Gingerbread men recipe from Alexander Seleznev. Sweets that conquered the world: gingerbread cookies from Alexander Seleznev

The tasting can wait! Let this house first serve as a cute New Year's decoration, and only then - a sweet treat.

For test:

• 250 g wheat flour
• 250 g rye flour
• 125 g brown sugar
• 25 g cocoa
• 250 g honey
• 125 g butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• ¼ tsp ground cloves
• ¼ tsp ground ginger
• ¼ tsp ground nutmeg
• 1 tsp soda

For glaze:

• 1 protein
• 230 g powdered sugar
• a pinch of citric acid

Sift the flour and mix all the flour, cocoa, ground nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger. Divide the mixture into 2 parts.

In a saucepan, mix sugar, honey and butter. Heat until sugar dissolves.

Pour in half of the flour mixture and mix well.

Then add the eggs and mix quickly so that the eggs do not curdle.

Add some more flour and baking soda. Mix everything thoroughly.

Transfer the dough to a worktop and knead well with your hands.

Let the test rest for a few hours. Roll out the dough into a layer 5 mm thick.

According to the template, cut out all the walls and roof of the house from the dough.

Bake the dough in the oven at 200°C for 20 minutes.

GLAZE. Beat the protein a little and gradually pour the powdered sugar into it, continuing to beat. At the end, add citric acid.

Glue the cooled parts of the house and paint with glaze. Let it freeze.

New Year's log

A log-shaped sweet roll is a traditional sweet treat for Christmas in Europe and America.

• 6 eggs
• 6 tbsp Sahara
• 140 g flour
• 3 tbsp cocoa
• ½ tsp baking powder

For filling:

• 200 ml milk
• 2 tbsp flour
• 500 g cream cheese
• 1 egg
• 10 g vanilla sugar
• 5 tbsp powdered sugar
• 2 large bananas

Separate the yolks from the whites. Beat egg whites with half the sugar until peaks form. Beat the yolks with the second half of the sugar until fluffy.

Mix cocoa with flour, baking powder and add to the proteins. Then mix the protein mixture and yolks.

Transfer the dough to a baking sheet with parchment and bake at 210 ° C for 7 minutes.

For the filling, sift the flour. Heat milk with flour, stirring constantly, until a paste-like consistency. Then remove the mixture from heat and add the egg, stirring.

Let cool completely. Beat the cooled cream and butter at room temperature. Add vanilla sugar, powdered sugar and mix.

Apply the cream on the biscuit, smearing it with a thin layer. Peel the bananas and arrange them whole along the long edge of the dough. Carefully roll up the roll.

Decorate the roll with the remaining cream and decor. Put the roll in the refrigerator for 3 hours soak with cream and harden.

Meringue "Snowmen"

Cute snowmen made from meringue circles can serve not only as a treat, but also as a sweet gift for your guests.

• 3 egg whites
• a pinch of salt
• 60 g granulated sugar
• 60 g powdered sugar

For decoration:

• chocolate candies
• candied fruit
• marzipan mass
• icing sugar (see the icing recipe in the gingerbread house recipe)

Beat egg whites with salt with a mixer until fluffy foam and peaks form. Gradually add sugar while continuing to beat.

Finally add the sifted icing sugar and beat again until peaks form.

Transfer the whipped egg white to a piping bag and pipe three different sizes of circles onto a parchment-lined baking sheet.

Bake the meringues for 1 hour at 100°C. Leave the oven door open for the first 15 minutes.

Fold the finished meringue on top of each other, glue with icing in the form of snowmen and decorate with decor.

To the book "Christmas sweets", which was published by the Eksmo publishing house, the most famous confectioner of the country and a great friend of our magazine, Alexander Seleznev, included the best New Year's recipes to create an unforgettable holiday and a special cozy atmosphere. Cakes, pastries, biscuits and cupcakes... Do you want to become a famous pastry chef? Try making a festive dessert with recipes from the new book! All the recipes selected for her are quite simple and do not require the purchase of rare and expensive products.

New Year's shooting is a great occasion to meet friends. Magazine OK! decided to arrange a small holiday for his authors - Alexander Seleznev and Yana Laputina, who are more common abroad than in Moscow. At the Balcony restaurant, culinary gurus and beauty experts shared with OK! with their childhood dreams and prepared a gingerbread house.

Pavel Tantserev The New Year decorations of the Balcony restaurant inspired a special mood for creating culinary miracles. This is probably why Alexander and Yana's gingerbread house turned out to be a little fabulous.

A lexander, Yana, tell me, please, have you ever celebrated the New Year in an unusual setting?

Yana: I am a terrible conservative, so I always celebrate the New Year with my family in Moscow. True, once my husband and I had a non-standard decision to fry kebabs in the yard of our house for the New Year. And everything would be fine, but the house is located on Tverskaya, a five-minute drive from Red Square. At midnight, we, as expected, celebrated the New Year at home, and an hour later, when our friends pulled up to us, we all together pulled the barbecue out into the street, put the French champagne in a snowdrift to cool and began to play snowballs, having a lot of amusing neighbors in that holiday night. (Smiling.)

Alexander: And I'm not as conservative as Yana, and I like to celebrate the New Year in different countries. True, now I am more and more inclined to believe that the sensations are brighter when you celebrate in the winter, and not under the hot sun. In his youth, he always spent this holiday with his family, preparing salads, duck, and cakes. Now, on December 31, there is no energy left for culinary exploits: every year in mid-December my food show takes place in Gostiny Dvor, and this requires serious preparation. So at the end of December, I usually want to escape from the pre-New Year's fuss. For several years in a row I ran away to Barbados. My friends and I even have a tradition of celebrating the New Year on this island in accordance with different time zones, that is, our holiday stretches for a whole day, and by the time the New Year comes in Barbados, forces are usually running out. (Laughs.) I also remember when I worked as a pastry chef at the Alexandria coffee house, on the last day of the outgoing year, due to the large number of orders, I was able to leave the coffee house only at ten in the evening. I got into a taxi and got stuck in a traffic jam on the Enthusiasts Highway. There he met the New Year.

Photo: Pavel Tantserev

What do you associate this holiday with?

A .: I associate it with the aroma of baking: in addition to salads and hot dishes, my mother and I always made a lot of desserts - necessarily a honey cake and gingerbread.

Me: And my mother bakes a pig every time. In general, our New Year's table is quite ascetic. In addition to the pig, it has jelly, olivier with crab meat and champagne. We have long ceased to build pyramids of salads and snacks - it seems to me that this is a relic of the Soviet past.

That is, you do not take any breaks for detox after long holidays?

I .: In food, I used to control myself, but it’s not always possible to refuse another glass of champagne on New Year’s week. So as soon as the holidays subside, on the sixth of January I will get on a plane and fly to Germany, where I will drink mineral water and bathe in mineral springs.

A .: And for me, the New Year is a holiday of permissiveness: I eat whatever I want, and from the second of January - a new life. (Laughs.)

Do you remember what gifts you asked Santa Claus as a child?

A .: The most desired gifts were a dog and a bicycle. And I got both! I found a new bike under the tree almost every year, as I grew out of the old one. But Grandfather Frost always brought me a bicycle with a frame, but I wanted without it, so I complained about Grandfather Frost to my grandmother. (Smiling.) I still believe in miracles. I have a tradition: every year on December 31st I make a wish list. Not gifts, but desires: what I want to achieve next year, what projects to implement. I put this list in a Japanese vase and hide it so that no one at home can find it. Believe it or not, every year these wishes come true.

Y.: I had a story with skates: I really wanted to receive them as a gift - they were in short supply then. I remember that my parents could not immediately agree with Santa Claus, and he brought them to me only a year later. And everything worked out with them right away - probably because my dad was great at skating. This winter I will actively train with my three-year-old daughter, who started skating a year ago. In general, Teya shares many of my hobbies. Just recently, while my grandmother did not see, she climbed into her mother's cosmetic bag with her favorite palettes and lipsticks and made herself such an expressive make-up that at any Halloween party she would be mistaken for her own. (Laughs.)

Does Thea already know what she wants to receive as a gift for the New Year?

Me: Of course! She very clearly expressed her desire six months ago. Said, "When it's New Year's, I want a live pink horse." With the approach of December 31, my husband and I are in a state of panic, because we still have no idea how to help Grandfather Frost find this wonderful animal. (Laughs.)

Photo: Pavel Tantserev

Gingerbread house

Ingredients:

• 350 g honey
• 250 g wheat flour
• 250 g rye flour
• 125 g brown sugar
• 25 g cocoa
• 125 g butter
• 1 egg
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp carnations
• 1/4 tsp ground ginger
• 1/4 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp soda
• 3 eggs
• 300 g powdered sugar
• 3 art. l. lemon juice
• liquid purple food coloring

Cooking:

• Pour honey into a saucepan, put butter, pour brown sugar. Heat the mixture, stirring constantly. In a separate container, mix both types of flour with soda.
• Pour warmed honey with butter and sugar into the mixture, add egg, cocoa, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger. Knead the dough in a mixer, wrap it in a film and place it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 mm.
• Using a cardboard stencil, we cut out four walls and the roof of the house. We send for 20 minutes to bake at a temperature of 200 ° C. For glaze, separate the protein from the yolk, add lemon juice and beat, gradually pouring in powdered sugar.
• In a separate container, mix half of the glaze with the dye. We begin to paint the cooled gingerbread cookies. We cover each wall of the house with purple glaze and draw white windows. We glue the walls of the house with glaze, and cover the roof with it.

Yes, yes, I already showed you this house last year. But I never wrote down the recipe for it. Now I am urgently correcting myself, while there is time before the New Year. I made it together with delicious Christmas gingerbread, but this year I probably won’t dare to repeat it :)) But I’ll definitely bake gingerbread, together with my friend Olya, and of course I won’t forget about the delicious Christmas fruit cake from Irina Chadeika.

I’ll make a reservation right away - the dough for the house is very tasty, but it gets stale quickly. Those. choose for yourself, or you make it and eat it right away, or just use it as an entourage for the New Year. Although ... maybe you have strong teeth or you like to dip "crackers" in tea :)

The result looks stunning, amaze all the guests - I promise!

Products for 1 house:

1 kg. honey
1/4 l. water
650 g rye flour
600 g premium flour
100 g chopped candied lemon and orange peels
40 g gingerbread spices
30 g baking soda
2 tbsp. l. lemon juice
3 squirrels
300 g powdered sugar

1. Cut candied fruits into cubes and roll a little in flour.

2. Prepare spicy spices. It can be a mixture of cocoa, cinnamon, grated nutmeg and ground ginger, cloves. Focus on your taste.

3. Boil honey with water and let cool.

4. Sift flour into a large bowl, add chopped candied fruits and spices. In the middle you need to make a recess and pour chilled honey with water into it. Mix everything well and finally add baking soda (DO NOT EXTINGUISH!). Knead into a smooth stiff dough. Cover it or wrap it in foil and leave it to age for 1-2 days to make it softer.

5. Cut out a template for the house from cardboard. The template is here.

A) The biggest detail in the center is the base. It is better to make it out last of all from the remnants of the test. On the left are the roof elements. On the right - the sides, front and back of the house.

b) Do not forget about the fence, pipe, door and window shutters. I did all this on my own, I calculated the exact dimensions already from the ready-made patterns of the house.

c) If you want the side walls and front of the house to look like logs, I'll show you how I did it.

For me it looked like this

6. Cut out or sculpt all the necessary details from the dough. They need to be baked on a greased baking sheet at a temperature of 200 degrees until browned. After baking, all parts must be well cooled.

7. This is how I baked the front and back of the house. She twisted small rollers and laid them on the lined surface of baking paper. It is not necessary to make all the side parts even here, then all this can be corrected.

After the details were baked, I immediately gave the desired shape with a sharp knife, and also cut out a window and a door. This must be done while the dough is hot and soft.

8. The sides are already baked, as well as the door and the pipe. Note that the door and window at the front of the cabin have already been cut out.

9. Here I have already baked the base and two parts of the roof. I made the roof from rectangular strips of dough, which I laid out next to each other. When baking, they are all tightly connected.

10. Don't forget the details. So I baked a fence from the leftover dough. You can also bake Christmas trees.

11. After all our parts have cooled down well, we need to assemble our house. The book advises collecting with the help of protein glaze, but to be honest, this is not a very suitable option. I played it safe and cooked a thick sugar syrup, with which I glued all the details. After you glue everything, you need to leave it for at least a few hours (or better at night) so that all the parts adhere well to each other.

12. Now it's time to decorate our gingerbread house. To do this, prepare the glaze - very carefully mix the protein with powdered sugar and lemon juice. Let's fill a cornet* with this glaze and decorate our house with "drifts of snow"

*Cornet

13. The final result is shown in the very first picture. Here I will show you the different details. I also made a little bunny with carrots from marzipan, how to do it - I spied Alexander Seleznev in the program.

In addition to products, the following materials may come in handy for making cookies, gingerbread, houses:

1. Cookie cutters (very handy if you're cooking with your kids)

2. Or printouts of templates (can be downloaded from the Internet)

3. You can use children's molds from kits for creativity

4. Baking paper

6. Pastry bags for painting

7. Or bags of food bags, office files or baking paper.

8. Food coloring or sugar pencils

9. Confectionery sprinkles

10. And of course, prescription products.

There are a lot of recipes for Christmas and New Year's gingerbread, cookies, and there are different national traditions. Let's start with gingerbread and houses.

gingerbread

Soft fragrant gingerbread cookies have long become a symbol of Christmas. Gingerbread baking is an art that has been especially developed in the last century, since gingerbread gained popularity in Europe. In Medieval Europe, where fairs were widespread, gingerbread was sold in various forms, often gilded and decorated with spices. The fairs became known as "Ginger Fairs" and their participants bought gingerbread as a present from the fair.

Nuremberg in Germany is known as "Gingerbread Capital of the World" due to its central location in the northern trade routes. It was here that the art of making gingerbread of exquisite shapes and ornaments appeared. German fairy tale about "Hanz and Gretel", in which children discovered a house built entirely of gingerbread dough, sweets and sweet pies, marked the beginning of the tradition of creating various buildings from gingerbread dough.

Nowadays, for many, gingerbread is associated with Christmas, but in fact it is a delicious and original gift at any time of the year - a treat for the whole family. Whether it's a whole castle or a gingerbread cookie wrapped in pretty paper or in a box and tied with a ribbon, this is a very nice gift. WE WORK WITH GINGER DOUGH There are a few rules to remember when working with gingerbread dough for the first time:

1. It may be easier for you to roll out the dough in a large layer and cut it out with a cookie cutter on a baking sheet so that the products are not distorted when you transfer them from the table to the baking sheet.

2. Unless the recipe says otherwise, leave some space on the baking sheet between the gingerbread cookies so they can rise. 3. Gingerbread, unlike other cookies, does not become dense and crispy when taken out of the oven. So it's very hard to tell if it's done, especially since the baking time depends so much on the oven. As a rule, if the gingerbread has slightly risen and browned around the edges, it is ready.

4. Leave it on the baking sheet for a few minutes, during which it will begin to become crispy (if the gingerbread is still soft, return it to the oven for a few minutes). It is very common for gingerbread to lose its shape during baking, but this can be easily fixed by trimming it properly after baking. 5. Large flat pieces of gingerbread must be refrigerated and stored on a flat surface, otherwise their shape will be distorted. It may be more convenient to bake the gingerbread the day before decorating. If you do this, let it cool completely and then wrap it in parchment or plastic wrap.

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RECIPE "POMORIAN KOZULES"

Kozuli or goats - made from dough, decorated and baked figurines. Name roe deer formed not from a word goat or roe, but from the Pomeranian denoting "curl", "snake"

Roe deer were originally a national delicacy of Pomors (inhabitants of the Arkhangelsk province), who made them only for Christmas. At the moment, roes are made in the Arkhangelsk and Murmansk regions, as well as in the Urals. Kozul is also considered to be a kind of gingerbread. Roe deer made by children are also used as toys.

NIKOLAICHIKI for Saint Nicholas Day

Saint Nicholas Day is not only a children's holiday. The morning of December 19 is also eagerly awaited by adults. Firstly, to see the joyful and enthusiastic faces of their children, and secondly, in the hope that the Wonderworker Nicholas in the person of a husband or wife, daughter or son will also reward them for good behavior.

The most popular gifts on this day, both in the Orthodox and Catholic worlds, are toys, sweets, cakes, fruits, nuts, etc. But among the Slavs, kind Nikolai gave obedient children also "Nikolaychiks" - honey cookies.

It is necessary to prepare "Nikolaychiki" for this magical holiday with your own hands. Each nation has its own traditional recipe, which has some distinctive features. But the meaning and purpose of making gingerbread is the same - to honor the memory of St. Nicholas, who is the guardian and protector of our children.

RECIPE NIKOLAICHIKOV we look

PAINTING OF gingerbread and cookies

HOW TO MAKE A SNOWMAN

Aising at home

Idea from last year, but this video has ideas on how to decorate cookies.

And finally, a small selection of Christmas gingerbread and cookie painting ideas for your inspiration!