Christmas gingerbread with icing

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Mix honey, sugar and spices (cinnamon, ginger) in a saucepan, put the mixture on fire. Bring the mixture to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce the heat and cook until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat. Add soda and butter. Cool the mixture to 60 degrees. We introduce the egg and mix it with a mixer at medium speed. Add the sifted flour in several stages. The finished dough is wrapped in a film and cooled for 2 hours. Bake gingerbread at 180 gr.

2. Step 2:

   

   For the protein glaze (aisling), you need to mix all the ingredients into a homogeneous mass. Mix powdered sugar, egg white and citric acid with a mixer at low speed. It is not necessary to beat for a long time, only until smooth. You can even do without a mixer. The finished glaze should be immediately covered with cling film in contact, as it dries very quickly.

3. Step 3:

   

   The glaze turns out thick. In a small part of the glaze, we literally add water drop by drop and achieve the desired consistency. Also, in small parts, we color the glaze with food dyes and put it in small confectionery bags (bags). We make two bags with glaze of the same color, but of different consistency, a thicker glaze for the sides and a more liquid one for pouring the whole gingerbread. We make a small hole on the corner of the package and proceed to painting

4. Step 4:

   

   And now I offer you ideas for decorating gingerbread. The simplest option is to cut out gingerbread cookies with cookie cutters (cuttings). I cut out bunnies and decorated my eyes and mouth with glaze.

5. Step 5:

   

   If there are no molds and cuttings, then you can simply use a glass to cut out round-shaped gingerbread. Draw snowflakes on round gingerbread with thick glaze.

6. Step 6:

   

   And you can pour the whole gingerbread with orange glaze, make stains with a toothpick from a liquid glaze of white color and we will get tangerines.

8. Step 7:

   

   And here are three options for decorating Christmas trees.

9. Step 8:

   

   To carve houses, I used a plastic mold for plasticine, which I borrowed from my son. There were two houses: red and green, but the red son ate so quickly that she didn't have time to take a picture.

10. Step 9:

    

    Well, what about without the classic ginger men? Here you can turn on your imagination and make little men of different genders, with different emotions, in different costumes and even with different hairstyles.

11. Step 10:

    

    And turning the little man upside down, you can make Santa's reindeer faces. I made the brown glaze by mixing the red and green glaze.

12. Step 11:

    

    If there are no food dyes, you can do with only white glaze.