How to bake New Year's gingerbread beautiful and tasty. New Year's gingerbread - decoration, souvenir and just yummy! Traditional and fantasy recipes for New Year's gingerbread

Look how my Christmas tree 3D gingerbread turned out. I made it for the New Year, to decorate the festive table. Such a beautiful Christmas tree can also serve as a wonderful decoration for the New Year's cake, if you make it on a wooden skewer and then just stick it into the cake. I think my master class of a gingerbread Christmas tree, on New Year's Eve, will come in handy for many and you will delight your loved ones with such hand-made beauty. If you don’t know what dough they can be made from, I advise you to look at one of my favorite options from which they are obtained.

It is not very difficult to make New Year's gingerbread cookies with your own hands, the main thing is to do everything gradually, do not rush and do not neglect the advice. I offer you a fairly understandable master class on painting gingerbread with icing, according to which everything will turn out beautifully and in an original way. Different patterns for gingerbread for the new year can be found on the Internet, or you can draw from different children's coloring books.

Necessary:

• Ready-made gingerbread - 4 parts
• Edible beads - optional
• Egg white - 1 pc.
• Lemon juice - 0.5 tsp
• Powdered sugar - 150 g
• Water - sk.leaves
• Blue food coloring - 1 - 2 drops
• satin ribbon

Master class of New Year's gingerbread with icing

I won’t show you how to cook delicious gingerbread at home, as I have done it many times already. I’ll tell you briefly, I cut out special blanks from the dough, this is the Christmas tree itself, a snowflake ball and a round stand. Maybe you don’t understand why I need both a snowflake and a ball, but I decided to do both one and the second option, because I couldn’t decide what I liked the most. Therefore, if you like it with a snowflake, leave it, and if you like it with a ball, then take it. Immediately after baking, I make a hole in the ball with an ordinary cocktail tube, and cut the desired hole in the stand. And in order to get a beautiful New Year's gingerbread tree, you need to fill it immediately with white icing. For glaze, I mix powder, protein and lemon juice, then beat everything with a mixer at low speed for 3 minutes. Now look at the density, if the glaze is thick, then add a few drops of water, mix and check again.

I make glaze of one medium consistency, if you run a fork over it, a trace should remain, which disappears in 6 - 8 seconds. Then I transfer a small amount of it to another container, add blue dye and mix until smooth, I also transfer the resulting color to a pastry bag. With white icing I outline the contours of the Christmas tree and fill it. Gently shake the gingerbread several times so that the filling evenly lies. I do the same with a stand and a ball. After I leave them for a few hours to dry completely, but it is better to wait 12 - 24 hours. Next, I draw a wavy line in blue.

With the help of a brush, I carefully shade the line and immediately attach the beads there.

I do exactly the same throughout the Christmas tree to get beautiful snow-covered branches. As you can see, gingerbread for the new year is not hard to do with your own hands and this is quite an interesting activity.

While it dries, I cover the snowflake in blue, drawing its lines. By the way, to make such a snowflake, I used special plungers that are squeezed out of the dough, different figures. I also make a dotted contour on the Christmas tree, the ball and the stand in white.

In conclusion, I carefully paint the ball itself and decorate the stand a little. Now I leave them to dry well, after which you can thread the ribbon into the snowflake and into the ball. Next, I try on the Christmas tree both options and choose the one that I like best. A do-it-yourself gingerbread tree made of gingerbread is beautiful and rather unusual, especially since you can eat it.

Here is such a gingerbread Christmas tree I came out. And I also like that it is like 3D and will be a wonderful decoration for a festive table or even a cake! If you make a cake with a flat top, then you can put such beauty on top, but then immediately after baking, stick a skewer into the Christmas tree to make it easier to install, and then you don’t need to make a stand. If you are making Christmas trees for a gift, then be sure to pack them in special bags and tie them beautifully with a ribbon. Also in stores you can find transparent round boxes for such products. Get ready for the holidays in advance, and if you don’t know how long gingerbread is stored, then believe that this period is more than three months. Inspiration for your kitchen!

The tradition of decorating the Christmas tree for the New Year and Christmas with honey gingerbread seems to be returning - more and more often you can see glazed gingerbread next to the balls on the New Year tree. And of course, cooking gingerbread is a great occasion to spend time with children, for whom the author of cookbooks and blogger Irina Chadeeva - now the book is called "Pie Science for Children". So, we arm ourselves with a step-by-step recipe for gingerbread dough and bake and decorate gingerbread cookies for the rest of the weekend until the New Year.

Gingerbread is perhaps the oldest Russian delicacy. Ten centuries ago, the dough for gingerbread was kneaded from honey and rye flour. Later, when spices from the East began to be brought to Russia, cinnamon, anise, cloves, cardamom and even pepper were added to the gingerbread.

In the Middle Ages, gingerbread was baked not only in Russia, but throughout Europe. French gingerbread, Nuremberg almond gingerbread, Swedish gingerbread are still famous.

Today, gingerbread dough is most often made from wheat flour, kneading the dough with sugar, honey, eggs, and spices. Honey gives the gingerbread a wonderful aroma, and also protects them from staleness. Often molasses is used instead of honey.

For cut gingerbread the dough is rolled out with a thickness of 3-5 mm and the figures are cut out with a knife or tin molds. If such gingerbread is supposed to be hung on a Christmas tree, then holes for threads must be made even before baking.

printed gingerbread were very common in Russia. For printed gingerbread, special wooden boards were made with a pattern - prints. Such a form was oiled, stuffed with dough, and then turned over on the table - and the pattern of the form was imprinted on future gingerbread.

Printed gingerbread boards were quite expensive, bakers poached the best carvers from each other to bake gingerbread with the most intricate and beautiful patterns. boards were different - from small, for children's gingerbread, to huge, the size of a table, for gift gingerbread. For some important celebrations, special boards were cut out - with inscriptions and drawings on the occasion of the holiday.

We will learn how to cook both cut-out and printed gingerbread. If you don’t have a wooden mold, it doesn’t matter, shallow molds or plasticine stamps will do. Tin molds (for cut-out gingerbread) can also be replaced - for example, with a small cup or sandbox molds (of course, they must be new).

Gingerbread dough is made mainly from flour, sugar and honey, with a small amount of liquid and oil added. Such a dough can be kneaded as much as you like, but it is very important not to forget to add baking powder, then the gingerbread cookies will be tender, not dense.

These gingerbread cookies can be stored for a long time, and in our family we bake these to hang on the Christmas tree. To do this, in each gingerbread, you need to make a hole with a straw for a cocktail and only then put it in the oven.

Rules for working with dough for gingerbread:

• do not forget to cool the milk-honey mixture;
• let the dough lie down so that it is well saturated with the aroma of spices;
• be sure to lay baking paper on a baking sheet;
• since the gingerbread cookies are dark, you may not notice that they are browned, so watch the baking especially carefully.

For test:

• 300 g flour (set aside 2 tablespoons of this amount)
• 50 g sugar
• 100 g honey
• 50 ml milk
• 1 egg
• 40 g butter
• 2 teaspoons ground spices (1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger, 3-4 crushed cloves, a quarter of grated nutmeg, 1 ground cardamom pod)
• 1 teaspoon with a slide of cocoa
• 1 teaspoon baking powder

Glaze:

• 1 egg white
• 220 g powdered sugar

Crockery and equipment:

• dough mixing bowl
• spoon
• rolling pin
• molds
• straw for cocktail
• tassel
• baking sheet lined with baking paper
• preheat oven to 200°C

1. Sift flour into a large bowl, add cocoa, baking powder, spices and mix.

1. Butter, sugar, honey, milk, put in a saucepan and put on a slow fire, stir until the sugar dissolves. You don't need to boil. Cool the mixture to 30–40°C.

1. Make a well in the flour and pour the honey syrup into it, add the egg. Knead a fairly soft, elastic dough with a spoon.

1. Turn the dough out onto a table dusted with two tablespoons of flour and knead well. Place it in the refrigerator, wrapped in a bag, for an hour or more. This dough can be stored in the refrigerator for several days (and it only gets better!).

Previously, gingerbread dough was specially kept for several months in the cold so that it acquired the necessary aroma and ductility. Some gingerbreads could also be stored for a very long time - they, of course, stale, but did not deteriorate.

1. Take the dough out of the fridge and let it rest for half an hour so that it warms up and is easier to work with. Roll out the finished dough on a lightly floured table to a thickness of 2-3 mm and cut out the cookies.

1. Transfer the cookies to a baking sheet, brushing off excess flour with a soft brush. Use a cocktail straw to make holes for the ribbons.
2. The remaining pieces of dough can be collected and rolled out again.
3. If you want to bake printed gingerbread cookies, butter a gingerbread board and stuff the dough as tightly as possible. Run a rolling pin over the top and turn it over onto a floured table. Carefully remove the cookies and place on a baking sheet.

1. Bake the cut gingerbread for 8 minutes at 200°C, and the printed ones for 15 minutes at 180°C.
2. For the icing, beat the protein into a dense foam (as for meringue), add half the powdered sugar and beat again, the mass will be fluid. Add the rest of the powder and stir. Transfer the mixture to a bag, cut off the end to make a very small hole, and decorate the gingerbread. Let the glaze dry for a couple of hours.

Gingerbread cookies can also be decorated with melted chocolate. But painting gingerbread cookies with chocolate or icing beautifully and neatly is a difficult task! Even an experienced pastry chef requires concentration and attention, so I advise you to practice on a simple sheet of baking paper first. Make sure that the glaze is thick enough, in this case it is much more convenient to draw with it.

Comment on the article "New Year's gingerbreads step by step: a recipe for children from Chadeika"

I took the recipe here last year, no one remembers who gave it? Or maybe he will give a link to the recipe itself ... I remember that it’s barely a dough. I have been sharing this recipe in Sitting for many years in a row, but the dough when kneading is not tight, but soft, so maybe this is not the right recipe ...

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gingerbread cookies? This? similar to the description))
0.75 cups of honey
1.75 cups sugar
250 g butter
6 cups flour
3 eggs
1 teaspoon a spoonful of soda (namely soda and not baking powder !!!)
2 tsp ginger
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp cloves

Heat honey with spices to a boil and add oil.
Beat eggs with sugar and combine with COOLED syrup.
Add soda and gradually, pouring through a sieve, stir in the flour.


Roll out the dough into a layer of 2-3 mm, cut out cookies and bake at 180 C -6-7 minutes.

Christmas gingerbread recipe. Learn to cook! Cooking. Culinary recipes, help and advice on cooking, festive menus and receptions, food selection. Christmas gingerbread recipe. Girls, please share. We need those who paint ...

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I made Molokhovets according to the recipe - these are really gingerbread cookies, they don’t dry out, they don’t get stale, they are perfect)
Melt 500 g of sugar, when all the grains have melted, pour 200 ml of boiling water gently, in a thin stream, stirring constantly.
as soon as the mixture becomes homogeneous, remove from heat and add 200 g of butter, mix vigorously to dissolve.
wait until it cools to room temperature, beat in one egg., mix.
gradually add flour mixed with 1/2 tsp. salt, 1 tsp soda, 1 tsp ginger, 2 tsp cinnamon, a little cloves, cardamom, pepper.
knead in a bowl while kneading. then put it on a table, sprinkled with flour, and mix it in until the dough becomes, like plasticine - elastic, and slightly sticky.
put in a bag and put in the refrigerator for a day, at least.
such a dough can lie in the refrigerator for a month without any damage), it only gets better.
roll out a layer with a thickness of 5-7 millimeters. 180 degrees for 6-7 minutes. do not be embarrassed if the gingerbread cookies seem unbaked to you - this is how it should be, they will reach in the air.
just don't leave the baking sheet in the open! I baked for gifts, left it in the kitchen for the night, and in the morning everything was eaten. I had to bake a second batch.
well, at least household members with a satisfied physique walked all day)

12/21/2017 11:50:05 PM, not a cook

Chairman of the parent committee: Guys, let's discuss what we will give children in the new year? We don’t scatter much - the budget is 200 rubles. for a child, so... Magician Mom: I can make a set of painted gingerbread cookies for everyone.

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What a blessing, all this has passed me. My son graduated from high school this year, they didn’t even discuss graduation like that, they suggested it at the meeting, everyone agreed and that’s it.

And we lived to the 5th grade and everything became wonderful in our chats, everything was on point. No gifts for anyone, including teachers. Fees only for additional benefits and excursions - completely voluntary. If you don't want or can't go on a tour - no one forces you. The main thing is to offer only one variant agreed in advance with the RK.

Gingerbread recipe. Where?:). Bakery. Cooking. Cooking recipes, cooking help and tips, a holiday menu, and 2/3 cup corn syrup.

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Christmas gingerbread cookies
Output approximately 180 pcs. if the cookies are about 6cm
[link-1]

1 + 3/4 cups sugar

6 glasses (cups) of flour

2 teaspoons spoons of cinnamon

2 teaspoons spoons of cloves

2 teaspoons tablespoons ground ginger

* (glass) = 240 ml.

Let the dough lie in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours, and preferably a day.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator 1-2 hours before rolling, so it is easier to work with.

I roll out no more than 5 mm, bake an average of 10-13 minutes at a temperature of 180, but just do everything depends on the oven.
the dough is dense, the gingerbread is also dense, they will not be soft like in the store, because they should not be so, they are stored for a long time, you can safely hang them on a Christmas tree for a month and then eat them.

Excuse your topic I'll ask. Can you freeze gingerbread dough?

From my experience: cupcakes are small and large in rectangular shapes, but do not cut thinly; pack cookies in bags; medium-sized pies, under NG gingerbread on a string. My daughter's school is safe and not cheap :) they sold pasta (those that are cakes) ...

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You think logically. Everyone there will sell baked goods. Everyone bought everything. They want water. And you take and bring five-liter drinks with cups and sell them at a higher price. Everyone will buy, especially towards the end. When everyone is fed up. This is how I earned about 300 out of 100 rubles. Very profitable. we will do this every year

01/22/2019 05:13:55 PM, Someone

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Here it is!
so you can make any cookies and decorate, these are made from gingerbread dough (I also make gingerbread houses from it)
to decorate the Christmas tree and just like that, i.e. long-term storage, if cookies usually harden and dry out, then these will be hard, but crumbly in moderation, but this is also an amateur
Gingerbread cookies are not tender and crumbly, they are dense, as they did in the old days))
but we love to nibble like that)) are stored for a long time.
Christmas gingerbread cookies
Output approximately 180 pcs. if the cookies are about 6cm
2/3 cup corn syrup. Can be replaced with liquid honey. Recipe for Invert Syrup (Corn Syrup Substitute) [link-1]
but I use ONLY honey)) I just have a lot of it, although I have corn syrup and glucose syrup, I'm thrifty))) but honey is best.

1 + 3/4 cups sugar
1 + 1/2 cup butter (I use 250g-300g)

6 glasses (cups) of flour

1-2 teas. spoons of soda, I put 1 spoon and still the dough rises very well, soda reacts with honey, for the house it’s just necessary that it doesn’t rise)) for gingerbread it doesn’t matter.
this time I didn’t put it at all, I managed with baking powder.

2 teaspoons spoons of cinnamon

2 teaspoons spoons of cloves

2 teaspoons tablespoons ground ginger

I still definitely put 1 tsp. nutmeg and cardamom
* (glass) = 240 ml.

Syrup (i.e. honey in my case) with spices, heat to a boil and add oil.
already this mixture is incredibly fragrant and tasty, I eat it drop by drop with a spoon))
Beat eggs with sugar and combine with COOLED syrup. Add soda and
gradually, pouring through a sieve, stir in the flour.
Let the dough lie in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours, and preferably a day.
Remove the dough from the refrigerator 1-2 hours before rolling, so it is easier to work with.

gingerbread. . Cooking. Culinary recipes, help and advice on cooking, festive menus and receptions, food selection.

New Year's gingerbread with spices is considered a traditional treat that combines the sweetness of a dessert and the originality of a holiday gift. By tradition, they are baked before the Christmas holidays, given to friends and relatives, and decorated on the New Year tree. For such New Year's gingerbread, an unusual recipe is used, but with a lot of muffin, fragrant spices. Decoration of products is also festive - they are poured with multi-colored icing, Santa Claus figures, snowflakes, Christmas trees and other festive motifs are created on the surface of each gingerbread.

Gingerbread has a long history. Christmas gingerbread with icing has been popular since the Middle Ages in Europe. Then fairs were even held, where these gingerbreads were sold in beautiful festive boxes. In addition to gingerbread, products of other shapes were also baked in the form of figures of kings, castles, mills, hearts, and so on.

The richer the gingerbread or gingerbread house was decorated, the more expensive it was. Handmade gingerbreads were presented as gifts for the New Year and Christmas to the dearest and closest people. In the most precious samples, gold was used in paint for painting, the surface was decorated with beads, everything was done by hand. The recipe for New Year's gingerbread was usually kept and passed down from generation to generation.

Today you can make handmade gingerbread cookies with your own hands, and not necessarily on Christmas Eve. Such products will delight children and adults, bring the aroma of holiday and magic into your home. Made with your own hands, such a gingerbread can become a present and decoration for the Christmas tree.

Ingredients

For a fragrant soft gingerbread dough, you will need the following products:

• 200 milliliters of liquid fresh honey;
• 2 large chicken eggs;
• 200-gram pack of butter;
• 30 grams of cocoa powder;
• 1 cup of sugar;
• half a teaspoon of soda and salt;
• 5 grams of ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves;
• 2 packets of vanilla sugar;
• half a teaspoon of nutmeg;
• 950 grams of white wheat flour.

By the way, you can use fresh ginger in this recipe, finely grate it. But don't overdo it, as the ginger root is quite pungent in taste and can ruin your New Year's gingerbread dough.

There is no liquid in such a test, such as milk or water. Thanks to this, your finished gingerbread can be stored for about 1 month and not deteriorate. Also keep in mind that the painting should harden properly, so start preparing such holiday pastries in a few days.

Cooking process

For high-quality gingerbread, cooking takes very little time. The only thing is that you have to tinker with painting in order to get really beautiful holiday products. Let's start by kneading the dough:

1. Pour liquid honey into a large bowl, where further kneading will take place. It is also acceptable to use frozen honey, only it must first be melted in a water bath or in a microwave oven, and then cooled to room temperature.
2. Also melt the butter and cool to room temperature, mix it with sugar while it is hot, until all the crystals have dissolved. Combine honey and butter with sugar using a whisk.
3. Break the eggs into a separate bowl, stir with a mixer until smooth. Lush proteins in this recipe are not required, but you need to connect the eggs. Pour the beaten eggs into the honey mixture.
4. Mix well, add vanilla sugar and spices to this mixture. Usually, dry ground spices are used in recipes, but if you use fresh ginger root, it must be finely grated or crushed in a mortar.

1. Enter cocoa. If the cocoa is a little lumpy, add one tablespoon of powdered sugar to it and stir, and only then add to the honey mixture.
2. Add salt and soda. You can use baking powder instead of baking soda. In this case, you will need one bag, designed for 1 kilogram of flour.
3. Be sure to sift the flour, then pour it in portions into the honey mixture and knead each time with a submersible mixer.
4. When it becomes difficult to knead the dough with a mixer, sprinkle the table with flour, put the gingerbread dough into it and continue kneading it by hand. All flour must be used. The dough should turn out to be very tight and dense, similar to shortbread, even a little harder.

Before preparing New Year's gingerbread, the dough needs to stand for at least half an hour. Wrap it in cling film and place it in the refrigerator for this time. After that, let's start creating holiday baking:

1. Roll out the dough into a layer about 4 millimeters thick, covering it with parchment. Then turn the sheet upside down with the parchment.
2. Prepare stencils in advance, according to which you will cut the gingerbread cookies. In addition to paper stencils, these can be special cuttings or molds made of tin or silicone. If you use paper blanks, it is best to make them from parchment so that they do not stick to the dough.
3. Now attach the stencils to the dough so that they do not overlap each other. Cut out the outlines with a very thin sharp knife. You can use various improvised means. For example, cocktail tubes are quite suitable for creating small holes.
4. Now we cover the baking sheet with parchment, grease it with a small amount of melted butter. Carefully, using a wide spatula, transfer all the blanks to the parchment. You can not leave gaps between them, since the gingerbread dough does not increase much in volume.
5. Preheat the oven at 180 degrees, then place a baking sheet with gingerbread in it, bake for about 5 minutes, depending on the thickness of the product. Ready gingerbread will darken, at first it will seem very dry to you, but when they cool, the dough will become softer and juicier.

Put all the gingerbread cookies on a dish in 1 layer and cool to room temperature. Before decorating such products, the dough must be completely cool, otherwise the glaze will not stick to the surface.

For the decoration of New Year's gingerbread, a special icing is required. We offer the simplest and most affordable glaze recipe for painting:

1. Separate one chilled egg white and pour it into a clean bowl without any traces of fat. In this recipe, you do not need to beat the protein until fluffy foam with a mixer, just lightly stir it with a fork or whisk.
2. Then carefully add 200 grams of finely ground powdered sugar to the protein through a sieve, remembering to constantly stir the mass. Mix everything until a homogeneous consistency. The mass should resemble cream for a cake.
3. Now squeeze one tablespoon of juice from the lemon, be sure to strain it so that no seeds or pulp get into it. Pour the lemon juice into the glaze and knead for about 3 minutes with a silicone or wooden spatula.
4. To get colored glaze, you need liquid dyes. It is best to use gel ones, they are thicker, better combined with icing and creams. Add dyes very carefully so that the color is natural.

Now let's start decorating:

1. The most difficult thing is to make a voluminous gingerbread Christmas tree. To do this, while the dough is still hot, make an incision from top to bottom about 2/3 of the length of one piece. After that, insert a second flat workpiece into the groove so that both of them are at right angles to each other.
2. To cover the Christmas tree, you will need green and brown icing. Using a pastry bag with a narrow nozzle, apply brown icing to the trunk, paint the branches of the Christmas tree with green icing.
3. We paint the rest of the flat decorations as desired. You can put on them various patterns of glaze of different colors, snowflakes, draw deer, stars and other indispensable attributes of the New Year.
4. In addition, you can decorate gingerbread cookies with multi-colored confectionery sprinkles, colored coconut flakes, chocolate chips or crumbs.
5. The glaze dries in about half an hour, but if you applied a thick layer of glaze, it may take longer to dry.

New Year's gingerbread figurines will become a favorite treat for your whole family for the New Year. You can make them the centerpiece of your holiday table as well as decorate your Christmas tree.

On the eve of the New Year, we offer to cook delicious gingerbread for the New Year with our own hands according to our recipes with photos. Finished gingerbread cookies are decorated with white or chocolate icing to choose from (see photo below). If desired, pastries are painted in brighter colors.

Chocolate lovers will love this simple and original recipe. To make the gingerbread cookies more pronounced chocolate flavor, you can add grated or melted chocolate. An ordinary confectionery tile is quite suitable. If you use cocoa, adjust the amount to your liking.

Ingredients:

• honey - 250 g;
• sugar - 100 g;
• vanillin;
• butter - 150 g;
• cardamom - 1 inflorescence;
• egg;
• nutmeg;
• flour - 500 g;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• cocoa - 25 g;
• cinnamon - 2 sticks;
• carnation - 5 inflorescences.

Cooking:

1. Mix honey, sugar and butter in a bowl. For those who do not like too sweet pastries, it is recommended to use less sugar.
2. Grind spices in a coffee grinder. Add them to the ingredients listed above.
3. Put the mass on fire. Let it warm up, but do not bring to a boil.
4. Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
5. Whisk the egg. Add dry ingredients and beat into the mass standing on the stove. If everything is done correctly, the finished dough will resemble plasticine in structure.
6. Roll it into a ball and wrap it in cling film. Place the dough in the refrigerator for an hour. If you want it to cool faster, you need to transfer it to the freezer.
7. Before cutting out dough blanks for gingerbread for the New Year, take it out of the refrigerator or freezer and let it lie warm for 30 minutes.
8. Dust the surface with flour. Roll out the dough. Cut out the shapes.
9. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and place cookies on it. Simmer in the oven for 15 minutes at 175 degrees. If you want the gingerbread cookies to be denser and crispier, bake them within half an hour.

Custard gingerbread for the New Year 2018

Custard gingerbread (see photo) to cook with your own hands for the New Year is not much more difficult than chocolate. Of course, the recipe is somewhat different from the above. To make the finished pastry look more attractive on top, you can grease it with whipped yolk.

AND ingredients:

• sugar - 200 g;
• butter - 40 g;
• flour - 2.5 tbsp.;
• eggs - 2 pcs.;
• honey - st. l.;
• soda - 1 tsp;
• boiling water - ½ tbsp.

Cooking:

1. Whisk eggs and sugar. They should turn into a homogeneous mass.
2. Bring water and honey to a boil. Wait for the honey to dissolve.
3. Carefully pour in the egg mixture. Stir.
4. Add all other ingredients. Stir again.
5. Remove from heat and knead the dough again, but more thoroughly.
6. Wait until the dough has cooled down. During this time, it should become a little thicker.
7. Roll it out. With the help of molds you need to cut out the figures.
8. Bake gingerbread cookies at a temperature of 200 degrees for no more than 10 minutes.

New Year's dessert is ready. It remains to cover the gingerbread with icing or leave them in their original form. If the pastry turned out to be very thin, it is easy to build a Christmas tree out of it by pouring layers of cream or all the same icing.

How to prepare glaze for painting?

It is customary to paint New Year's gingerbread with icing. There are many recipes for its preparation. Let's take a look at the most common of them. Its main advantage is that it does not crumble. When the glaze dries, it becomes perfectly smooth and even. Gingerbreads decorated with it look very festive.

Ingredients:

• protein - 1 pc.;
• powdered sugar - 200 g;
• lemon juice - Art. l.

Cooking:

1. Crack an egg into a glass. Separate the protein.
2. Remove fibers. Sift the powdered sugar.
3. Whisk it with protein. Add powder in batches.
4. Add juice at the end. Beat again.

If the frosting seems to be too runny, you can add a little more powdered sugar. If the mass came out fairly thick, it is almost impossible to ideally draw a smooth surface on the gingerbread. But drawing thin lines with thick glaze is best.

To decorate the gingerbread cookies with bright colors, use food coloring in your preferred shades. Remember, frosting dries quickly. To prevent this from happening, cover it with cling film.

Unusual orange gingerbread

To surprise households and guests, cook orange gingerbread for the New Year with your own hands (see photo). Dessert baked at home is much tastier and healthier than store bought. Children and adults will be crazy about these gingerbread cookies.

Ingredients:

• flour - 7 tbsp.;
• baking powder - 2 tsp;
• eggs - 3 pcs.;
• butter - 240 g;
• sugar - 2 tbsp.;
• honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
• cocoa - 2 tsp;
• orange - 2 pcs.;
• cinnamon - 2 tsp;
• ginger - 1 tsp;
• salt - 1 tsp

Recipe:

1. Squeeze the juice from the oranges, after removing the zest from them.
2. Beat butter with eggs, flour and sugar.
3. Add orange juice there (no more than 100 ml).
4. Add all other ingredients to the mixture.
5. Stir. Knead the dough into a homogeneous dense mass.
6. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour, after wrapping it in plastic.
7. Remove from refrigerator and divide into 4 portions.
8. Roll out the dough as thinly as possible. Cut out shapes from it.
9. Bake the cookies for 15 minutes at 170 degrees.
10. When the cake has cooled, decorate it with frosting.

Ready-made gingerbread cookies can be put in a beautiful dish on the New Year's table, or you can make small holes in them before baking and hang them on the Christmas tree, using beautiful ribbons as a basis.

How to cook gingerbread goats?

Roe gingerbread is a fairly popular type of New Year's treat. They are liked by both children and adults. Try to bake them for the New Year with your own hands according to our recipe with a photo. The reaction of the household will not be long in coming.

Ingredients:

• rye flour - 1 kg;
• honey - 1 tbsp.;
• sugar - 2 tbsp.;
• water - 2 tbsp.;
• butter - 100 g;
• cinnamon - 1 g;
• cloves - 1 g;

Cooking:

1. Add sugar and honey to the water. Put on fire.
2. Do not turn off the gas until the liquid becomes dark in color.
3. When the water has cooled down a bit, add the butter.
4. Send spices there too. Add flour and knead the dough.
5. Put it in the refrigerator for an hour. During this time, it should become more pliable.
6. Dust the surface with flour. Roll out the dough into a very thin layer.
7. Cut out the shapes to your liking.
8. Bake at 220 degrees for up to 15 minutes. This time is enough for the gingerbread to brown.
9. Decorate the cookies with icing.

water - ½ st.;

powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.;

eggs - 3 pcs.;

protein;

butter - 1 tbsp. l.;

honey - 1 tbsp.;

cinnamon - 1 tbsp. l.;

cloves - ½ tsp;

soda - ½ tsp;

almonds - 1 tbsp.

Cooking:

1. Dissolve honey in water. Put the liquid on fire.
2. When the water has cooled, add flour. Add soda to it.
3. Break up the eggs. Add them to water and other ingredients.
4. Chop the almonds. Add it to the rest of the ingredients.
5. Add cinnamon, cloves and butter there.
6. Mix all ingredients well. Roll out the dough into a thin layer.
7. Line a baking sheet with paper. Put the gingerbread in there.
8. Bake up to 10 minutes at 180 degrees. Let the gingerbread cool down.

While the cake is cooling, you can prepare the glaze for it. To do this, beat the protein - it should increase several times. Add powdered sugar and lemon juice to it. Continue whisking until done. Glaze can be very beautiful to decorate New Year's gingerbread!

Cook gingerbread (see photo) using one of the recipes, not only for the New Year, but also for Christmas. Homemade pastries can be a great gift for your loved ones.

New Year's gingerbread is a beautiful and tasty home decoration for everyone's favorite holiday. This pastry is universal, since products can not only be put on the table. Homemade New Year's gingerbread cookies can be used as Christmas tree decorations by tying pieces of paper with wishes. This traditional pastry is often given as a gift to family and friends. Here are some tasty options.

Recipe for chocolate gingerbread dough

Combine half a pack of soft butter with one hundred grams of sugar. It is recommended to add a pack of vanillin. The main thing at this stage is to mix the ingredients very thoroughly with a mixer for five minutes. If the sugar does not completely dissolve, then the New Year's gingerbread will not be smooth, and its surface will not be uniform. Then we continue to beat, gradually adding three large tablespoons of cocoa, a little cinnamon, orange zest, twenty grams of finely grated ginger and one large egg. All ingredients should be completely dissolved, and the mass should become completely homogeneous.

In a separate bowl, mix 260 grams of flour with half a teaspoon of soda. Now we begin to gradually add the mixture to the dough. When it becomes dense, it is recommended to knead with your hands. How neat the cooked New Year's gingerbread at home will be neat depends on the even distribution of flour.

The dough, which should become like plasticine, put in the refrigerator for half an hour, and preferably all night. It needs to be cooled down well for the oil to solidify. In this case, it will be very convenient to work with the semi-finished product. Now you can move on to the next stage.

Rules for working with dough for chocolate gingerbread

Before you start baking, it is recommended to make a dough product. This will allow you to see, firstly, how much they will increase in volume, and secondly, whether the pastries are holding their shape. If the future New Year's gingerbread immediately melts, becomes greasy and there are problems when transferring it to a baking sheet, then you need to add flour. Be sure to distribute it well, knead thoroughly again and put to cool.

If everything is in order, then the dough in the process is recommended to be divided into four parts. We leave one of them, put the rest in the refrigerator. The dough must be rolled out on parchment. You can not rub the rolling pin with flour or sprinkle the semi-finished product with it.

Gingerbread "Merry family" and "Snowmen"

You can decorate the Christmas tree with this original pastry. We offer the following recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home.

Products should be thin and crispy. Therefore, the dough must be rolled out with a thickness of no more than 3 mm, since it will increase during the cooking process. Make figures with molds and put them in the oven for 6-10 minutes. The temperature should be no more than 175 degrees. But it is recommended to make a test gingerbread so as not to spoil the whole dough.

We cool the prepared products very well. Only in this case we remove them from the tray. Otherwise, they will crumble. Now decorate with frosting.

You can hang products on the Christmas tree.

Recipe for honey gingerbread dough

Put a third cup of liquid honey in a saucepan, a small spoonful of cinnamon, starch, vinegar, ground ginger and a little salt. Put the mass in a water bath and, constantly stirring, turn it into This recipe for New Year's gingerbread can be supplemented with a pinch of ground cloves. You will get a very fragrant cake.

Now put two-thirds of a pack of soft butter into the mixture and leave to cool completely. At this time, beat two eggs with a glass of sugar. Mix everything together and begin to gradually add flour. All you need is three glasses. Of course, it all depends on the quality of the flour. Place the well-kneaded dough in the refrigerator overnight. Now you can start shaping.

New Year's gingerbread "Herringbone" from honey dough

Such products will be an excellent decoration for the main table, or they can be crowned with a birthday cake. But these are not only original, but also very tasty New Year's gingerbread. With your own hands, you can make toys and glaze beads for the Christmas tree.

Do-it-yourself ready-made New Year's gingerbreads then need to be cooled very well. At this time, prepare the green icing. We form Christmas trees, lubricating each layer and gluing them from largest to smallest. We leave the products for three to four hours. Now you can put them on the festive table or decorate the cake.

Eggless Honey Gingerbread Dough Recipe

The proposed option is an excellent semi-finished product for those who do not consume animal products. Despite the fact that there are no eggs in this recipe, the final product will not lose in any way in terms of its taste characteristics.

Grind 150 grams of low-fat sour cream very carefully with 300 grams of sugar. Add soft butter to the mixture. It will take a third of the pack. Add 190 grams of liquid honey, a little salt and cloves, a teaspoon of soda and ground ginger. Mix everything and gradually add half a kilo of sifted flour.

The dough must be kneaded very well and rolled into a ball. Next, wrap the semi-finished product in cling film and send to cool overnight. If it is possible, then it is possible for a longer period. Because, no matter how good the recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home is, only well-chilled dough will be elastic and pliable. The semi-finished product is ready for cooking. It must be rolled out to a thickness of at least 10 mm.

Recipe for Christmas gingerbread with icing "Gift"

These items are great for gifts. The proposed recipe for New Year's gingerbread with icing can be changed and supplemented. To prepare them, you will need chocolate or honey dough (with or without eggs), a knife, different molds, a little patience, more imagination and a good oven.

You can cook such products: Christmas trees, shoes and staves. They will make the kids very happy.

And the next version of the presentation is more suitable for adult guests.

An original gift can be a gingerbread assortment of chocolate and honey products, elegantly decorated. It's not hard at all to make them.

In conclusion, let's dwell on how to properly prepare the glaze. This can be done very simply. However, some rules and basic steps must be followed.

200 grams of powdered sugar must be sifted. To obtain high-quality glaze, it is recommended to repeat this procedure two or three times. Next, add it to the protein and begin to beat the mixture until a steep foam is obtained. Gradually add a small spoonful of starch and pour in a little lemon juice. If you need colored glaze, then add food coloring.

We apply it with a special culinary syringe. For this purpose, you can also use a tight bag. Fill it with glaze, cut off a corner and gently press, applying patterns.

How to store finished products

Whatever the recipe for New Year's gingerbread, the definite advantage of this baking is that the products can be stored for some time. The main thing is to properly organize this process.

Gingerbread can be stored in a special container for up to fourteen days if the temperature is about 18 degrees and the relative humidity is about 75 percent. Products in this case will become softer every day.