Festive Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

Gingerbread cookies do not go stale for a long time, and they are very tasty! Incredibly beautiful and fashionable!
cook time: 2h 30 min
Ivy Ramsay
Festive Glazed Gingerbread Cookies

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

385
Calories
9g
Fat
64g
Carbs
6g
Protein

Ingredients (20 portions)

For the gingerbread:

Sugar 100 g
Cinnamon 1 tsp
Wheat flour 500 g
Butter 125 g
Ginger 1.5 tsp
Eggs 1 pc
Honey 165 g
Soda 2 tsp

For the glaze:

Powdered sugar 200 g
Egg whites 1 pc
Lemon acid to taste
Food coloring 2 g

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
Mix honey, sugar and spices (cinnamon, ginger) in a saucepan and put the mixture on the fire. Over high heat, bring the mixture to a boil, stirring constantly. Reduce heat and cook until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat. Add soda and butter. Cool the mixture to 60 degrees. Add the egg and mix with a mixer at medium speed. Add sifted flour in several stages. Wrap the finished dough in film and refrigerate for 2 hours. We bake gingerbread cookies at 180 degrees.

Step 2

Step 2
For protein glaze (icing), you need to mix all the ingredients into a homogeneous mass. Mix the powdered sugar (pre-sifted through a sieve to get rid of small sugar crystals and lumps), egg white and citric acid with a mixer at low speed. There is no need to beat for a long time, just until smooth. You can even do without a mixer. The finished glaze should be immediately covered with cling film in contact, as it dries very quickly.

Step 3

Step 3
The glaze turns out thick. Add water literally drop by drop to a small part of the glaze and achieve the desired consistency. We also color the icing in small parts with food coloring and place it in small pastry bags (bags). We make two bags of icing of the same color, but of different consistency, a thicker glaze for the sides and a thinner one for filling the entire gingerbread. We make a small hole in the corner of the bag and start painting

Step 4

Step 4
And now I offer you ideas for decorating gingerbread cookies. The easiest option: cut out gingerbread cookies using cookie cutters (cuttings). I cut out the bunnies and decorated the eyes and mouth with icing.

Step 5

Step 5
If you don’t have any molds or cutouts, you can simply use a glass to cut out round gingerbread cookies. Draw snowflakes on round gingerbread cookies using thick icing.

Step 6

Step 6
Or you can fill the entire gingerbread with orange glaze, make streaks using a toothpick from liquid white glaze and we will get tangerines.

Step 7

Step 7
Here are three options for decorating Christmas trees.

Step 8

Step 8
To cut out the houses, I used a plastic clay mold that I borrowed from my son. There were two houses: red and green, but the red one ate the red one so quickly that I didn’t have time to take a photo.

Step 9

Step 9
Well, what would we do without the classic gingerbread men? Here you can use your imagination and make people of different genders, with different emotions, in different costumes and even with different hairstyles.

Step 10

Step 10
And by turning the little man upside down, you can make the faces of Santa’s reindeer. I made the brown icing by mixing red and green icing.

Step 11

Step 11
If you donʼt have food coloring, you can get by with just white icing.

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