Gingerbread cakes with icing for the New Year

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make Christmas gingerbread cookies with icing? Prepare the necessary products. Wash the egg and dry it with napkins. Take the flour of the highest grade. Sift it through a fine sieve to saturate it with oxygen and make it more airy.

2. Step 2:

   

   Add honey, sugar and all spices to the saucepan.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the saucepan on the fire. With constant stirring, bring the mixture to a boil. Sugar should completely dissolve.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour the hot mixture into a bowl, add soda. Mix well. The mass will lighten and slightly increase in volume.

5. Step 5:

   

   Put butter in the honey mass. Mix well. The oil should completely melt in the hot mixture.

6. Step 6:

   

   Now wait a bit until the mass cools down. Then beat a raw egg into it. Stir with a whisk until smooth.

7. Step 7:

   

   Knead the dough, adding flour in parts. First knead with a spoon, then with your hands. the dough should become thick and not sticky. Focus on its consistency, and not on the volume of flour - it may take you more or less. Assemble the dough into a ball. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.

8. Step 8:

   

   Then roll out the dough into a layer about a centimeter thick. Using molds or stencils, cut out the gingerbread. Assemble the remains of the dough into a ball again, roll out and cut figures from it.

9. Step 9:

   

   Put the gingerbread on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Bake the gingerbread for about 10-12 minutes at 180 ° C. Focus on your oven. Cool the finished gingerbread and remove from the paper.

10. Step 10:

    

    While the gingerbread is cooling, make the glaze. Prepare the products for her. If you wish, you can take food dyes so that the glaze is colored. But just white looks beautiful.

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    Add the egg white to a separate bowl. Sift powdered sugar to it through a fine sieve.

13. Step 12:

    

    With a whisk, stir the egg mass well until smooth. Add a few drops of lemon juice.

14. Step 13:

    

    With a mixer, beat the glaze to a fluffy white mass.

15. Step 14:

    

    Set aside a couple of spoonfuls of thick glaze to draw the outline. Dilute the rest of the glaze with water to the desired thickness.

16. Step 15:

    

    Add dyes to the diluted glaze.

17. Step 16:

    

    Arrange the white and colored glaze into bags or pastry bags.

18. Step 17:

    

    With a thick white glaze, draw a contour on the gingerbread. If it turned out not exactly, it's not scary, you can gently erase the glaze with your finger and draw the contour again. Fix all irregularities with a toothpick. Let the contour dry for about 15 minutes.

19. Step 18:

    

    Fill the middle of the gingerbread surface with a more liquid colored glaze. Fix the edges with a toothpick. Allow the glaze to completely harden. It will take about an hour.

20. Step 19:

    

    Color the gingerbread with a thick white glaze at will, as your imagination tells you! Delicious New Year gingerbread cakes with icing are ready!