Gingerbread - recipe

Gingerbread - a delicacy, which in many is associated with the New Year's holidays and Christmas. Very often you can find cakes in the shape of a Christmas tree, a snowman, Santa Claus and Christmas tree decorations. But the options form this dessert can be limited only by your imagination. Spices in the dough every woman can add to your liking. Icing to decorate the gingerbread can make any color just by adding food coloring to the base. With such a material can be prepared masterpieces, not only for the winter holidays, but also for any celebration.

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Recipe number 1

Ingredients:

• Butter - 110 g
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Wheat flour - 310 g
• Potato starch - 40 g
• Baking powder - 1 tsp
• Honey - 90 g
• Sugar - 100 g
• Cinnamon and ginger powder - 0.5 tsp

Cooking:

1. Butter, of a refrigerator, chopped into small pieces or ground in a blender.
2. In a bowl mix the bulk ingredients except the sugar. We are trying to drive two eggs.
3. Thickened honey need to melt, it is better not to water bath, and add to the dough. Add sugar to taste, if you do enough sweetness of honey, the sugar portion can perepolovinit.
4. All ingredients are mixed with a mixer, the mixer and if not, then with his hands. It should be done very quickly, so that the dough does not heat up. That will have a large baby. Knead crumb of a uniform ball of dough, without adding additional flour.
5. The finished dough into halves, forming pancake centimeter tall. This is done so that the dough is quickly cooled. pancakes dough wrapped in plastic wrap hide in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
6. Rested dough was placed between two sheets of parchment and roll out to a thickness of 4 mm, approximately. Cut the gingerbread future the desired shape.
7. Bake cookies at 180 ° C for about 10 minutes. Watch when browned cake.

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Recipe №2 with fresh ginger

Ingredients:

• Butter - 100 g
• Eggs - 1 pc.
• Wheat flour - 500 g
• Cocoa powder - 10 g
• Bustyer - 10 g
• Sugar - 125 g
• Honey - 250 g
• Cinnamon - 1 tsp.
• Coriander Dried - 3 ppm
• Carnation - 50 pcs.
• Fresh ginger - 3 cm
• Salt - 0.3 cl.

Cooking:

1. On low heat melt sugar, oil and honey, to a homogeneous consistency.
2. Grind into powder and through the sieve sifting the coriander and the carnation. Add ginger to powder. Cinnamon interfere with spices. As a result, for cooking we need a tablespoon of spices.
3. In a sweet mixture of honey and butter, the cocoa is suited, a mixture of spices and a slight salt. When the mixture will cool intervene the egg. Gradually, small portions, sprinkle flour, pre-mixed with a bustle. We give the test to relax 3-4 hours.
4. On parchment paper, roll the dough and form gingerbread. We bake about 15 minutes at 200 ° C.

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Recipe number 3 with condensed milk

Ingredients:

• Creamy butter - 120 g
• Wheat flour - 310 g
• Eggs - 1 pc.
• Condensed milk - 100 g
• Honey - 150 g
• Sugar - 120 g
• Cocoa - 20 g
• Cinnamon and ginger, in powder - at 1 tsp.
• Soda, baking powder and salt - 0.5 tsp.
• Easy pepper and nutmeg - 0.25 ppm

Cooking:

1. Spices and make a salt with flour. The resulting mixture is divided into equal parts, in one of which we interfere in the soda and the baking powder.
2. Honey, sugar, oil and condensed milk slowly heat up to boil, so that it is not burned. In a warm mixture, we add that part of the flour that without soda and cocoa, mix and remove from the fire. Drive the egg and quickly mix.
3. Add flour residue, mixed with baking powder and soda. We mix homogeneous dough and leave in the film for two hours in a warm place.
4. Roll over the dough and cut the shape of gingerbread. We bake about 15 minutes at 175 ° C.

Recipes can be changed according to your preferences. If you do not like honey, add more sugar, and remove it from the list. Spices are also a matter of taste, put more cinnamon or ginger, it all depends on you. Finished ginkers decorate the icing and get a delicious, festive delicacy.