Christmas and New Year are approaching, which means that the house will soon smell of fragrant pastries.
However, do not drag on until the last day. You can bake a Christmas cake and a gallery today. However, you will have to tinker with them, but traditional Christmas gingerbread cookies are prepared easily and quickly, and a box with such painted gingerbread can be a great gift for loved ones.
Ukraine , Ukraingate , 14 , December , 2021 | Kitchen
Not only that, by involving children in the process of decorating finished products, you will allow their artistic talents to develop. Just imagine how proud the kids will be to hand-painted gingerbread to their grandparents.
Ingredients:
For the dough:
600 g of flour
220 g of honey
150 g of powdered sugar
100 g of butter
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 teaspoon soda
2 teaspoons grated orange peel
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 teaspoons ground ginger
0.5 teaspoons of ground cloves
for glaze:
150 g of powdered sugar
1 protein
0.5 teaspoons of lemon juice
Preparation
Add powdered sugar to the sifted flour, add cocoa powder, baking soda, grated orange peel, ground cinnamon, ginger and cloves and mix.
Chop the cooled butter, combine with the dry mixture, grind well, pour in the heated honey, beat the eggs, add the yolk and knead the elastic dough.
Give the finished dough a few minutes to rest, then roll out, cut gingerbread and bake for 10-15 minutes at 180 ° C until golden.
For the glaze, beat the egg whites with powdered sugar until soft peaks, adding lemon juice at the end of beating, and cover with gingerbread.
On a side note
Gingerbread can be made round, cut them into a glass or use cuttings for cookies. Given the approach of the New Year, suitable shapes in the form of Christmas trees, stars, snowflakes, gloves, felt boots and more.
If you make holes in the blanks before baking, the finished gingerbread can be hung on the Christmas tree.
To make the gingerbread look festive, paint it by adding food or natural dye to the glaze.
This recipe can be used to make a gingerbread house.
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