How to draw a gingerbread house with a pencil. How to draw a caramel house for the New Year for children step by step

The most magical and fabulous time is, of course, New Year and Christmas, which not only children, but also adults believe in! This is the time when you can create magic with your own hands. If you don’t believe me, then look at the 12 New Year’s gingerbread houses that personify this fabulous holiday. In addition, you can involve the whole family in preparing a gingerbread house and have fun.

the site invites you to stock up on a huge portion of spices (this is a gingerbread house), delicious decorations and a good mood!

Photos of gingerbread houses

1. Big gingerbread house

2. Gingerbread house in the shape of London Bridge

3. Gingerbread cupcake house

4. Charming gingerbread village

5. Creative Gingerbread Bread Shop

6. New Year's gingerbread house for a large family

7. Simple but very tasty house

8. Gingerbread yurt

9. New Year's gingerbread house with lighting

10. Two-story gingerbread house

11. The biggest and most delicious house

12. gingerbread house with jelly beans

Gingerbread house recipe:

Ingredients for the dough:

• flour (1 kg);
• egg (3 pcs);
• sugar (200 g);
• honey (250 g);
• butter (200 g);
• soda (1/2 teaspoon);
• and exactly ¼ teaspoon of each spice (cinnamon, ginger, cloves, allspice and cardamom).

The first step is to mix all the spices into a spicy mix, beating them in a mortar. Mix flour and baking soda separately! Then in a separate container you need to combine the crushed spices, honey, sugar, eggs and butter. Add flour combined with soda to this container. Knead the dough and refrigerate it for 3 hours.
And you will have time to choose the shape of the house and make templates!

For the first test, it is best to choose a simple option - two side parts of the house with windows, a back part, a front part with a doorway and two identical parts of the roof. By the way, it’s worth drawing them on paper, so that you can simply attach them to the dough and cut them on it.

And if you have completed this task, then it’s time to take the dough out of the refrigerator, give it a couple of minutes to adapt in the warmth and don’t forget to knead it again! But the gingerbread house can’t wait to give a holiday to your family, so start rolling out the dough on parchment paper about 0.5 cm thick, apply the prepared stencils of parts to it and cut out parts of the house.

The final stage is to bake the spicy parts for 10-15 minutes at a temperature of 170-180 degrees.

Caramel icing for gluing a gingerbread house

Are you already dreaming about the moment when you will decorate the gingerbread house? But it must first be glued together. And caramel icing works best with this. Combine 100 g of sugar and 2 tbsp in a metal bowl. spoons of water. Bring the syrup to a boil, reduce heat and cook until light brown and viscous.

Well, that's it, if the baked parts have already cooled down, you can start doing the magic - assembling your gingerbread house!

Gingerbread house decorations

The main component of the magic of all gingerbread houses is the patterns of sweet protein glaze. And it’s very simple to prepare - just beat one egg white, 2 drops of lemon juice and 180 g of powdered sugar until soft but thick foam. You can apply it using a pastry syringe or a bag.

And most importantly, to decorate the house, don’t forget to stock up on chocolates, nuts, M&M’s, marshmallows, Oreo cookies, coconut flakes, confectionery powder and gummies!

Watch the video: How to make a gingerbread house with your own hands!

Gingerbread dough recipe
This volume makes 9 houses.
gingerbread house

500 g honey
2 eggs
500 g sugar
300 g margarine
50 g cocoa
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp. rum or 3 drops of flavoring
1 tsp cinnamon
a pinch of cardamom (I always use cardamom beans, it is more aromatic, I grind the seeds from the boxes in a mortar)
pinch of cloves
pinch of ginger
pinch of anise
zest of 1 orange and 1 lemon
vanilla
1250 flour is an approximate amount. Usually it takes less.

I didn’t add rum, bought spices in powder, and didn’t add zest. It was delicious!

1. Heat honey, sugar, margarine until sugar dissolves. The mass should not boil, but only warm up. Remove from the stove and let cool slightly (not lower than 68 * C).
2. Mix half the flour with spices, baking powder, zest, cocoa.
3. Add eggs, not beaten, but mixed until smooth, into the honey mass, in 2 additions. Add rum.
4. Stir the spiced flour into the honey-egg mixture and knead the dough well. Add the rest of the flour gradually, the dough should be dense and elastic. This will take 20-25 minutes.
There is no need to try to mix in all the flour. While kneading, the dough will cool down, but will still be warm. Stop, place the dough in a plastic bag and leave it in the refrigerator overnight. Let it rest and mature.
5. The next day, roll out the dough on the table, cut out the details of the house or figures and bake (windows and doors too).
6. We assemble the cooled parts using sugar glaze. powder, egg white, and lemon juice (without whisking).
With its “foundation”, the house also stands on a gingerbread base. Walls are attached to it.
Decorate as your soul asks!

Source: Gerda

Here are the patterns for the house.

Elena Malygina
Tatyana Evtyukova
"Gingerbread House"

Enchant your family and friends with this whimsical fairytale house! The roof of the house is covered with tiles made of cookies, the chimney is lined with halves of peanuts, the shutters are made of waffles, and the porch with columns is made of candy canes. And next to the house there are trees made of waffle ice cream cups and pebbles made of gingerbread cookies.
Children will really enjoy this unusual treat, and mother will enjoy the children's enthusiastic eyes and happy smiles!

WE WILL NEED

• White dough (for roof, chimney)
• Ginger dough (for walls)
• Glaze (snow, smoke from a chimney, fastening parts, finishing windows, doors)
• Cookies "Waffles" (shutters)
• Crumbs or sprinkles covered with fragrant glaze in the form of krakratik (decoration above the windows)
• Multi-colored crumbs - balls (artistic decoration of festive illumination and trees)
• Square cookies (canopy over the porch) - 2 pcs.
• Peanut halves (chimney)
• Cushion cookies (roof tiles)
• Waffle cones for ice cream (Christmas trees)
• Lollipops such as "holse" or "bon paris" (columns near the porch, mailbox)
• Small Ginger Round Cookies (Stone Path)

  CUT OUT PARTS

  

  1. One square = 1 cm.

  2. Redraw the pattern in full size in centimeters (it’s more convenient on checkered paper).

  3. All parts are made in 2 pieces, the pipe - 3 pieces.

  4. Parts “1” belong to the first large house, parts “2” belong to the second small house.

  5. The walls are baked from ginger dough.

  6. The roof is baked from white dough.

  7. One end of the large house is baked half from white, half from ginger dough (see “White dough”, paragraph 13.).
  The second end of the large house is baked from ginger dough.
  The ends of the small house are baked only from ginger dough.

  8. The chimney is baked from white dough.

  WHITE DOUGH
  For this recipe, knead the dough once.

  180-200 g butter
  2 cups sugar
  1/4 teaspoon baking soda, quenched with vinegar
  1 egg
  3 cups wheat flour

  1. In a large bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer for 30 seconds or until fluffy.

  2. Add baking soda and sugar, whisk until completely combined.

  3. Add the egg and beat until completely combined.

  4. Add flour and quickly knead the dough.

  5. Cover the dough and refrigerate for approximately 2 hours.

  6. After cooling, divide the dough in half (it’s easier to roll out) and roll it out with a rolling pin into a layer 5-6 mm thick. To prevent the dough from sticking to the table (board), be sure to sprinkle the table with flour.

  7. Place the paper pattern of the corresponding part of the house on the rolled out layer and cut out the part from the dough along the contours.

  

  8. Carefully transfer the part to a baking sheet (you can cover the baking sheet with foil). Place the paper pattern on the piece again and, if the edges of the piece were deformed during transfer, correct them.

  9. Bake at t° 150 - 170°C for 5-7 minutes. When the part is slightly browned, it is ready.

  10. Quickly remove the piece from the oven, transfer it to the board and, placing the pattern on it, align the edges (since the dough contains soda, the dough moves a little during baking).

  11. Cool the part.

  12. Do the same with all the parts that are baked from white dough. From the remaining dough you need to form and bake small cookies - “pebbles”, from which you will then make a “stone fence” near the house.

  13. SPECIAL DETAIL - END OF A BIG HOUSE
  (white roof and ginger end wall are baked together):

  13.1. Make a paper pattern for the end of a large house in two copies.

  13.2. Cut one copy of the pattern along the dotted line of the roof and cut out this part - the roof - from white dough (do not bake yet!).

  13.3. Cut out the lower part of the part - the wall of the end of the house - from ginger dough (on the paper pattern the part ends with a solid line located just above the dotted line, parallel to it).

  13.4. Place the ginger pastry on the white roof along the border as on the paper pattern. Lubricate the application area with a little water for gluing and press gently.

  13.5. Cut strips from the ginger dough (according to the size of the pattern) and glue them onto the white dough roof using water.

  13.6. Carefully transfer the part to a baking sheet (can be covered with foil). Place a whole paper pattern on the part and correct the edges that were deformed when the part was transferred.

  13.7. Bake at t° 150-170° C, 5-7 minutes. When the part is slightly browned, it is ready.

  13.8. Quickly remove the piece from the oven, transfer it to the board and, placing the whole pattern on it, align the edges.

  13.9. Cool the part.

  GINGER DOUGH
  For this recipe, knead the dough twice, each knead separately.

  80-100 g butter
  one and a half cups of sugar
  one and a half teaspoons of ginger
  one and a half teaspoons of cloves
  1 teaspoon baking soda, quenched with vinegar
  1/2 teaspoon salt
  1 egg
  2 cups honey
  2 tablespoons lemon juice
  2 cups wheat flour
  1 cup bran or 3 cups wheat flour

  1. In a large bowl, beat butter with an electric mixer for 30 seconds or until fluffy. Add sugar, ginger, cloves, baking soda and salt, whisk until completely combined.

  2. Add the egg, molasses and lemon juice and beat until thoroughly combined.

  3. Add flour and knead the dough.

  4. Wrap the dough in plastic and keep in a cool place for 3 hours.

  5. Divide the dough in half.

  Christmas trees

  Our Christmas trees will be waffle ice cream cones. If there are no cones, then we will make the Christmas trees ourselves - bake them from white dough.

  1. From the rolled out dough, cut out circles of different diameters - from the largest (bottom of the tree) to the smallest (top). Use a knife to make teeth on the edges of each circle. This way we get jagged circles.

  2. Bake the circles and stack them in a pyramid from the largest circle to the smaller one, coating them with glaze. To make the Christmas tree taller, you can place small round cookies, also baked from white dough, between the large parts.

  3. In the same way, we collect several more Christmas trees.

  4. We decorate the finished Christmas trees: place the icing, tinted green, in a bag and squeeze it out, tracing the jagged edges; Sprinkle the Christmas trees with multi-colored sprinkles, dust the top with powdered sugar from a strainer - “snowball”.

  HOUSE FOUNDATION

  Bake a large base crust on which to easily assemble the house. The area of ​​the base should be larger than the area of ​​the house (you can bake the base in parts and glue it with icing).

  GLAZE

  The glaze is used immediately, so do it after the house parts are ready for assembly. Don't double the recipe right away; make a second batch of frosting only when needed.

  3 egg whites
  750 grams sifted powdered sugar
  1 teaspoon vanilla
  food coloring

  1. In a deep bowl, beat the egg white, add sugar and vanilla.

  2. Beat with an electric mixer on high speed for 7 to 10 minutes or until very stiff. The glaze should not be liquid. To prevent the glaze from drying out, cover the bowl with a damp towel.

  3. It is convenient to apply the glaze for gluing parts using a small bag (from an A4 file you get 2 small bags). Roll up the bag and fasten it with a stapler along the entire length so that it does not unwind. Fill the bag with glaze and, turning the top, fasten with a stapler (so that the glaze does not come out). To prevent glaze from seeping out of the holes from the staples and getting your hands dirty, wrap the bag filled with glaze in sticky thin plastic wrap, twisting it at the top. Cut off the sharp corner of the bag straight or diagonally, just a little bit.

  4. If the glaze does not stick well to the part, moisten the gluing areas with water using a brush. Glaze can be applied to both gluing areas.

  5. Color the glaze of a different color (for finishing windows, Christmas trees) with dry dye.

  The more accurately you make the parts of the house, the easier it will be to fit them together.

  DECORATION

  Baked and cooled parts can be decorated before assembly, carefully checking that the level of the windows matches the height on all parts of the walls. And you can decorate after assembly.

  If you are decorating before assembly, you must be EXTREMELY CAREFUL during assembly so as not to damage the painted windows and decorations.

  1. WALLS

• On the paper pattern of the wall, draw windows evenly. In accordance with the drawing, draw windows on the walls with glaze (using a bag).
• Glue waffle shutters between the windows using glaze. Decorate them with a pattern.

  

• Glue multi-colored squares (crumbs covered in glaze) onto the top of the shutters and “window frames” onto the glaze.

  2. PORCH

• Make a canopy at the end of a large house. To do this, cut one square cookie diagonally into two triangles, glue the first triangle onto the icing above the drawn door.
  Cut another square cookie crosswise into two identical rectangles and glue them to the first triangle in the form of the letter “/\” (see Fig. 3).
• Make columns: for stability, glue candy canes onto the straws with icing, adjust the “columns” in height from the base of the house to the canopy, and glue with icing.
• Cover the end of the canopy with the second triangle.
• Use icing to glue a candy cane “mailbox” next to the door.
• Use green glaze from a bag to edge the windows and draw garlands over the porch, glue multi-colored crumbs on them - “light bulbs”. (see Fig. 3).

  ASSEMBLY

  JOIN ALL THE PARTS WITHOUT GLUEING THEM AND TRIM, ADJUST IF SOMETHING DOESN’T FIT (UNTIL NOTHING IS LUBRICATE WITH CREAM OR GLAZE, THIS IS MORE CONVENIENT TO DO).

  House.
  Prepare the "foundation of the house." Combine the parts according to the picture. Glue the parts to the base of the house and glue them together with glaze. Wait until all joints are firmly secured. For reliability, as the house is assembled, the wall joints can be coated with additional glaze on the inside of the house.

  

  Roof.
  When the ends and walls are securely dry, you can glue the roof parts. Hold them until the icing dries.

  

  Chimney.
  Glue three parts of the chimney together and glue them to the end of the small house. Spread with glaze and top with toasted and shelled peanut halves.

  Roof tiles.
  Apply glaze evenly to the surface of the roof and place the pillow cookies in a checkerboard pattern. The glaze must be thick, otherwise the pads will crawl down and you will have to hold them for a long time. Liquid glaze can be mixed with powdered sugar again. Disguise the uneven edges of the “tile roof” by edging it with glaze. Use a strainer to powder the roof with powdered sugar - “snowball”.

  FINAL TOUCHES

  Icicles.
  Using a bag with glaze, make an imitation of icing: touch the tip to the edge of the roof, gently squeezing the bag - the glaze will flow down, forming an icicle. Repeat along all edges of the roof and along the canopy over the front door.

  Courtyard.
  Gluing the “pebbles” with glaze, make a “fence”. Install Christmas trees in the yard. You can make “drifts” - grease the “pebbles” with glaze and sprinkle with powdered sugar. Imagine!

  This is what you should end up with:

  

  This is the gingerbread house we ended up with:

  

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Gingerbread house dough
500g honey
2 eggs
500g sugar
300g margarine
50g cocoa
2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp rum
1 tsp cinnamon
1 pinch each of ginger, anise, cloves, cardamom
vanilla, I took special bags for 1 kg of flour
zest from 1 lemon and 1 orange
1000 1250g flour

Dissolve honey, sugar and margarine over low heat until the sugar is completely dissolved. Remove from heat.
Then add eggs one at a time, stir. Add rum.
Mix all the spices, cocoa and zest with flour (I mixed half the flour)
Then add flour with spices to the honey-egg mixture and knead well (I added 1 kg of flour a little at a time).
Then I poured approximately 150g onto the table and kneaded it on the table. You will get a lot of dough and it will be very soft.
Place all the dough in a plastic bag and leave it in the refrigerator overnight.
The next day, I took it out a few hours before baking, so that it would be a little softer, pinch off a piece straight from the bag, roll it out and cut out the desired shapes. At 170 degrees, about 15 minutes.

gingerbread house

For the dough: 1000 g honey, 150 g ghee, 3 eggs, 2 tbsp. tablespoons grated lemon zest, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 50 g cocoa, 300 g rye flour, 100 g wheat flour, 1 pinch salt, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of rum, a little flour.
In addition: 2 egg whites, 400-450 g of powdered sugar, cookies, candies, sugar balls, dragees, cotton candy, food coloring.
For glaze: 250 g powdered sugar, 1 egg white, 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice.

Heat honey with 375 ml of water and oil, then cool slightly and add eggs. Mix the spices thoroughly with cocoa, rye and wheat flour. Pour honey and eggs into flour and knead the dough (it is better to use a mixer). Add rum. Knead the dough well, shape it into a ball, wrap it in foil and leave for at least 1 day. Then roll out the dough 0.5 cm thick on a floured table and cut out the details of the house from it. Cut the squares cut out for the windows in half to make shutters. For the fence, cut a 2.5 cm wide strip of arbitrary size and shape. Knead the remaining dough again and roll it out to a size of at least 30 x 30 cm. In addition, you can cut out Christmas trees with a height of 8, 10 and 12 cm. Place the dough on a baking sheet lined with parchment. Baking temperature: 180 degrees C. Baking time: approx. 20 minutes. Small parts such as the door, shutters, pipe and fence should be removed from the pan after 10 minutes. Let cool. It's better to pack the house the next day.

Make a drawing of the details of a house of the appropriate size. You can choose any architectural style you wish. In addition to the details of the house, you also need a stand measuring at least 30 x 30 cm or the size of a baking tray.
To do this, you need to immediately set aside one fourth of the dough. Then combine it with the dough left over from the house parts, knead it again and put it in the refrigerator. Roll out and bake once the house pieces are removed from the pan.
In addition, you can cut out a piece of the same size from thick cardboard and place the cake on it before strengthening the house (if you want to admire your house for a long time, strengthen all the parts with thick cardboard. It should be glued on the inside with sugar icing or egg white. ).
First, glue all four walls onto the stand. They must be connected to each other and stand firmly on the stand. When the glaze has completely hardened, generously coat all sides of the roof parts with it and carefully strengthen them. In addition, it is necessary to assemble the pipe and secure it to the roof. Cotton candy will serve you instead of smoke. Decorate the shutters with various candies and glue them with icing sugar. Coat the perimeter of the roof generously with icing sugar and sprinkle with sugar balls. Decorate the roof with cookies and sweets. Attach the door. For the Christmas trees, beat the egg white, add 150-175 g of powdered sugar and green food coloring. Cover the Christmas trees with this glaze and sprinkle with colored sugar balls. Glue the house, Christmas trees and fence to the stand using icing.

Sweet Smak, No. 12, 1996

for one house with bells and whistles.
Compound
for the dough (you can prepare 1.5 norms of dough, enough for a fence and a base for a house)
honey - 100 g,
sugar - 50 g,
butter - 50-60 g,
vanilla sugar - 1 teaspoon,
ground cloves, cardamom, cinnamon - a small pinch each,
egg - 1 piece,
flour - 250-280 g,
baking powder - 1 teaspoon
for glaze (glaze needs to be prepared 2 times)
egg white - 1 piece,
powdered sugar - 0.5 cups,
lemon juice - 1 tbsp. spoon
for decoration
multi-colored jelly beans,
colored sprinkles for cake
Preparation

Place honey in a small saucepan, add sugar, vanilla sugar and butter.
Heat honey with sugar and butter over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the mixture becomes homogeneous.
Remove from heat and cool.
Add spices and egg to the honey-oil mixture and stir well.
Mix the flour with baking powder and gradually add it to the honey-butter mixture.
Knead the dough, roll it into a ball and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
Cut out blanks for a gingerbread house from thick paper:
For the roof, the blank is 11x12 cm (2 pieces);
For the side walls, a blank 6.5x10 cm (2 pieces);
For the facade, the blank is 14x10, with a wall height of 6.5 cm (2 pieces).
You also need to make a pipe from the dough.
* from the dough you can cut out several Christmas trees and a fence with which you can fence a gingerbread house. You can also cut a rectangular (square) base on which you can install the house. If you decide not to bake the base, then the house can be placed on a cardboard base or on a large tray.
Roll out the finished dough into a layer 07 mm thick, place the blanks on the dough and cut out the corresponding parts of the house from the dough.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper, lay out the pieces, lightly sprinkle with flour and bake at ~180 degrees C for 10-12 minutes (do not overbake).
* if desired, you can cut out windows and a door on the side walls and facades (although it is not necessary to cut them out, you can simply draw windows and a door on the house with glaze)
Cool the finished house blanks.
Prepare the glaze: beat 1 chilled egg white, gradually add 0.5 cups of powdered sugar and 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Fill a pastry bag with icing, and using a nozzle with a small hole, outline the outlines of windows and doors with icing, and you can draw tiles on the roof.
When the glaze has thickened a little, but has not yet dried, you can decorate the house with various colorful sprinkles, lightly pressing them into the glaze.
* you can decorate a fully assembled house with glaze
Leave the products to dry a little and you can start assembling the house.
Apply a thick layer of glaze to the bottom and side of the facade using a nozzle with a large hole and place the facade on the base (on a tray or cardboard).
Then, apply a thick layer of glaze to the bottom of the side wall and install it next to the facade - press the blanks with your hands and hold for a while until the blanks are slightly fixed.
Install another facade and side wall in the same way, applying glaze to the sides and bottom of the blanks and leave to dry.
* for greater stability, the workpieces can be supported with toothpicks so that the house does not fall apart until the glaze dries (the glaze will dry approximately overnight)
The next day, prepare a new glaze from 1 egg white and install the roof.
First, place one part of the roof on the layer of glaze, press it with your hands and secure it with toothpicks.
Then put the second part of the roof and also secure it with toothpicks.
Fill the joint on the roof with a thick layer of glaze.
Also, use the glaze to install Christmas trees and a fence, and attach the pipe to the roof.
Leave the house until the glaze is completely dry.
Sprinkle the finished house generously with powdered sugar and various colored sprinkles.
* you can light a small candle in the house, but it is better to do this for a very short time, as the gingerbread begins to burn

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Gingerbread house for Halloween http://www.i-mockery.com/halloween/bag/halloween-cookie-
house.php

how to decorate windows

Gingerbread winter wedding

Bride and Groom

Recipe from Daria Tsvek’s book “For a good evening” (Christmas time recipes). 600 gr. flour, 1 tsp. soda, 150 gr. margarine, 2 eggs and 2 whites, 200 gr. sugar, 150 gr. honey, 1 tsp. cinnamon with cloves. Knead the dough and refrigerate overnight. Here is my first house from this dough.

I do this: first I sift the flour, add soda, mix, add margarine cut into pieces, chop everything with a knife so that everything mixes well. Separately in a bowl I beat the eggs and sugar. I take the honey, melt it in a water bath, add cinnamon and cloves and mix with the eggs and sugar. Then I pour all this masa into flour and knead the dough. You need to knead for a long time until the masa becomes elastic. I put the kneaded dough in the refrigerator overnight, but you can do it for 2 - 3, which is even better. This dough wants to rest, then it comes out very good and tasty. Before I cut out 3-4 cm with baked goods, use cuttings to make gingerbread cookies and bake them at the same time. 180 - 200·C. (I bake for 7 - 10 minutes and control it so as not to dry out.) It is better to paint with icing when the gingerbread cookies are very warm, then it dries faster.

Here's another idea

I saw on TV how one guy made a gingerbread carousel... so it could actually spin around its axis

Gingerbread dough. Honey dough

Depending on the honey content, gingerbread dough is divided into honey, sugar-honey and sugar. When preparing sugar dough, bring sugar and water to a boil, skim off the foam, mix with butter and cool. All other ingredients are added to the cold syrup. Honey, on the other hand, is not boiled because boiling honey loses its flavor.
Depending on the cooking method, gingerbread dough is divided into custard and raw. Custard gingerbreads are stored for a long time and remain soft, while raw ones quickly become stale.

To prepare the dough using the raw method, you need to mix honey, softened butter, eggs and spices. Beat and only after obtaining a homogeneous mass mix with flour and baking powder. The dough turns out quite tough. The temperature of the gingerbread dough should not exceed 20 degrees.

To prepare the dough using the custard method, honey, sugar and water must be heated to 70-75 ° C, add some of the sifted flour and spices. Cool the dough, add eggs, baking powder, flour, and knead the dough. The dough turns out quite soft. The choux pastry must be baked immediately, otherwise the gingerbread cookies will not turn out soft and airy.

The peculiarity of gingerbread dough is that it is very fragrant. When it contains honey, no additional flavoring is required. Dry spices are added to sugar and sugar-honey dough: allspice, coriander, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, star anise. In addition to spices, nuts, candied fruits, orange and lemon zest give gingerbreads their aroma and unique taste.

Hard gingerbread dough is baked on a baking sheet without oil, soft gingerbread dough is baked on a greased one.

Small and thin gingerbreads are baked for 5-15 minutes at 220-240 °C, thicker ones made from hard dough - the same time, but at 180-220 °C.

Source: A. Seleznev "The Confectioner's Bible"

The most elegant and beautiful gingerbread houses are in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but with a classic white design, and multi-colored ones in other countries.
Girls, remembering that “the sleigh must be prepared in the summer,” so, I’m coming to you with sleigh I “traveled” throughout Europe for two weeks, and came to the conclusion that the most elegant and beautiful gingerbread houses are in the Czech Republic and Slovakia, but with a classic white design, and multi-colored ones in other countries.
These are the houses that I couldn’t pass by. (I went into each one)

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Christmas trees for these, and not only, houses:






































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Summer and Easter gingerbread houses(from the internet) Easter ideas








And these are from our website (I don’t remember from whom)

MK on painting gingerbread/translation from Slovak by our lllarisa/
To make a cornet, use only real cellophane. Ideal size 10x12cm.

Bend this piece in half along the long side and roll up the cornet. Just wet the top part and glue it.

Fill the cornet with fondant, and gradually fold the open end until the contents inside are completely filled.

Bend both ends towards the middle, cut off the tip of the cone and we can start decorating

Fill a small decorating bag with well-mixed fondant and cut off a corner.

Squeeze out individual lines so that they do not smear on the surface of the gingerbread, but lie freely on it.

Fill the prepared grid with individual points according to the drawing on the paper. Don't forget to count carefully.

"Fluffy" glaze:
1 protein
180g well sifted sugar powder
Lemon juice
1 flat tablespoon of starch.
Grind all ingredients thoroughly in a bowl. The consistency should be such that you can write with it. To apply it, Mrs. Petrova uses a classic cellophane cornet. After drying, the fudge with the addition of starch is airy and looks like whipped cream.
Gingerbread cookies cookie recipe
Patterns for Christmas cookies

2 tablespoons of spice mixture for gingerbread (cinnamon, cloves, anise, star anise)
If we want dark dough, 2 tablespoons of cocoa.

Mix all bulk products well and sift through a sieve. Add eggs, honey, butter and knead well. The dough should be soft. Leave it wrapped in film for 24 hours. Then take a third of the dough and knead again. Roll out approximately 2-3mm. Using a cookie cutter or otherwise, we cut out different shapes. Place on a baking sheet at a distance of 1 cm. Bake in the oven at 180 for approximately 5-8 minutes. After baking, place on a flat surface. While still hot, brush with beaten egg.

Protein glaze:
1-2 squirrels,
powdered sugar approximately 300 g,
half a spoon (teaspoon) of lemon juice.

Remove all impurities from the whites, sift the powder twice through a fine sieve and add half of it to the whites. Mix with a wooden spoon and gradually add the rest of the powder. Stir until it thickens to a very thick honey. At the end, add half a teaspoon of lemon juice and mix. Fill the cornet, cut off the tip so that there is a small hole and decorate. If the glaze is liquid, add powder, if thick, add protein and knead again.
I wish you success with the cookies and decorations according to my recipe. I greet you and wish you a pleasant day.
Vera Boynkova

I can add a little on my own behalf, the glaze is made in two types at once: liquid and thick. Thick icing is used to make a contour along the edge of the cookie (along the upper plane); if there is a hole inside the cookie, then around the hole. You get sides. Liquid glaze is carefully poured with a spoon within the borders. Let it dry, then use thick glaze to draw a lace pattern over the dried layer. And you will get such a miracle as on the previous page. The degree of density of the glaze can only be determined empirically, based on the basic recipe (thick).

How to draw a gingerbread house?

It’s difficult to draw food because, as a rule, it does not have its own recognizable appearance, and looks the way a person would decorate it.( If you've never seen ice cream in a tube, you won't even guess what kind of cone it is filled with balls.). On the other hand, food is often decorated very elegantly and richly. That is, there is a lot of scope for the development of visual skills. I’ll tell you how we painted the cakes on occasion, but today we’ll talk about gingerbread houses. Or rather, of course, about the benefits of drawing a gingerbread house for the development of children’s hands and eyes.

What kind of gingerbread house is this anyway?

I once read a fairy tale about the children of a poor lumberjack, whose parents, out of desperation, took them into the forest to get rid of the extra mouths to feed. Wandering through the thicket, the brother and sister came to a gingerbread house and began to greedily eat it. But then the owner of the house came - a witch. According to the law of the genre, the witch, although she was going to eat her prey, postponed the meal until tomorrow, and at night the children ran away. In addition, there was a dog with them, with its help the children managed to get to their home, and their parents had to take them back after an unsuccessful attempt to kill the unnecessary eaters. So, this tale is about food. The content is very tragic, but somehow it turned out that making gingerbread houses is even fashionable - especially before the New Year. I don’t see the connection here - in the fairy tale, the children were taken to the forest in the summer.

If you look on the Internet, your eyes will run wild – such delicious pictures of different houses!

Well, our goal is to decorate, not to eat, however, the children really like the theme.

Starting coloring - a simple frame of a house:

Coloring book for finishing - Gingerbread house

Cut it out and paste it into an album. Here, in addition to careful cutting, the training goal is to accurately find the middle of the album sheet, outline the house with a pencil, like a template, and carefully glue it exactly into the outlined outline. It's not that simple actually.

Now let's do some more construction work - draw the frames and jambs of the window. The goal is to accurately and consciously draw straight line segments parallel to the given ones. On the sides we will draw stylized log cuts. Let's strengthen the roof.

The base of the house is ready. Now we need to decorate. I did this: I drew a symmetrical pattern on the board, and let the students either copy it or create their own, but certainly complex and symmetrical.

Gingerbread house - drawing

I note that if such a condition is not set, then the children draw... guess what?

Lines! Stitches of squares, stitches of triangles and ovals...hearts...five-pointed stars, emoticons.

We have to return them to fairy-tale reality and explain that we are not in an arithmetic or writing lesson and that decorating gingerbread houses with elements of letters is unfashionable.

So, let's begin the first stage of preparing gingerbread houses...
That is, we simply choose the one that we liked the most or that we can master. ;))
There are an unimaginable number of schemes and houses.
A savvy person can draw the house of his dreams himself. :)
Well, here I will collect what I found on this topic on the internet.
Links, recipes, pictures and diagrams.
If you also have something interesting, share!
I will supplement the post with your links. :))

There are a great many gingerbread houses.
Recipes, decorations, models.
First I'll show you pictures from the internet. :)

I especially like this house. We should cook it. ;))
Pictures for preparing such houses.

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Now regarding the design of such houses.
There are many different schemes.
These are the options I found... :)

This template can be simply printed and cut out.
Very convenient.

Many, many recipes, ideas, a great topic and interesting tips. .

In the same topic I found a recipe from the magazine "Lisa", which I shared Fifochka.

For 1 house:

100 g honey
50 g granulated sugar
60 g butter
1 packet vanilla sugar
1 tsp baking spice mixtures
1 egg
280 g flour
1 tbsp. baking powder
3 tbsp. milk
Icing
candies and marmalade for decoration

Mix honey in a small saucepan with granulated sugar, vanilla sugar and butter. Heat over low heat and stir until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Remove from heat and let cool slightly. Add spices and egg. Sift the flour with baking powder and mix half of it with the resulting mass. Then add the remaining flour. Knead the dough, shape it into a ball and put it in the refrigerator for 2 hours. Cut out templates from thick paper (I cut them from cardboard) 11x12 cm for the roof, 6.5x7 cm for the side walls, 14x10 for the facade, and make the bevels so that the height of the walls is 6.5 cm.
Heat the oven to 180. Roll out the dough on a floured table and cut out 2 pieces according to each template. Place them on a baking tray lined with baking paper, brush with milk and bake for 15 minutes. From the remaining dough, cut out a square measuring 20x20 cm for a stand and a fence. Brush with milk and bake for 15 minutes. Allow the finished house parts to cool for 30 minutes.
Prepare sugar icing. Use it to assemble and decorate the house.

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In general, any gingerbread dough recipe is suitable for making a gingerbread house.
Here are recipes from friends. :))

At the same time, another flash mob for making gingerbread houses is taking place. :)
http://opiume.livejournal.com/58485.html
This magazine has a very useful post about making mastic.

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Recipe for Finnish gingerbread houses piparit from Iry-kaunisira

200 g butter or margarine
200 ml. Sahara
1 egg
1/2 dl dark syrup or molasses or dark honey
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp. carnations
1 tsp ginger
1 tsp soda
500 ml flour

Beat sugar and butter until foamy. Add syrup (molasses, honey) and egg, whisking constantly. Add dry ingredients mixed together and stir. Divide the dough into 2 parts and roll them into long sausages with a diameter of about 4 cm on a table generously dusted with flour. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for about half an hour. Remove the dough from the refrigerator, let it warm up and roll it out to a thickness of 2-3mm. Cut out cookies with molds and bake at 175C for 8-10 minutes.

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Interesting recipe from Natapit

Gingerbread house with oatmeal

1000 g oat flakes Quaker/qvick cooking/
2 tsp baking powder
1 tbsp lemon or orange zest/dry/
500 g water
250 g brown sugar
125 g melted butter

Place all ingredients in a mixer bowl and knead the dough.
put in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
Roll out thinly on baking paper and cut out parts of the house according to the template.
Bake on baking paper in a preheated oven at 160" for 30 minutes.
glaze:
Beat 550 g of powdered sugar with 3 whites / medium-sized eggs / Decorate the house with this glaze.

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Look what a wonderful house they have turned out to be! Wiki - vi_delight last year. :))
http://vi-delight.livejournal.com/6075.html

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We also watch the video. And there are also many links to interesting videos on this topic. :)

Pussy making a gingerbread house. Look how hard she tries - her pink tongue hangs out from her zeal. And the apron she’s wearing is so neat, Christmas red.

The girl caught the gingerbread men playing poker in the gingerbread house! But the girl, judging by the expression on her cute little face, is a bit of a rogue herself!

A very dark gingerbread house. And the branches hanging over it are an ominous purple color. And the gingerbread is probably not tasty.

And next to this gingerbread house there are little cupcakes like mushrooms. And also covered with sweet multi-colored glaze. And the candy path.

And in this gingerbread house live either Teletubbies or Pikachu. Or maybe both together. In any case, they are the ones sitting in the clearing.

This is how to build gingerbread houses - on gingerbread clouds! And then no children are afraid of the treat. And the ice cream trees won't melt at the same time.

Probably the most natural magical gingerbread house. He squinted from old age and the window fell out. And the witch is also a gingerbread old lady... I even feel a little sorry for her.

Along marshmallow street, past gingerbread houses for marmalade candies. Like an illustration for some new fairy tale about curious children and a whole village of witches.

And this is a penguin gingerbread house. This picture will make a wonderful New Year's card if you make an applique. All the lines are clear, the colors are rich - it will turn out great.

Another picture about curious boys and girls. These ones don’t eat the candy, but carefully look into the windows. Let such children deceive the witch, they are not greedy gluttons!

A small gingerbread house covered with snow. Dwarfs live there and make snowmen. Or rather, one dwarf and her name is Pandora.