Recipe gingerbread in the home: we make sweet houses, little people

Gingerbread is an ancient dessert, which was prepared in Russia since ancient times. You can buy them in the store, but the home is much more appetizing and tastier. Knowing the recipe for gingerbread, at home they are not difficult to cook. Moreover, there are varieties for different occasions. Gingerbread houses will look spectacular on a New Year's, Christmas table. It's easy to make and wedding. You can eat this baked dessert even in fasting, but bake it in a special way, without adding eggs.

Traditionally, the main ingredient in gingerbread is honey. It makes them lush and adds an extra flavor.

The first recipe for gingerbread

At home, you can prepare different types of this baking. Further, recipes of delicious gingerbread will be given.

Homemade gingerbread, ingredients :

• 300 grams of flour;
• 1 tablespoon of liquid honey;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 1 tablespoon of butter;
• Cinnamon and ground cloves to taste;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 1 teaspoon of soda;
• For glaze - powdered sugar and water.

Here is a recipe for gingerbread, at home, which is very easy to prepare. After the necessary products are purchased, you need to combine all this in a certain way.

Preparation

First, a small saucepan with a thick bottom is put in butter and sugar is poured. Let these ingredients heat up and melt slightly. It is important not to forget to stir them, so that the mass does not burn. Put aromatic seasonings - cinnamon and cloves. Now, to butter and sugar, you can add honey and remove the pan from the fire. In hot mass, honey melts so beautifully. It is better not to heat it once more to a boil, so that more nutrients are preserved.

The mass should be cooled, and only then add flour, egg, soda to it and mix it all together. Then the dough is spread on a board, sprinkled with flour, and rolled it into a cake thickness of 0.5 cm. Everything, you can cut the circles in small molds or a glass.

The pan is smeared with vegetable oil without a smell and sprinkled with flour.
Bake gingerbread cookies in the oven for only 10 minutes. But it must be preheated to 220 ° C. Ready-made gingerbread should be poured with glaze, and then dried in an oven. To prepare the glaze mix the powdered sugar with water (a small amount of it), to get a sweet mass of consistency of thick sour cream.

And here is the next recipe for gingerbread. At home, you can feel yourself not only a confectioner, but also a sculptor, an artist. After gingerbread house - this is a three-dimensional product, a real work of art.

Preparation of ingredients

For the test:

• 200 grams of butter (during cooking it will have to be chopped or kneaded with a fork);
• 200 grams of sugar;
• 5 tablespoons of honey (if it is candied, then it must be melt in a water bath);
• 1 bag of baking powder;
• 4 egg yolks;
• 4 cups of flour;
• 1 teaspoon of salt;
• On a choice of spices: cinnamon, ground ginger, cardamom, peel of one lemon or anise.

For cream:

• 4 egg whites;
• 200 grams of fine powdered sugar;
• 1.5 teaspoon of juice of one lemon.

This is the recipe for gingerbread cookies for the New Year and Christmas holidays. From these same products you can bake gingerbread men and put them in a sweet house.

Kneading dough and baking

All the above ingredients for the dough mix. Wrap the received dough in a film and put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours. At this time, we cut out the details for the gingerbread house.

Dimensions of it you can choose yourself. The main thing is that there is enough base, and the details are well matched in size.

The cooled dough should be spread out on baking paper and roll out with a rolling pin. Thickness - 0,5-0,7 centimeters. Put on the sides of the test rack, then it will be easier to roll out the given thickness and the edges will be even.

Now lay out the templates from the cardboard: the parts are cut out on them. You can immediately cut out the windows. Or later, already in finished products. Another option - just paint the place of windows with cream, already in finished products.

Here we have such an interesting batch of gingerbread cookies at home.

Baking and decorating a gingerbread house

On bakery paper, transfer the parts to the baking tray and bake them at 200-220 ° C for 10-12 minutes. Pre-make a few prongs with a fork so that the dough rises evenly. Is the dough yellow? So, it's time to take it out.

Chilled whipped whipped with a pinch of salt, then on a tablespoon gradually pour the powdered sugar, also whipping. After that, pour the lemon juice. To cover the glaze, cover it.

In order for the glaze to become colored, it is divided into several parts and each adds a little food coloring. Get a natural paint, which you can decorate the gingerbread house. But first you need to "glue" the pure-white glaze all the details among themselves, and then color to decorate the product.

Here you can make such charming gingerbread cookies. Recipes are simple, and the products are of extraordinary beauty.