Before New Year and Christmas always risesthe question of what kind of interesting things to cook. Especially you always want to please the kids with something sweet and unusual. Just for such a case fit ginger houses. They look somehow especially cute and a little magical. By themselves, gingerbread is not so interesting, but collected in a fabulous house - this is another matter. Children come from them in complete delight.
Christmas recipes are varied, but all of themOne thing in common: the dishes prepared according to them are always special, very tasty and beautiful. Take at least the same gingerbread hut. Appetizing, bright and richly decorated, they create a wondrous atmosphere of warmth and comfort on the eve of the holiday. Let's talk about how to make one of these wonderful delicacies.
What products are needed for the test?
So, in order to make gingerbread house gingerbread, we need to get these products:
- Sugar - 0.5 cup.
- Butter - one pack (200-260 g).
- Honey - 90 grams.
- Ginger - 1.5-2 tsp. You can take dry. It is sold in every supermarket.
- Flour - 0.75 kilograms.
- Soda - 1.3 tsp.
- Lemon juice - 1 tsp.
- Carnation - 1.6 tsp.
- Sugar powder - 0.3 kilograms.
Ginger houses: recipe
Having prepared all the products, you can proceed toknead the dough. First, mix sugar and honey with all the spices that play an important role. Put the whole mixture on a small fire. Honey gradually melts and sugar dissolves.
Then add butter, eggs. All this is thoroughly mixed on the fire.
Then you need to add a little soda. The mixture is necessarily at the same time foamed. But you still mix it well.
Then enter the sifted flour. Mix the contents of the bowl until the mass is separated from the walls of the dish.
We got a very fragrant warm dough. We roll it into a ball and let cool for 15 minutes.
Blanks for the house
Итак, тесто для имбирного домика мы подготовили.The next stage is very interesting. Before you start baking, you should make blanks. We need to get biscuits in the form of parts of the house. Let's think about how to do this. The easiest way is to prepare paper patterns, and cut them out from the rolled dough. Thus, we will not bake simple gingerbread, and the walls, roof, pipe. Do you want to - also make the inhabitants of the Teremka: fabulous animals, man, you can even a snowman ...
What size will be the future of paper patterns, you decide. It all depends on how small or large your ginger biscuit house will be.
In addition, you can cut a few fir-trees from the thick cardboard and a fence with which to enclose the building. You will have a whole Christmas composition.
We would also advise you to bake the foundation for the house. The finished structure itself will be easier to install and fasten on the cake blank than on cardboard.
Cut out the parts from the dough
Take the finished chilled dough and roll itto a thickness of seven to eight millimeters. Then we put our stencils and cut out the details with a knife. We do it very carefully, so as not to damage the dough. Do not forget to cut the windows and doors. With them the house will be much more beautiful. But if this is difficult - it does not matter, it is quite possible to finish with the cream the necessary details and decor. But let's talk about this later. In the meantime ...
We bake gingerbread
Before you send the dough into the oven,baking paper baking paper, lay out on it the details of the workpiece. Set the temperature on the stove to 190 degrees and boldly put the cookies inside. It will be baked for no more than fifteen minutes. Just do not overdo it in the oven, otherwise the gingerbreads will be too dark and too dry.
Cooked cookies should be cooled.
Cooking glaze
So, we already have ready parts leftjust collect our gingerbread houses. How? To do this, cook the icing. We will cook it twice, because in one day we will not be able to gather everything and decorate it.
Protein one cooled egg needs to be whipped withhalf a cup of powdered sugar. Add a tablespoon of lemon juice (necessarily freshly squeezed). The resulting icing is put in a pastry bag. We take the nozzle with the smallest slit and draw around it the contours of all the windows, walls and doors. The roof can also be decorated in the form of tiles.
Give the glaze to thicken.When it dries out a little, but does not harden yet, you can paint the details with the multi-colored sprinkles that are often used at Easter. Then the ginger houses will be even brighter and more beautiful.
We start to build a house
Let's leave our products to dry out and then move on.to assembly teremka. Change the nozzle on the pastry bag to a wider one. And then we start to glaze all the future seams of the house. Each part of the facade neatly in turn set on the cake stand, which we baked separately. Combining the parts, hold them for a while so that they can stick together a bit.
Thus, we gradually install all parts of the house, applying glaze on the sides and bottom of the construction. Leave it all dry. A night will be enough.
For greater rigidity of the product, you can use toothpicks, propping their walls until they are completely dry. And you can gently fasten the corners with them, then cover it all with icing.
New roof glaze
The next day, you need to beat a new batch.glaze using single egg white. With its help, we will install the roof. First, we put on a layer of cream one part of it, press and wait until it is glued. Similarly, we establish the second half. Here you will definitely need to resort to using toothpicks to keep the roof well. By the way, some people prefer to decorate the finished product, so as not to spoil the beauty of the assembly. See for yourself how you prefer.
Places her connections properly promazhem glaze. Here are our ginger houses and ready.
Then you can just set the details of the fenceand herringbone, put the pipe on the roof. Ready house should be left to dry, and then sprinkle with powdered sugar. Get a real winter composition. All this looks very fabulous and beautiful, and quite pretends to decorate the festive table. Christmas recipes in general are such a miracle! They cheer up already at the stage of reading, what can we say about the ready delicacy!
Instead of an afterword
What is good about these recipes is that incooking process can involve children. They can paint some details on their own, tasting the first gingerbread. This will create a special, festive, New Year and Christmas atmosphere in the house. Gingerbread houses, the recipe of which we told you, are not just cookies, but handmade! Yes, what!
Such a composition will be the pride and decorationholiday table. Although, of course, this is not an easy task and will require a lot of time and patience from the sorceress-mistress. But what is the result! Moreover, you can bring something of your own into the recipe outlined above, and your ginger houses will not look like anyone else's. There is where to turn fantasy. Just a solid creative. And so much joy for children! So try to create such a miracle for the holiday table, and you will not regret your choice!
