Let's start making New Year's gingerbread by preparing the necessary ingredients.

1. Mix all dry ingredients. Add cocoa, vanillin and spices to a bowl with flour.

   
   
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   In a 2-2.5 liter saucepan, combine honey, sugar and margarine.

   
   

3. Place the pan in a water bath. Constantly stir the contents of the saucepan, preventing the honey from sticking. Keep in a water bath until the sugar dissolves and the honey melts. Don't forget, honey should not be heated too much!!!

   
   

4. When the contents of the pan become homogeneous, add lemon and orange zest. After this, add baking powder.

   
   

5. Let the contents of the pan cool slightly to 60-50 degrees. Then add the eggs and stir vigorously.

   
   

6. We combine all the ingredients.

   
   
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   Knead the gingerbread dough.

   
   

8. Mix the dough with your hands, but you need to be careful not to overdo it with flour, otherwise the honey will cool and the dough will become elastic. Transfer the dough into a bag and leave in a cool place for 12 hours.

   
   

9. The next day, the gingerbread dough is ready to use. Since there is a lot of dough, you can’t use it all at once. It keeps well in the refrigerator and even freezer for quite a long time.

   
   

10. We tear off a small piece of the dough and roll out a layer no thicker than 1 cm with a rolling pin.

    
    

11. Cut the gingerbread into the desired shape. You can use special gingerbread cutters or a stencil, or you can cut it by hand using a knife.

    
    

12. Place the cut-out gingerbread cookies with the holes required for hanging on the tree onto a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.

    
    

13. Bake in the oven preheated to 180 degrees for 7-10 minutes.

    
    

14. Let the gingerbreads cool completely.

    
    

15. We paint gingerbread cookies with icing.

    
    

16. We try to carefully paint each gingerbread.

    
    

17. Let the icing dry for 1-1.5 hours depending on the quality of the icing.

    
    

18. These are the beautiful and delicious gingerbread decorations we made for the Christmas tree! -)

    
    
    
    

In many countries, gingerbread cookies serve as a treat and decoration for the festive table on New Year and Christmas.

Delicious and beautifully decorated New Year's gingerbread cookies are a traditional souvenir of Catholic Christmas in Europe.

In Russia, honey gingerbreads are very popular and are easy to prepare. Based on their recipe, many other varieties of gingerbread with the most intricate ingredients have been invented.

New Year's gingerbread: the basics

There are only three ingredients in the recipe - flour, honey and eggs. In two different bowls, thoroughly beat honey (400 grams) and whites from 8 eggs (chilled). Both products should turn white from beating, after which they are combined and beaten together. Then sift and add flour (400 grams) and mix until smooth. Fill greased molds with the finished dough and bake in the oven until ready. Gingerbread cookies are often coated with sugar or egg white glaze, which is made by beating egg whites and sugar.

Bringing variety

While stirring the dough, add nuts or raisins. You can divide the dough into parts and add different combinations of ingredients to each, such as chocolate chips and nuts, raisins and cinnamon.

Recipe 1. New Year's gingerbread cookies with filling

Ingredients:

oil drain 100 gr;

honey 3 tbsp. l;

water 50 ml;

soda ½ tsp;

flour 0.6 kg;

sugar 0.15 kg;

jam 200 gr.

Preparation:

1. Prepare the dough in a water bath: dissolve honey, butter, water and sugar. Carefully pour the resulting mass into the flour and mix.

2. Leave the resulting dough to rest for half an hour, then roll out.

3. Using a mold or just an inverted glass, cut into circles. Place jam or other filling in the middle of each, cover with a second one on top, and seal the edges together. Pierce a hole in each gingerbread above the filling and place on a baking sheet, lined with paper, and bake until done. Please note that when baking, the gingerbread cookies will greatly increase in size.

Recipe 2. New Year's gingerbread with kefir

By saving the food component, you get a large yield of finished treats.

Ingredients:

0.2 kg sugar;

350 ml kefir (or yogurt);

honey 1 tbsp. l;

vegetable oil 3 tbsp. l;

soda 1 tsp;

flour 0.8 kg.

For the glaze:

sugar 6 tsp

Preparation:

1. Beat 2 yolks and 1 white with honey and sugar. Then pour the resulting mixture into kefir, add oil and beat again. Mix the sifted flour with soda and knead the dough.

2. Roll out the dough, cut into circles with a mold or glass, place on a baking sheet so that they do not touch and bake in the oven at 180 degrees.

3. For the glaze, beat 1 egg white and 6 tsp. sugar until strong foam. When the gingerbread cookies are ready, brush them with glaze and put them back for another 10 minutes.

Recipe 3. New Year's cottage cheese gingerbread

Ingredients:

120 gr. cottage cheese;

butter 70 grams;

80 gr. Sahara;

150 gr. flour;

baking powder for dough;

orange zest.

Preparation:

1. Grind cottage cheese with softened butter, add egg yolk, salt, sugar. Grate the orange zest and add to the mixture. Mixing thoroughly, add flour and baking powder.

2. The dough will turn out soft, you will need to roll it out and cut out gingerbread figures, place it on a baking sheet, line it with baking parchment and bake until a pleasant golden brown color.

3. Decorate the finished cooled gingerbreads with protein glaze (from any recipe).

Recipe 4. Oatmeal New Year's gingerbread cookies

Ingredients:

flour 250 gr;

sugar 200 gr;

oat flakes 250 gr;

oil sl. 50 gr;

soda ½ tsp;

honey, citric acid, salt.

Preparation:

1. Sift the flakes through a sieve, leaving crumbly particles without oat dust.

2. Add flour, eggs, soda, honey, sugar. Stir, add oil, citric acid, nuts and knead the dough.

3. Roll it into a sausage, cut into equal “balls”, form a gingerbread from each and bake in the oven until ready.

Recipe 5. New Year's gingerbread with cherries

Ingredients:

flour 0.3 kg;

butter 80 g;

honey 2 tbsp. l;

sugar 0.3 kg;

soda ½ tsp;

cinnamon 1 tsp;

cocoa 2 tbsp. l;

cherry 15 pcs.

Preparation:

1. Prepare the dough in a water bath. Put butter, 0.1 kg of sugar, egg and honey into a smaller saucepan, mix everything thoroughly.

2. Add soda and cocoa, keep the mixture in a boiling bath for 3 minutes, then remove and add flour and cinnamon. When the dough has cooled, knead it with your hands.

3. After rolling out the dough into a sausage, divide into 15 parts. Shape each gingerbread and place a pitted cherry in the middle. Form balls, place them on a baking sheet with a distance of at least 3-4 cm, since the gingerbread cookies will greatly increase in volume, and bake until ready.

4. Prepare sugar syrup: dilute sugar (0.2 kg) with water and cook for 10 minutes, stirring continuously. Pour syrup over the finished gingerbread cookies and cool.

Recipe 6. New Year's gingerbread cookies

Ingredients:

flour 175 gr;

oil drain 100 gr;

sugar 0.1 kg;

baking powder 1 tsp;

cinnamon, cloves, ginger, cocoa powder ½ tsp each;

For the glaze:

eggs 1 piece;

powdered sugar ½ cup;

Preparation:

1. Sift flour in a heap, add baking powder, cocoa and ground seasonings. Grind this dry mixture with a fork with softened butter, the result should be flour lumps.

2. Mix them with egg and sugar, knead into a stiff dough. Roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film or a bag and leave it in the refrigerator for two hours.

3. Roll out the dough and cut using cutout molds or paper stencils. Sprinkle a baking sheet with flour, arrange the gingerbread cookies, coat the top with egg yolk and bake until done.

4. After baking, cool the gingerbread cookies, then start painting with white glaze. Prepare it as follows: beat the chilled egg whites until stiff, then pour in the powdered sugar in a stream. Add the juice of 1/2 lemon and beat again until smooth. You can add color to the icing using food coloring.

Recipe 7. New Year's gingerbread with dates

Ingredients:

soft dates 150 - 200 g;

cottage cheese 150 - 200 gr;

oatmeal 2 tbsp. l;

semolina 2 tbsp;

ginger (root) 2-3 cm;

powdered sugar.

Preparation:

1. Soften the dates with a fork, after removing the seeds. Grate half an apple on a coarse grater, a piece of ginger on a fine grater.

2. Mix dates, apple, semolina, ginger, cottage cheese and oatmeal. If the dough is too liquid, add more cereal. If it is thick, then add grated apple.

3. Form small gingerbread cookies from the dough, place them on a baking sheet, line them with parchment and bake. Sprinkle the finished gingerbread cookies with powdered sugar.

Recipe 8. Polish New Year's gingerbread

Ingredients:

½ kg honey;

½ kg flour;

200 grams of margarine;

0.1 kg sugar;

spices and additives (cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, coriander, candied fruits, walnuts);

2 tsp soda, jam.

Cooking method:

1. Place honey and sugar in a saucepan, melt over low heat until caramel-colored. Boil water in a kettle at the same time.

2. When honey and sugar are completely mixed, add 1 cup of boiling water. It is important to be careful not to get scalded by the hot foam that forms at this moment. When the foam settles, you need to add margarine and spices and stir with a spoon until completely dissolved. Leave the mixture to cool aside.

3. Peel and chop the nuts. Separate the yolks from the whites and beat the whites with a mixer. As soon as the mixture has cooled, add the yolks into it and mix again, then add flour, spices and soda (no need to extinguish). Mix again and add the whites, stirring gently with a spoon.

4. Pour the dough into two rectangular molds halfway, after greasing them with margarine. Place in the oven for 50 minutes. Check readiness with a match or toothpick.

5. Remove both halves of the gingerbread from the mold, cover with a towel and cool. Then blind them, stacking one on top of the other, having previously coated them with jam. Wrap in foil or oiled paper and let sit for at least 10 hours, preferably a day. The finished gingerbread can be coated with chocolate glaze.

6. Preparation of chocolate glaze: 200 grams of chocolate, 25 grams of butter, 90 ml of cream, 40 grams of honey. Chop the chocolate and melt in a saucepan. Add cream, butter and honey to it and stir until smooth. Cover the gingerbread with the finished glaze and put it in the refrigerator to harden.

New Year's gingerbread: gingerbread secrets and gingerbread tips

There are different ways to make gingerbread cookies soft. The first method: do not add all the flour according to the recipe at once, but do it gradually, making sure that the dough is elastic. The second way: instead of sugar, use honey, partially or completely. The third way: make choux pastry, that is, brew flour with hot sugar syrup. When rolling the dough into a layer, make sure that it does not turn out too thin.

Before preparing gingerbread cookies with oatmeal, sift the oatmeal through a sieve, separating the particles from the flour suspension.

If the honey has thickened and is difficult to stir, you can heat it in a water bath. Warm honey dissolves other ingredients in the recipe better.

Small and thin gingerbreads are usually baked for 10-15 minutes at 200-220 degrees, thicker ones made from stiff dough are baked for 20-30 minutes at 180-220 degrees.

The details of gingerbread houses can be glued together with thick sugar icing, which is usually prepared for painting, or with melted caramel. Lubricate the places where the parts are attached, temporarily fix them with toothpicks and allow to dry, after which the toothpicks are removed.

If the gingerbread cookies are not covered with glaze or chocolate, then when ready, they can be greased with a mixture of yolk and white, then the gingerbread cookies will turn out with a shiny, ruddy surface.

During the process of preparing the glaze, the whites will whip more easily if they are pre-cooled. If the eggs are stale, you can add salt to the whites while beating using the tip of a knife.

To knead the dough, it is better to use water chilled in the refrigerator.

If the recipe calls for raisins to be added to baked goods, then they need to be prepared: thoroughly rinsed from grease and soaked for 10 minutes in boiled water. If you put dry raisins in the dough, they will take moisture from the dough. If the raisins are too wet and swollen, they will give off excess moisture and disrupt the consistency of the dough.

For baking, prepare walnuts as follows: peel off excess scales with your hands and break them into approximately equal parts. Then spread on a baking sheet without oil in one layer and heat in the oven for 5 minutes. Such nuts will have a richer taste than raw ones, and will better transfer their aroma to baked goods.

You can divide an egg into white and yolk like this: pierce the egg on opposite sides with a thick needle. The yolk will remain inside the shell when the white leaks out through the puncture.

If the dough is not very stiff, it will stick to your hands and rolling pin when rolling. In this case, you can roll out the dough with an ordinary bottle, which must first be filled with cold water. In this case, the dough will not stick to it.

When baking gingerbread cookies, do not open the oven for the first 15 minutes so as not to reduce the splendor of the products.

If the gingerbread cookies are slightly burnt, you can resort to this trick: let them cool, then remove the burnt layer with the smallest side of a grater and sprinkle with powder or paint over with glaze.

Glazed gingerbreads retain their freshness longer and are stored better.

If during the baking process some part of the gingerbread begins to burn, it is better to cover them with oiled paper.

If the gingerbreads are too hard, you can soften them as follows: place the gingerbreads along with the chopped apple in a clay dish, cover with a lid and leave for one night. Then transfer to a tightly closed container.

As soon as I think about the New Year, I immediately hear music from the ballet “The Nutcracker” and the magical dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. And with them come the aromas of pine and spices, the taste of New Year's gingerbread on the tongue, so fragrant and elegant! What are you doing in December? And I go to visit and give gingerbread cookies to everyone! New Year's and merry, I bake them myself and then decorate them! No, there is no New Year without a treat! And if so, today we will bake Gingerbread Gifts. Do you want to decorate the Christmas tree with them, or give them to your friends?

So, we don't need anything special. Everything is very simple: flour, honey, sugar, butter, spices, eggs.

First, let's prepare the spices.

Grind the spices in a coffee grinder.

Be sure to sift to remove large particles.

Grind the sugar in a coffee grinder, at the same time it will be saturated with the aromas of spices. You can immediately use powdered sugar.

Sift flour with powdered sugar.

Melt honey with butter in the microwave.

Break the eggs into a bowl, add salt and spices, mix.

Add honey and butter and gradually add flour. Knead soft dough.

Roll out the dough and cut out gingerbread cookies with cookie cutters. Bake at 190 degrees until browned. Gingerbread cookies bake quickly! 7-10 minutes. I don’t grease the sheet with anything, I sprinkle it with flour.

Remove the finished gingerbreads from the sheet after cooling.

While the gingerbread cookies are cooling, I will prepare the icing for decoration. I don't use any frosting mixer! I mash everything with a fork. For the glaze you will need the white of one egg, powdered sugar, a few drops of lemon juice and coloring.

The glaze should have a paintable consistency, not runny, but not runny either. Divide the glaze into 2 parts. Leave 13 white for painting. Paint the rest in the colors you want for decoration.

Using a pastry envelope, trace the outline of each gingerbread.

I paint some of the glaze green to decorate Christmas trees.

I fill the outline with green icing.

And I decorate, for example, like this!

And if you try a little more, you can do it!

Or something like that.

How delicious!

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 with photos is that it is quick (if you skip the hour-long resting of the dough in the refrigerator).

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 of the fairy-tale theme, the following recipe for New Year's gingerbread cookies will be very relevant. Remember the 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, the best option is brown molasses soft sugar; it gives the 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 give each detail a contour, draw tiles on the roofing parts, 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 the 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 starts to burn, pour the 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 molds, 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 snowflake, so the baking coating 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 a fabulous decoration for the holiday with your own hands. It can also become an original gift for family and friends.

I have been baking different cookies for many years and am not afraid to experiment. This year for New Year's I decided to bake. As a result, I baked two gingerbread houses, as well as New Year’s gingerbreads made from honey and goat dough without eggs.

I especially liked making the windows for the houses. And as an experiment, I also baked gingerbread cookies with candy cane windows. Everything turned out to be not so difficult. The process, of course, is extended over time, but this is a great opportunity to spend the evening with the children. My son really enjoyed decorating homemade gingerbread cookies with icing! I also punched holes in them so they could be hung on the tree!

Compound:

Dough:

• 150 g premium or 1st grade wheat flour
• 150 g rye flour
• 100 g honey
• 100 g sugar
• 100 g butter
• 0.5 tsp. soda
• 50 ml milk
• spices:
  0.5 tsp. ground cinnamon
  0.5 tsp. dry ground ginger
  1/4 tsp. ground cloves
  1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
  1/4 tsp. ground cardamom

Glaze for painting:

• 200 g powdered sugar
• 50 g milk powder
• 10 g cornstarch
• 30-40 ml milk

For the candy windows:

• 200 g multi-colored candies

How to make New Year's gingerbread cookies:

1. Let's start kneading the dough. You need to prepare the “dry” mixture in advance - combine flour, spices and soda.

   

   Dry mix

2. Bring the butter, honey and sugar to a boil over low heat, stirring all the time (until the sugar dissolves).

   

   

   Liquid mixture

3. Pour the hot mixture into the flour and add milk. Mix everything thoroughly.

   

   Kneading the gingerbread dough

4. The dough will be runny, but you should not add flour. Place the dough in a bag and leave it in the refrigerator overnight. During this time, the dough will rest and will be as needed.

   

   Leave in the refrigerator overnight

   

   Dough in the crack

5. The next day we take out the dough in advance. As soon as it becomes soft, we begin to roll it out. The dough is a little sticky, so we will roll it out directly on baking paper and through a bag. This will make it much easier to do. Roll out to a thickness of 5-8 mm. It will rise slightly during baking. If you want thick New Year's gingerbread cookies, then roll them out thicker.

   

   

   Roll out

6. Let's prepare candy for the windows. Lollipops need to be crushed in a blender or coffee grinder. I took candies of different colors.

   

   Grinding candies

7. I drew and cut out New Year's templates from cardboard in advance. Using the templates, we use a knife to cut out the silhouettes of gingerbread cookies on the rolled out dough, and also cut out the windows inside each one and remove the excess dough. Pour crushed candy canes (heaped) inside the window. You need to try to pour it in carefully, otherwise the caramel during baking will spoil the appearance of the finished baked goods.

   

   

8. We bake our preparations in an oven preheated to 180-200 degrees for about 8 minutes. The main thing is not to overexpose it, because... Honey dough can burn quickly. After baking, the gingerbread cookies should be placed on a flat surface and allowed to cool.

   

   Baking in the oven

   Glazing and painting of New Year's gingerbread cookies

9. While the New Year's gingerbread cookies are cooling, prepare the glaze. To do this, you need to sift and mix powdered sugar, starch and milk powder. And slowly add milk, stirring the mixture thoroughly. At first it will seem that you need more milk, but you shouldn’t rush. Just mix well. You may even need less than 30 ml. If we pour too much milk, the glaze will be too liquid and the fine painting will not work. Also, in order to make the painting more subtle, we sifted all the ingredients. If your glaze turns out to be runny, just add the required amount of milk powder.

   

   

   Preparing the glaze

10. Now comes the fun part! We turn on our imagination, and also call our children and friends for help! Let's start decorating New Year's gingerbread cookies at home! You can take a special pastry bag or make a bag out of baking paper. My favorite thing to do was paint using a bag with a corner cut off. I took a pink Ikea bag, it is ideal in thickness and does not tear, and the zip fastener does not allow the icing to “escape” from the bag. I also don’t recommend putting a lot of icing in the bag; 1-2 tablespoons will be enough. And cover the remaining glaze tightly with cling film - otherwise a crust will form on top and complicate the painting process.

I wish you beautiful and delicious painted gingerbread cookies!