Gingerbread cookies: recipe with photo

None of the winter New Year holidays can do without this dessert. Such a dish will decorate your festive table. The dessert is original, colorful and has an unforgettable taste. Read about the options for gingerbread recipes with photos later in the article.

Traditional way of cooking

The classic dessert option involves the presence of honey and spices. The cooking process and photos of gingerbread cookies are presented in this article. To diversify the dish, use not only ground ginger as seasonings, but also cloves, cardamom, anise.

For a classic recipe, you will need the following products:

• egg;
• a bag of vanilla sugar;
• 200 g of liquid honey;
• 0.6 tsp friable cinnamon;
• one small spoon of grated ginger;
• 100 g of sugar;
• 10 g of baking powder;
• 130 g butter;
• half a small spoonful of nutmeg;
• 500 grams of wheat flour;
• a large spoon of cocoa.

Cooking process:

1. In a small bowl, heat honey, sugar, seasonings, vanillin, baking powder and cocoa.
2. When the honey mass acquires a light shade and becomes creamy, you need to remove the dishes from the fire.
3. Place the resulting mass in another container, add soft oil. Mix.
4. Beat the egg. Stir and add flour.
5. Form a ball of dough, wrap in polyethylene and place in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
6. Roll the ball to a thickness of 4-6 mm. Use molds.
7. Bake dessert in the oven when heated 170 degrees for 7-11 minutes.

After the product has completely cooled, apply gingerbread.

Gingerbread icing

Glaze for homemade gingerbread cookies can be of different colors. To do this, during the cooking process, it is necessary to add food coloring. You can decorate a dessert not only with glaze, but with powdered sugar or confectionery powder.

To prepare a classic glaze you will need:

• 230-260 g of powdered sugar;
• food coloring;
• a small spoonful of lemon juice;
• protein from the egg.

Recipe:

1. Gently beat the protein until fluffy bubbles form. It is not recommended to whip the proteins for a long time, as the glaze may turn out to be too fragile and loose.
2. Sift the powder through a sieve and pour it into a bowl of protein.
3. The glaze should be a dense consistency, but not too thick.
4. Divide the resulting mixture into small equal parts, in each of which add a drop of lemon and dye.
5. Sprinkle a little powder in the part where you didn’t add dye to make it thicker.
6. Transfer the mass to pastry bags.

Drawing depends on your imagination, do not be afraid to experiment.

Icing

To make it convenient for you to use a pastry bag, it should be properly held. To do this, place the bag in your hand, pinch its beginning with your thumb. Hold the bag with your other fingers.

At the beginning of the work, put the contours of the desired pattern on the gingerbread cookies. The icing should dry for 33 minutes.

After that, you can continue to decorate the dessert. If you use several colors, the glaze should dry before each new application.

When you decorate all the gingerbread cookies, leave them for three hours.

After three hours, draw small fragments; an ordinary toothpick is perfect for this.

Full hardening of the glaze occurs in a day. Gingerbread cookies are recommended to be stored in an iron container or a tight bag.

Gingerbread Cookies with Sour Cream

There are no eggs in this cooking option, so it is suitable for vegetarians or people with allergies. You can replace sour cream with fermented baked milk.

Ingredients for making gingerbread at home:

• ginger;
• half a package of butter;
• cinnamon;
• 500 grams of sifted wheat flour;
• cloves;
• 3/4 cup high-fat sour cream;
• honey;
• soda;
• salt.

Stages of cooking:

1. Heat honey and seasonings in a small bowl. After the formation of foam, remove the container from the stove.
2. In another bowl, combine sugar, sour cream, soft butter and cooled honey. Pour soda, salt, flour.
3. Form a tight dough, place it in the refrigerator for 11-12 hours.
4. Roll out the dough, cut out with the help of molds figures.
5. Bake cookies in the oven for 11-14 minutes.

Serve the dessert cooled.

Lenten Recipe

Gingerbread recipe without the use of eggs and dairy products is suitable for fasting people. Gingerbread cookies are no less tasty than in the classic version of the dessert.

Products:

• half a glass of sugar;
• soda;
• half a glass of honey;
• ginger;
• a couple of tablespoons of oil;
• three glasses of flour.

Stages of preparation:

1. In a bowl, heat the sugar until black. Put aside for a few minutes.
2. Add half a glass of boiled water to sugar. Stir the mass in a circular motion.
3. Add the ginger. Heat the mixture without stopping stirring.
4. Pour honey and vegetable oil, pour soda. Remove dishes from the heat.
5. Pour the sifted flour carefully and knead the elastic dough. Cut the desired form of gingerbread from the dough.
6. Put baking on a baking sheet.
7. Oven at 170 degrees for 6-8 minutes. If you cook the gingerbread for longer than 8 minutes, then they will become stale and dry.
8. To prepare the glaze, you need to combine water, sugar, lemon juice. Heat the resulting mixture over low heat to a syrupy consistency.
9. Pour the cooled pastries with icing.

The dessert is ready. Instead of icing, use icing sugar or leave the gingerbread cookies in their original form.

Rice Flour Recipe

Rice flour has a rich vitamin composition, baking with its use is crispy and airy. It is gluten-free and suitable for people on a gluten-free diet.

Necessary components:

• rice flour;
• 1/4 cup powdered sugar;
• half a small spoon of baking powder;
• two small spoons of ginger;
• egg;
• a handful of hazelnuts.

Gingerbread recipe at home:

1. Peel and chop nuts.
2. Beat an egg with powder in a bowl. Place grated ginger, nuts, powder and flour. Thoroughly stir the resulting mass.
3. Knead the dough.
4. Sprinkle the powder over the kitchen board. Place the dough on it.
5. You can form circles, or you can use special molds.
6. Preheat the oven to 170 degrees.
7. Put dessert there, bake for 9-10 minutes.

Cooled pastries can be decorated with icing or served in their original form. Almonds, cashews or walnuts can also be used instead of hazelnuts. Prunes, dried apricots or candied fruits will perfectly complement the dessert.

Gingerbread cookies with lemon

In this recipe you can use not only the zest of lemon, but also the zest of other citrus fruits. With this combination, the dessert will find a fresh, tropical and unusual taste.

Components:

• 100 g sifted flour;
• two boiled yolks;
• 33 grams of powdered sugar;
• a small spoon of lemon zest;
• 40 g butter;
• a small spoon of grated ginger.

The recipe for gingerbread with lemon:

1. Grate citrus zest.
2. Boil the eggs, after cooling, get the yolk and combine it with icing sugar.
3. Place butter, flour, ginger and zest. Make a big dense ball out of dough. Place the dough in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
4. Roll out the dough, give the desired shape to the liver and put on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper.
5. Bake dessert at 170 degrees 11 minutes.

The cookie is ready.

Prune recipe

In this version of the dish, prunes and turmeric are used as components. Baking with these ingredients resembles oriental sweets, which have a bright and original taste.

Required Products:

• egg of category C0;
• half a small spoon of turmeric;
• half a glass of prunes;
• 150 g butter;
• 200 grams of brown sugar;
• some vanillin;
• 300 g sifted wheat flour.

Gingerbread recipe with prunes:

1. Mix soft butter with egg, add sugar, ground ginger and turmeric. Mix well.
2. Wash dried fruit, cut into small pieces. Put in egg mass. To interfere.
3. Add sifted flour.
4. Knead the elastic dough, wrap in polyethylene and put in the refrigerator for 35 minutes.
5. The mass is divided into eight shares, each of which is rolled into a thin circle.
6. Bake in the oven for 12-18 minutes while heating 170 degrees.

Sprinkle the cooled cookies with powdered sugar.

Cooking Tips

Instead of ground ginger (to give the dessert a richer and more tart flavor), add slices of ginger in sugar.

To determine the readiness of gingerbread cookies, pay attention to the edges of the baking, they should be crispy and spicy.

Instead of baking powder, you can use 3-4 small spoons of rum, liquor, cognac or other strong alcohol.

The classic glaze recipe can be replaced with a recipe using honey, cranberries, lingonberries, currants and lemon.

The traditional version of the gingerbread dough does not include sugar, baking powder and molasses. As the main components for the test, honey and sour cream are used.