mix everything and beat until the volume increases (at least twice). You can get different colors, for this we replace lemon with other juices.
Chocolate glaze
We will need:
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp.;
- milk - 4 tbsp. l.;
- cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter - 1 tbsp. l.;
- vanillin - 1 pack.
The butter must first be pulled out of the refrigerator so that it becomes soft. We add everything to it, and the milk a little later - after we thoroughly rub it. Milk must be added very slowly and stirred all the time to get a homogeneous mass.
caramel icing
For this simple recipe have to take:
- brown sugar - 0.5 cups;
- powdered sugar - 1 cup;
- butter - 2 tbsp. l.;
- milk - 3 tbsp. l.;
- vanillin - 1 pack.
Now cooking
Melt the butter in a saucepan, then add all the ingredients except half of the powder and vanilla. Boil all this for 1 minute and remove from heat to cool. Then you can add everything else and beat.
Professional colored glaze
So let's take:
- powdered sugar - 1 cup;
- milk - 2 tsp;
- sugar syrup- 2 tsp;
- almond extract - a little less than half a tsp;
- dyes.
Cooking process:
Mix powder and milk until you get a soft paste. Add syrup here, beat until the mixture is shiny and smooth. Now it needs to be distributed among the containers in order to be painted.
orange glaze
For cooking, take:
- powdered sugar - 3/4 cup;
- Orange juice- 3/4 cup.
Cooking process:
Mix the ingredients and stir until the icing becomes a little liquid.
Creamy glaze
To prepare creamy glaze Let's take the following ingredients:
- butter - 2 tbsp. l.;
- powdered sugar - 3 tbsp.;
- cream (fatty) - 2/3 cup;
- vanilla to taste.
Cooking process
Pour the cream with butter into a saucepan and heat over low heat until the butter dissolves. Then add other ingredients, with the help of a mixer (at high speeds), beat the mass until it turns out uniform consistency. Let cool until frosting is warm and use.
Marmalade glaze
To prepare the glaze, you need to take:
- 200 g marmalade;
- 4 tbsp. l. Sahara;
- 50 g butter;
- 2 tbsp. l. sour cream.
Cooking process:
Any type of marmalade will do - to your taste. Cut it into small pieces in a saucepan, add other ingredients and heat until melted. Boil should be no more than 15 minutes, while stirring constantly. Remove from heat when the consistency begins to thicken and gurgle more slowly. The icing should have small pieces of marmalade, then it will turn out very beautiful. Cool slightly and grease the cookies.
Chocolate chip cookies with icing
To prepare this recipe, we take:
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp.;
- milk - 4 tbsp. l.;
- cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. l.;
- butter - 1 tbsp. l.;
- vanillin - 1 pack.
Cooking process:
First you need to get the butter out of the refrigerator so that it warms up and becomes soft. Add all ingredients (except milk) and stir. Then slowly add milk to the mixture, making everything homogeneous.
Shortbread in chocolate icing
Ingredients:
- 250 g wheat flour;
- 230 g butter;
- 2 egg yolks;
- 100 g of sugar;
- 50 g dark chocolate
- salt.
Cooking process:
Yolks and 180 g of butter are rubbed together with sugar and salt. To knead the dough, gradually add flour, and then put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
To prevent the dough from sticking, you need to sprinkle the surface where we will roll out with flour. It is necessary to roll out so that the thickness is approximately 5 mm. Cut out cookies using cookie cutters. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake until the dish is golden (about 5 minutes or a little more).
Melt 50 g each of chocolate and butter to pour over pre-chilled cookies.
How to apply glaze
You need to first apply it to the edges, and then to the center. To harden faster, put the cookies in a preheated oven for a few minutes.
