Kitchen appliances and utensils
- kitchen scales;
- refractory capacity;
- whisk;
- hob;
- mixer;
- sieve;
- cling film;
- fridge;
- cutting board;
- rolling pin;
- knife;
- baking tray;
- oven;
- stencils with pictures;
- brush;
- wooden skewers;
- napkins.
Ingredients
- wheat flour - 400 g
- egg - 1 pc.
- honey - 165 g
- sugar - 100 g
- ground ginger - 1.5 tsp.
- cinnamon - 1 tsp.
- butter - 125 g
- soda - 2 tsp.
- egg white - 1 pc.
- icing sugar - 200 g
- citric acid - a pinch
- mastic - 1 sheet
- vodka - 5 g
- decor gel - 5 g
Step cooking
Gingerbread cookies are an ideal delicacy that turns out not only very tasty, but also very beautiful. Such a dessert can be decorated to your liking and used to decorate various holiday cakes. And you can also serve with tea or milk as a separate independent cookie.
Cooking Gingerbread Cookies
- In a deep refractory container, mix 165 g of honey, 100 g of sugar, 1 tsp. cinnamon and 1.5 tsp ground ginger. Mix everything thoroughly and put on fire.
- Constantly stirring, bring the mixture to a boil.
- After boiling, reduce the heat and cook the mixture until sugar is completely dissolved.
- Add to the resulting liquid 2 tsp. soda. Mix everything thoroughly.
- We put in the contents of the container 125 g of softened butter.
- We cool the mixture to about 60 ° C, add 1 egg to it and mix everything with a mixer.
- Gradually introduce 400 g of sifted wheat flour into the resulting mass.
- Knead the dough, wrap it in cling film and put in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
- Roll out the cooled dough into a 4 mm thick layer.
- Using stencils, we cut out the necessary figures from the dough.
- We transfer the workpieces to the baking sheet and send it to the oven preheated to 185 ° C for 8 minutes.
Cooking Frosting
- At the lowest mixer speed, beat 1 egg white.
- Gradually introduce 200 g of powdered sugar to the protein, increasing the speed of the mixer to an average mark.
- Add a pinch of citric acid to the mass and continue whisking the icing.
- Using a pastry bag, fill the gingerbread with the finished glaze.
Decorate the gingerbread cookies
- We roll 1 sheet of mastic into a thin layer and cover it with vodka using a food brush.
- We paste prepared images onto a layer of vodka, cover everything with napkins and pass a rolling pin along them.
- Using a knife, crop the mastic along the contour of the image.
- Insert the skewers into the gingerbread cookies.
- We distribute the decor gel according to the mastic and glue the workpiece over the gingerbread glaze.
Video recipe
We suggest you watch a video with a simple master class on cooking beautiful and delicious gingerbread cookies.
Now you know the universal recipe for making crispy, fragrant and delicious gingerbread cookies, which will certainly become an ornament of any holiday. Tell me, did you like the proposed cooking option for this treat? How did you decide to decorate the finished products? Share your feedback in the comments.
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