Gingerbread house Nothing that creates a festive mood as cooking New Year gingerbread. This process can become even more interesting than the very celebration of the New Year. Try to attach to the process of creating a culinary masterpiece of children, girlfriends, family or friends. Joint creativity has a pleasant relationship and gives unforgettable emotions of joy and children's delight. Do not be scared by the amount of ingredients needed and the time of preparation. Ingredients are repeated, in addition, this amount of test is enough for 2 houses, but since the first time some part of the house can burn or break, it is better to use just such a quantity. As for time - it can be reduced the day before by making dough, mastic and cardboard molds. In addition, everything is much easier than it seems. Try and see for yourself, it's worth it! For the preparation of a gingerbread house, it is advisable to stock up on forms or make them yourself. To do this, it is necessary to cut out from the cardboard various figures: deer, Christmas tree, snowmen, little men and, of course, details for the house. My house was like this: 2 side windows long with windows - 19x8 cm. 2 side panels short with a triangle under the roof - 13 (length) x8 (average height). See 2 rectangular roofs - 19x11 cm. And stand for a house - 22x13 cm. in culinary and architectural creativity!
Ingredients:- Marshmallow 100 g
- Sugar powder 150 g
- Corn starch 150 g
- Butter 10 g
- Chocolate black 100 g
- Cream of 10 ml
- Wheat flour 5 tbsp.
- Soda 1 tsp.
- Carnation powder 2 tsp.
- Ginger dry 4 tsp.
- Cinnamon ground 2 tbsp. l.
- Butter 250 g
- Sugar 300 g
- Milk 50 ml
- Honey 80g
- Sugar 50g
- Water 20 ml
- Citric acid 3 g
- Lemon juice 14 ml
- Milk powder 50 g
- Sugar powder 150 g
- Kefir 40 ml
- Corn starch 16 g
- Marshmallow 100 g
- Corn starch 150 g
- Butter 10 g
- Cream of 10 ml
- Sugar powder 150 g
- Step 1 To make a gingerbread house, you need wheat flour, butter, soda, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, sugar, milk, honey, water and citric acid (for caramel), white and chocolate mastic.
- Step 2 Sift in a bowl of flour, soda and ground spices. Mix everything thoroughly.
- Step 3 In a saucepan over medium heat, melt the butter, add sugar, milk and cook over low heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves. Remove the pan from the heat and allow to cool for 15 minutes. Add the honey and mix.
- Step 4 Add this mixture to the bowl with flour and knead the dough with a spoon.
- Step 5 Then cover the dough with a canvas and put in the refrigerator for 2 hours or overnight.
- Step 6 Take the dough out of the refrigerator and transfer to the table a pre-sifted flour sifted through a sieve.
- Step 7 Roll out the dough about 0.5 cm thick. Now we need the previously cut out of the cardboard part of the house and the scenery (see description for the recipe). Place the cardboard molds on the dough and cut it out carefully with a knife.
- Step 8 The main thing is to show imagination. The house can be any, and the windows are not necessarily round.
- Step 9 Cover the baking tray with parchment paper and bake in the oven at 180-200 ° C until golden brown for 5-10 minutes.
- Step 10 Then bake the stand under the house, rolling out the oval about 22x13 cm.
- Step 11 The details of the house and the decoration must be cooled. In the meantime, you can make caramel for gluing together.
- Step 12 Pour sugar, water and citric acid into the saucepan, mix, bring to medium boil over medium heat, cover and boil for 5 minutes.
- Step 13 Then stirring occasionally on medium heat until golden brown. You can check the readiness by taking a sample on a spoon and lowering it into cold water, if in a few seconds a hard transparent caramel is formed, the syrup is ready. It will take 7-15 minutes. Then cover and proceed to gluing the house.
- Step 14 Gluing should be done carefully, because it's easy to burn yourself with hot caramel. You should start with the side parts, and then glue the roof. To ensure that the caramel does not freeze in a saucepan, it should be covered with a lid.
- Step 15 The option with the cracks windows I liked more.
- Step 16 While caramel is frozen, you can prepare an aysing to decorate the scenery. This will require kefir, corn starch, powdered sugar, milk powder, lemon juice.
- Step 17 Mix in the bowl to mix all the ingredients, and then mix the whole mass well with a mixer for 3-5 minutes. The glaze is ready.
- Step 18 Aising put in a confectioner's bag or an ordinary package with a cut-off corner and paint the gingerbread to your taste. Allow to dry for 2 hours.
- Step 19 Now you can start decorating the house. To do this, you can use aysing or mastic white and chocolate.
- Step 20 On parchment paper roll out thinly the mastic and cut the rectangles with a knife. It will be a roof tile.
- Step 21 Next, use a toothpick to give the chocolate bars a tile or wood texture.
- Step 22 Now add the tile to the roof pressing down the top. You can also attach the door with a thread.
- Step 23 So continue until the whole roof is covered.
- Step 24 Then proceed to decorating out the white mastic. Roll out the mastic finely and make strips with a wavy knife.
- Step 25 If there is a plunger for the mastic to make decorative elements, for example, snowflakes.
- Step 26 Then decorate the house with white mastic. Emphasize the windows and hide the places of the carrot and carrot mix. You can fasten using aysing or condensed milk.
- Step 27 Spread gingerbread and shake with powdered sugar simulating snow. The gingerbread house is ready.