Gingerbread at home

Gingerbread is an excellent sweet treat that both children and adults love. The best time to bake such pastries is for Christmas or New Year's Eve, since gingerbread cookies are easy to decorate and make them elegant and festive. Among 8 simple and delicious recipes for gingerbread at home, step by step with photos, you can choose the recipe that is right for you!

Gingerbread recipe from Andy Chef

Delicious and elegant gingerbread from Andy Chef will definitely not leave you or your guests indifferent. If you carefully follow all the steps of this recipe, you will get a result no worse than that of a famous pastry chef!

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   To make gingerbread at home, first prepare and place on the table all the ingredients needed to prepare the delicacy.
2. 
   Next you need to take hard, cold butter and chop it. It’s most convenient to use a blender - then you’ll get a cold butter paste pretty quickly.
3. 
   Add the sifted flour and cornstarch to the mixer bowl or a convenient bowl to begin making the dough. Add baking powder, butter and eggs there.
4. 
   Add cinnamon and ground ginger immediately at this stage. Be sure to take dry foods. In addition to cinnamon and ginger, it is permissible to add nutmeg, cocoa, and ground cloves to the dough. This will make your gingerbread cookies unique in taste.
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   Lastly, add melted honey and granulated sugar to the dough. You can take any honey, the main thing is that it is natural.
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   Knead the dough very quickly using a mixer, hand or stationary. As a last resort, you can knead the gingerbread dough by hand, but you need to act very quickly.
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   As a result, you should get crumbly, almost dry crumbs, as in the photo.
8. 
   Place the dough on a cutting board and quickly shape it into a sausage.
9. 
   Make small pancakes from the dough, about a centimeter thick. Then wrap the pancakes in film and put them in the refrigerator to cool the dough. This will take you about half an hour or a little more.
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    Place the dough between two sheets of parchment and start rolling out the dough to a height of four millimeters.
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    Using various cutters, cut out the dough for the gingerbread cookies you will bake.
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    Place the parchment with the gingerbread figures on a baking sheet.
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    In an oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake the gingerbread cookies literally until the thinnest part of the dough is browned.

Homemade gingerbread with icing

Beautiful and elegant - these are, of course, gingerbread cookies with glaze. Preparing this sweet delicacy is not so difficult; the main thing is to follow the preparation technology correctly and have some imagination for decorating your products.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Wheat flour – 0.5 kg.
• Honey – 200 gr.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
• Butter – 130 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp.
• Baking powder for dough – 10 g.
• Ground ginger – 1 tsp.
• Ground cinnamon – ½ tsp.
• Nutmeg – 1/3 tsp.

For the glaze:

• Egg white – 1 pc.
• Powdered sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Lemon juice – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Before you start making beautiful and delicious gingerbread, prepare all the ingredients for the gingerbread dough.

2. Also prepare and set aside all the ingredients for the glaze.

3. In a container that can be placed on the stove or in a water bath, combine honey, cocoa powder, granulated sugar and all the spices: cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger and others to your taste. Place the container on the fire and heat slowly until the honey begins to foam.

4. The finished mass should be smooth - as in the photo shown.

5. Pour the hot liquid mixture into a convenient container and immediately add the slightly melted butter there. Mix the base thoroughly and then add the egg and mix everything again. Lastly, add baking powder and flour to the dough, and then knead the dough.

6. When you get a smooth dough that doesn’t stick to your hands, wrap it in film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour.

7.Roll out the chilled dough to a thickness of about four to five millimeters, and then cut various figures from the dough using molds. Place the gingerbread cookies in the oven at 180 degrees for ten to fifteen minutes.

8. Next, prepare the glaze with which you will cover the gingerbread cookies. To do this, combine lightly beaten egg whites and powdered sugar in a mixer bowl, add lemon juice. Gently whisk the mixture to obtain a fairly pliable and moderately runny glaze.

9. Divide the icing into piping bags. If you use dyes, you will need several different containers for different colors. After that, start decorating your gingerbread cookies with various patterns and inscriptions.

10. You can simply serve the finished gingerbread cookies or use them as decorations for a Christmas tree, a cake, or wrap them as a gift.

Bon appetit!

Classic New Year's gingerbread recipe

One way or another, all gingerbread are very similar to each other. But, at the same time, they can all have a completely different aroma. Some gingerbreads are richer, some are lighter. New Year's gingerbread cookies should be very tart and remind you of the approaching holiday with their aroma.

Ingredients:

• Liquid honey – 150 gr.
• Sugar – 100 gr.
• Butter – 100 gr.
• Flour – 370 gr.
• Egg – 4 pcs.
• Ground ginger – 1 tsp.
• Cinnamon – 1 tsp.
• Cocoa – 1 tsp.
• Baking powder – 2 tsp.
• Orange zest – 1 tsp.
• Vanillin - a pinch

Cooking process:

1. First, knead your ingredients into a high-quality dense dough that does not stick to your hands. To do this, combine honey, eggs, granulated sugar and butter in a convenient container, and then add all the dry ingredients - flour sifted with spices.

2.Roll out the dough using a rolling pin to a height of about half a centimeter or a little thinner. For convenience, you can roll out the dough between two sheets of parchment or using cling film.

3. Cut out various figures from the dough using cookie cutters, place the pieces on parchment and move it all onto a baking sheet.

4. Gingerbread must be baked in the oven for literally ten minutes, setting a constant temperature of 180 degrees.

5. You can decorate the finished gingerbread cookies with white or colored glaze, and then serve them with tea, coffee, cocoa, or pack them in a gift box.

How to bake delicious honey-ginger gingerbread?

Honey-gingerbread cookies are very fragrant and tender, due to the natural aroma of honey in the product. There is no need to add any additional spices to these gingerbread cookies, as they themselves have a wonderful aroma and taste.

Ingredients:

• Butter – 110 gr.
• Wheat flour 2nd grade – 310 gr.
• Corn starch – 40 gr.
• Chicken egg – 2 pcs.
• Baking powder for dough – 1 tsp.
• Ground ginger – ½ tsp.
• Natural aromatic honey – 100 gr.
• Granulated sugar – 50 gr.
• Powdered sugar – 250 gr.
• Egg white – 1 pc.

Cooking process:

1. First, grind cold butter and combine it with honey, egg and granulated sugar.

2. Add ginger to the base, and then add the wheat flour sifted with baking powder. Quickly knead the gingerbread dough, then wrap it in film and put it in the refrigerator for about one hour.

3. Roll out the chilled dough to a small thickness (4-5 millimeters) and cut out various figures from it using molds.

4.Send the workpiece to bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, and at this time prepare a glaze from protein and powdered sugar.

5. Decorate the finished gingerbread cookies, which have cooled slightly or completely, with various patterns using a pastry bag, or simply cover the products evenly with glaze. You can add food coloring to it to make the products brighter.

6. Serve gingerbread when the icing has cooled completely. This product is perfect as a New Year's tree decoration or a sweet gift.

Diet gingerbread (pp recipe)

Even when on a diet, you often want to indulge in something tasty. Finding recipes for dietary sweets is not so easy, but during the holiday season this question is very relevant. You can easily prepare pp gingerbread cookies right in your kitchen and enjoy them with tea or coffee even in the evening without any remorse.

Ingredients:

• Almond flour - 100 gr.
• Ground oat flakes - 80 gr.
• Ripe banana – ½ banana
• Natural honey - 1/2 tsp.
• Stevia (drops) – a couple of drops
• Natural cocoa powder – 10 gr.
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp.
• Peanut butter - 1 tbsp. l.
• Cinnamon - a pinch
• Ginger - a pinch

Glaze (optional)

• Egg white – 1 pc.
• Erythritol

Cooking process:

1. In order to prepare gingerbread dough, you first need to combine all the liquid ingredients and mix them, and then add to them all the dry ingredients that have already been sifted together. Knead the dough directly with your hands, but act quickly.

2. Next, roll out your gingerbread dough to about half a centimeter thick, using a convenient rolling pin and parchment paper.

3.From the dough you can cut out holiday figures or regular circles, squares, triangles, and then transfer the gingerbread dough to parchment paper on a baking sheet and place the products in the oven for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.

4. If you want to decorate the products, then you need to beat the egg white with erythritol and prepare a glaze of moderate consistency. It needs to be applied to already cooled gingerbread cookies so that it sets well.

5. Decorate gingerbread cookies using a pastry bag or toothpicks - for finer shaped patterns. Serve the gingerbreads cooled and store them in a paper bag.

Easy and delicious eggless gingerbread recipe

For one reason or another, many people choose to bake without eggs. On this occasion, we would like to invite you to pay attention to the recipe for gingerbread without eggs in the composition. Gingerbread cookies are really very tasty and the absence of eggs in the dough does not make them any worse.

Ingredients:

• Butter – 60 gr.
• Sugar –0.5 tbsp.
• Whole grain flour – 2 tbsp.
• Honey – 2-3 tbsp.
• Soda – 1 tsp.
• Ginger –2 tsp. (fresh, grated)
• Nutmeg – a pinch
• Ground cardamom – 2 pinch

Cooking process:

1. To make eggless gingerbread, prepare all the ingredients you need and place them in your sight.

2. Grate the lemon zest and fresh peeled ginger on a fine grater and place in a bowl. Add the melted butter there.

3. Pour the spices and granulated sugar into the bowl with the ingredients and mix everything together. Place the bowl with the ingredients over very low heat and heat until all the ingredients are combined.

4.As a result, you should get a more or less homogeneous mixture, quite liquid in consistency. Remove it from the heat and continue preparing the dough.

5. Start gradually pouring flour into the dough, stirring it and forming a good dough for gingerbread cookies.

6. Cool the finished dough and roll it out into sheets of moderate thickness, from which cut out various figures using cookie cutters. Place the figures on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and place the products in the oven for about ten minutes at 180 degrees.

7. When the gingerbread cookies have cooled, you can decorate them with various patterns using icing or simply cover them with a layer of white or colored icing. Serve the gingerbreads fresh and store them in paper containers to prevent the gingerbread from drying out.

Step-by-step recipe for making gingerbread custard

Few people like to tinker with shortcrust pastry, since its proper preparation requires speed and accuracy. In addition, until the shortbread dough products are in the oven, it is difficult to guess whether the dough is made correctly and whether the gingerbread cookies will “float” on the baking sheet. Choux pastry in this regard is much simpler and more stable.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 0.5 kg.
• Honey – 200 gr.
• Chicken egg – 1 pc.
• Granulated sugar – 100 gr.
• Butter – 130 gr.
• Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp.
• Baking powder for dough – 10 g.
• Ground ginger – 1 tsp.
• Ground cinnamon – ½ tsp.
• Nutmeg – 1/3 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Pour the spices, cocoa powder and granulated sugar into the bowl with the ingredients and stir everything together. Add honey, butter and place the bowl with the ingredients in a water bath or on the fire and heat all the ingredients until foam rises.

2.Add chicken eggs into the slightly cooled mixture and knead thoroughly, then begin to gradually add flour and baking powder and knead the thick gingerbread dough.

3. Cool the finished dough completely and roll it out into sheets of moderate thickness, placing the dough on baking paper lightly dusted with flour. Cut out various figures from the layers of dough or make ordinary circles. Place the figures on a baking sheet covered with baking paper and place the products in the oven for about ten minutes at 180 degrees.

4. When the gingerbread cookies have cooled, you can decorate them with various glazes - chocolate, protein, colored and immediately decorate them with various sprinkles.

How to make gingerbread with burnt sugar?

Gingerbread made with burnt sugar has a very special taste and aroma. In order to properly prepare such dough, you will have to work a little, but the result will meet your expectations and will allow you to prepare original, delicious gingerbread cookies right in your kitchen.

Ingredients:

• Granulated sugar – 450 gr.
• Wheat flour – 150 gr.
• Rye flour – 150 gr.
• Flour 1 or 2 grades – 0.5 kg.
• Natural honey – 450 ml.
• Butter – 160 gr.
• Chicken egg – 3 pcs.
• Cocoa – 30 gr.
• Water – 1 tbsp.
• Ginger – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. First, boil some water so you have boiling water on hand. And then pour half of the granulated sugar into a thick-bottomed saucepan or saucepan and place the container on low heat so that the sugar melts. It will take about three minutes to get burnt sugar.

2. Very carefully start adding boiling water to the caramel, literally one spoon at a time. Use a long spoon for this and never lean close to the pan.

3.Add the second half of granulated sugar and honey, stir. Once these ingredients have melted, remove the pan from the heat and add the spices and butter to the batter. Sift 150 grams of wheat flour there.

4. Pour soda into the dough, mix and leave the mixture until the dough becomes just warm, not hot. The interaction of hot honey with soda will cause bubbles to appear on the surface of the dough.

5. Beat the eggs separately with a fork, avoiding using a mixer for this purpose. Add the eggs to the dough, and then begin to gradually sift the flour until you get a thick dough that can no longer be stirred with a spoon.

6. Form the dough into balls on a cutting surface, then put them under film in the refrigerator for about half a day. Only after this can you prepare gingerbread cookies from this type of dough.

7. Next, you need to proceed as usual: roll out the dough, cut out the figures and bake them in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. If desired, you can decorate the gingerbread cookies with icing and sprinkles.

Bon appetit and culinary success!