DIY Christmas gingerbread 2021

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

Do-it-yourself New Year's gingerbread 2021 is a delicious and aromatic pastry that is not at all difficult to prepare. The proposed recipes are very interesting, especially small pastry chefs will like them.

Gingerbread dough

Making New Year's gingerbread 2021 with your own hands is simple - recipes with photos and some advice from experienced pastry chefs will help.

Ingredients:

• 100 g butter;
• 100 g sugar;
• 250-300 g flour;
• 2 tbsp. l. honey;
• 0.5 tsp soda;
• 1 egg;
• 2 tsp ginger;
• 1 tsp cinnamon.

Preparation:

Sift flour into a deep bowl, immediately add soda and ground spices. Mix well with a whisk

In another container, combine soft butter with sugar, beat with a mixer. The output should be a lush white mass

• Then we drive in an egg and continue to beat.
• Add slightly warmed honey, mix and add flour with spices in two stages.

• We transfer the dough to a table sprinkled with flour and knead with our hands, but not for long.
• We return the dough to the bowl, cover with foil and put in a cold place for several hours, or better for the whole night, so that it is fully ripe.

Sprinkle the baking paper with flour, lay out a piece of dough, cover with a second sheet and roll it into a layer 3-4 mm thick

Cut out the figures at a short distance from each other and send them to the oven preheated to 180 ° C

Bake until golden brown, 5-7 minutes. We transfer the finished gingerbread cookies to a flat surface and let them cool completely

In addition to cinnamon and ginger, you can add any other spices to taste or citrus zest. To make the gingerbread brown, you can replace regular sugar with cane sugar or add cocoa to the dough.

Gingerbread recipe without honey

Gingerbread for New Year 2021 can be baked without honey, because some children may be allergic to it. Also, the recipe lacks protein, which many do not tolerate. New Year's baked goods turn out to be fragrant, lush and insanely tasty. You have never tasted such cookies yet.

Ingredients:

• 200 g sugar;
• 175 ml of water;
• 90 g butter;
• 2, 5 g of spices;
• 2.5 g salt;
• 2, 5 g of soda;
• 10 g yolk;
• 340 g flour.

Preparation:

Pour all the sugar into a fairly large saucepan. Turn on the heat slightly above average, put in a saucepan and cook dry caramel. It should be transparent and uniform

• With constant stirring, pour in boiling water in small portions. As a result, you should get a liquid caramel, but still the same transparent.
• We send cubes of butter into a container, stir and, as soon as it melts, pour salt, soda, spices. The spices include: cinnamon, ground ginger, cloves, cardamom, white pepper, nutmeg.

Pour the resulting mass into the mixer bowl, add 80 g of flour and mix at medium speed

Then add the yolk, stir again and add the remaining flour

Knead the dough, wrap it in foil and remove it for at least 3 hours in a cool place

• Roll out the rested dough between two sheets of parchment into a layer 3-4 mm thick.
• We cut out the figures and bake the gingerbread for 9-12 minutes at a temperature of 170 ° C.

If lumps appeared at the time of adding boiling water to the caramel, then you should not worry. Increase the heat, they will melt under the influence of the total hot mass.

Decorating New Year's Gingerbread for Beginners

In 2021, New Year's gingerbread cookies can become not only delicious pastries, but also a beautiful decoration. Therefore, you need to know not only how to cook them, but also how to decorate them beautifully.

For this purpose, you can buy ready-made icing for decoration or make a protein glaze from powdered sugar, egg white and lemon juice. You will also need food coloring of different colors.

We bake gingerbread cookies in the shape of Christmas trees, gingerbread men, sugar canes and snowflakes.

Master Class:

We outline the contour of the Christmas tree with green glaze and select the eyes and mouth. Let the mass grab a little, and then completely fill the Christmas tree and put it aside for now

At this time, we are decorating another gingerbread - a snowflake. We take glaze blue, white and any other color. We also create an outline and then completely fill the main background. We put it aside

We return to the tree. Fill the trunk with beige or brown glaze, white for the eyes and immediately draw black pupils. We remove so that the glaze sets a little

After that, we make a mouth for the Christmas tree in red, draw a garland with a beige mass

On the sugar cane, draw wide strips with red glaze and set it aside for now

Now we take a gingerbread man, draw a contour and completely fill the background with beige glaze

On the Christmas tree, we place accents in the form of blue and red lanterns

On the reed, fill the remaining space with white glaze

Draw any pattern on a snowflake with white glaze (it all depends on your imagination). Also, to decorate the snowflake, you can use sugar silver beads and lightly sprinkle with sugar

• Draw eyes, wavy lines on the arms and legs for the gingerbread man with white icing.
• We make the eyebrows and buttons in blue, and the mouth in red.

For those who decorate gingerbread for the first time, it is better to make the glaze more liquid, it will be easier to work with it.

Gingerbread "Christmas balls"

For the New Year 2021, you can bake gingerbread cookies in the form of funny little men, Christmas trees, houses, stars, etc. But if you are looking for an unusual baking recipe, then we suggest cooking them in the form of large Christmas balls with a surprise inside.

Ingredients:

• 400 g sugar;
• 200 ml of boiling water;
• 200 g butter;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• 1 tsp ginger;
• ½ tsp nutmeg;
• ½ tsp cardamom;
• ¼ h. L. carnations;
• 1 egg;
• 800 g flour.

Preparation:

• In a saucepan with a thick bottom, melt the sugar. It is important not to overcook it, otherwise the gingerbread will taste bitter.
• As soon as the granulated sugar has completely melted, gradually pour in boiling water and stir actively.
• Add butter, wait for it to melt, and add spices, salt and soda.

• Remove the mixture from heat, cool completely, and then stir in the egg with a spatula or whisk.
• Finally, sift the flour in several stages, knead the dough with a spatula, and then with your hands.

• We put the dough in a bag and in the refrigerator overnight.
• Then we roll it into a layer 3-4 mm thick, cut out a circle.
• Using a plastic ball, we make a hemisphere of foil, on which we put a dough blank. We bake for 7-10 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C.
• Let the blanks cool on the molds, and then carefully remove the foil.

• We trim the edges of the hemispheres with a knife and make a glaze from protein, powdered sugar and lemon juice.
• Turn the hemispheres in the glaze, shake off the excess and put on a flat surface.

Also, with the help of glaze, we glue two hemispheres together and immediately glue in a loop from a satin ribbon. Beforehand, you can put any surprise in the ball, for example, candies or nuts

Decorate the joint of balls with glaze of a slightly denser consistency and draw any patterns on Christmas tree gingerbread decorations

Interesting! Cold snacks for New Year 2021

You can store gingerbread balls for up to 3 months.

Gingerbread tree

The gingerbread tree is not just delicious pastries, but a beautiful decoration for the New Year's table. It's easy to make, so jot down the recipe faster.

Ingredients:

• 170 g butter;
• 125 g sugar;
• ½ tsp soda;
• ¼ h. L. salt;
• 1 tsp ground ginger;
• 1 tsp cinnamon;
• ¼ h. L. ground cloves;
• 1 egg;
• 170 ml of honey;
• 400 g flour.

Preparation:

1. Sift flour into a bowl, add baking soda and mix with a whisk.
2. We send softened butter to a separate bowl, add regular or cane sugar, salt and all the spices. Beat the ingredients with a mixer for about 30 seconds.
3. Add the egg and beat until smooth.
4. Pour in honey, stir and fill in the flour mixture, mix with a mixer.
5. Collect the dough in a lump, wrap it with foil and put it in a cool place for several hours.
6. Put the cooled dough between two sheets of parchment paper, roll it out into a layer 5 mm thick.
7. We cut out figures in the form of stars from it, 2 parts of different sizes each.
8. We bake the products for 10-12 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C, and then cool completely.
9. For decoration, prepare icing sugar, add green dye, stir well.
10. We set aside a little glaze for gluing, and gradually add water to the rest to make the composition more liquid. We put it in a pastry bag.
11. Apply glaze to the largest star in the center, put an asterisk of the same size on top, only in a checkerboard pattern. And so, reducing the size of the blanks, we lay out all the products.
12. Cover the protruding parts of the Christmas tree with liquid glaze, and if there is a "tail", then carefully remove it with a toothpick.
13. We decorate the Christmas tree with multi-colored sweets, beads and confectionery sprinkles. Then sprinkle it a little with powdered sugar.

Honey can be replaced with molasses, the dough will be more aromatic and will resemble chocolate in color.

Here's how you can make your own Christmas gingerbread in 2021 - delicious and aromatic, and most importantly, beautiful. If there is time and a desire appears, then you can build a real gingerbread house.

There is nothing complicated: we also knead the dough, cut out the details for the house using templates, bake. After each workpiece, we decorate with multi-colored glaze and glue the house, and for this we prepare the glaze of a thicker consistency.