We will need these ingredients:
For gingerbread dough:
• 75 g of dark brown sugar
• 125 g butter (softened)
• 1 egg (grind)
• 100 g light syrup or honey
• 375 g flour + for rolling
• 1 hour. L. baking soda
• 1/2 h. L. baking powder
• 1 hour. L. ground cinnamon
• 2 h. L. ground ginger
For decoration:
• colored sugar mastic (or white, tinted food dyes)
• icing sugar for dusting
• white and colored icing liquid (including black)
• sugar spheres,
• colored sugar pills and noodles
Utensil:
• molds for gingerbread men
• 2-3 pan (greased and pave the baking paper)
• Silicone pastry pen with a small flat nozzle
Cooking method:
Preparation ginger test.
1 If the brown sugar gathered in clumps, crumble it (or quickly grind in a coffee grinder). Beat with a mixer, cream butter and sugar. Whisking, add the egg. Laced light syrup or honey. Whisk until smooth.
2 Sift the flour into the mixture, add baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and ginger. Stir until dry ingredients are not unite with butter cream.
3 Hands collect, vymeshivaya, the dough into a ball, to pass on to a lightly floured board and knead a few minutes until a homogeneous dough. Sformuyte it into a ball, wrap with cling film and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
4 Roll out half the dough on a surface sprinkled with flour in a layer thickness of 5 mm (the second half of the dough, leave a film), dusting the rolling pin with flour if the dough starts to stick.
How to cut gingerbread men, bake and decorate them
5 Preheat the oven to 180 «C. With four molds cut from the dough figurines. Gather dough scraps and roll them again with the remaining dough.
6 Put men on baking sheets. Cut roughly the same number of figures of each mold to all happened about 25 pieces. Bake for 10-15 minutes — the cookies will hardish touch. Leave it on the baking sheets for 5 minutes, then gently shift on grill until cool.
7 Circle pencil tins men on a sheet of baking paper. Cut out of her clothes for the manufacture of templates. Roll out the sugar paste on the board and using templates cut outfits.
8 Stick clothes on men, a little below the water soaking clothes or dropping them on the icing. Spoon fill with liquid sugar confectionery glaze pen and draw her facial features and clothing items. Decorate with sugar powder in different shapes and colors.
About the dish:
Approximately 25 pieces:
Preparation time: 20 minutes (plus the time to decorate)
Cooling time: 2-3 hours
Cooking time: 10-15 minutes
The temperature of the oven: 180 ° C
Pretty gingerbread men necessarily bake with the kids to help you dress up this nice little family in colored sugar clothes and decorate their faces broad smiles.
Pretty gingerbread men necessarily bake with the kids to help you dress up this nice little family in colored sugar clothes and decorate their faces broad smiles.
A festive crowd
If you have decided to bake gingerbread men for a family of children’s holiday, the figures literally come to life when you put them, not fold stacked on a platter. Put the figures to set on the edge of a large dining table on the edge of the board. Or press on the ball of sugar mastic on both ends of the segment of plastic straws (or half a toothpick), gently press into the back of the man one of the balls, and the other on a straw or toothpick to press down on the board so that the figure stood. Kittens can be cut from scraps of gingerbread dough, dogs or favorite toys — balls or trains — and decorate them accordingly.
How to save gingerbread
Ginger cookies figure as with decorations or without, can be stored in an airtight container to a week. Decorated products must dry thoroughly to glaze not raspolzlas during storage. Fold pastry into a container, shifting the kitchen towels, to avoid damaging the fragile ornaments.
Hint:
The finished colored sugar paste and icing to decorate you can look at specialty stores or make yourself. If you prefer a brighter, more saturated colors, tinted icing sugar paste and paste-like food dyes, not liquid, since the amount of liquid dye which is required to achieve a deep shade, will significantly change the consistency of putty and glazing, and thus make it more difficult to work with them.
