New Year's gingerbread cookies with candies. New Year's gingerbread - honey and ginger

18.10.2019

Waiting for the New Year is not only about decorating the house and creating holiday menu. As a rule, every family bakes on the eve of December 31st. Not only grandiose cakes and delicate rolls, shortbread cookies and crispy “brushwood” are created. Delicious homemade gingerbread cookies with icing become a real hit on the table during the holiday. It's incredibly beautiful and delicious! Such baked goods bring their mood, warmth, comfort, and a true feeling of happiness to the atmosphere of the house. In addition, the process of painting gingerbread cookies in the kitchen can unite the whole family. Surely everyone will want to make their own copy!

Honey New Year gingerbread with glaze

Tidbits honey gingerbread on New Year- this is a great opportunity to diversify the standard menu and add variety to the well-ordered range of appetizers and salads. It will turn out very tasty and impressive thanks to painting the finished aromatic confectionery with sugar icing. This is not so difficult to do at home.

Cooking time – 1.5 hours.

Number of servings – 12.

Ingredients

To bake this version of New Year's gingerbread, you need:

honey – 100 g;
egg – 4 pcs.;
peeled rye flour – 250 g;
cocoa – 3 tsp;
wheat flour – 400 g;
butter – 90 g;
egg white – 1 pc.;
soda – 1 tsp;
powdered sugar – 400 g;
spices – 2 tsp.

Pay attention! You can add spices to New Year's honey gingerbreads: cloves, cardamom, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, etc. But you shouldn't use everything at once. Take 2-4 spices for the dough.

Cooking method

The process of making New Year's gingerbread is not particularly difficult. If you use the proposed step-by-step recipe with photos, then all problems and difficulties can be avoided.

First we need to prepare all the components for our gingerbread cookies and glaze.

If all the ingredients are collected, you can begin the actual process of creating confectionery products for the holiday. To do this, combine butter and honey in a common bowl. The container with the components is placed on low-low heat. Everything needs to be melted down systematically. You can also use a water bath for this.

In a separate bowl, mix powdered sugar and eggs.5

When the melted butter-honey mixture has completely dispersed, add soda to it. There is no need to extinguish it with vinegar, honey will do that. As a result, foam forms on the surface of the mixture.

Carefully pour the egg mixture into this mass, continuously breaking it with a mixer.

Both types of flour should be sifted separately. Then this needs to be done again, but by mixing together spices, cocoa and both types of flour - rye and wheat. The dry mass should be poured in a thin stream into the mixture of honey and eggs. The mass is stirred. You need to make dough out of it. First you need to mix it with a mixer.

Then you will have to knead the dough by hand. It is divided into 4 equal portions. The pieces are wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for an hour.

The chilled honey gingerbread dough is rolled out into a layer no more than 5 mm thick. Try to achieve homogeneity of the dough, without bubbles. Gingerbread cookies are cut out from the resulting layer using stencils or molds.

Note! If you plan ready confectionery products decorate christmas tree, then at this stage make holes for the fasteners. For this purpose, it is optimal to use cocktail straws.

The baking sheet is covered with parchment. Our gingerbread cookies are laid out on it. They should be placed in the oven, which is heated to 150 degrees.

It will take 10 minutes to bake the sweetness, maximum 12. The main thing is to wait for the formation of a golden crust.

Now you need to make the icing to decorate the gingerbread cookies. To do this, powdered sugar (200 g in total) is whipped with raw chicken protein. The resulting viscous dense mass is sent to a pastry bag or syringe. You can take an ordinary file or a package. The tip of the bag is carefully cut off, just a little bit, so that the contours are created smooth and neat.

All that remains is to paint the New Year's gingerbread cookies, guided by your imagination.

As you can see, making New Year's gingerbread cookies with your own hands is not so difficult!

Gingerbread New Year's gingerbread

New Year's gingerbread with icing has become a real classic. Their rich taste is associated with cozy winter evenings spent in the kitchen with the whole family. It is not surprising that such pastries, decorated with icing, will take their rightful place at the holiday table. After all, as you know, New Year is a family holiday.

Cooking time – 1 hour.

Number of servings – 5.

Ingredients

To prepare this version of New Year's gingerbread, you need:

butter – 200 g;
ginger – 2 tsp;
granulated sugar – ½ kg;
cinnamon – 1 pinch;
water – 200 ml;
flour – 900 g;
nutmeg – 1 pinch;
salt – 1/3 tsp;
red ground pepper– 1 pinch;
soda – 1 tsp.

For the glaze, which we will use to decorate the finished gingerbread cookies, you need:

lime or lemon – ½ piece;
powdered sugar – 400 g;
protein – 2 pcs.;
gel type dyes – 4 drops.

Cooking method

So, if you decide to diversify festive table gingerbread New Year's gingerbread, take note of the proposed recipe with step by step photos. This will make it easier for you to cope with baking, especially if you are making such a dessert for the first time.

First, prepare all the necessary ingredients and don’t forget about the molds for cutting out figures from gingerbread dough. You can make not only funny little people. Stars, Christmas trees, mittens, and images of Santa Claus will fit perfectly into the holiday atmosphere. You can even just use a glass to cut out charming circles.

Take a thick-bottomed pan or cauldron. All the sugar is poured into the container. The dishes are placed on the fire.

During the first 5 minutes, the sugar should dissolve without your participation, on its own. It should not be disturbed, touched, tasted or removed from the stove.

When the bottom layer of granulated sugar disperses and changes color slightly, you should start stirring the mass.

There is no need to increase the heat. Don't make it overly strong. Let the sugar gradually and gradually dissolve. As a result, it should disperse entirely. The liquid mass will turn dark rich color. When the syrup is ready, you will need to boil a kettle of water. You only need to take 200 ml of boiled water. They should be poured into the burnt sugar as carefully as possible.

Pay attention! When you pour water into the sugar syrup, the mass will begin to “shoot”. So be extremely careful not to get burned.

The resulting composition must be mixed thoroughly so that its consistency becomes homogeneous. You will need to add butter, previously cut into small squares, into the mixture. The mixture must be stirred and waited until it becomes completely homogeneous due to the dissolution of the oil.

Add cinnamon and salt to the gingerbread preparation for the New Year. The composition must be diluted with nutmeg and soda. Ground red pepper also comes here.

The preparation must be stirred thoroughly. It should double in size. The mass will turn into a fluffy and dense foam.

The flour should be sifted twice so that the finished gingerbread cookies are tender and tasty. The mass is removed from the stove, and you will need to pour the prepared flour into it in several passes.

After adding each part of flour to the dough, the composition must be thoroughly stirred. After adding the entire portion of flour, the dough should become manageable and elastic. Some stickiness will be present, but not excessively. The mass is wrapped in cling film and placed in the refrigerator for an hour. It is optimal to leave the dough in the cold overnight.

In the meantime, you need to start preparing sugar glaze (icing) for painting future gingerbread cookies. To do this, it is worth preparing the necessary components.

Raw proteins from chicken eggs you need to pour it into an empty bowl. Fine powdered sugar is poured onto them in a thin stream, which is sifted through the finest sieve before adding to the composition.

The ingredients should be stirred with a fork or whisk. All the powder should be saturated with protein mass, as a result of which the composition will turn a little white. Then you should continue beating with a mixer or blender. The device should be set to high speed so that the mixture becomes thick and fluffy. The resulting shade should be crystal white. While whipping, squeeze the juice from half a lemon or lime into the mixture.

Note! The total duration of whipping the icing is about 5 minutes.

Now our glaze is ready to decorate gingerbread New Year's cookies for serving on the holiday table. The icing will need to be divided into several portions and diluted with a specific dye. The glaze is covered with film and sent to the refrigerator.

They must be placed in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. The optimal mode for baking is 7 minutes.

When the baked goods have cooled completely, they should be painted with the prepared icing.

The result is excellent, delicious New Year's gingerbread.

Video recipes

To make your New Year's gingerbread cookies a success, first check out the video recipes:

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 gingerbreads are not only delicious pastries, but also a wonderful handmade gift that you can give to friends and relatives

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!

Hello friends! In the smoothly approaching pre-holiday bustle, for some reason the following conclusion came to mind: how many people - so many gingerbread... It feels like making gingerbread for the New Year will soon be more obligatory than cutting it yourself, His Majesty, OLIVIER.

Well, you've probably noticed that over the last couple of years, our greatest minds have simply been swallowed up by the GINGERBERRY EPIDEMIC.

The overseas fashion for Christmas gingerbread cookies has transformed into a craze for gingerbread cookies. For reasons unknown to me, this is what they began to call any shortbread cookie that contains honey And spices led by ginger. Every second self-respecting individual considers it necessary to prepare, or at least buy a box of painted gingerbread cookies for the New Year. Not so much for food, but for a souvenir or hang on the tree.

Read my entire list of selected New Year's cookies.

Have you ever thought about the name “gingerbread”? What a funny word... I’ll go and look up who came up with this idea.

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Aaaaah! It turned out to be extremely simple. Gingerbread comes from the word spicy, in ancient Russian “pypyrian” meant "pepper". And in other languages of the world, gingerbread means peppered cake. In Swedish, for example, it sounds like "peperkaka" In short, she's still a lot of fun!

The main ingredient in gingerbread is honey. Also, real gingerbread cookies are made with caramel syrup. It is he who gives gingerbread this unique taste, which we all know from childhood.

But since December is already a difficult month, we will not complicate our lives with caramel and will prepare gingerbread according to a simple recipe. Moreover, they contain both spices and honey, so we have every reason to call them gingerbread.

I started making gingerbread cookies for the New Year even before the gingerbread BOOM began. Although I myself am not a big fan of spicy sweets, with New Year's gingerbread cookies I just enjoy the process of fiddling around: cutting out beautiful themed figures from the dough, baking them to fill the house spicy aroma holiday, and then paint them with multi-colored sugar icing.

I'm not an expert in glaze painting, and I don't have the time to learn. So everything is primitive and simple for me.

If you like and want something more complicated, I will refer you to this video, in which you will see that painting gingerbread cookies is quite accessible, and at the same time look at a clear example of how thick the glaze should be.

If you don't have such a thin nozzle for a pastry bag, you can make an envelope from ordinary baking paper (the kind in which grandmothers used to sell us seeds in a bag, remember?). Or take disposable piping bag and cut off a corner of it.

Gingerbread recipe for New Year 2019:

These ingredients make about 50 gingerbread cookies.

Compound:

flour - 350 gr.
sugar - 160 gr.
ground cinnamon - 5 gr.
nutmeg - 1 pinch
ginger - 5 gr.
cloves - 1 pinch
soda - ¼ tsp.
salt - 1 pinch
butter, cold - 110 gr.
honey - 50 gr.
egg - 1 pc.

The preparation is simple:

Today's gingerbread icing you can buy ready-made , or you can cook it yourself the old fashioned way.

To prepare the glaze we will need:

egg white - 1 pc.
powdered sugar - ≈150 gr. (depends on the size of the protein)
3 drops lemon juice

Making the glaze:

Using a silicone spatula, thoroughly rub the egg whites with powdered sugar until a homogeneous white glaze is formed.
We transfer the glaze into a bag and paint our New Year's gingerbread cookies. If desired, you can add a few drops of food coloring.
Use the finished glaze immediately, otherwise it will cool down.
We let the painted gingerbreads harden for several hours, put them in bags or boxes, or hang them on the Christmas tree.

Here's a simple New Year's gingerbread recipe you can make if you want to keep up with the current generation.

Have a good and carefree pre-holiday mood.

Good luck, love and patience.

New Year holidays filled with an indescribable mood of simultaneous warmth and celebration. You can create it using various attributes. These include cold snowy weather, tree branches crushed by large snowdrifts, a decorated Christmas tree, warm cocoa and, of course, New Year's gingerbread.

It is simply impossible to convey the pleasure of decorating homemade baked goods with close friends and children using words, you just have to try it! Often people are stopped from this idea by the thought that in order to bake holiday sweets, it takes a lot of time, effort and ingredients. However, these fears are false, and we will tell you how to make New Year's gingerbread cookies.

In order to bake beautiful gingerbread cookies, you will need the following components:

premium flour;
honey, even old, candied honey will do;
spices.

It is the last ingredient that gives the gingerbreads a characteristic smell and energizes the mood for all holidays. In order to decorate prepared sweets, it is enough to have patience, imagination and a good attitude. After you have stocked up on everything you need, invite your loved ones, children and just loved ones for this exciting activity. We offer you recipes with varying degrees of complexity that are suitable for both beginners and avid cooks.

Sweet honey gingerbreads for the New Year “Winter's Tale”

In order to prepare these delicious gingerbread cookies, we will need the following ingredients:

four tablespoons of flour;
half a faceted glass of water;
three medium chicken eggs;
one tablespoon of butter;
the same amount of honey;
half a teaspoon of ground cinnamon, cloves, soda;
a tablespoon of crushed or even ground almonds;
white from one chicken egg;
about twenty grams of powdered sugar;
Squeeze fifteen drops of fresh lemon juice.

First of all, let's prepare the dough, for this you need to mix the specified amount of water and honey, heat them until a solution of homogeneous consistency is obtained, then add flour, soda, eggs, butter, almonds and spices. By mixing thoroughly and crushing all the lumps, you will achieve sufficient thickness of the dough, after which you need to place it on the work surface, first sprinkling it with flour.

Next, roll out the dough into a sheet one to one and a half centimeters thick and cut out the shapes you like. To do this, you can use special molds, glasses or shot glasses, or just a knife. Remember that the dough will rise slightly while baking. Place the finished figures on parchment paper and place in an oven preheated to two hundred degrees for ten to fifteen minutes. After this, let the New Year's gingerbreads cool, and you yourself will do the glaze with which you will cover your brainchild. Beat the egg white thoroughly, after it has increased in volume, add lemon juice and powdered sugar, beat the mixture again, let it sit for ten minutes so that all the elements of the future glaze dissolve and a homogeneous mixture is obtained.

Orange gingerbread

To bake gingerbread cookies that have beautiful name « Christmas toys", we will need the following products:

seven full tablespoons of premium flour;
two teaspoons of baking powder;
two tablespoons of sugar;
three chicken eggs;
two teaspoons of ground cinnamon;
two hundred and forty grams of butter or margarine;
two oranges;
two tablespoons of candied honey;
two teaspoons of cocoa powder;
one teaspoon each of kitchen salt and fresh grated ginger.

Gingerbread goats are what you need for the New Year!

To prepare these thin and crispy gingerbread cookies, we will need the following ingredients:

kilogram of rye flour;
a tablespoon of honey;
two tablespoons of white sugar;
the same amount of water;
one hundred grams of butter or margarine;
one gram of cloves and ground cinnamon;
two egg whites and five tablespoons of powdered sugar for glaze.

Add sugar, honey and the specified amount of water to one bowl, then mix well and put on fire until a brown color appears. Then you need to cool the mixture to seventy degrees, melt the prepared butter in it, add spices, pour out all the flour, mix well and put the resulting dough in the refrigerator for an hour. During this time, it will become more pliable, its consistency will become soft enough to sculpt or cut out any figures for future gingerbread cookies.

All holidays have their own traditions, and they concern not only the features of the celebration, outfits and gifts, but also the table. For example, it is customary to serve a cake with candles on birthdays, pancakes on Maslenitsa, and in winter they usually bake New Year’s gingerbread cookies with icing.

This pastry has already become a symbol of the New Year, and gingerbread men are perceived by us as Father Frost, the Snow Maiden or a snowman. So today we can’t do without little people.

Did you know that the gingerbread man came to us from America? There he is a very popular hero of a fairy tale, the plot of which practically repeats the story of our kolobok. The man was so delicious that everyone he met wanted to eat him. Well, just like the Earthen Pig, the totem of 2019, our New Year’s dessert will appeal.

Gingerbread New Year's gingerbread with glaze

This recipe is used in America to prepare traditional New Year's gingerbread men painted with lemon glaze. Oh, how spicy, aromatic, very tasty and beautiful they are. The dough is very simple to prepare. But the main advantage of this step by step recipe from the photo - it’s fast (if you skip letting the dough sit in the refrigerator for an hour).

Ingredients

High-grade wheat flour – 2 ¾ tbsp.;
Baking soda – ½ tsp;
Fine salt – ¾ tsp;
Powdered ginger – ½ tbsp;
Cinnamon powder – ½ tbsp;
Ground cloves – ¾ tsp;

Ground nutmeg – ½ tsp;
Butter – 100-120 g;
Brown sugar - ½ tbsp.;
Selected fresh egg – 1 pc.;
Liquid buckwheat honey - 120 g;
Powdered sugar – 100 g;
Lemon juice – 2 tbsp.

How to make New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze at home

Mix the sifted flour with soda, salt and all the spices.

Using a mixer, beat soft warm butter with brown sugar. And then add the egg and continue beating.

Now add the entire dry mixture of flour and spices into the general composition. Mix the dough until it becomes crumbly and all ingredients are evenly mixed.

Divide the dough into two parts, form two koloboks and wrap them in vacuum film. In this form, the dough should rest in the refrigerator for at least an hour.

After an hour, or maybe longer (the dough can be left overnight), roll out the chilled dough into a 7-8 mm layer.

Place the gingerbread men in a well-heated oven (180°C) for 14 minutes.

To prepare the glaze, you need to combine the sifted powder and lemon juice. Mix everything thoroughly and beat with a mixer at low speed for 2-3 minutes until a white thick mass is obtained.

Well, now you can start giving the image to the little men. We draw them a silhouette, eyes and a smile with icing.

Don't forget about buttons and pants.

You will find even more recipes for making painted gingerbread cookies at home in this collection. Here you will learn all the secrets and tips for decorating baked goods with your own hands.

Ingredients

— 350 g + -
Baking powder - 1.5 tsp. + -
- ¼ tsp. + -
- 1 tsp. with a slide + -
Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp. + -
— 175 g + -
— 125 g + -
— 1 pc. + -
— 80 g + -
Powdered sugar - 400 g + -
Egg white - 2 pcs. + -
Lemon juice - 1 tsp. + -

Well, in continuation fairy tale theme The following recipe for New Year's gingerbread cookies will be very relevant. Remember original story about Hansel and Gretel, who had to live with a witch in a gingerbread house? But stories about a sweet hut are found in both Russian and French folklore.

This dessert has every chance of becoming an international symbol of the New Year!

Take a deep container and combine all the dry ingredients in it: sifted flour, baking powder, cinnamon powder and ginger powder, then mix everything.
In a second container, combine and mix the egg and honey.
In a third deep bowl, combine soft butter, kept warm for 1 hour, with granulated sugar and beat with a mixer for 3-4 minutes.

For gingerbread best option- brown molasses soft sugar, it gives baked goods a caramel aroma. Simple refined granulated sugar, this expensive product, can be replaced.

Without stopping the mixer, begin adding the remaining dough components. First add the egg and honey mixture.
After 1-2 minutes, add all the flour and knead the mixture until it has a thick, doughy, homogeneous texture.
Divide the finished dough into 2 parts, from which you need to make thick flat cakes. We wrap each of them in vacuum film and put them in the refrigerator for an hour.

To work with shortcrust pastry, it is more convenient to cool it in two parts. During subsequent work in a warm place, you can take 1 part of the dough. In this case, the remaining mass does not heat up and remains cooled.

Roll out the dough that has been chilled in the cold on a flour-dusted table into a layer 8 mm thick and using pre-cut paper templates, use a knife to cut out the parts for the house.

At one time we will be able to make all the blanks for 4-6 houses, depending on the scale of the matrix template you choose.

Gingerbread cookies should be baked at 170°C for 11-12 minutes until golden brown, and the baking sheet should be placed in a well-heated oven.

Preparing icing

Grind the whites with powdered sugar and one teaspoon of lemon juice until smooth and thick.
Then, at the lowest speed of the mixer, mix the icing for 2-3 minutes until it becomes a snow-white, stable glaze.
Decorate the finished cooled gingerbreads with thin lines of icing. We assign a contour to each detail, draw tiles on the roofing details, draw a door and an attic window on the front of the house, and draw windows on the façade and rear parts. Let the glaze dry for half an hour.

Now, using the same icing, we glue the parts of the house together, decorate the seams with dotted lines and leave it to dry for 1 hour.

From these gingerbread houses, you can make an original “New Year’s Village” composition, which will become a chic holiday decoration.

New Year's gingerbread with glaze

Snowflakes with caramel glass, shining with amber light, will be a delicious addition to New Year's menu. We chose a chocolate-orange dough recipe for these snowflakes. And we will make “stained glass windows” from classic yellow candies.

Ingredients

Granulated sugar – 1 tbsp. to the edge;
High-grade flour - 3.5 tbsp. without slide;
Orange – 1 pc.;
Selected egg – 2 pcs.;
Butter – ½ pack;
Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp. with a slide;

Cinnamon – 1/3 tbsp;
Ginger - 1/3 tbsp;
Ground cloves – ½ tsp;
Muscat – ½ tsp;
Baking soda – ½ tsp;
Fine salt – ¼ tsp;
Lemon lollipops – 10 pcs.

Wash the orange very thoroughly with soda, and then wipe it dry and grate the orange zest on a fine grater.
We cut the fruit itself in half and squeeze out the juice from it. There should be ½ cup of juice. If necessary, add plain water to the required volume.
Bring the orange juice to a simmer in a saucepan over medium heat.
Place a frying pan on another burner, pour half a glass of sugar into it and, stirring, melt it and bring it to a caramel state.
Before the sugar begins to burn, pour boiled juice over it. Mix everything vigorously, add the remaining granulated sugar, orange zest and add butter.
Bring the mixture to a boil and turn off. Now it should cool down to 70-60°C.
Sift the flour. Pour 1.5 cups into a separate plate and mix with all the spices, salt, soda and cocoa.
After the orange syrup has cooled to 70-60°C, beat the eggs into it and add the part of the flour that was mixed with spices. Using a mixer, beat everything until smooth and leave the mixture to cool. Cool to a temperature comfortable for kneading the dough with your own hands (40-35°C).
From the warm mass, adding the remaining flour, knead into a plastic dough that falls from your hands.
Wrapping it in film, leave the dough to rest in the refrigerator overnight.

You can store this dough in the refrigerator for a month. Ready-made gingerbread cookies from this dough also have a shelf life of 30 days.

Roll out the rested dough on a flour table. The thickness of the layer should be no more than 7 mm. Using large snowflake cutters, we cut out the gingerbread cookies, and with small cutters we make holes in the snowflakes.
Place the candies in a bag and break them into crumbs with a hammer or rolling pin.
Place the snowflakes on a silicone baking mat and place candy crumbs in the holes.

Place the baking sheet with the gingerbreads into an oven preheated to 180°C for 8-10 minutes.
Leave the finished gingerbreads to cool directly on the mat. Remove them after they have cooled completely and the caramel has hardened.

We paint gingerbread cookies with icing at our discretion. We use thick icing to outline the contour of the snowflake, so the coating of the baked goods will be neat and even. We also make a contour around the holes.

The gingerbread should be filled with a thinner glaze. To do this, add a little water and dye as desired to the already prepared thick icing and mix the glaze thoroughly.

Today we told you not just how to prepare step-by-step New Year's gingerbread cookies with glaze, but how to create them with your own hands fairy decoration for the holiday. It may become an original gift for family and friends.