Gingerbread houses: Christmas recipes

Before Christmas and New Year there is always the question of what would be interesting to cook. Especially always I want to please the children with something sweet and unusual. Just for such a case ginger houses will do. They look somehow especially nice and a little magical. Gingerbread on their own is not so interesting, but collected in a fairy-tale house - this is quite another matter. Children come from them in full delight.

Christmas recipes are varied, but they all share one thing: the dishes cooked on them are always special, very tasty and beautiful. Take at least the same gingerbread houses. Appetizing, bright and richly decorated, they create a wonderful atmosphere of warmth and comfort on the eve of the holiday. Let's talk about how to make one of such wonderful delicacies.

What products are needed for the test?

So, to prepare a gingerbread house, we should get such products:

1. Sugar - 0,5 glasses.
2. Butter - one packet (200-260 g).
3. Honey - 90 grams.
4. Ginger - 1,5-2 teaspoons. You can take a dry one. It is sold in every supermarket.
5. Flour - 0.75 kilograms.
6. Soda - 1.3 tsp.
7. Lemon juice - 1 teaspoon.
8. Carnation - 1.6 tsp.
9. Powdered sugar - 0,3 kg.

Gingerbread houses: recipe

After preparing all the products, you can start mixing the dough. First, we 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. We mix all this thoroughly with fire.

Then you need to add a little soda. The mixture must foam at the same time. But you still mix it well.

Then we add sifted flour. The contents of the bowl are prevented until the mass separates from the walls of the dishes.

We got a very fragrant warm dough. We roll it into a ball and let it cool for 15 minutes.

Billets for houses

So, we prepared the dough for the ginger house. The next stage is very interesting. Before you start baking, you should make the workpiece. We need to get the biscuits in the form of house details. Let's think about how to do it. The easiest way is to prepare paper patterns, and already on them cut out the rolled out dough components. Thus, we will bake not just gingerbread, but the walls, the roof, the pipe. Do you want to make more inhabitants of the theater: fairy-tale animals, little man, you can even have a snowman ...

What will be the future paper patterns, you decide. It all depends on how small or large your house of ginger biscuits is.

In addition, you can cut out of the cardboard a few more Christmas trees and a fence, which will fence the building. You will get a whole Christmas composition.

We also would advise you to bake the base for the house. The finished structure itself will be easier to install and fix on the biscuit-billet than on cardboard.

Cut out the details from the dough

We take the finished chilled dough and roll it up to a thickness of seven to eight millimeters. Then we impose 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 out the windows and doors. With them, the house will be much more beautiful. But if it is difficult - it does not matter, it is quite possible to finish with cream the necessary details and decor. But we'll talk about this later. In the meantime ...

We bake gingerbread

Before you send the dough into the oven, lay the baking tray with baking paper, we'll lay out the details of the billet. We put the temperature at 190 degrees on the stove and boldly put the cookies inside. Bake it will be no more than fifteen minutes. Just do not overdo it, otherwise the gingerbread will be too dark and over-dried.

Ready cookies should be cooled.

Cooking glaze

So, we already have ready-made parts, it remains only to collect our gingerbread houses. How? To do this, prepare the glaze. We will cook it twice, because in one day to collect everything and decorate will not work.

Protein of one cooled egg should be beaten with half a glass of sugar powder. We add a table spoon of lemon juice (necessarily freshly squeezed). The resulting glaze is applied to the confectioner's bag. We take the nozzle with the smallest slot and outline it with the outlines of all the windows, walls and doors. The roof, too, can be decorated in the form of shingles.

Let the glaze thicken. When it dries a little, but still does not completely solidify, you can decorate the details with different colored sprinkles, which are often used on Easter. Then the gingerbread houses will turn out even more vivid and beautiful.

We start to collect a house

Let's leave our products dry, and then move on to assembling the tower. Let's change the nozzle on the confectioner's bag to a wider one. And then we begin to apply the glaze to all future seams of the house. Each part of the facade is carefully placed one by one on a biscuit-stand, which we baked separately. After connecting the parts, hold them for a while so that they can stick together a little.

Thus, gradually install all parts of the house, applying glaze on the sides and bottom of the structure. Leave all this dry. Nights will be enough.

For greater rigidity of the product, you can use toothpicks, podperev wall them until completely dry. And you can carefully and secure them corners, after covering it all up with glaze.

New glaze for the roof

The next day, you need to beat a new portion of the glaze using a single egg protein. With its help we will install the roof. First, put one part of the cream on the cream layer, press it and wait until it is stuck. Similarly, we will establish the second half. Here, for sure, you will need to resort to the help of toothpicks to keep the roof well. By the way, some people prefer to decorate a finished product, so as not to spoil all the beauty when assembling. See for yourself how you feel comfortable.

Places of its connection well missed glaze. Here are our gingerbread houses and are ready.

Next, you can exactly set the fence and herringbone details, put the pipe on the roof. The finished house should be left to dry, and then sprinkle with powdered sugar. Get a real winter composition. It looks all very fabulously and beautifully and quite claims to decorate the festive table. In general, Christmas recipes are such a miracle! They raise the mood already at the stage of reading, what to say about ready-made delicacy!

Instead of an afterword

What is good about such recipes is that you can involve children in the cooking process. They can decorate some details themselves, taste gingerbread first. This will create a special, festive, New Year and Christmas atmosphere in the house. Gingerbread houses, the recipe of which we told you, it's not just a cookie, it's a handmade job! Yes, even what!

Such a composition will become pride and adornment of the festive 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 in the above recipe, and your gingerbread houses will not look like anyone else's. There is where to develop fantasy. Simply a complete creative. And how much joy for the children! So try to create such a miracle for the festive table, and you will not regret your choice!