When I think about the New Year, I immediately hear the music from the ballet "The Nutcracker" and the magical dance of the Dragee Fairy. And with them come the aromas of pine needles and spices, the taste of New Year's gingerbread on the tongue, so fragrant and elegant! What are you doing in December? And I go to visit and give everyone gingerbread! New Year's and funny, I bake them myself, and then decorate them! No, there is no New Year without treats! And if so, today we will bake Gift Gingerbread. You want to decorate a Christmas tree with them, you want to give them to friends.
So, we don't need anything special. Everything is very simple: flour, honey, sugar, butter, spices, eggs.
First, let's prepare the spices.
Grind the spices in a coffee grinder.
Be sure to sift to remove large particles.
Grind the sugar in a coffee grinder, at the same time it will be saturated with the aromas of spices. You can use powdered sugar right away.
Sift flour with powdered sugar.
Melt honey with butter in the microwave.
Break the eggs into a bowl, add salt and spices, mix.
Add honey with butter and add flour in parts. Knead soft dough.
Roll out the dough and cut out gingerbread cookies. Bake at 190 degrees until browned. Gingerbread bakes fast! 7-10 minutes. I do not grease the sheet with anything, I sprinkle it with flour.
Remove the finished gingerbread from the sheet after cooling.
While the cakes are cooling, prepare the frosting for decoration. I don't use any frosting mixer! I grind everything with a fork. For the glaze, you will need the protein of one egg, powdered sugar, a few drops of lemon juice and dye.
The glaze should be of a paintable consistency, not runny, but not runny either. Divide the glaze into 2 parts. Leave 13 white for drawing. Paint the rest in the colors you need for decoration.
Using a pastry envelope, trace the outline of each gingerbread.
I paint a little glaze in green for decorating Christmas trees.
I fill the outline with green icing.
And I decorate, for example, like this!
And if you try a little more, then you can do it!
Or something like that.
And how delicious!
Gingerbread is a traditional New Year's treat in European countries. A gingerbread man is an indispensable attribute of a winter holiday along with a Christmas tree, garlands and Coca-Cola advertising. Despite the abundance of hot spices, and especially ginger, it turns out a sweet and fragrant treat. What would Christmas baking be without these spicy flavors? The smell of homemade gingerbread cannot be expressed in words. Various molds allow you to cut out gingerbread cookies in the form of Christmas trees, snowflakes, various animals, houses, hearts and so on. Great New Year's Eve entertainment for the kids. Christmas cookies can be given by tying them with a beautiful ribbon, or hanging on a Christmas tree as an edible decoration. And from this dough you can make a beautiful and edible decoration for the Christmas tree - a gingerbread house.
Christmas gingerbread would not be so festive if it were not for their painted decoration. Aising, or royal icing (Royal icing), is prepared quite simply, but there are many nuances, so I recommend looking at a separate icing recipe. The color of the dough depends on the amount of spices: more cinnamon - darker, less - lighter. Experience tells us that the longer the dough rests, the tastier, darker and smoother the gingerbread is. Therefore, let the dough rest for at least an hour. And it is better if the dough lies in the freezer for a week. I offer you a detailed recipe with a photo of gingerbread with icing. All proportions in the recipe are perfectly matched, the thickness of the gingerbread is adjustable independently. Thin gingerbread cookies will be crispy, while thicker ones will be soft inside. By the way, it is not at all necessary to cook such gingerbread only for the New Year, although they are the decoration of this holiday. Such pastries can be prepared for Valentine's Day, and for March 8, and for your birthday, if you choose the appropriate molds and prepare a beautiful multi-colored icing. But the most important thing is to cook with love.
I propose to cook exactly Christmas gingerbread in the form of snowflakes and Christmas trees. The aroma that fills the house during the baking process is a special, magical aroma, it creates a New Year's mood and encourages you to sing “Jingle bells” right in the kitchen. Cooking Christmas baking is a great tradition that will help bring the family together and keep the kids busy.
Ingredients:
- 250 g (2.5 tablespoons) premium flour;
- 0.5 tsp soda;
- 1 egg;
- 100 g butter;
- 70 g of sugar;
- 1 tbsp with a slide of honey (about 30 g);
- 1 tsp ground ginger;
- 2 tsp cinnamon;
- 1 tsp anise;
- a pinch of nutmeg;
- a pinch of cardamom;
- a pinch of cloves.
How to cook gingerbread at home recipe.
1. We combine the egg, sugar, soft butter and honey. Sugar is suitable for both regular white and brown. We take honey to taste, or whatever it is. In the West, honey is often replaced with pataca.
2. Beat everything with a mixer until smooth.
3. In a separate bowl, combine all the spices, flour and, of course, soda - this ingredient will make the gingerbread lush. It is not necessary to extinguish soda, it will react with honey.
4. Mix the contents of two bowls.
5. Knead the dough with a spoon until it darkens and separates. By the way, the final color of the dough depends on both spices and the type of honey. From light varieties (linden, acacia) you get gingerbread cookies of a pleasant brownish tint, and if you take buckwheat honey, you will get dark, almost chocolate gingerbread cookies.
6. Gradually roll the dough into a smooth ball from heterogeneous lumps.
7. Flatten it (it will cool faster this way) and wrap it in cling film. We send it to the refrigerator for at least an hour. Gingerbread cookies are easier to cut out of cold dough, they turn out to be more even and neat.
8. Divide the dough into 2 parts. We will roll out one, and the second can be put in the refrigerator for now.
9. Roll out into a layer on parchment or between two sheets (so the rolling pin does not stick, and you do not need to sprinkle anything with excess flour, which will clog the dough). If the rolling pin is lacquered, smooth (like mine), then you can only get by with parchment from the bottom. The shape of the gingerbread also depends on the thickness of the layer: if you roll it out too thin, you get crispy biscuits, not gingerbread.
10. Now the most interesting thing: we begin to push through the layer with molds. If there are no special molds, you can use an ordinary glass or cut the dough with a knife. Our Christmas or New Year's gingerbread can be of the usual rounded shape, snowflakes and Christmas trees can be drawn on them with icing. We try to use the entire area of the dough as much as possible, but leave a small distance between the gingerbread cookies - when baking, the gingerbread cookies will disperse a little both in breadth and in height. Carefully remove the excess dough and roll it into a ball again, only on another sheet of parchment. The main thing is not to let the dough heat up, otherwise it may begin to delaminate and lose shape. If the dough has warmed up, put it in the refrigerator for 10-15 minutes, and cut it out again. It is very convenient to transfer the gingerbread cookies to a baking sheet along with a sheet of parchment - the molds do not deform, the gingerbread cookies turn out to be even and beautiful. In this form, we send our snowflakes to a preheated oven to bake until cooked. They need from 7 to 10 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees. Readiness is determined by a toothpick, it should not leave traces of dough. Gingerbread cookies can start to burn quite quickly and our goal is to prevent this. And, although it is rather difficult to determine from the first time by the color of baking whether it is burnt or not, this affects the taste very noticeably. So let's get it and try it. By the way, gingerbread cookies are softer when hot, and crispy when cooled.
11. The recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home has come to an end. But you need to decorate them to create a festive atmosphere of Christmas and New Year.
12. Still, without icing, the gingerbread cookies do not look festive enough, so we put them in a separate container to cool down, and proceed to the preparation of royal icing.
13. Proteins of five quail eggs are added to 250 g of finely ground powdered sugar.
14. Knead the cream of a thick consistency, first with a spoon, then with a mixer at minimum speed. It will take about 7 minutes in total.
15. Dilute a few drops of icing with boiled water and knead. Glaze of suitable consistency should reach for a spoon.
16. Decorate the gingerbread cookies with a pastry bag: the lines stretch and then lie down. Dry the jewelry for about 30 minutes.
17. New Year's gingerbread is ready. Bon appetit and happy New Year holidays!
The New Year is one of the most long-awaited holidays, for which adults prepare so carefully, and children expect real miracles on this night.
When cooking treats, many people like to bake and we will tell you how to decorate gingerbread with icing in the New Year's style to surprise your loved ones and please your guests with an unusual product. After all, a dessert made from quality products and beautifully decorated with your own hands will never be compared with purchased products.
gingerbread recipe
Fragrant, fragrant gingerbread cookies are considered traditional New Year's pastries. You can bake any other recipe you like, but we present a classic way to make holiday gingerbread.
For the test you will need
- Ground ginger - 2 teaspoons;
- Ground cinnamon - 2 teaspoons without a slide;
- Star anise (star anise) ground - 1 teaspoon;
- Ground cloves - 1 tsp without a slide.
- Grated nutmeg - 1 pc.;
- Sugar - 200 g;
- Honey - 150 g;
- Butter - 150 g;
- Chicken eggs 2 pcs.;
- Wheat flour - 500-600 g;
- Soda - 1 tsp
- A pinch of salt.
How to cook gingerbread for the New Year's table
- Mix all spices together in one bowl.
- In a bowl that can be put on fire, mix sugar and honey, put the mixture on a steam bath.
- When the sugar begins to dissolve, add spices, oil and a pinch of salt to the mass. stir until the sugar is completely dissolved.
- Remove the mass from the heat, cool to room temperature and add the eggs, soda, mix everything well.
- Start adding flour gradually. The dough should turn out to be moderately steep.
- Wrap the finished dough in a film or bag and put it in the refrigerator. It is desirable that it lie there for 8-10 hours (it can be longer, it will lie quietly for 2-3 days), so prepare it in advance.
After aging in the cold, roll out the dough, cut out the gingerbread cookies with molds, lay them on a baking sheet covered with baking paper, and bake for 10-15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180º C.
Decoration of New Year's gingerbread
And now let's move on to the most interesting - decorating gingerbread in the New Year and Christmas style. To do this, we need to prepare a special "drawing" glaze, which is called "icing".
Before we move on to the icing recipe, check out some of the rules for making this glaze.
- If you use a mixer to beat the products, turn on the low speed, otherwise all the icing will splatter.
- For icing, you need very finely ground powdered sugar. It is best to cook it yourself. But if you do not have a device in which you can grind the product, buy powder in the store and sift it through the finest sieve.
- Glaze is recommended to be used immediately, if storage is required, then it should be kept in a tightly closed container.
- For pouring gingerbread and drawing, icing of different consistency is prepared.
- To prevent the icing from freezing during operation, keep the container closed.
- The drying time of the glaze depends on its quality and density, it can take from 30 minutes to 3 hours.
- If you need to speed up the decoration of New Year's gingerbread, then the icing can be dried for 15-20 minutes in an oven heated to 40ºC.
Icing recipe for New Year's gingerbread
To make the frosting you will need
- 3 egg whites, chilled;
- Powdered sugar - 400-500 g;
- 0.5 teaspoon lemon juice
How to make protein icing
- Prepare a container for whipping proteins, it must be clean and completely dry. Put egg whites in it and start beating.
- When the protein mass becomes white and thickens, add lemon juice to it and start slowly pouring in the powdered sugar, continuing the whipping process.
- Beat the frosting until it forms soft peaks.
Now you can separate the icing into separate bowls to color it in different colors. To do this, use ordinary food coloring, diluting it according to the instructions, or use ready-made, liquid.
If you plan to fill, then separate another part of the glaze for this purpose and dilute it with a small amount of warm water to the consistency of liquid swept.
To proceed directly to the design of the dessert, you will need pastry bags. Do not be discouraged if they are not there, ordinary plastic bags will do: put the icing in small bags, tie them up and make small holes in the very corner.
Decoration of New Year's gingerbread: rules for working with icing
- For work, in addition to bags of icing, you will need a small spoon and a toothpick.
- If you plan to fill the gingerbread, then first outline the borders with a thick icing outline, and then, when the icing hardens a little, fill in the middle.
- It's okay if the line went crooked: you can fix it with a toothpick or remove it completely and try again.
- Do you have artistic talents? Use ready-made stencils of drawings, applying them to the gingerbread and outlining the contours. You can buy them in a store or find them online, print them out on paper, and cut them out yourself.
- So that your hand does not tremble and the lines turn out to be even, be sure to lean on the table, do not keep your hand on weight.
- To diversify the design, you can use ready-made decor for baking: various small colored figures, powders, sparkles. And sculpt them immediately, before it is frozen, so they will attach well to the glaze.
You can start with the simplest Christmas-themed outline decoration.
Ready for more serious experiments? Then try filling the gingerbread with icing. Do not forget that without a contour, the icing will spread and go beyond the edges of the gingerbread. 
On a note: With icing, you can decorate not only gingerbread, but also any other baked goods, such as cakes, pastries, muffins, cookies.
On the Web, you can find a lot of examples of how to decorate gingerbread cookies with New Year's icing or make your own fantasies come true. Such a dessert will be not only a wonderful decoration of the festive table, but also an interesting gift for loved ones.
Ice icing is such a fun activity that once you try it, you'll want to try it again and again. And the most important thing is that there is nothing complicated in it: all you need is a good mood and a little patience.
What is the New Year without sweets? Tangerines and sweets, lollipops and nuts, truffles and chocolate are obligatory companions of the New Year holidays. And, of course, pastries. We put it on the festive New Year's table, treat our friends, pack New Year's pastries in beautiful gift boxes with our own hands, and even decorate the Christmas tree.
Therefore, we have prepared for you the most popular recipes and ideas for New Year's baking. Meet new and traditional baking recipes for the New Year.
The tradition of cooking gingerbread cookies came to us not so long ago, but quickly became a favorite. What a delight, under the twinkling lights of garlands, to chew delicious and fragrant gingerbread cookies that are baked once a year, especially for the New Year holidays.
And the painting on such gingerbread is a separate issue, as it makes the baking itself unique, and its preparation is a real creative process. Therefore, this is an ideal New Year's baking for children, who can be involved in both cooking and decorating gingerbread.
We will need:
To prepare the dough:
- butter - 100 gr.;
- white sugar - 100 gr.;
- cocoa - 1 small spoon;
- cinnamon - 1 small spoon;
- nutmeg - 1 small spoon;
- ground ginger (powder) - 1 small spoon;
- ground cloves - 1 small spoon;
- ground pepper - 0.5 small spoons;
- flour - 180 gr.;
- baking powder - 1.5 small spoons;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- salt.
To prepare the glaze:
- egg whites - 1 pc.;
- powdered sugar - 0.5 cups;
- lemon - 1 tablespoon;
- turmeric and other food colorings;
- toothpicks.
Baking New Year's gingerbread begins long before the holidays, as it is perfectly stored and only becomes tastier from time to time. So already in mid-December, you can safely start the process, or even earlier. Especially if such New Year's pastries are prepared as a gift for the New Year.
Pour sugar into a metal container. We add oil to it, cinnamon, cocoa and nutmeg will also go there. Slightly add the mixture. We put the container on a small flame and heat until all the sugar has dissolved, but do not allow boiling.
Leave the mixture to cool while preparing the dry mixture. Mix flour with baking powder and remaining spices. Now pour the heated mixture into this dry mass. And knead the dough. You should get a homogeneous mass, to which you also need to add fresh eggs. Knead the dough again.
It should be flexible and well behind the hands. If the density is insufficient, it is better to cover the dough with a film, expose it to the cold. In the cold, the mass will become thicker.
If this method did not help thicken the dough, add a little flour, but not more than a couple of tablespoons. A lot of flour will make the dough more viscous, but the gingerbread will turn out to be quite tough.
We divide the already prepared dough into four parts, so it will be easier to roll it out later. Since the dough becomes more viscous again when heated, it is better to take the balls out of the cold in turn, and not all at once. We put all the balls in a bag and send it to the refrigerator for two hours.
We cover the baking sheet where we will bake the gingerbread cookies with baking paper and grease with butter.
To roll out the dough, we use a rolling pin and a board that needs to be greased with vegetable oil.
We take out one ball from the cold and immediately roll it into a layer. The thickness of the gingerbread will be about 8 mm. To cut out figures, you can use not only New Year's molds and New Year's cookies, but any available in the arsenal.
We quickly transfer the figures to paper. They increase in size during baking, so you need to leave a distance between the gingerbread cookies. New Year's gingerbread cookies are baked in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 10 - 15 minutes.
You need to orientate by the appearance and smell of the gingerbread. The aroma of spices will tell you that it's time to take the gingerbread out of the oven.
It is better to withstand such pastries in a bag or jar, where they are placed still warm. This will help the cookies stay soft longer.
Immediately prepare the glaze for drawing. Beat the egg whites into a thick foam, gradually adding powdered sugar to them. At the very end, add lemon juice.
It remains only to paint the figures. This is not difficult to do using a culinary syringe. You can also use a paint brush or a regular toothpick. If you want to get multi-colored figurines, color the icing in different colors using turmeric, beetroot juice, or just dyes. This design of New Year's baking will make them unique and irresistible.
Painted gingerbread is perhaps the most beautiful pastry for the New Year. They look great on the Christmas tree in the form of decorations, and as New Year's gifts to friends.
Baking on a New Year's theme: cookies "Stars"
Cookies in the form of stars and stars are another great idea for original baking for the New Year.
We will need:
- flour - 1 cup;
- sugar - half a glass;
- butter - 150 gr.;
- baking powder - 1 small spoon;
- citric acid - ¼ small spoon;
- egg yolks - 2 pcs.
- condensed milk - 100 gr.;
- powdered sugar - half a glass.
Mix flour in a bowl along with other dry ingredients, that is, sugar, citric acid and baking powder. We change everything.
Separate the yolks from the proteins and send them to the dry mixture. Once again, knead everything.
Now add the already chopped butter, which you need to chop with a knife along with other ingredients.
Knead the dough, only very quickly so that the butter does not melt much.
Immediately send the dough to the refrigerator, where it should spend at least two hours.
We take out the dough of their cold and roll it into a thin layer - the thickness is not more than 1 cm. Immediately cut out the figures in the form of stars and transfer them to a baking sheet covered with baking paper.
Bake cookies will be no longer than 15 minutes. The temperature in the oven should be 200 degrees.
When the cookies are baked, take them out and leave to cool. Fold the already cooled cookies in twos and coat with boiled condensed milk.
Put the finished stars on a dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar on top.
Such beautiful cookies will be a wonderful decoration for both children's and family New Year's tables. This is a beautiful and tasty New Year's baking and not much time and effort is spent on its preparation.
Baking for the New Year: honey painted gingerbread
This is a recipe for fragrant, fragrant New Year's gingerbread.
They are not only insanely delicious, but also stored due to the natural preservative of honey for up to six months. But for so long, these magic gingerbreads still do not age, they are very tasty. And you can paint them in any style.
We will need:
To prepare the dough:
- buckwheat dark honey - 165 gr.;
- cane sugar - 100 gr.;
- butter - 125 gr.;
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.;
- yolks - 4 pcs.;
- wheat flour of the highest grade - 450 gr.;
- rye flour - 100 gr.;
- natural cocoa - 2 tablespoons of powder;
- soda - 1 small spoon;
- spices - 2 small spoons;
- salt.
To prepare the spice mix:
- cinnamon - 4 parts;
- ginger powder - 1 part;
- cardamom - 1 part;
- coriander - 1 part;
- nutmeg - 1 part;
- allspice - 1 part;
- cloves - 1 part.
To prepare the glaze:
- chicken protein - 1 pc.;
- powdered sugar - 250 gr.;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp.
Pour sugar into a saucepan with thick walls and add honey. We put the container on the fire and start heating. Continue heating until sugar is completely dissolved. But we don't let it boil.
To make the sugar dissolve faster, you can grind it first.
After dissolving the sugar, add the mixture of spices and all the butter to the saucepan. We continue to stir the contents.
We add soda. Carefully! The mass after adding soda sharply increases in volume and changes color.
At this stage, immediately turn off the burner under the pan. Once again, mix everything with a wooden spatula.
Set aside the mixture - it should cool to 36 - 28 degrees. If you try the mixture with your finger, it should not burn.
Now you can add the egg and egg yolks. We mix two types of flour together with cocoa. Little by little, we begin to add the dry mixture to the liquid. We look at the consistency of the dough and adjust the volume of flour in the process of kneading.
You need to knead the dough well so that it becomes plastic and does not stick to your hands. But at the same time, the dough should not become very steep.
We wrap the dough in a film and send it for proofing in the cold for two hours. You can leave the dough in the cold for a longer period. Therefore, it is convenient to prepare the dough in the evening and leave to ripen all night.
After taking out the dough from their cold, leave it to warm for a couple of hours at room temperature. This test volume is divided into four parts. We roll each part into a layer, the thickness of which will be 5 mm.
It is better to roll out the dough immediately on paper, so that later it does not transfer and deform. Cut out the figures. We remove the excess dough from the paper.
If you plan to use such gingerbread cookies as Christmas decorations, immediately make holes in them for ribbons.
Such honey gingerbreads are baked for about 8 minutes in the oven at 180 or 200 degrees. In order not to get croutons or crispy cookies, do not overdo the gingerbread cookies in the oven.
If the gingerbread cookies are slightly deformed during baking, you can put a flat weight on them. But not immediately, but after 4-5 minutes after you take it out of the oven.
Now prepare the icing by whipping the protein with powdered sugar. Add sweetness little by little to the protein foam. Lemon juice will serve as a fixative, which is added at the very end of whipping.
Use the resulting glaze as a base for contouring and painting. To prepare the filling, part of the glaze is diluted with water so that the density is like that of condensed milk.
But what to draw and how to decorate gingerbread, decide for yourself. But do not forget to involve children in this exciting process. And let their painted gingerbread be not quite a work of art, but such pastries for the New Year are made by hand, so it will definitely be the most delicious and beautiful.
Traditional New Year's baking: curd adit
Usually adits are baked long before the holiday. This dried fruit cake needs to ripen.
And the longer it lies, the tastier and more aromatic it becomes. Such pastries are prepared for the New Year or Christmas table and are considered traditional in many countries.
We will need:
To prepare the dough:
- raisins - 200 gr.;
- dark rum - 100 ml;
- flour - 500 gr.;
- brown sugar - 150 gr.;
- baking powder - 7 gr. (1 sachet);
- vanilla essence - 4 drops;
- almond essence - 4 drops;
- a pinch of salt;
- a pinch of ground cloves;
- a pinch of cardamom;
- a pinch of ginger;
- a pinch of nutmeg;
- a pinch of cinnamon;
- zest from 1 orange;
- juice of 1 orange;
- chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- creamy margarine - 200 gr.;
- cottage cheese, grated into a paste - 250 gr.;
- dried almonds - 200 gr.;
- candied fruits - 200 gr.;
- dried cherries - 100 gr.
To decorate the top:
- butter - 100 gr.;
- powdered sugar - 100 gr.
In the evening, pour raisins and cherries with rum. Let it swell all night.
Beat chicken eggs with sugar and add melted margarine, all spices, vanillin, salt and curd paste to the mixture.
Separately, mix flour with baking powder and ground almonds. Gradually add the dry mixture to the liquid mass and knead until a homogeneous consistency is obtained.
Pour raisins and cherries into the dough - you do not need to drain the cognac, it will also go into the dough. Add candied fruits, orange juice and zest there.
We knead the dough and roll it into a layer measuring 30 by 30 cm. Fold one side to the center. Fold the opposite side twice to make a roll. This roll is transferred to the paper, which is covered with a baking sheet.
The adit will be baked for about an hour in the oven. Adjust the temperature for baking 180 degrees. Check the readiness of the Christmas cake with a toothpick.
When the adit is baked, soak the top with butter and sprinkle it with powdered sugar. Of course, you can immediately taste such a wonderful New Year's cupcake. But it is better to leave it to mature.
To do this, the adit is wrapped in several layers of cooking paper, and then also in a film. Usually the cake ripens up to three weeks. Therefore, the housewives start baking for the New Year's table already in early December.
Fragrant pastries for the New Year's table: New Year's cupcakes
Sweet fragrant muffins with the smell of tangerine and cinnamon are real New Year's pastries.
The recipe is surprisingly simple, and the result is unsurpassed.
Try to bake "New Year's" cupcakes and they will definitely become regular guests on your holiday table.
We will need:
- kefir - 200 ml;
- carrot-tangerine juice - 50 ml
- sugar - 100 gr.;
- chicken eggs - 1 pc.;
- vegetable oil - 80 ml.;
- flour - 250 gr.;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- salt;
- powdered sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- cinnamon - 1/2 tsp
The dough for these cupcakes is surprisingly easy to make. First, mix kefir with sugar, salt, egg and vegetable oil.
Separately, mix the flour with baking powder, after which the mixture must be sifted.
Do not skip the sifting step, this will make the dough more airy, and the cupcakes themselves will be tender and full of holes.
Gradually add the dry mixture to the liquid.
We prepare homemade juice from tangerines and carrots. To do this, we clean the citrus and divide it into slices, cut the peeled carrot into a cube. We put everything in a juicer and make juice with pulp.
We do not throw away the tangerine skins, but grind them to make a fine zest.
Pour the juice into the dough itself and mix. You get a nice orange color.
Now spread the zest and again carefully knead the dough.
We lay out the finished dough in molds, without filling them to the top. It will be enough to fill 2/3 of the forms.
It would be ideal if the forms are New Year's. A great opportunity to replenish your kitchen collection of baking dishes.
In the oven, our cupcakes will spend no more than 15 minutes, set the temperature to 180 degrees.
Take the cupcakes out of the molds when they are slightly cool. Now you can start decorating baking.
You can make cream hats in the form of green Christmas trees.
If you don't want to mess with such fancy decorations, dust the cupcakes with powdered sugar. Only not pure, but mixed with cinnamon.
Try! This is an insanely delicious, simple and incredibly fragrant pastry.
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New Year's baking: video cookie recipe Cones
New Year's gingerbread is a beautiful and tasty home decoration for everyone's favorite holiday. This pastry is universal, since products can not only be put on the table. Homemade New Year's gingerbread cookies can be used as Christmas tree decorations by tying pieces of paper with wishes. This traditional pastry is often given as a gift to family and friends. Here are some tasty options.
Recipe for chocolate gingerbread dough
Combine half a pack of soft butter with one hundred grams of sugar. It is recommended to add a pack of vanillin. The main thing at this stage is to mix the ingredients very thoroughly with a mixer for five minutes. If the sugar does not completely dissolve, then the New Year's gingerbread will not be smooth, and its surface will not be uniform. Then we continue to beat, gradually adding three large tablespoons of cocoa, a little cinnamon, orange zest, twenty grams of finely grated ginger and one large egg. All ingredients should be completely dissolved, and the mass should become completely homogeneous.
In a separate bowl, mix 260 grams of flour with half a teaspoon of soda. Now we begin to gradually add the mixture to the dough. When it becomes dense, it is recommended to knead with your hands. The even distribution of flour determines how neat the cooked New Year's gingerbread at home will be.
The dough, which should become like plasticine, put in the refrigerator for half an hour, and preferably all night. It needs to be cooled down well for the oil to solidify. In this case, it will be very convenient to work with the semi-finished product. Now you can move on to the next stage.
Rules for working with dough for chocolate gingerbread
Before you start baking, it is recommended to make a dough product. This will allow you to see, firstly, how much they will increase in volume, and secondly, whether the pastries are holding their shape. If the future New Year's gingerbread immediately melts, becomes greasy and there are problems when transferring it to a baking sheet, then you need to add flour. Be sure to distribute it well, knead thoroughly again and put to cool.
If everything is in order, then the dough in the process is recommended to be divided into four parts. We leave one of them, put the rest in the refrigerator. The dough must be rolled out on parchment. You can not rub the rolling pin with flour or sprinkle the semi-finished product with it.
Gingerbread "Merry family" and "Snowmen"
You can decorate the Christmas tree with this original pastry. We offer the following recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home.
Products should be thin and crispy. Therefore, the dough must be rolled out with a thickness of no more than 3 mm, since it will increase during the cooking process. Make figures with molds and put them in the oven for 6-10 minutes. The temperature should be no more than 175 degrees. But it is recommended to make a test gingerbread so as not to spoil the whole dough.
We cool the prepared products very well. Only in this case we remove them from the tray. Otherwise, they will crumble. Now decorate with frosting.
You can hang products on the Christmas tree.
Recipe for honey gingerbread dough
Put a third cup of liquid honey in a saucepan, a small spoonful of cinnamon, starch, vinegar, ground ginger and a little salt. Put the mass in a water bath and, constantly stirring, turn into This recipe for New Year's gingerbread can be supplemented with a pinch of ground cloves. You will get a very fragrant cake.
Now put two-thirds of a pack of soft butter into the mixture and leave to cool completely. At this time, beat two eggs with a glass of sugar. Mix everything together and begin to gradually add flour. All you need is three glasses. Of course, it all depends on the quality of the flour. Place the well-kneaded dough in the refrigerator overnight. Now you can start shaping.
New Year's gingerbread "Herringbone" from honey dough
Such products will be an excellent decoration for the main table, or they can be crowned with a birthday cake. But these are not only original, but also very tasty New Year's gingerbread. With your own hands, you can make toys and glaze beads for the Christmas tree.
Do-it-yourself ready-made New Year's gingerbreads then need to be cooled very well. At this time, prepare the green icing. We form Christmas trees, lubricating each layer and gluing them from largest to smallest. We leave the products for three to four hours. Now you can put them on the festive table or decorate the cake.
Eggless Honey Gingerbread Dough Recipe
The proposed option is an excellent semi-finished product for those who do not consume animal products. Despite the fact that there are no eggs in this recipe, the final product will not lose in any way in terms of its taste characteristics.
Grind 150 grams of low-fat sour cream very carefully with 300 grams of sugar. Add soft butter to the mixture. It will take a third of the pack. Add 190 grams of liquid honey, a little salt and cloves, a teaspoon of soda and ground ginger. Mix everything and gradually add half a kilo of sifted flour.
The dough must be kneaded very well and rolled into a ball. Next, wrap the semi-finished product in cling film and send to cool overnight. If it is possible, then it is possible for a longer period. Because, no matter how good the recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home is, only well-chilled dough will be elastic and pliable. The semi-finished product is ready for cooking. It must be rolled out to a thickness of at least 10 mm.
Recipe for Christmas gingerbread with icing "Gift"
These items are great for gifts. The proposed recipe for New Year's gingerbread with icing can be changed and supplemented. To prepare them, you will need chocolate or honey dough (with or without eggs), a knife, different molds, a little patience, more imagination and a good oven.
You can cook such products: Christmas trees, shoes and staves. They will make the kids very happy.
And the next version of the presentation is more suitable for adult guests.
An original gift can be a gingerbread assortment of chocolate and honey products, elegantly decorated. It's not hard at all to make them.
In conclusion, let's dwell on how to properly prepare the glaze. This can be done very simply. However, some rules and basic steps must be followed.
200 grams of powdered sugar must be sifted. To obtain high-quality glaze, it is recommended to repeat this procedure two or three times. Next, add it to the protein and begin to beat the mixture until a steep foam is obtained. Gradually add a small spoonful of starch and pour in a little lemon juice. If you need colored glaze, then add food coloring.
We apply it with a special culinary syringe. For this purpose, you can also use a tight bag. Fill it with glaze, cut off a corner and gently press, applying patterns.
How to store finished products
Whatever the recipe for New Year's gingerbread, the definite advantage of this baking is that the products can be stored for some time. The main thing is to properly organize this process.
Gingerbread can be stored in a special container for up to fourteen days if the temperature is about 18 degrees and the relative humidity is about 75 percent. Products in this case will become softer every day.
