Delicious gingerbread for the New Year 2020 with your own hands

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  bakery

• Cooking time:

  2 hours

Ingredients

• flour
• sugar
• cinnamon
• ginger
• nutmeg
• Carnation
• salt
• soda
• butter
• honey
• egg

What a New Year 2020 without delicious, fragrant and beautiful gingerbread! Such pastries can not only be put on the festive table, but also used as a decoration for the New Year tree. We offer several recipes with photos of gingerbreads that you can bake with your own hands.

Gingerbread

Even if your family does not really like gingerbread, then everyone will be delighted with the proposed recipe with a photo of baking for the New Year 2020. Such a delicacy can be prepared with children, they will definitely like to cut thematic figures out of the dough with their own hands. The delicacy turns out to be very tasty and will fill the house with the aromas of the upcoming holiday.

Ingredients:

• 350 g flour;
• 150 g sugar;
• 5 g ground cinnamon;
• 5 g ginger;
• a pinch of nutmeg;
• a pinch of cloves;
• ¼ h. L. soda;
• a pinch of salt;
• 100 g butter;
• 50 ml of honey;
• 1 chicken egg.

Preparation:

1. Cut the cold butter into cubes and send it to the blender bowl along with flour, soda, cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, soda, cloves and honey.
2. Mix all the ingredients until you get flour crumbs and put them on the table.
3. In the center we make a small depression, drive in an egg, knead the dough, which we collect in a ball, wrap it in plastic and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour. If the dough crumbles, then add 1 teaspoon of cold water until the flour mass is collected in a ball.
4. Then we take out the chilled dough, roll it out into a layer at least 1 cm thick and use molds to cut out any New Year's figures. If the gingerbread will be used as a decoration for the Christmas tree, then in each product we immediately make small holes.
5. We transfer the figures to a baking sheet with parchment and send them to the oven for 15 minutes, temperature 170 ° C.
6. Cool the finished gingerbread for 5 minutes, and then transfer to the wire rack.

For decoration, you can make a glaze from egg white, which we grind with 150 g of powdered sugar and 3 drops of lemon juice. We put the icing in a pastry bag and, until it has frozen, decorate the gingerbread pastry.

Honey gingerbread

In Russia, honey cakes have always been considered a symbol of fun and celebration. And so that the New Year 2020 also passes in a good mood, we suggest that you bake such pastries with your own hands. The proposed recipe with the photo is very simple, honey, cinnamon and lemon are excellently combined here.

Ingredients:

• 200 ml of liquid honey;
• 200 g butter;
• 100 g sugar;
• 1 lemon;
• 400 g flour;
• 3 chicken eggs;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon;
• ground cloves to taste;
• salt to taste;
• 100 g dark chocolate (for decoration).

Preparation:

Pour honey and melted butter into a bowl, mix

• We divide the chicken eggs into yolks, which we grind together with sugar, as well as proteins, which we simply beat until a stable foam.
• And now add whipped yolks and whites to the mixture of butter and honey, as well as zest from half a lemon.

• Next, add flour in portions to the resulting mass and knead a dense and tight dough.
• Roll the dough into a bun, wrap it with foil and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
• Then we roll out the chilled dough into a layer and, using stencils, cut out any New Year's figures.

We transfer the dough blanks to a baking sheet with parchment and put them in the oven for 10-15 minutes, temperature 180 ° C

• We take out the finished gingerbread and cool.
• For decoration, melt dark chocolate in a water bath. You can make a New Year's garland from gingerbread, for this we simply fasten colorful products with a golden cord.

Interesting! Simple and delicious sandwiches for the New Year 2020

Gingerbread with burnt sugar

A simple but unusual recipe with a photo of gingerbreads that you can bake with your own hands for the New Year 2020 is an option on burnt sugar. The baked goods turn out to be of an unusual color, while being very soft, tender and tasty.

Ingredients:

• 100 g sugar;
• 150 ml of honey;
• 1, 5 Art. l. a mixture of spices;
• 150 g butter;
• 1 chicken egg;
• 50 ml boiling water;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 350 g flour.

For glaze:

• 1 chicken egg;
• 170 g icing sugar;
• 1 tsp vinegar (9%);
• food colorings.

Preparation:

• We take a saucepan with a thick bottom and high walls so that when the baking soda is added, its contents do not escape. So, pour sugar into a saucepan, put it on fire and keep it until it is completely dissolved.
• Then we remove from the heat, pour boiling water into the melted granulated sugar, and also pour in honey and fill in any spices as desired. This can be cinnamon, cloves, ginger, or nutmeg.

• We return to the fire and add soda, after adding which the mass will foam, and here you need to stir everything without stopping.
• Now put the pieces of butter and, as soon as it is completely melted, remove the pan and cool its contents to a temperature of 60 ° C.

• Next, drive in the egg and stir everything quickly again, otherwise the egg will simply curl up. Then add flour in portions and knead the dense dough.
• We wrap the dough in foil and put it in the refrigerator for a day. By the way, such a dough can be safely stored in a cool place for up to 3 weeks.

After that, we roll out the dough into a layer 4 mm thick and, using molds, cut out the gingerbread cookies, which we bake on a baking sheet with parchment for 8 minutes at a temperature of 200 ° C

• Cool the finished gingerbread and remove the paper from them.
• Now we take all the ingredients for the glaze, mix, paint in the desired colors and decorate the baked goods.

So that the glaze does not lose its shine, there is one secret: just after applying it, we send the gingerbread cookies to an oven preheated to 50 ° C for 5 minutes. This will dry the glaze quickly and shine

Tula gingerbread

Gingerbread is an attribute of Catholic Christmas, but Tula gingerbread has always been baked in Russia, the history of which goes back more than 300 years. And, in order not to deviate from traditions, we offer a recipe with a photo of Tula gingerbread, which you can bake with your own hands for the New Year 2020.

Ingredients:

• 150 ml of honey;
• 2 eggs;
• 80 g butter;
• 120 g sugar;
• 2 tsp ground cinnamon;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 300 g flour (+ for adding);
• 200 g of thick jam.

For glaze:

• 2 tbsp. l. milk;
• 4 tbsp. l. icing sugar.

Preparation:

Drive eggs into a bowl and combine the whites with the yolks with a regular whisk

Now add butter, honey, add sugar, soda and cinnamon for flavor, stir and send everything to a water bath

• As soon as the sugar and butter are completely melted, add flour and keep on fire until all loose and dry ingredients are completely combined into a homogeneous mass.
• After that, we transfer the mass to a table sprinkled with flour, give it a little time to cool down and start an active kneading, add flour if necessary. The dough should be as soft as plasticine in consistency. It can be a little sticky, since honey is present here, you should not forget about this, so you do not need to hammer the dough with flour, otherwise the gingerbread will be dry.

Now we divide the dough into two equal parts, roll one part directly on the parchment into a layer 5 mm thick, grease the surface with a thick jam with a sweet and sour taste. The filling should not be too sugary - plum, apple or blackcurrant jam will do

• Then we also roll out the second half of the dough into the layer, put the jam on the layer, press the edges and cut with a curly knife. From the remains of the dough, you can cut out figures and put them in any order on the surface of the gingerbread.
• Now we put the product directly on the parchment on a baking sheet and send it to the oven for 30-40 minutes, temperature 180 ° C.

We grease the finished gingerbread with icing, for this we mix milk with powdered sugar, heat on fire for 3-4 minutes and soak the baked goods with the resulting syrup. As soon as the gingerbread is completely cool, you can serve it to the table.

Interesting! Delicious homemade oat cookie recipes

Gingerbread lebkuchen

Lebkuchen gingerbread is a traditional Christmas pastry, the recipe of which is known in every German family. These pastries have an incredible aroma, because a large number of spices are used here.

Try to bake such gingerbread cookies with your own hands for New Year 2020, as in the photo, and you will get a delicious treat that will warm you on cold winter evenings.

Ingredients:

• 500 g flour;
• 150 ml of honey;
• 100 g white sugar;
• 100 g cane sugar;
• 100 g butter;
• 1 large egg (or 2 small ones);
• 1, 5 tsp baking powder;
• ½ tsp soda;
• a pinch of salt;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• ½ tsp nutmeg;
• ½ tsp ground cloves;
• ½ tsp ground star anise;
• ½ tsp ground anise;
• ½ tsp ground ginger;
• 50 g almonds;
• dark chocolate for icing (optional).

Preparation:

1. We send butter to the stewpan, add two types of sugar and pour in honey.
2. We keep the contents on fire until the butter melts and the sugar is completely dissolved, but in no case bring the mixture to a boil.
3. Now we sift all the spices that are indicated in the list of ingredients into the honey mixture. After that we fill in the soda with baking powder, drive in the eggs, stir, add flour in portions and knead the dough.
4. After that we put the dough in a bag and leave it in the refrigerator for several hours, or better for the whole night.
5. Then we take out the base for the gingerbread, bring it to room temperature and roll it into a layer at least 1 cm thick.
6. Now we cut out the figures from the dough, put them on a baking sheet with parchment and in the oven for 12-15 minutes, temperature 175 ° C.
7. If desired, decorate the finished gingerbread with chocolate icing, for this we just take dark chocolate, break it into pieces and melt it on the stove or in the microwave.

In many countries, gingerbread is the decoration of the festive table. Therefore, you can also maintain traditions and bake delicious and beautiful delicacies for the New Year 2020 with your own hands. By the way, gingerbread cookies can be molded (these are most often baked in northern countries), printed, when a special gingerbread board is used to prepare products, and cut, which look more like cookies, they are baked in the form of different figures and decorated with glaze, white or colored.