DIY Christmas gingerbread in 2022 according to delicious recipes

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

Christmas gingerbread is a traditional pastry in many countries and has been baked for over a thousand years. So, in Russia it has always been customary to add honey to the dough, in Europe - nuts, and in the East - spices. We offer you not to deviate from traditions and bake the most delicious gingerbread cookies with your own hands for the New Year 2022. All the suggested recipes with photos are simple but interesting.

Chocolate gingerbread for New Year 2022

For the New Year 2022, we propose to cook delicious chocolate gingerbread. With these pastries, the atmosphere of the upcoming New Year holidays will come to your home. Be sure to take note of the recipe, because such gingerbread cookies cannot be compared with purchased baked goods.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggs;
• 80 ml of vegetable oil;
• 150 ml sour cream;
• 200 g sugar;
• a pinch of salt;
• 11 g baking powder;
• 30 g cocoa;
• 450 g flour;
• 30 ml of honey;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• a pinch of cardamom;
• ¼ h. L. nutmeg;
• ¼ h. L. carnations;
• 1 tsp ginger;
• 1 tsp orange peel.

For glaze:

• 100 g icing sugar;
• 3 tbsp. l. milk.

Preparation:

• For the dough, break the eggs into a bowl, add sugar and salt to them, mix well with an ordinary whisk.
• Now pour in butter, honey and put in sour cream (preferably fatty), stir everything well again.

• Then add all the spices, cinnamon, orange zest along with grated fresh ginger, mix.
• Sift flour into the resulting mass, add cocoa and baking powder. Knead well so that at the exit you get a soft, tender dough that does not stick to your hands.

• We collect the dough in a ball, put it in a bag and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
• We dust the working surface with flour, lay out the dough, which we also lightly sprinkle with flour, and roll it into a layer 1 cm thick.

• Using a mold, cut out gingerbread cookies with a diameter of 5, 5 cm, collect the remaining dough, roll up and cut out the gingerbread again.
• We transfer the blanks to a baking sheet with parchment and send them to the oven for 15 minutes at 180 ° C.

Once the gingerbread cookies have cooled down, you can decorate them with icing, for which you just need to mix the icing sugar with milk

If the gingerbread is too dry, put them in a container, put slices of fresh apples, close and leave overnight. The gingerbread will absorb moisture and soften again.

Gingerbread Lebkuchen

Lebkuchen gingerbread is a traditional Christmas pastry in the Francono-Bavarian town of Nuremberg. The dough for baking can be kneaded with wheat, rye and corn flour, and you can also add any spices and spices, even chili powder.

Ingredients:

• 250 g flour;
• 75 g ground ginger;
• ½ tsp soda;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 1 tsp ginger;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• ½ tsp nutmeg;
• ½ tsp ground cloves;
• 1 tbsp. l. orange peel;
• 1 tbsp. l. lemon zest;
• 200 ml of light honey;
• 85 g butter.

Step by step recipe with photo:

• Add baking soda and baking powder to the flour and sift into a bowl.
• Add ground spices to dry ingredients: ginger, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon. Also add almonds, ground in a coffee grinder, mix.

• Remove the zest from the orange and lemon, but only the yellow part, do not touch the white pulp, it is very bitter.
• Add the zest to the rest of the ingredients, mix.

Put honey and butter in a container, melt in a water bath, stirring occasionally

• Pour the melted honey with butter into the dry mixture and knead the soft dough, which we let rest for 30 minutes.
• We form gingerbread from the dough. They can be made simply round or you can use different molds.

We put the products on a baking sheet with parchment and put them in the oven for 15 minutes (temperature 180 ° C)

Decorate the finished baked goods with sugar icing or simply sprinkle with powder

Such gingerbread cookies are stored for a very long time if you put them in a glass or tin container with a tight lid.

Christmas gingerbread "Christmas ball"

Christmas gingerbread is the best baked goods for the New Year 2022. Today there are different recipes with photos, but if you want to try something unusual, we suggest making Christmas ball gingerbread cookies with your own hands. This is not just delicious pastries, but also an unusual gift or an interesting decoration for the New Year tree.

Ingredients:

• 400 g sugar;
• 200 ml of boiling water;
• 200 g butter;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 1 tsp ginger;
• ½ tsp nutmeg;
• ½ tsp cardamom;
• ½ tsp carnations;
• 1 egg;
• 800 g flour.

For glaze:

• 1 egg white;
• 150 g icing sugar;
• 2-3 drops of lemon juice.

Preparation:

In a saucepan with a thick bottom, melt the sugar, and start stirring only when the bottom layer begins to melt. We are waiting for the sugar to completely melt, by that time the color will darken noticeably. It is very important not to overcook, otherwise the finished gingerbread will taste bitter

• Gradually add boiling water to the melted sugar and mix quickly.
• Then add butter of any temperature. We wait for the butter to melt and add ginger, cardamom, nutmeg and cinnamon, add salt and soda.

Remove the mixture from heat and cool completely, drive in an egg and stir until smooth

Finally, in several stages, we sift the flour, knead the soft dough, which we put in a bag and put in the refrigerator overnight

Roll out the rested dough into a layer 3-4 mm thick

Using a plastic ball of foil, we make hemispheres and put the dough in them, bake at 180 ° C for 7-9 minutes

Let the blanks cool on the molds, and then carefully remove the foil. We trim the edges of the hemispheres with a knife so that they fit snugly together

• For the glaze, beat the egg white with the addition of powdered sugar and lemon juice.
• Turn the hemispheres in the glaze, shake off the excess and put on a flat surface. If desired, dye of any color can be added to the glaze.

Apply glaze to the edge of one hemisphere, apply the second half of the future ball and immediately glue in a satin ribbon loop

Decorate the edges with glaze, but a slightly denser consistency, and draw any patterns on the balls

Interesting! Cookies for the New Year 2022 according to delicious recipes with photos

Such dough can be safely stored in the refrigerator for up to a month and every time to delight relatives with delicious gingerbread.

Christmas gingerbread with filling

New Year's gingerbread cookies with filling are another recipe for delicious and unusual pastries that cannot be found in any store. There is nothing difficult in cooking - everything is simple, fast and tasty.

Ingredients:

• 200 g sugar;
• 300 g flour;
• 150 ml of milk;
• 50 ml of vegetable oil;
• 1 egg white;
• 40 g cocoa powder;
• 1 tsp baking powder;
• 200 g caramel toffee.

For glaze:

• 1 egg white;
• 100 g icing sugar;
• a pinch of citric acid.

Preparation:

• Sift 100 g of flour into a bowl, then add sugar and pour in hot milk, mix everything well until a homogeneous consistency.
• Now pour in the butter, egg white, add cocoa with baking powder, mix everything again.

• Then, in several steps, add the remaining flour and knead the viscous dough.
• We spread the dough on a floured table, dust it with flour a little on top, roll it out to a thickness of 1 cm and use any mold to cut out the blanks.

Now put toffee on one half, grease the edges with whipped yolk, cover with the second half, pinch the edges

• We put all the blanks on a baking sheet with parchment and send them to the oven for 15 minutes at 180 ° C.
• For the glaze, beat the egg white with citric acid and powdered sugar.
• Cover the cooled gingerbread with glaze on all sides.

If you are afraid to use raw eggs for icing, you can wash them well with soap and treat them with vinegar - Salmonella does not tolerate acid.

Gingerbread house

For the New Year 2022, you can bake different New Year's gingerbread cookies, but it will be very interesting to make a real gingerbread house with your own hands. Such recipes with photos will surely please housewives who love not only to cook deliciously, but also to create something beautiful and unusual.

Ingredients:

• 165 ml of honey;
• 100 g sugar;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• 1 tsp grated ginger;
• 2 tsp soda;
• ½ tsp nutmeg;
• 1 egg;
• 125 g butter;
• 400 g flour.

For glaze:

• 200 g icing sugar;
• 1 egg white;
• 2-3 drops of lemon juice.

Preparation:

1. We send honey together with sugar, ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg to the stewpan. We put on fire and bring to a boil with constant stirring.
2. After boiling, keep on fire for about another minute so that the granulated sugar is completely dissolved.
3. Then remove from heat, pour into a bowl, add soda, stir.
4. Now put the butter, stir everything well until smooth.
5. As soon as the mass becomes warm, you can drive in the egg. Stir.
6. Pour the sifted flour in small portions, knead everything well, so that in the end you get a soft, tender and slightly sticky dough.
7. Before working with the dough further, wrap it in foil and put it in a cool place for at least half an hour.
8. Then we roll out and cut out the details for the future house using stencils.
9. Carefully transfer the blanks to a baking sheet with parchment and bake for 10 minutes at 180 ° C.
10. For icing, sift the icing sugar to the egg white, add lemon juice, beat everything well for 2-3 minutes.
11. We decorate every detail of the house with glaze and, as soon as it dries, cut the edges with a knife so that they are even.
12. Apply the glaze and assemble the house. For better bonding, grease with glaze from the inside.
13. The joints of the parts from the outside are lubricated with a thick layer of glaze. We leave the gingerbread house for a few hours.

You can also fasten the details of the house with melted chocolate, caramel or toffee. For decoration, you can use almonds, dragees, lollipops, grain pads, marshmallows, pieces of chocolate.

Gingerbread is a simple but delicious pastry that has already become a symbol of the New Year and Christmas holidays. Be sure to involve children in the process, they will definitely like such an activity. At the same time, they develop motor skills, tactile sensations and cognitive activity. New Year's gingerbread cookies can be served on a festive table, hung on a Christmas tree or, laid out in beautiful boxes, presented as a gift.