How to decorate gingerbread for the new year. New Year's gingerbread - decoration, souvenir and just yummy! Traditional and fantasy recipes for New Year's gingerbread

If you have never baked the most New Year's sweet, you have lost a lot. What a pleasure to cook and then decorate New Year's gingerbread with the children! Moreover, there is nothing complicated in preparing this delicacy.

To bake New Year's gingerbread, you will need a minimum of ingredients. Mandatory components of this New Year's dessert are flour, any honey that is at hand, and spices (spices). Without them, New Year's gingerbread and not gingerbread at all, because even the name of this delicacy already implies the presence of spices in it.

But to decorate New Year's gingerbread, you will also need patience and a good mood. So stock up on both, take your loved ones to help and prepare New Year's gingerbread cookies for the festive table for a dessert of fabulous beauty. We are ready, in turn, to offer you several recipes, from the simplest to the most intricate, leaving the choice up to you.

Sweet honey New Year's gingerbread "Winter's Tale"

Ingredients:
4 tbsp. flour,
½ st. water,
3 eggs,
1 st. l. butter,
1 st. honey,
1 st. l. ground cinnamon,
½ tsp ground cloves,
½ tsp soda,
1 st. almonds.
For glaze:
1 egg white
1 st. powdered sugar
8-10 drops of lemon juice.

Cooking:
Put the mixture of water and honey on the fire and bring to a boil. Cool slightly, gradually add flour, soda, mashed eggs, butter, cinnamon, cloves and chopped almonds. Mix and place the dough on a table sprinkled with flour. Roll out the dough into a layer 1-1.5 cm thick and cut out the figures. Put the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and bake in an oven preheated to 200ºС for 10-15 minutes. Let the finished gingerbread cookies cool and cover them with icing. To prepare it, beat the protein with a whisk until it is increased 3-4 times. While beating, slowly add the icing sugar and then the lemon juice. Rub the icing until white and fluffy. Using a pastry bag or a simple plastic bag with the end cut off, simply spread the icing on the gingerbread cookies. You can sprinkle them with confectionery sprinkles in the form of stars, snowflakes, balls, and then wait until the icing hardens to admire the creation of your hands.

Unfortunately, such rich, lush gingerbread cookies are not suitable for drawing patterns on them. For this, the so-called kozuli are ideal - gingerbread made from a denser dough.

Gingerbread icing can be tinted to create intricate patterns. It is desirable to use natural products as dyes - cocoa, chocolate, beetroot, carrot or spinach juice, etc.

Chocolate Christmas gingerbread

Ingredients:
250 g honey
100 g sugar
150 g butter,
1 egg
500 g flour
1 tsp baking powder
25 g cocoa powder
2 cinnamon sticks
5 carnations,
pea-sized nutmeg
1 cardamom inflorescence,
some vanilla.
For glaze:
1 protein
180 g of powdered sugar,
a few drops of lemon juice
1 st. l. starch (without top).

Cooking:
Melt butter, honey and sugar in a saucepan, add 1 tbsp. l. spices ground in a coffee grinder. Leave the mass to warm up for another 5 minutes, but do not boil. Then mix the flour with cocoa, baking powder, add the egg, slowly pour in the hot mixture and mix. You should get a dough that resembles plasticine in consistency. Knead well, wrap in cling film and refrigerate for a couple of hours. Before cooking, remove the dough from the refrigerator and let it rest for another half an hour at room temperature so that it softens. On a table sprinkled with flour, roll out the dough into a layer 3-5 mm thick, cut out cockerel figures from it and put them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, send them to an oven preheated to 170ºС for 15 minutes, if you want the gingerbread cookies to turn out soft, or for 25-30 minutes if you prefer harder and more tanned. After baking, decorate the gingerbread cookies with glaze patterns. To prepare the glaze, mix all the ingredients thoroughly in a bowl. Keep an eye on the glaze, its consistency should be such that it can be painted.

Orange New Year's gingerbread "Yolochnye toys"

Ingredients:
7 art. flour,
2 tsp baking powder
3 eggs,
240 g butter,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
1-2 tbsp. l. honey,
2 tsp cocoa powder
2 medium sized oranges
2 tsp cinnamon,
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp salt,
icing - for decoration.

Cooking:
Remove the zest from the oranges, squeeze the juice from the fruit. Combine butter, eggs, flour, sugar and orange juice (about 100 ml), add cocoa, ginger, cinnamon, liquid honey, baking powder and zest to the mixture. Knead the dough. Divide it into 4 parts, roll each one alternately into a layer 3-5 mm thick. Remember that the thinner you roll out the dough, the firmer and crispier your gingerbread will be. Cut out the shapes. You can use a cocktail tube to make holes, then the gingerbread can be hung on a Christmas tree. Place the cut out figures on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and bake in the oven preheated to 180ºС for 15 minutes. Then let the finished gingerbread cookies cool and decorate them with icing, which you can cook using the previous recipes or your own, which have already been repeatedly tested in practice.

New Year's gingerbread roes

Ingredients:
1 kg rye flour
1 st. honey,
2 tbsp. Sahara,
2 tbsp. water,
100 g butter.
1 g of cinnamon and cloves.
For glaze:
2 squirrels,
5 st. l. powdered sugar.

Cooking:
Mix sugar, honey and water and boil until the mixture turns brown. Cool it to 70ºС, add butter, cinnamon and cloves to it, stir in the flour and take out the finished dough in the cold, let it stand there for 1 hour. After that, the dough will become pliable, it will be possible not only to cut it out, but also to fashion anything. It is worth noting that it is a little more difficult to work with rye dough than with wheat dough, but gingerbread made from rye dough is much tastier. Roll out the dough on a table sprinkled with flour into a layer, cut out the desired figures from it, which are then placed on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper and bake for 10 minutes at a temperature of 200-220ºС. The figurines should be browned. An interesting fact is that while the gingerbread cookies are warm, they are soft, when they cool, they become harder, and after a couple of days they become softer again. Decorate the baked roes with colored glaze. To prepare it, beat egg whites with powdered sugar. Pour the finished icing into cups (there should be as many as the colors you will use), leave for 20 minutes. During this time, the powdered sugar will completely dissolve, and the mixture will be more homogeneous.

If you want the glazed gingerbread cookies to dry faster, you can dry them in the oven at a temperature of no more than 50ºС. And do not forget to control this process, looking to see if the drawing has changed color.

Forget about fat cream roses on store-bought cakes and conditionally edible icing on imported gingerbread cookies, make homemade New Year's gingerbread! Baked and decorated with their own hands, they are a thousand times tastier than store-bought desserts. And on our website you can always find even more New Year's recipes and tips on what to cook on the New Year's table.

Larisa Shuftaykina

It is difficult to say how many gingerbread cookies you will get from this amount of ingredients, because it will depend on the thickness of the gingerbread and the size of the molds. Approximately how many gingerbread cookies I got, you can see in the photo at the end of the recipe

Pour 100 g of sugar into a thick-walled pot or pan and heat it over medium heat until the sugar melts. Sugar can be gently stirred with a wooden spatula, but it is better to just shake the pan so that the sugar melts evenly.

Carefully pour boiling water into the saucepan. Be careful not to get burned! Add another 100 g of sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved

Reduce heat and add butter. Stir until you have a nice caramel sauce.

Remove the saucepan from the heat, cool. Add the egg to the cooled sauce, mix. Pour the sifted flour, soda, spices and knead the dough

The dough doesn't have to be tough. It will be very thick and sticky. Cover the pot with cling film or a silicone lid and refrigerate for several hours, overnight

When you take the bowl of dough out of the fridge, don't worry, the dough will be very hard. Take the dough in parts and start kneading it with your hands. Due to the warmth of the hands, the dough will become soft and pliable, like plasticine. Sprinkle the work surface with flour, roll out the first portion of the dough and, using the figures, cut out the gingerbread cookies. Roll out not very thin - these are gingerbread :), about 6-7 mm high

Carefully transfer the cookies to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 8-12 minutes (I baked exactly 10 minutes). Attention, this is very important, try not to overdry the gingerbread!!!

Let the cookies cool down a bit and remove from the pan. Also bake gingerbread from the rest of the dough

For icing gelatin, pour 2 tablespoons of water and let it swell for 7-10 minutes

Pour sugar with 2 tablespoons of water, put on medium heat and wait until the sugar is completely dissolved

Remove the resulting syrup from the heat and add the swollen gelatin to it, mix

Pour the resulting transparent mass into a container for whipping and beat with a mixer at high speed for 5-7 minutes, until the mass from transparent turns into ...

thick, white frosting

Pour the icing into a piping bag, or a pastry bag, or simply into a bag with the corner cut off (I have a special icing decorator). Turn on your imagination and start drawing on gingerbread

Somehow I’m not very good with fantasy and with drawing too :), so what you see happened :) Thanks to my daughter Alina, who helped me in everything when preparing these gingerbread cookies. I really like this glaze, but it has one drawback - due to the presence of gelatin, it thickens quickly. Therefore, it is necessary to draw and cover the gingerbread with icing very quickly. If you see that the frosting is starting to thicken, add 1-2 tablespoons of milk to it until the consistency is the same. Additionally, for decoration, in addition to icing, I used sugar sprinkles and confectionery pencils

When the icing dries on the gingerbread, they can be stored in a tin box. There they will remain soft and fragrant for a long time. These gingerbread cookies are not only delicious pastries, but also a wonderful handmade gift that you can give to friends and relatives.

On the eve of the New Year, I want to congratulate all the readers of my favorite site and, first of all, Lenochka and her family, on the upcoming holidays! I want to wish everyone peace, love, happiness and the fulfillment of all your desires :) Happy New Year!

Let's start making New Year's gingerbread by preparing the necessary ingredients.

1. Mix all dry ingredients. In a bowl with flour, add cocoa, vanilla and spices.

   
   
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   In a saucepan with a volume of 2-2.5 liters, combine honey, sugar and margarine.

   
   

3. We set the pan in a water bath. Constantly stir the contents of the saucepan without letting the honey stick. We keep in a water bath until the sugar dissolves and the honey melts. Do not forget, honey can not be heated too much !!!

   
   

4. When the contents of the pan become homogeneous - we introduce the zest of lemon and orange. After that, add baking powder.

   
   

5. Let the contents of the pan cool slightly to 60-50 degrees. Then add eggs and stir vigorously.

   
   

6. We combine all the ingredients.

   
   
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   Knead the gingerbread dough.

   
   

8. We knead the dough with our hands, but you need to be careful not to overdo it with flour, otherwise the honey will cool down and the dough will become elastic. We shift the dough into a bag and leave it in a cool place for 12 hours.

   
   

9. The next day, the gingerbread dough is ready to go. Since there is a lot of dough, you can not use everything at once. It is wonderfully stored in the refrigerator and even the freezer for quite a long time.

   
   

10. We tear off a small piece from the dough and roll out a layer no thicker than 1 cm with a rolling pin.

    
    

11. We cut the gingerbread cookies of the desired shape. You can use special cuttings for gingerbread or a stencil, or you can cut it out by hand with a knife.

    
    

12. Cut out gingerbread cookies with holes necessary for hanging on a Christmas tree, we transfer them to a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.

    
    

13. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 7-10 minutes.

    
    

14. Let the cakes cool completely.

    
    

15. We paint the gingerbread cookies with icing.

    
    

16. We try to carefully paint each gingerbread.

    
    

17. Let the icing dry for 1-1.5 hours, depending on the quality of the icing.

    
    

18. Here we have such beautiful and tasty gingerbread decorations for the Christmas tree! -)

    
    
    
    

What is the New Year without sweets? Tangerines and sweets, lollipops and nuts, truffles and chocolate are obligatory companions of the New Year holidays. And, of course, pastries. We put it on the festive New Year's table, treat our friends, pack New Year's pastries in beautiful gift boxes with our own hands, and even decorate the Christmas tree.

Therefore, we have prepared for you the most popular recipes and ideas for New Year's baking. Meet new and traditional baking recipes for the New Year.

The tradition of cooking gingerbread cookies came to us not so long ago, but quickly became a favorite. What a delight to chew delicious and fragrant gingerbread under the twinkling lights of garlands, which are baked once a year, especially for the New Year holidays.

And the painting on such gingerbread is a separate issue, as it makes the baking itself unique, and its preparation is a real creative process. Therefore, this is an ideal New Year's baking for children, who can be involved in both cooking and decorating gingerbread.

We will need:

To prepare the dough:

• butter - 100 gr.;
• white sugar - 100 gr.;
• cocoa - 1 small spoon;
• cinnamon - 1 small spoon;
• nutmeg - 1 small spoon;
• ground ginger (powder) - 1 small spoon;
• ground cloves - 1 small spoon;
• ground pepper - 0.5 small spoons;
• flour - 180 gr.;
• baking powder - 1.5 small spoons;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• salt.

To prepare the glaze:

• egg whites - 1 pc.;
• powdered sugar - 0.5 cups;
• lemon - 1 tablespoon;
• turmeric and other food colorings;
• toothpicks.

Baking New Year's gingerbread begins long before the holidays, as it is perfectly stored and only becomes tastier from time to time. So already in mid-December, you can safely start the process, or even earlier. Especially if such New Year's pastries are prepared as a gift for the New Year.

Pour sugar into a metal container. We add oil to it, cinnamon, cocoa and nutmeg will also go there. Slightly add the mixture. We put the container on a small flame and warm it up until all the sugar has dissolved, but do not allow it to boil.

Leave the mixture to cool while preparing the dry mixture. Mix flour with baking powder and remaining spices. Now pour the heated mixture into this dry mass. And knead the dough. You should get a homogeneous mass, to which you also need to add fresh eggs. Knead the dough again.

It should be flexible and well behind the hands. If the density is insufficient, it is better to cover the dough with a film, expose it to the cold. In the cold, the mass will become thicker.

If this method did not help thicken the dough, add a little flour, but not more than a couple of tablespoons. A lot of flour will make the dough more viscous, but the gingerbread will turn out to be quite tough.

We divide the already prepared dough into four parts, so it will be easier to roll it out later. Since the dough becomes more viscous again when heated, it is better to take the balls out of the cold in turn, and not all at once. We put all the balls in a bag and send it to the refrigerator for two hours.

We cover the baking sheet where we will bake the gingerbread cookies with baking paper and grease with butter.

To roll out the dough, we use a rolling pin and a board that needs to be greased with vegetable oil.

We take out one ball from the cold and immediately roll it into a layer. The thickness of the gingerbread will be about 8 mm. To cut out the figures, you can use not only New Year's molds and New Year's cookies, but any available in the arsenal.

We quickly transfer the figures to paper. They increase in size during baking, so you need to leave a distance between the gingerbread cookies. New Year's gingerbread cookies are baked in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 10 - 15 minutes.

You need to orientate by the appearance and smell of the gingerbread. The aroma of spices will tell you that it's time to take the gingerbread out of the oven.

It is better to withstand such pastries in a bag or jar, where they are placed still warm. This will help the cookies stay soft longer.

Immediately prepare the glaze for drawing. Beat the egg whites into a thick foam, gradually adding powdered sugar to them. At the very end, add lemon juice.

It remains only to paint the figures. This is not difficult to do using a culinary syringe. You can also use a paint brush or a regular toothpick. If you want to get multi-colored figurines, color the icing in different colors using turmeric, beetroot juice, or just dyes. This design of New Year's baking will make them unique and irresistible.

Painted gingerbread is perhaps the most beautiful pastry for the New Year. They look great on the Christmas tree in the form of decorations, and as New Year's gifts to friends.

Baking on a New Year's theme: cookies "Stars"

Cookies in the form of stars and stars are another great idea for original baking for the New Year.

We will need:

• flour - 1 cup;
• sugar - half a glass;
• butter - 150 gr.;
• baking powder - 1 small spoon;
• citric acid - ¼ small spoon;
• egg yolks - 2 pcs.
• condensed milk - 100 gr.;
• powdered sugar - half a glass.

Mix flour in a bowl along with other dry ingredients, that is, sugar, citric acid and baking powder. We change everything.

Separate the yolks from the proteins and send them to the dry mixture. Once again, knead everything.

Now add the already chopped butter, which you need to chop with a knife along with other ingredients.

Knead the dough, only very quickly so that the butter does not melt much.

Immediately send the dough to the refrigerator, where it should spend at least two hours.

We take out the dough of their coldness and roll it into a thin layer - the thickness is not more than 1 cm. Immediately cut out the figures in the form of stars and transfer them to a baking sheet covered with baking paper.

Bake cookies will be no longer than 15 minutes. The temperature in the oven should be 200 degrees.

When the cookies are baked, take them out and leave to cool. Fold the already cooled cookies in twos and coat with boiled condensed milk.

Put the finished stars on a dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.

Such beautiful cookies will be a wonderful decoration for both children's and family New Year's tables. This is a beautiful and tasty New Year's baking and not much time and effort is spent on its preparation.

Baking for the New Year: honey painted gingerbread

This is a recipe for fragrant, fragrant New Year's gingerbread.

They are not only insanely delicious, but also stored due to the natural preservative of honey for up to six months. But these magic gingerbreads still do not age for so long, they are very tasty. And you can paint them in any style.

We will need:

To prepare the dough:

• buckwheat dark honey - 165 gr.;
• cane sugar - 100 gr.;
• butter - 125 gr.;
• chicken eggs - 1 pc.;
• yolks - 4 pcs.;
• wheat flour of the highest grade - 450 gr.;
• rye flour - 100 gr.;
• natural cocoa - 2 tablespoons of powder;
• soda - 1 small spoon;
• spices - 2 small spoons;
• salt.

To prepare the spice mix:

• cinnamon - 4 parts;
• ginger powder - 1 part;
• cardamom - 1 part;
• coriander - 1 part;
• nutmeg - 1 part;
• allspice - 1 part;
• cloves - 1 part.

To prepare the glaze:

• chicken protein - 1 pc.;
• powdered sugar - 250 gr.;
• lemon juice - 1 tbsp.

Pour sugar into a saucepan with thick walls and add honey. We put the container on the fire and start heating. Continue heating until sugar is completely dissolved. But we don't let it boil.

To make the sugar dissolve faster, you can grind it first.

After dissolving the sugar, add the mixture of spices and all the butter to the saucepan. We continue to stir the contents.

We add soda. Carefully! The mass after adding soda sharply increases in volume and changes color.

At this stage, immediately turn off the burner under the pan. Once again, mix everything with a wooden spatula.

Set aside the mixture - it should cool to 36 - 28 degrees. If you try the mixture with your finger, it should not burn.

Now you can add the egg and egg yolks. We mix two types of flour together with cocoa. Little by little, we begin to add the dry mixture to the liquid. We look at the consistency of the dough and adjust the volume of flour in the process of kneading.

You need to knead the dough well so that it becomes plastic and does not stick to your hands. But at the same time, the dough should not become very steep.

We wrap the dough in a film and send it for proofing in the cold for two hours. You can leave the dough in the cold for a longer period. Therefore, it is convenient to prepare the dough in the evening and leave to ripen all night.

After taking out the dough from their cold, leave it to warm for a couple of hours at room temperature. This test volume is divided into four parts. We roll each part into a layer, the thickness of which will be 5 mm.

It is better to roll out the dough immediately on paper, so that later it does not transfer and deform. Cut out the figures. We remove the excess dough from the paper.

If you plan to use these gingerbread cookies as Christmas decorations, immediately make holes in them for ribbons.

Such honey gingerbreads are baked for about 8 minutes in the oven at 180 or 200 degrees. In order not to get croutons or crispy cookies, do not overdo the gingerbread cookies in the oven.

If the gingerbread cookies are slightly deformed during baking, you can put a flat weight on them. But not immediately, but after 4-5 minutes after you take it out of the oven.

Now prepare the icing by whipping the protein with powdered sugar. Add sweetness little by little to the protein foam. Lemon juice will serve as a fixative, which is added at the very end of whipping.

Use the resulting glaze as a base for contouring and painting. To prepare the filling, part of the glaze is diluted with water so that the density is like that of condensed milk.

But what to draw and how to decorate gingerbread, decide for yourself. But do not forget to involve children in this exciting process. And let their painted gingerbread be not quite a work of art, but such pastries for the New Year are made by hand, so it will definitely be the most delicious and beautiful.

Traditional New Year's baking: curd adit

Usually adits are baked long before the holiday. This dried fruit cake needs to ripen.

And the longer it lies, the tastier and more aromatic it becomes. Such pastries are prepared for the New Year or Christmas table and are considered traditional in many countries.

We will need:

To prepare the dough:

• raisins - 200 gr.;
• dark rum - 100 ml;
• flour - 500 gr.;
• brown sugar - 150 gr.;
• baking powder - 7 gr. (1 sachet);
• vanilla essence - 4 drops;
• almond essence - 4 drops;
• a pinch of salt;
• a pinch of ground cloves;
• a pinch of cardamom;
• a pinch of ginger;
• a pinch of nutmeg;
• a pinch of cinnamon;
• zest from 1 orange;
• juice of 1 orange;
• chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
• creamy margarine - 200 gr.;
• cottage cheese, grated into a paste - 250 gr.;
• dried almonds - 200 gr.;
• candied fruits - 200 gr.;
• dried cherries - 100 gr.

To decorate the top:

• butter - 100 gr.;
• powdered sugar - 100 gr.

In the evening, pour raisins and cherries with rum. Let it swell all night.

Beat chicken eggs with sugar and add melted margarine, all spices, vanillin, salt and curd paste to the mixture.

Separately, mix flour with baking powder and ground almonds. Gradually add the dry mixture to the liquid mass and knead until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.

Pour raisins and cherries into the dough - you do not need to drain the cognac, it will also go into the dough. Add candied fruits, orange juice and zest there.

We knead the dough and roll it into a layer measuring 30 by 30 cm. Fold one side to the center. Fold the opposite side twice to make a roll. This roll is transferred to the paper, which is covered with a baking sheet.

The adit will be baked for about an hour in the oven. Adjust the temperature for baking 180 degrees. Check the readiness of the Christmas cake with a toothpick.

When the adit is baked, soak the top with butter and sprinkle it with powdered sugar. Of course, you can immediately taste such a wonderful New Year's cupcake. But it is better to leave it to mature.

To do this, the adit is wrapped in several layers of cooking paper, and then also in a film. Usually the cake ripens up to three weeks. Therefore, the housewives start baking for the New Year's table already in early December.

Fragrant pastries for the New Year's table: New Year's cupcakes

Sweet fragrant muffins with the smell of tangerine and cinnamon are real New Year's pastries.

The recipe is surprisingly simple, and the result is unsurpassed.

Try to bake "New Year's" cupcakes and they will definitely become regular guests on your holiday table.

We will need:

• kefir - 200 ml;
• carrot-tangerine juice - 50 ml
• sugar - 100 gr.;
• chicken eggs - 1 pc.;
• vegetable oil - 80 ml.;
• flour - 250 gr.;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• salt;
• powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
• cinnamon - 1/2 tsp

The dough for these cupcakes is surprisingly easy to make. First, mix kefir with sugar, salt, egg and vegetable oil.

Separately, mix the flour with baking powder, after which the mixture must be sifted.

Do not skip the sifting step, this will make the dough more airy, and the cupcakes themselves will be tender and full of holes.

Gradually add the dry mixture to the liquid.

We prepare homemade juice from tangerines and carrots. To do this, we clean the citrus and divide it into slices, cut the peeled carrot into a cube. We put everything in a juicer and make juice with pulp.

We do not throw away the tangerine skins, but grind them to make a fine zest.

Pour the juice into the dough itself and mix. You get a nice orange color.

Now spread the zest and again carefully knead the dough.

We lay out the finished dough in molds, without filling them to the top. It will be enough to fill 2/3 of the forms.

It would be ideal if the forms are New Year's. A great opportunity to replenish your kitchen collection of baking dishes.

In the oven, our cupcakes will spend no more than 15 minutes, set the temperature to 180 degrees.

Take the cupcakes out of the molds when they are slightly cool. Now you can start decorating baking.

You can make cream hats in the form of green Christmas trees.

If you don't want to mess with such fancy decorations, dust the cupcakes with powdered sugar. Only not pure, but mixed with cinnamon.

Try! This is an insanely delicious, simple and incredibly fragrant pastry.

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All holidays have their own traditions, and they concern not only the features of the celebration, outfits and gifts, but also the table. For example, it is customary to serve a cake with candles for a birthday, pancakes for Shrovetide, and in winter they usually bake New Year's gingerbread with icing.

This pastry has already become a symbol of the new year, and gingerbread men are perceived by us as Santa Claus, Snow Maiden or a snowman. So we can't do without little men today.

Did you know that the gingerbread man came to us from America? There he is a very popular hero of a fairy tale, according to the plot of which he practically repeats the history of our kolobok. The little man was so appetizing that everyone he met wanted to eat him. Well, like the Earthen Pig - the totem of 2019, our New Year's dessert will like it.

Gingerbread Christmas gingerbread with icing

According to this recipe, in America they prepare traditional New Year's gingerbread men painted with lemon icing. Oh, how they are spicy, fragrant, very tasty and beautiful. The dough is very easy to make. But the most important plus of this step-by-step recipe with a photo is that it is fast (if you omit the hourly reclining of the dough in the refrigerator).

Ingredients

• High-grade wheat flour - 2 ¾ st.;
• Baking soda - ½ tsp;
• Fine salt - ¾ tsp;
• Powdered ginger - ½ tbsp;
• Cinnamon powder - ½ tbsp;
• Ground cloves - ¾ tsp;

• Ground Muscat - ½ tsp;
• Butter - 100-120 g;
• Brown sugar - ½ tbsp.;
• Selected fresh egg - 1 pc.;
• Liquid buckwheat honey - 120 g;
• Powdered sugar - 100 g;
• Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.

How to cook Christmas gingerbread with icing at home

Mix the sifted flour with soda, salt and all spices.

With a mixer, beat soft warm butter with brown sugar. Then add the egg and continue beating.

Now pour the whole dry mixture of flour and spices into the general composition. Knead the dough until crumbly and evenly mix all the ingredients.

We divide the dough into two parts, form two koloboks and wrap them in a vacuum film. In this form, the dough should rest in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

After an hour, or maybe longer (the dough can be left at least all night), the chilled dough is rolled out into a 7-8 mm layer.

Gingerbread men should be sent for baking in a well-heated oven (180 ° C) for 14 minutes.

To prepare the glaze, you need to combine the sifted powder and lemon juice. Mix everything well and beat with a mixer at low speed for 2-3 minutes until a white thick mass is obtained.

Well, now you can start giving the image to the little men. We draw a silhouette, eyes and a smile for them with glaze.

Don't forget the buttons and pants.

You will find even more recipes for cooking painted gingerbread at home in this collection. Here you will learn all the secrets and tips for decorating baking with icing with your own hands.

Ingredients

• — 350 g + -
• Baking powder - 1.5 tsp + -
• - ¼ tsp + -
• - 1 tsp with a slide + -
• Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp + -
• - 175 g + -
• - 125 g + -
• - 1 PC. + -
• - 80 g + -
• Powdered sugar - 400 g + -
• Egg white - 2 pcs. + -
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp + -

Well, in continuation of the fabulous theme, the following recipe for New Year's gingerbread will be very relevant. Remember the original story about Hansel and Gretel, who had to live with a witch in a gingerbread house? But stories about a sweet hut are found in both Russian and French folklore.

This dessert has every chance of becoming an international symbol of the new year!

• We take a deep container and combine all the dry ingredients in it: sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and ginger powder, after which we mix everything.
• In the second container, combine and mix the egg with honey.
• In the third deep volumetric bowl, we combine soft butter with granulated sugar for 1 hour and beat with a mixer for 3-4 minutes.

For gingerbread, the best option is brown molasses soft sugar, it gives the baked goods a caramel flavor. Simple refined granulated sugar, this expensive product can be completely replaced.

• Without stopping the mixer, we begin to add the rest of the dough components. First, pour in a mixture of eggs and honey.
• After 1-2 minutes, add all the flour and knead the mass until a dense test homogeneous texture.
• We divide the finished dough into 2 parts, from which you need to make plump cakes. We wrap each of them in a vacuum film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.

To work with shortcrust pastry, it is more convenient to cool it in two parts. When working in the heat, you can take 1 part of the dough. In this case, the remaining mass does not heat up and remains chilled.

We roll out the dough that has risen in the cold on a table dusted with flour into a layer 8 mm thick and cut out the details for the house using the templates previously cut out of paper with a knife.

At a time, we will be able to make all the blanks for 4-6 houses, depending on the scale of the matrix template you have chosen.

Gingerbread should be baked at a temperature of 170 ° C for 11-12 minutes until golden brown, and the baking sheet should be sent to a well-heated oven.

Cooking icing

• Grind the protein with powdered sugar and one teaspoon of lemon juice until a homogeneous thick mass.
• Then, at the lowest speed of the mixer, mix the icing for 2-3 minutes until the state of snow-white stable glaze.
• We decorate the finished cooled gingerbread cookies with thin lines of icing. We set a contour for each detail, draw tiles on the details of the roof, draw a door and an attic window on the front of the house, draw windows on the facade details and the back. Let the frosting dry for half an hour.

Now, using the same icing, we glue the details of the house, decorate the seams with dotted lines and leave it to dry for 1 hour.

From such gingerbread houses, you can make the original composition "New Year's Village", which will become a chic holiday decoration.

New Year's gingerbread with icing

Snowflakes with caramel glass, shining with amber light, will be a delicious addition to the New Year's menu. We chose the chocolate-orange dough recipe for such snowflakes. And we will make “stained-glass windows” from classic yellow lollipops.

Ingredients

• Granulated sugar - 1 tbsp. to the edge;
• High-grade flour - 3.5 tbsp. without a slide;
• Orange - 1 pc.;
• Selected egg - 2 pcs.;
• Butter - ½ pack;
• Cocoa powder - 1 tbsp. with a slide;

• Cinnamon - 1/3 tbsp;
• Ginger - 1/3 tbsp;
• Ground cloves - ½ tsp;
• Muscat - ½ tsp;
• Baking soda - ½ tsp;
• Fine salt - ¼ tsp;
• Lemon candies-lollipops - 10 pcs.

• Wash the orange very carefully with soda, and then wipe it dry and rub the orange zest on a fine grater.
• We cut the fruit itself in half and squeeze the juice out of it. Juice should be ½ tbsp. If necessary, bring to the desired volume with plain water.
• Bring the orange juice to a boil in a saucepan over medium heat.
• We put a pan on another burner, pour half a glass of sugar into it and, stirring, melt it and bring it to a state of caramel.
• Until the sugar begins to burn, pour it with boiled juice. We mix everything intensively, add the remaining granulated sugar, orange zest and add butter.
• Bring the mixture to a boil and turn off. Now it should cool down to 70-60 ° C.
• We sift the flour. Pour 1.5 cups into a separate plate and mix with all the spices, salt, soda and cocoa.
• After cooling the orange syrup to 70-60 ° C, beat the eggs into it and pour in the part of the flour that is mixed with spices. Beat everything with a mixer until smooth and leave to cool the mass. Cool to a temperature comfortable for kneading the dough with your own hands (40-35 ° C).
• From the warm mass, adding the rest of the flour, knead the plastic dough that falls from the hands.
• Wrapped in cling film, leave the dough to rest in the refrigerator overnight.

You can store this dough in the refrigerator for a month. Ready-made gingerbread cookies from this test also have a shelf life of 30 days.

• Roll out the rested dough on a flour table. The thickness of the layer should be no more than 7 mm. With the help of large snowflake molds, we cut out the gingerbread cookies, and with small molds we make holes in the snowflakes.
• We put the lollipops in a bag and break them into crumbs with a hammer or rolling pin.
• We shift the snowflakes to a silicone baking mat, and put candy crumbs in the holes.

• We remove the baking sheet with gingerbread in the oven preheated to 180 ° C for 8-10 minutes.
• We leave the finished gingerbread cookies to cool directly on the rug. We remove them after complete cooling and hardening of the caramel.

We paint the gingerbread with icing at our discretion. We circle the snowflake along the contour with thick icing, so the baking coating will be neat and even. We also make a contour around the holes.

Fill the gingerbread with a more liquid glaze. To do this, in the already prepared thick icing, you need to add a little water and dye as desired and mix the glaze thoroughly.

Today we told you not just how to cook New Year's gingerbread with icing step by step, but how to create a fabulous decoration for the holiday with your own hands. It can also be an original gift for family and friends.