New Year's gingerbread - honey and ginger. Delicious baked goods for the New Year: original and quick recipes

18.10.2019

Let's start making New Year's gingerbread by preparing the necessary ingredients.

Mix all dry ingredients. Add cocoa, vanillin and spices to a bowl with flour.
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In a 2-2.5 liter saucepan, combine honey, sugar and margarine.
Place the pan in a water bath. Constantly stir the contents of the saucepan, preventing the honey from sticking. Keep in a water bath until the sugar dissolves and the honey melts. Don’t forget, honey should not be heated too much!!!
When the contents of the pan become homogeneous, add lemon and orange zest. After this, add baking powder.
Let the contents of the pan cool slightly to 60-50 degrees. Then add the eggs and stir vigorously.
We combine all the ingredients.
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Knead the gingerbread dough.
Mix the dough with your hands, but you need to be careful not to overdo it with flour, otherwise the honey will cool and the dough will become elastic. Transfer the dough into a bag and leave in a cool place for 12 hours.
The next day, the gingerbread dough is ready to use. Since there is a lot of dough, you can’t use it all at once. It keeps well in the refrigerator and even freezer for quite a long time.
We tear off a small piece of the dough and roll out a layer no thicker than 1 cm with a rolling pin.
Cut the gingerbread into the desired shape. You can use special gingerbread cutters or a stencil, or you can cut it by hand using a knife.
Place the cut-out gingerbread cookies with the holes required for hanging on the tree onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Bake in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 7-10 minutes.
Let the gingerbreads cool completely.
We paint gingerbread cookies with icing.
We try to carefully paint each gingerbread.
Let the icing dry for 1-1.5 hours depending on the quality of the icing.
These are the beautiful and delicious gingerbread decorations we made for the Christmas tree! -)

It is difficult to say how many gingerbread cookies you will get from this amount of ingredients, because it will depend on both the thickness of the gingerbread cookies and the size of the molds. You can see approximately how many gingerbread cookies I got in the photo at the end of the recipe.

Pour 100 grams of sugar into a thick-walled saucepan or frying pan and heat it over medium heat until the sugar melts. The sugar can be gently stirred with a wooden spatula, but it is better to simply shake the pan so that the sugar melts evenly

Carefully pour boiling water into the pan. Be careful not to get burned! Add another 100 grams of sugar and stir until it is completely dissolved

Reduce heat and add butter. Stir until you have a nice caramel sauce

Remove the pan from the heat and cool. Add the egg to the cooled sauce and stir. Add sifted flour, soda, spices and knead the dough

The dough should not be hard. It will be very thick and viscous. Cover the pan cling film or silicone lid and refrigerate for several hours, or overnight

When you take the pan of dough out of the refrigerator, don't be alarmed; the dough will be very hard. Take the dough in parts and start kneading it with your hands. Due to the warmth of your hands, the dough will become soft and pliable, like plasticine. Dust your work surface with flour, roll out the first portion of dough and use cutouts to cut out the gingerbread cookies. Roll out not very thin - these are gingerbread cookies :), about 6-7 mm high

Carefully transfer the gingerbread cookies onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper or a silicone mat. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for about 8-12 minutes (I baked for exactly 10 minutes). Attention, this is very important, try not to dry out the gingerbread!!!

Let the finished gingerbreads cool slightly and remove from the baking sheet. Also bake gingerbread cookies from the rest of the dough.

For the glaze, add 2 tablespoons of water to the gelatin and let it swell for 7-10 minutes.

Pour 2 tablespoons of water over the sugar, place over medium heat and wait until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Remove the resulting syrup from the heat and add the swollen gelatin to it, stir

Pour the resulting transparent mass into a mixing container and beat with a mixer at high speed for 5-7 minutes until the mass turns from transparent to...

thick, snow-white glaze

Pour the icing into a pastry syringe, or a piping bag, or just into a bag with a corner cut off (I have a special decorator for painting with icing). Turn on your imagination and start drawing on gingerbread cookies

I’m somehow not very good with imagination and with drawing too :), so it turned out what you see :) Thanks to my daughter Alina, who helped me with everything when preparing these gingerbread cookies. I really like this glaze, but it has one drawback - due to the presence of gelatin, it thickens quickly. Therefore, you need to draw and cover gingerbread cookies with glaze very quickly. If you see the frosting starting to thicken, add 1-2 tablespoons of milk until the consistency is the same. Additionally, for decoration, in addition to icing, I used sugar sprinkles and confectionery pencils

When the glaze dries on the gingerbread cookies, they can be stored in a tin box. There they will remain soft and fragrant for a long time. These gingerbread cookies are not only delicious baked goods, but also a wonderful handmade gift that you can give to friends and family.

On New Year's Eve, I want to congratulate all the readers of my favorite site and, first of all, Lenochka and her family, on the upcoming holidays! I would like to wish everyone peace, love, happiness and the fulfillment of all your wishes:) Happy New Year!

On the eve of the New Year, we offer you to prepare delicious gingerbread cookies for the New Year with your own hands according to our recipes with photos. Ready-made gingerbread cookies are decorated with your choice of white or chocolate glaze (see photo below). If desired, baked goods can be painted in brighter colors.

For lovers chocolate baking you'll love this simple and original recipe. To make gingerbread cookies have a more pronounced chocolate taste, you can add grated or melted chocolate. A regular pastry bar will do just fine. If you use cocoa, adjust the amount to your taste.

Ingredients:

honey – 250 g;
sugar – 100 g;
vanillin;
butter – 150 g;
cardamom – 1 inflorescence;
egg;
nutmeg;
flour – 500 g;
baking powder – 1 tsp;
cocoa – 25 g;
cinnamon – 2 sticks;
cloves – 5 inflorescences.

Preparation:

Mix honey, sugar and butter in a container. For those who do not like too sweet baked goods, it is recommended to use less sugar.
Grind the spices in a coffee grinder. Add them to the ingredients listed above.
Put the mixture on fire. Let it warm up, but do not bring it to a boil.
Mix dry ingredients in a separate bowl.
Beat the egg. Add the dry ingredients and beat into the mixture on the stove. If everything is done correctly, the finished dough will resemble plasticine in structure.
Roll it into a ball and wrap it in film. Place the dough in the refrigerator for an hour. If you want it to cool faster, you need to put it in the freezer.
Before cutting out the dough for gingerbread for the New Year, remove it from the refrigerator or freezer and let it lie warm for 30 minutes.
Dust the surface with flour. Roll out the dough. Cut out the shapes.
Cover a baking tray with baking paper and place the gingerbread cookies on it. Simmer in the oven for 15 minutes at 175 degrees. If you want the gingerbread cookies to be denser and crispier, bake them for about half an hour.

Custard gingerbreads for the New Year 2018

Making custard gingerbreads (see photo) with your own hands for the New Year is not much more difficult than chocolate ones. Of course, the recipe is somewhat different from the one presented above. To make the top of the finished baked goods look more attractive, you can brush them with whipped yolk.

AND ingredients:

sugar – 200 g;
butter – 40 g;
flour – 2.5 tbsp;
eggs – 2 pcs.;
honey - st. l.;
soda – 1 tsp;
boiling water – ½ tbsp.

Preparation:

Beat eggs and sugar. They should turn into a homogeneous mass.
Bring water and honey to a boil. Wait for the honey to dissolve.
Carefully pour in the egg mixture. Stir.
Add all other ingredients. Stir again.
Remove from heat and knead the dough again, but more thoroughly.
Wait until the dough cools down. During this time it should become a little thicker.
Roll it out. Using molds you need to cut out the figures.
Bake gingerbread cookies at 200 degrees for no more than 10 minutes.

New Year's dessert is ready. All that remains is to cover the gingerbread cookies with glaze or leave them in their original form. If the baked goods turn out to be very thin, it is easy to build a Christmas tree out of it by pouring cream or the same glaze over the layers.

How to prepare glaze for painting?

It is customary to paint New Year's gingerbread cookies with icing. There are many recipes for its preparation. We invite you to get acquainted with the most common of them. Its main advantage is that it does not crumble. When the glaze dries, it becomes perfectly smooth and even. Gingerbread cookies decorated with it look very festive.

Ingredients:

protein – 1 pc.;
powdered sugar – 200 g;
lemon juice - tbsp. l.

Preparation:

Beat the egg into the glass. Separate the whites.
Remove fibers. Sift the powdered sugar.
Beat it with egg white. Add powder in parts.
Add juice at the end. Beat again.

If the glaze seems too thin, you can add a little more powdered sugar. If the mass is quite thick, it is almost impossible to perfectly draw a smooth surface on the gingerbread cookies. But it’s best to draw thin lines with thick glaze.

To decorate gingerbread cookies bright colors, use food coloring in your preferred shades. Remember, glaze dries quickly. To prevent this from happening, cover it with cling film.

Unusual orange gingerbread

To surprise your family and guests, make your own orange gingerbread cookies for the New Year (see photo). Dessert baked at home is much tastier and healthier than store-bought. Children and adults will go crazy about these gingerbread cookies.

Ingredients:

flour – 7 tbsp;
baking powder – 2 tsp;
eggs – 3 pcs.;
butter – 240 g;
sugar – 2 tbsp;
honey - 2 tbsp. l.;
cocoa – 2 tsp;
orange – 2 pcs.;
cinnamon – 2 tsp;
ginger – 1 tsp;
salt – 1 tsp.

Cooking recipe:

Squeeze the juice out of the oranges after removing the zest.
Beat butter with eggs, flour and sugar.
Add orange juice there (no more than 100 ml).
Add all other ingredients to the mixture.
Stir. Knead the dough into a homogeneous dense mass.
Place it in the refrigerator for an hour, after wrapping it in plastic.
Remove from the refrigerator and divide into 4 parts.
Roll out the dough as thin as possible. Cut out figures from it.
Bake gingerbread cookies for 15 minutes at 170 degrees.
Once the cake has cooled, decorate it with frosting.

Ready-made gingerbread cookies can be placed in beautiful dish on New Year's table, or make small holes in them before baking and hang them on the Christmas tree, using beautiful ribbons as a basis.

How to make gingerbread roe?

Gingerbread roe - enough popular view New Year's treat. Both children and adults like them. Try baking them for the New Year with your own hands according to our recipe with photos. The reaction of the household will not be long in coming.

Ingredients:

rye flour – 1 kg;
honey - 1 tbsp.;
sugar – 2 tbsp;
water – 2 tbsp.;
butter – 100 g;
cinnamon – 1 g;
cloves – 1 g;

Preparation:

Add sugar and honey to the water. Put it on fire.
Do not turn off the gas until the liquid turns dark.
When the water has cooled slightly, add butter.
Send the spices there too. Add flour and knead the dough.
Place it in the refrigerator for an hour. During this time it should become more pliable.
Dust the surface with flour. Roll out the dough into a very thin layer.
Cut out the shapes to your liking.
Bake at 220 degrees for up to 15 minutes. This time is enough for the gingerbread cookies to brown.
Decorate the gingerbread cookies with icing.

water – ½ cup;

powdered sugar – 1 tbsp;

eggs – 3 pcs.;

protein;

butter – 1 tbsp. l.;

honey - 1 tbsp.;

cinnamon – 1 tbsp. l.;

cloves – ½ tsp;

soda – ½ tsp;

almonds – 1 tbsp.

Preparation:

Dissolve honey in water. Place the liquid on the fire.
When the water has cooled, add flour. Add soda there.
Grind the eggs. Add them to the water and other ingredients.
Grind the almonds. Add it to the rest of the ingredients.
Add cinnamon, cloves and butter there.
Mix all ingredients well. Roll out the dough into a thin layer.
Cover a baking sheet with paper. Place gingerbread cookies there.
Bake for up to 10 minutes at 180 degrees. Let the gingerbreads cool.

While the cake is cooling, you can prepare the frosting for it. To do this, beat the protein - it should increase several times. Add powdered sugar and lemon juice. Continue whisking until done. You can decorate New Year's gingerbread cookies very beautifully with icing!

Prepare gingerbread cookies (see photo) using one of the recipes, not only for the New Year, but also for Christmas. Homemade pastries can be a great gift for your loved ones.

New Year's gingerbread is a beautiful and tasty home decoration for everyone's favorite holiday. This pastry is universal, since the products can not only be placed on the table. Homemade New Year's gingerbread cookies can be used as Christmas decorations, making sure to attach pieces of paper with wishes. These traditional baked goods are often given as gifts to family and friends. Here are some tasty options.

Chocolate gingerbread dough recipe

Combine half a pack of soft butter with one hundred grams of sugar. It is recommended to add a pack of vanillin. The main thing at this stage is to mix the ingredients very thoroughly with a mixer for five minutes. If the sugar does not completely dissolve, then the New Year's gingerbread will not be smooth, and its surface will not be uniform. Next, we continue to beat, gradually adding three large spoons of cocoa, a little cinnamon, orange zest, twenty grams of finely grated ginger and one large egg. All ingredients should be completely dissolved and the mass should become completely homogeneous.

In a separate bowl, mix 260 grams of flour with half a teaspoon of soda. Now we begin to gradually add the mixture to the dough. When it becomes dense, it is recommended to knead with your hands. The even distribution of flour determines how neat the New Year's gingerbread cookies prepared at home will be.

Place the dough, which should look like plasticine, in the refrigerator for half an hour, or better yet, overnight. It is necessary to cool it well so that the oil hardens. In this case, it will become very convenient to work with the semi-finished product. Now you can move on to the next stage.

Rules for working with dough for chocolate gingerbread

Before you start baking, it is recommended to make a test product. This will allow you to see, firstly, how much they will increase in volume, and secondly, whether the baked goods hold their shape. If the future New Year's gingerbread immediately melts, becomes greasy, and problems arise when transferring it to a baking sheet, then you need to add flour. Be sure to distribute it well, thoroughly re-knead and leave to cool.

If everything is in order, then it is recommended to divide the dough into four parts during the process. We leave one of them, put the rest in the refrigerator. The dough needs to be rolled out on parchment. Do not rub the rolling pin with flour or sprinkle it on the semi-finished product.

Gingerbread cookies "Merry Family" and "Snowmen"

You can decorate your Christmas tree with this original pastry. We offer the following recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home.

The products should be thin and crispy. Therefore, the dough should be rolled out to a thickness of no more than 3 mm, since it will increase during the cooking process. Make figures using molds and place them in the oven for 6-10 minutes. The temperature should be no more than 175 degrees. But it is recommended to make a test gingerbread so as not to spoil all the dough.

Cool the prepared products very well. Only in this case do we remove them from the tray. Otherwise they will crumble. Now we decorate with icing.

You can hang products on the Christmas tree.

Recipe for honey gingerbread dough

Put a third of a glass of liquid honey, a small spoonful of cinnamon, starch, vinegar, ground ginger and a little salt into a saucepan. Place the mixture in a water bath and, stirring constantly, turn it into This recipe for New Year's gingerbread can be supplemented with a pinch of ground cloves. The result will be very aromatic baked goods.

Now add two-thirds of a stick of soft butter to the mixture and leave to cool completely. At this time, beat two eggs with a glass of sugar. Mix everything together and begin to gradually add flour. You only need three glasses. Of course, it all depends on the quality of the flour. Place the well-kneaded dough in the refrigerator for a day. Now you can start molding.

New Year's gingerbread "Christmas tree" made from honey dough

Such products will be an excellent decoration for the main table, or they can be used to crown a birthday cake. But these are not only original, but also very tasty New Year's gingerbread cookies. You can make toys and beads from glaze for your Christmas tree with your own hands.

The finished New Year's gingerbreads with your own hands then need to be cooled very well. Meanwhile, prepare the green glaze. We form Christmas trees by greasing each layer and gluing them from largest to smallest. We leave the products for three to four hours. Now you can put them on festive table or decorate a cake.

Recipe for honey gingerbread dough without eggs

The proposed option is an excellent semi-finished product for those who do not consume animal products. Despite the fact that there are no eggs in this recipe, the final product will not lose at all in its taste characteristics.

Grind 150 grams of low-fat sour cream very thoroughly with 300 grams of sugar. Add soft butter to the mixture. You will need a third of the pack. Add 190 grams of liquid honey, a little salt and cloves, a teaspoon each of soda and ground ginger. Mix everything and gradually add half a kilo of sifted flour.

Knead the dough very well and roll it into a ball. Next, wrap the semi-finished product in cling film and leave to cool overnight. If possible, then it is possible for a longer period. Because, no matter how good the recipe for New Year's gingerbread at home, only well-chilled dough will be elastic and pliable. The semi-finished product is ready for cooking. It must be rolled out to a thickness of at least 10 mm.

Recipe for New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze "Gift"

Such products are an excellent option for gifts. The proposed recipe for New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze can be changed and supplemented. To prepare them you will need chocolate or honey dough (with or without eggs), a knife, different molds, a little patience, more imagination and a good oven.

You can prepare the following products: Christmas trees, shoes and staves. They will make the children very happy.

And the next gift option is more suitable for adult guests.

An original gift could be a gingerbread assortment of chocolate and honey products, elegantly decorated. Making them is not at all difficult.

Finally, let's look at how to properly prepare the glaze. This can be done very simply. However, there are some rules and basic steps that need to be followed.

Be sure to sift 200 grams of powdered sugar. To obtain high-quality glaze, it is recommended to repeat this procedure two or three times. Next, add it to the protein and begin to beat the mixture until a stiff foam is obtained. Gradually add a small spoon of starch and pour in a little lemon juice. If you need colored glaze, add food coloring.

We apply it using a special culinary syringe. You can also use a thick bag for this purpose. Fill it with glaze, cut off a corner and gently press, applying patterns.

How to store finished products

Whatever the recipe for New Year's gingerbread, the clear advantage of this baking is that the products can be stored for some time. The main thing is to organize this process correctly.

Gingerbread can be stored in a special container for up to fourteen days if the temperature is about 18 degrees and the relative humidity is about 75 percent. In this case, the products will become softer every day.

New Year's celebrations awaken people's faith in miracles, memories of how the celebration took place in childhood, the desire to give gifts to their family and friends, and make surprises. One of the best and most pleasant gifts for your loved ones will be delicious homemade baking, for example, New Year's gingerbread cookies with icing.

What you will need

Most gingerbread recipes contain the following required ingredients:

Flour;
Eggs;
Sugar;
Salt;
Glaze;
Butter;
Spices and seasonings.

Almost every housewife has her own secret recipe for making New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze. The first step is always to prepare the dough for baking, then the icing to decorate it.

Homemade recipe

You can hear a large number of recipes on how to make Christmas cookies with icing from friends and acquaintances, but, as always, you want to use the simplest one in order to get delicious baked goods and spend a minimum of effort and time on their preparation.

A simple recipe will require the following ingredients:

350-360 g flour;
A pinch of nutmeg;
160-170 g sugar;
Two teaspoons of cinnamon;
½ teaspoon of soda;
50-60 g honey;
Two teaspoons of ginger;
A pinch of salt;
A pinch of cloves;
110-120 g butter;
Chicken egg.

Having collected the necessary ingredients for making gingerbread cookies with glaze, you should start rolling out the dough and start preparing the powdered sugar.

Preparing the dough:

Place all the ingredients except the egg in a blender bowl, and first cut the stick of butter into cubes.
All components of the future test are mixed together.
Next, the resulting mass is laid out on the working surface of the table.
A recess is carefully made in it, into which it breaks chicken egg. Everything is mixed until a dough is obtained.
Ready dough You need to slightly flatten it and wrap it in cling film, put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

After the dough has rested and cooled, you need to roll it out to a layer one centimeter thick. Next, using special molds from the finished layer of dough, you can cut out New Year's figures so that Christmas gingerbread cookies with glaze create a joyful mood. Most often, figurines of Christmas trees, festive balls for the Christmas tree, bunnies, bears and stars are made from dough.

Next, the gingerbread cookies are laid out on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and placed in a preheated oven for 15 minutes. Ready-made Christmas gingerbreads must cool. While they are cooling you can make the frosting for the Christmas cookies. To prepare it you will need egg white, lemon juice and powdered sugar. The glaze is made as follows:

The protein is ground with powdered sugar until smooth.
New Year's cookies are painted with the finished glaze.
The painted gingerbread cookies must harden so that the design does not smear.

An interesting recipe for gingerbread dough from TV presenter Yulia Vysotskaya. To prepare it you will need the following products:

100-120 g brown sugar;
One egg;
250-260 g flour;
10-12 g ginger;
100-120 g butter;
50-55 ml maple syrup;
Half a teaspoon of dry ginger;
100-110 g cream;
Spoon of baking powder;
Three umbrellas of carnations;
Spoon of cinnamon.

To make it, you need to grind cinnamon and cloves into powder and mix with dry ginger. Fresh root vegetables are peeled and grated. Syrup, grated ginger, cream and spices are poured into a suitable container and placed on the stove. The mixture is brought to a boil and cooled.

The butter is ground with sugar, an egg and half of the flour are driven into it and everything is mixed, then a mixture of cream and spices is poured in, the remaining flour and baking powder are added and the mixture is beaten. The finished dough is placed in the refrigerator for 12 hours. After the mass has cooled, you can make gingerbread with icing for the New Year from it.

Video of preparing and painting Christmas gingerbread cookies

Types of glaze

White icing looks especially attractive on gingerbread cookies. To do this, you need to knead the tiles white chocolate and melt in a water bath, add a spoonful of milk or cream and a little powdered sugar. All ingredients are thoroughly mixed using a blender.

Classic icing for Christmas cookies is made from egg whites, powdered sugar and lemon juice according to the method described above.

You can surprise guests who decide to wish them a happy holiday with gingerbread cookies with caramel glaze. To do this you will need:

½ cup brown sugar;
Vanillin;
Three large spoons of milk;
A glass of powdered sugar;
20-30 g butter.

It is prepared as follows:

Melt the butter, pour milk into it and add brown sugar, boil for a minute.
Add half a glass of powdered sugar to the resulting mixture, beat and let cool, add the rest of the powder and vanilla. Beat again.

To obtain colored glaze to decorate New Year's cookies, you will need the following products:

Two teaspoons of powdered sugar;
0.4 teaspoon almond extract;
A glass of powdered sugar;
Two teaspoons of sugar syrup.

The preparation looks like this:

The powder is mixed with milk, and sugar syrup is added to the resulting composition. Everything is whipped.
The finished glaze is laid out in small containers and added to each of them. desired color food coloring.

Orange glaze will add an unusual taste to holiday cookies. For it you will need:

3 large spoons of orange juice;
¾ cup powdered sugar.

To make the orange glaze, follow these steps:

Pour the juice into a container and gradually add powder to it.
Mix the juice and powder thoroughly. The consistency will be liquid.

Painting New Year's gingerbread cookies using chocolate glaze is also very popular. To do this you will need:

Two large spoons of cocoa;
Two glasses of powdered sugar;
20-22 g butter;
Vanillin;
4 large spoons of milk.

Softened butter is mixed with powdered sugar, vanillin and cocoa. The mass is ground, milk is added to it, everything is mixed until smooth.

How to frost and decorate a Christmas gingerbread cookie

Before applying the glaze to the gingerbread, you need to lightly moisten its surface with regular boiled water. Next, using a pastry syringe, carefully trace the outline of the gingerbread, and then you can paint it as your imagination dictates.

To make the glaze dry faster, the painted cookies should be placed in a preheated oven for a couple of minutes.

Christmas gingerbread cookies can be made in the shape of snowmen, snowflakes, keys, Christmas trees, etc. Most often, cookies of any shape are covered with completely white or cream icing, with drawings on them. New Year's toys, twigs, snowflakes and everything that can be associated with New Year's symbols.

A beautiful Christmas gingerbread made with your own hands can become not only a great holiday gift, but also a wonderful original Christmas tree decoration if, during its preparation, you make small holes in the dough into which you can pass ribbons.