Cookies Christmas Nativity Scene

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Products. To prepare the dough, first you need to burn the sugar. To do this, take half the norm of sugar (125 g) and melt it in a frying pan.

2. Step 2:

   

   Drown to a dark brown color (people say that you need to drown to a bluish haze).

3. Step 3:

   

   As soon as the sugar has turned into dark caramel, we need to bring down the temperature so that the sugar does not burn out, since later our dough can turn out with bitterness. In order to bring down the temperature, we use steep boiling water and very carefully introduce it into the caramel. Be careful, as the caramel will bubble !!!

4. Step 4:

   

   Next, add the remaining sugar to the caramel, let it dissolve and bring the mixture to a boil. Remove from the heat.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add butter, stir so that the butter melts.

6. Step 6:

   

   1 tbsp. wheat flour mixed with spices and add to the still hot caramel (flour needs to be brewed) and stir thoroughly.

7. Step 7:

   

   Let the mixture cool to room temperature.

8. Step 8:

   

   Mix rye and wheat flour with soda.

9. Step 9:

   

   Add 1 whole egg and 2 yolks to the cooled caramel (I beat them a little with a fork beforehand), stir.

10. Step 10:

    

    Adding flour in parts, knead the dough. The finished dough needs to be kneaded well, it should turn out a little soft and at the same time keep its shape well

12. Step 11:

    

    The kneaded dough ball should not spread out. We put the finished dough in a bowl and in the refrigerator for a day, but if there is no time, then at least for 4 hours.

13. Step 12:

    

    This dough can be prepared in advance and stored in the refrigerator for about 3 weeks. We take the cooled dough from the refrigerator, let it warm up for min.30.

14. Step 13:

    

    Roll out the dough (it is best to do this between 2 sheets of parchment) and cut out future figures, animals, magi, shepherds

15. Step 14:

    

    (I just used a piece of paper for the shed, and for the figures I found pictures on the web, enlarged them, printed them out and cut them out)

16. Step 15:

    

    Roll out about 3-4 mm thick and bake for about 8 min. at 190 C (the baking time depends on the size, a small cookie is prepared for 5 minutes).

17. Step 16:

    

    Let the liver cool down, and in the meantime we prepare icing. We'll need one protein. Beat it lightly with a fork (I kneaded everything with a mixer at the lowest speed),

18. Step 17:

    

    Add powdered sugar in parts, carefully rubbing the mixture,

19. Step 18:

    

    At the very end, add 0.5 tsp lemon juice and mix well.

20. Step 19:

    

    We put the icing in a pastry bag (I have a disposable one), cut off the corner and decorate our figures.