Gingerbread cookies are traditional sweets for the Christmas holidays. They are decorated with glaze, cut out with various molds, experimenting with spices.

Classic gingerbread - step by step recipe

Everyone can cook the simplest classic gingerbread recipe, even without any experience in baking.

List of components:

  • 150 gr cream. oils;
  • 60 grams of honey;
  • 0.25 kg of sugar;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon, ginger root, soda;
  • flour (based on the number to focus on the state of the test).

Step by Step Actions:

  1. To prepare, use an enameled saucepan. Mix oil, honey, sugar, eggs, spices in a container. Warm contents at medium temperature, stirring with a spatula. When the sugar has dissolved, add soda. If the contents burn or stick, it is best to reduce the fire to a minimum. Warm up a couple of minutes and set aside to cool. It will be enough 15 minutes.
  2. Slightly add flour to the liquid preform, sieving it in small parts through a sieve. Knead first with a spatula, and when the dough becomes thick enough - knead on a table or board. Add flour as much as needed to get an airy, obedient dough.
  3. Cut a little and roll to 7 mm. Cut cookie cutters with cookie cutters. Repeat with the whole test.
  4. Lay out biscuits for gingerbread on a baking sheet. Keep a distance of 1 cm between cookies - gingerbread cookies can stick together when they fit in the oven.
  5. Oven at 180 ° C for 10-12 minutes. Leave to cool for 10 minutes and the dessert is ready to serve.

Kozuli - Arkhangelsk gingerbread cookies

 

An ancient recipe for the Arkhangelsk gingerbread, the list of ingredients of which lacks traditional honey.

Grocery list:

  • 850 grams of flour;
  • 200 gr cream. oils;
  • 2 cups of sugar;
  • 2 yolks;
  • 1 protein;
  • 3 tsp spices for sweet pastries;
  • 1 tsp soda;
  • ¾ st water;
  • 200 g of sweet powder;
  • 2 grams of salt.

Step by Step Actions:

  1. First of all, caramel is prepared: pour half the sugar into a dry container and cook until dark brown. Heat the kettle at the same time. When the caramel becomes dark, pour boiling water and continue cooking. Be sure to mix, so as not to burn. Wait for the caramel to dissolve completely, pour in the remaining sugar and cook until everything is dissolved. After you can remove from the stove and put the oil and spices. Stir and let cool.
  2. Beat two egg yolks in a separate container. When the caramel mixture becomes barely warm, pour in the yolks, add salt, pour in soda and mix thoroughly.
  3. Sift the flour gradually, stirring, and when it thickens, manually. Add the product to thicken the mass.
  4. Wrap the sausage dough in cling film and place in a refrigerator for 12 hours. The dough will become hard and easy to cut. Cut a small piece, roll out into 1 cm and squeeze out future gingerbread cookies with a glass or special curly shapes. You can also make screen clippings from cardboard and, applying the figure to the dough, circle with a sharp knife.
  5. Bake for 5-7 minutes at 200 degrees.
  6. Mix 1 protein with powder, pour into the envelope for the cream and paint the gingerbread cookies.

Gingerbread cookies before cooling should be completely cooled. Then the cream will lie well and solidify with clear contours.

It goes well with black tea with cream or coffee with almond flavor.

Glazed gingerbread cookies: a traditional recipe

Gingerbread cookies add many different spices. Only traditional custard dough is used - otherwise it will be ordinary gingerbread cookies:

  • 2 tsp of ground ginger, cinnamon, lemon juice;
  • 160 grams of sugar;
  • 2 eggs;
  • 3 tbsp honey;
  • 5 stacks of flour;
  • 1 tsp of soda, cardamom, star anise;
  • 5 egg whites
  • 1 pack of colored glaze;
  • 220 g of powder;
  • 200 grams of muscat.

Manufacture:

  1. The dough is steamed: in a bowl, first combine honey, butter and sugar. While stirring with a spatula, bring the contents to a pasty state. Add salt and mix again.
  2. Grind all spices well. You can connect them together and pass through a coffee grinder, and then sift through a sieve. Enter into the workpiece and mix well. After a few minutes, remove and leave under the lid for a quarter of an hour.
  3. Sift ½ flour to the workpiece and pour in the eggs, mix well and gradually add the rest of the flour. Wrap all dough with a film and cool in the refrigerator for 4 hours.
  4. Roll out the dough in 1.5-2 cm and squeeze the figures. Put on a baking sheet, bake for ten minutes.
  5. Roll out the icing, and cut out the figures for cookies. Mix the powder with 1 protein.

Leave the gingerbread cookies to cool for a couple of hours, then cover them with glaze patterns. Gingerbread with glaze can be folded into a festive box and handed to friends, and sweets painted with colored glaze will delight little sweet tooth.

Custard gingerbread recipe

 

A delicious and fragrant recipe for homemade custard cakes based on Russian motifs, complemented by lemon glaze.

Products:

  • ½ citrus;
  • 3 tbsp; powdered sugar;
  • 200 g of wheat flour;
  • 50 gr rye flour;
  • 250 grams of May honey;
  • 1 egg yolk;
  • 80 ml of milk;
  • 1.5 tbsp sugar;
  • 4 pcs of cardamom;
  • 6 dry cloves;
  • 2 pieces of star anise;
  • 1 tsp of cinnamon and soda.

Step by step cooking:

  1. Heat honey until bubbles appear.
  2. Peel the cardamom, combine with other spices, grind everything in a convenient way - manually or using kitchen appliances. Mix the spice mixture with rye flour and add to honey. Also introduce soda. The contents are constantly mixed.
  3. Add 100 g of wheat flour to the workpiece and mix again.
  4. Separately combine the yolk with sour cream, sugar and milk, beat with a mixer.After insert into the honey blank and mix thoroughly. Pour the last flour and prepare the gingerbread dough. The consistency of the test is slightly liquid.
  5. Cover the baking dish with a thin layer of butter. Put the dough in a mold and bake in a preheated oven. After that, cut gingerbread cookies out of the finished cake. 5-7 minutes to dry the finished gingerbread in the oven.
  6. Mix a little juice with powdered sugar. For density, you can beat for several minutes with a mixer. The resulting glaze to paint chilled gingerbread.

Ginger house

An interesting option for gingerbread for the winter holidays is the gingerbread gingerbread house. Such a dessert serving will certainly not leave indifferent either children or adults.

For the test:

  • 130 gr cream. oils;
  • ½ cup sugar;
  • 60 ml of sweet syrup or molasses;
  • 2 stacks of flour;
  • 2 tbsp water;
  • 1 tsp of cinnamon, ginger root, cloves, soda.

For glaze:

  • 2 squirrels;
  • 500 g of powdered sugar;
  • 1-1.5 tablespoons freshly squeezed citrus juice;
  • for decor, take colored sprinkles, sugar candies, marmalades, etc.

Sequencing:

  1. First prepare the dough: mix the butter, syrup and spices. You can use a mixer to quickly remove tight lumps. Add water and flour, knead the dough. Wrap in a film and put in the refrigerator for an hour.
  2. Roll out the dough to a thickness of 3-4 mm, sprinkling with flour to eliminate stickiness.
  3. From cardboard cut out patterns - a roof, walls with carved windows and a door. Putting the patterns on the dough, cut the workpiece. Transfer the dough blanks onto baking paper.
  4. Grind sugar candies with a rolling pin and sprinkle on the places where the windows will be. The remaining dough can be turned into a gingerbread cookie.
  5. Bake for 10 minutes at 180 ° C.
  6. Prepare a “cement” from powdered sugar, proteins and a few drops of juice. The icing can be whipped with a mixer so that it becomes thick enough for further drawing of the ornament. Place the mixture in a pastry bag and glue the baked walls of the house. Use glaze residues for decoration of cookies and a house. While the glaze did not have time to harden, sprinkle the roof of the house with coconut flakes, colored sprinkles, garnish with marmalade.

Gingerbread house can be served with cocoa with milk or green tea.

On a note. You can decorate the house on the festive table as follows: put the culinary work of art on a flat dish, spread marshmallows, marmalade and sweet candies (for example, m & m`s) around, and put a small candlestick with a lid on top inside the house so that the wax does not settle on the pastries.

Honey Recipe

 

A simple recipe for quick honey gingerbread tea for a quick hand. Tasty and fragrant gingerbread cookies can be prepared in just half an hour:

  • honey - 1 tbsp;
  • sour cream - 100 gr;
  • cream. oil - 75 gr;
  • soda - ½ tsp;
  • sugar - 100 gr;
  • flour - 250-300 gr.

Sequencing:

  1. First you need to melt the butter. Can be done in the microwave at the lowest temperature or in a small bucket on the stove.
  2. Pour ghee into a separate container, introduce all the ingredients except flour. Stir until a homogeneous slurry is obtained.
  3. Add a little flour, cook the dough. To the touch, the dough will come out soft and plastic.
  4. Roll up balls manually and place on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Preheat the oven to 180 ° C and bake the gingerbread cookies for a quarter of an hour.

Honey gingerbread cookies have a delicious golden hue and a crispy crust. It goes well with any hot drinks.

Gingerbread icing: cooking options

As a rule, gingerbread cookies are decorated with glaze. With its help, baking is decorated with various patterns, and if food colors are added to them, the ornament will also be colorful. We offer to prepare royal icing for painting cookies and gingerbread.

Glaze Ingredients:

  • 1 egg white
  • 200 g icing sugar;
  • 1 tsp cornstarch;
  • ½ tsp of citric acid or 1.5 citrus juice.

The scheme for the preparation of royal glaze:

  1. Add finely ground powder to the protein and mix well with a silicone spoon or spatula.
  2. Add starch, which gives the glaze plasticity. After add juice, which speeds up the drying of the cream.
  3. Beat the icing with a mixer at the lowest speed so that it becomes dense. Three minutes is enough. Thick glaze is convenient for drawing patterns. If you plan to fill the background, slightly dilute part of the glaze with water. The readiness for pouring is determined by its ability to smooth out - if the surface after mixing becomes smooth within 8-10 seconds, then the fill is ready.

If desired, food coloring is added to the icing. It is important to keep the product tightly closed at all times, otherwise it will dry out.

On a note. Food colors need to be added in 1-2 drops, stirring constantly to adjust the brightness of the shade. Staining is done only for thick glaze.

Ideas for decorating the finished dish

 

Each hostess decorates the finished gingerbreads in her own way.

Of the popular options for simple design:

  • with the help of thick glaze in the pastry bag, the outline of the gingerbread is drawn, and then it is painted over with liquid filling. Moreover, the contour can be colored, and the fill can be snow-white;
  • the decoration is repeated, as in the previous version, but on a flooded background it is decorated with a pattern of colored glaze;
  • a variety of ornaments, stripes, circles and dots are painted with icing in a pastry bag throughout the gingerbread.
  • the gingerbread is simply poured over and sprinkled with colored sprinkles, chocolate chips and coconut.

Based on the basic options, you can come up with your own, unique design for homemade gingerbread cookies, which is pleasant to surprise relatives and guests.

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