Gingerbread house - a fabulous sweetness for children and adults during the New Year. Make it quite realistically from simple products. Secrets of cooking and the "structure" of the house are listed in this article.
Contents
- Gingerbread house: types, ideas, photos
- Gingerbread for the house: recipe
- Gingerbread house: a pattern for baking
- How to buy a bakery for baking a cake on AliExpress?
- How to bake a New Year gingerbread house at home in a step-by-step manner?
- Glaze for the gingerbread house: recipe
- Gingerbread house decoration for the New Year
- Video: Gingerbread house
Gingerbread house: types, ideas, photos
Gingerbread house is sweet pastry from the gingerbread dough in the form of a house or hut. The product has gained its popularity with a gingerbread man, starting from the 16th century in England under Queen Elizabeth the First.
As a rule, gingerbread house consists of several biscuits : four rectangles for the walls and four figures for the roof. Modern masters learned to make from these houses
these works of culinary art with numerous windows, doors that can even open.Crusts before baking are required are greased with a raw egg for glossy gloss. "Build" a house is possible only when each biscuit is cooled and slightly hardens. Each detail is not glued together. This is done with the help of toothpicks or skewers.
IMPORTANT: To make the joints of gingerbreads beautiful and tidy, they are accepted to decorate with sweet glaze from powdered sugar or chocolate , powder and candy. There is a gingerbread house should be very carefully, so as not to accidentally run into the sharp end of the toothpick.
Than it is possible to decorate a cake house:
- Gingerbread men
- Figures of animals: cookies or gingerbread( deer, bears, penguins and so on).
- Flower, asterisks, hearts
- Beautiful and detailed painting from cream and glaze of different colors.
INTERESTING: There are a lot of such confectionery items. Some masters try to move away from the classic gingerbread house pattern and bake a house-copy of the famous architectural building.
The most beautiful gingerbread houses:
Gingerbread dough forhouse: recipe
Each owner can make a gingerbread house .For the test, will require a simple set of ingredients, which is easy to find in any grocery store. The gingerbread cookies in the oven are baked for about 25 minutes , and the temperature should be at least and not more than 180 degrees.
You will need to have:
- Flour - 1,5 kg( sifted wheat flour, premium grade).
- Sugar - 0,5 kg( the sweetness of gingerbread can be adjusted independently, so add more or less sugar).
- Butter cream - 150 g( not lower than 73% of fat content)
- Water - 1 cup( boiling water)
- Honey - 0,5 kg( you can also independently adjust the amount of honey, depending on preference and sweetness).
- Cinnamon - 2 tsp.(the spice is very fragrant and sometimes a large amount of it will give the baking a "sharp" taste, so you can add cinnamon in a smaller amount).
- Egg - 3 pieces( homemade eggs have a more pleasant, rich taste).
- Baking Opener - 2 sachets
Preparation:
- Honey should be poured over with boiling water and mix thoroughly, leaving it to cool.
- Flour is sieved together with a baking powder and cinnamon ( optionally baking powder can be replaced with soda).
- The egg mixture is added to the honey mixture: the protein is beaten separately to the state of stable foam and the yolks are blended on the .
- Honey and eggs are mixed with a mild or melted in microwave oil. Added sugar.
- To the mass of gradually add flour , the dough is gradually kneaded.
- The finished dough should be wrapped in film parts and send to the refrigerator "rest" for two hours.
- After this the dough is rolled out 0.5 cm thick and the necessary figures are cut out of it.
- The figures are laid out on parchment paper, baked in the oven.
- Cooled gingerbreads are fastened and decorated with glaze, sweets, sweets.
Gingerbread house: pattern for baking
To gingerbread house turned beautiful, smooth and neat , you should use special patterns and molds. If you have the opportunity, buy silicone, plastic or metal figurines , if not - make a paper or cardboard pattern.
How to buy a baking house for Aliexpress?
Aliexpress - a huge trading resource, offering its customers a lot of interesting and useful products. Here you can find even forms for baking a gingerbread house made from various materials.
To make your first purchase, you just need to go to the site and make a simple registration. Simple personal data such as name, delivery address and contacts is all that the registration form requires.
IMPORTANT: Website navigation is easy to use: everywhere there are drop-down menu lists, filter galleries and tips. Learn more about the work of Aliexpress will help the Russian-language video instruction.
On the left side of the screen is the menu. You can find the necessary goods in the "For Home and Garden" folder of , where you need to find and select "Baking molds" .Another simple and quick way to find the necessary one is to use search string , where it is possible to write "form for a gingerbread house".
How to bake a New Year gingerbread house at home in a step-by-step manner?
Rules for baking a gingerbread house at home:
- To mix dough, use only the highest grade flour and sift it. This will help the test to be airy and easy to climb.
- You can add any aromatic spices to the gingerbread dough: nutmeg, cinnamon, ground ginger or fresh ginger juice, lemon or orange peel, cognac, mint essence, honey and others.
- Before the cut out dough pieces are sent to the oven, they must be lubricated with a thin layer of beaten egg. This is done in order for the carrot to have a hard and glossy surface.
- Build a house is necessary only from the cooled gingerbread. Warm gingerbreads are brittle enough.
- To decorate the house follows a hot glaze until it hardens.
Ready gingerbread house can be safely stored intact for two weeks. After that, it should be eaten so that the product does not deteriorate.
How to make a gingerbread house step by step:
Glaze for gingerbread house: recipe
White sugar glaze for gingerbread house decoration:
- In a casserole, pour a tablespoon of water into a canteen and squeeze out half a lemon juice.
- The dishes are put on the fire and brought to a boil.
- In the liquid, sugar powder is gradually added in small portions.
- In total you should pour exactly 100 grams of powder.
- All the time of brewing the glaze it should be thoroughly mixed with a whisk or a spoon.
- Allow the glaze to cool slightly, but not much. Cold glaze hardens quickly. Apply a warm glaze over the house through a polyethylene culinary pouch or syringe. Add color sugar glaze will help food coloring.
Chocolate glaze for gingerbread house decoration:
- In a sauté pan or special scoop, melt one black chocolate( 100 grams).
- In hot chocolate, send half a pack of butter( 100 grams).
- When the oil is melted, continue to interfere with the mass, add sugar powder. Pour into the chocolate you should exactly 100 grams of powder.
- Ready glaze a little cool and apply warm on the house with a culinary polyethylene bag or syringe.
Gingerbread house decoration for the New Year
Gingerbread house decoration ideas for the New Year: