Wedding Gingerbread: Features and Recipe

What is a wedding cake? What is it for? These and other questions will be answered in the article. Wedding prigs are original gifts to newlyweds, as well as the best delicacy and decoration of a dessert wedding table or candy bar. There are also special seating cards - gingerbreads with the names of guests and small gingerbread bonbonniere.

Designs

How does the gingerbread look? Specialists develop designs of such confectionery products specially for the celebration, in color and wedding style. Edible slippers and touching bouquets will be an unexpected gift to the bride, and men's elegant gingerbread cakes are a sweet pleasant surprise to the groom.

If you are planning a wedding anniversary, and you think, what else to stun your beloved (blagovernoy), bake a gingerbread house as a gift and put on it the date of the wedding and wishes.

Gingerbread Story

Wedding gingerbread cookies are very popular today. Many believe that gingerbread is an ordinary treat to tea, which pleases Russians for hundreds of years. But alas, these confectionery products are much younger. For the first time they were mentioned in the middle of the XIX century, and already at the beginning of the next silhouette gingerbread has gained immense popularity.

They had sacramental decorations and drawings: from gold leaf gold to sugar colored glaze and even feathers of intricate shapes and sizes.

In Russia, at Christmas, people also baked gingerbread, called "roe deer". The most elegant products in the form of fairy-tale characters and animals were exposed from windows, they were given to friends and relatives for luck.

Gingerbread at the wedding

How to use a wedding cake? There are following applications for this product:

• Gingerbread can be used as surprises for guests. Agree, this is more original than a candy in a beautiful wrapper, a refrigerator magnet or other wedding details that immediately come to your mind as soon as you start to ponder over the question: "What to present to invited guests for the wedding?" Gingerbread is delicious, unusual And it is original, although there is such a beauty very sorry.
• Wedding gingerbread can be ordered in any form - it is important that you find a craftsman who will help you to make your dream come true.
• Do not forget about the gingerbread house! Do not want a home to make boring? Make it gingerbread! Your guests will like a fairy-tale house.
• It is known that a box of gingerbread to collect money - a beautiful and original move! By this little thing will not pass any guest!
• Gingerbread can be adapted to almost any wedding, even themed. In addition, it can be used as a component of the decor. And why do not you do, for example, a gingerbread wedding?
• These products are superbly stored. Let's return to the topic of surprises for the guests. Such a gift will either be eaten with pleasure (which is very good), or the guest will be happy with it for a couple of months.

Probably, the listed options are enough to say that gingerbread is an excellent addition for a wedding. By the way, if you decide to order them in a gingerbread shop, then it should be done a week before the celebration.

Wedding invitations

How to make wedding cakes with your own hands? These products are an excellent alternative to wedding decorations, gifts and treats. So, we'll tell you now how to make invitations for a wedding of gingerbread hearts. You need to have at your fingertips:

• Gingerbread (of course, you can paint products of any shape);
• Glaze (fill and contour for patterns);
• A napkin (necessary for cleanliness);
• Toothpicks;
• Confectionery powder (optional);
• Sketch of future gingerbread (optional);
• Special confectionery bags with attachments or with their own made bags.

Decoration of a stick

Draw a glaze around the carrot contour, slightly receding from the edge. How to make an even contour? Put a point and, evenly squeezing the sachet with the glaze, lead up its tip. In view of the fact that the glaze is thick, it will come out of the tip with a neat, thin thread.

Take the bag with the filling and from the edge to the center fill the whole carrot. It is important that the fill is a little, and it does not protrude beyond the contour. Then gently spread the icing over the stick (or toothpick, or the tip of the sachet). Between the contour and the fill should not appear empty places. Remove the toothpick bubbles - they can be either small or large.

After that, shake the carrot so that the glaze spreads evenly. Next, draw the curls and droplets - this is the most complex variant of the painting. Then place the inscription, and then - the pattern behind the outline. In the same way, you can draw wedding gingerbread with initials. The fill can be painted with lilac glaze, for example, and the inscription and initials - white.

Gingerbread

Many people like wedding gingerbread. How to make them? You will need 115 g of butter, 65 g of sugar, 155 g of honey, 2 tbsp. L. Cocoa, one egg, ½ tsp. Soda, ½ tsp. Black pepper, 1 tsp. Nutmeg, 1 teaspoon. Cinnamon, 1 tsp. Cloves ground, 1 tsp. Ginger, 375 g of flour.

In order to prepare gingerbread, you need:

• Mix butter and cream with sugar and beat this mixture diligently with a mixer so that a homogeneous mass is obtained.
• Smash the egg in a bowl and pour in honey (or molasses), add cocoa, soda, spices (to taste).
• Pour in the same bowl of flour, mixing it with a spatula.
• Add the flour until the dough stops sticking to the hands.
• Dough rolled into a bowl, wrapped in cellophane and put into the refrigerator for an hour or overnight.
• Put on the parchment part of the dough, cover it with parchment on top and roll out a layer 3-5 mm thick.
• Cut the figurines.
• Oven to warm up to 175 degrees.
• Place the carved figurines on a baking sheet lined with paper and bake for 10-12 minutes.
• Cool the gingerbread cookies on the grate.

How to prepare glaze?

In order to make the glaze, rub in a bowl of egg white (spoon) with 150 g of sugar powder. For plasticity, you can add ½ tsp. Starch corn, and for shine - ½ tsp. Lemon juice. Since the glaze dries quickly, you need to cover the dishes from above with a damp towel or immediately spread the product over confectionery bags.