Gingerbread house … This phrase sounds just magical. Imagination draws a fabulous house with gingerbread walls, a candy roof, chocolate paths. And if you try to cook it? Having served a gingerbread house on the New Year or Christmas table, you will delight loved ones and fill the holidays with wonderful impressions!
Pick your recipe
You will need
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- For gingerbread:
- 2 eggs;
- 1 cup of sugar;
- 0.5 packs of margarine;
- 1 teaspoon of soda;
- 3 tablespoons of honey;
- ground ginger
- cinnamon
- clove
- nutmeg
- cardamom;
- flour.
- For syrup;
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- 3 tablespoons of water.
- For protein cream:
- 1 protein;
- 0.5 cups icing sugar.
- To decorate:
- colored sprinkles for confectionery;
- candied fruit;
- chocolate.
Instruction manual
1
Mix 2 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 0.5 packs of margarine, 1 teaspoon of soda, 3 tablespoons of honey in a saucepan.
2
Place the pot on a slow fire. Stirring continuously, heat its contents until smooth. Remove the pan from the heat.
3
Crush cloves and cardamom in a mortar. Add ground ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon. Vary the amount of spices to your liking
4
Pour the spices into the pan with the dough, stir. Add flour and knead not very cool elastic, not sticky dough. Remember that gingerbread dough is not possible to "knead".
5
Put the dough on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. With your hands or a rolling pin, spread it evenly over the entire baking sheet with a layer of the same thickness.
6
Put the dough in the oven, heated to 180 degrees, and bake the gingerbread until cooked.
7
Take a sheet of paper and draw on it the details of the future house and the basis for it.
8
Cut a rectangular base from the gingerbread under the house.
9
Cut out the details of the house. When cutting walls, position the knife at an angle of 45 degrees to the surface of the table. For roof parts, such a cut should be only on one side (where the ridge is located on the roof).
10
From 0.5 cups of granulated sugar and 3 tablespoons of water, cook a thick syrup.
eleven
Pour the syrup base. Set a gingerbread house on it, lubricating the sides of the walls with sugar syrup to hold the parts together. Attach a roof from above.
12
Beat 1 egg white with 0.5 cups icing sugar. Use a pastry syringe or cornet to decorate the house with protein cream. Draw lines at junctions to hide them. Draw the windows, the door. The roof can be decorated with wavy lines.
thirteen
Sprinkle grated chocolate and colored sprinkles on the roof for pastry. Decorate the base around the house with candied fruit or marmalade.
14
Serve the gingerbread house with tea, coffee and other drinks.
Bon Appetit!
note
If the baking sheet is small (20 * 30 cm), divide the dough into three parts and bake them in turn.
Useful advice
For a darker color of gingerbread, you can add cocoa powder to the dough. Using this technique, the walls of the gingerbread house can be made light and the roof dark.
A gingerbread house can serve as a great birthday present.
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