How to cook new year ginger cookies?

New Year holidays are no longer outside the corner and it's time to think about how to please and at the same time surprise our relatives and friends at the festive table. The fragrant ginger cookies will serve not only with delicious delicacy to tea, but also will notice your interior, creating a truly New Year's mood!

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How to cook new year ginger cookies - prepare the dough

To prepare the dough on ginger cookies, you need the following products:

100 grams of sugar;
120 grams of soft oil or margarine;
350 grams of flour;
1 chicken egg;
two st. spoons honey;
baking powder;
2 h. Spoon of ground ginger;
1 h. Spoon the ground cinnamon.

Cooking:

First you need to hand over the oil with sugar.

Add one egg to them and the honey melted in advance in the water bath.

The mixture of the mixture of a well-to-mix with a mixer and add all the bulk ingredients to it.

The dough needs to be mixed with your hands, as it should turn out sufficiently dense, but pliable.

After the dough began to lag behind the hands, roll it into the ball and remove into the refrigerator for several hours. To save time, you can use the freezer.

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How to cook new year ginger cookies - form and bake

The finished dough must be rolled out with a thickness of 0.5 centimeters, after which it cut from it any New Year figures, such as a Christmas tree or a snowman. Make it you can manually, and with the help of special molds for cookies.

Figure cut out from the dough to fold on parchment paper (so they will not burn) and send to the oven, heated to 180 degrees for 7-8 minutes.

Ready cookies need to cool well and only then take for his decoration.

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How to cook new year ginger cookies - cook glaze

To give the liver more festive look, you need to smoke it beautifully. To do this, the protein icing is best suited. It prepares as follows:

Take a squirrel of one egg, add 200 grams of sugar powder into it and mix well.
The resulting mass is whipped with a mixer for two minutes.
Add one part. Spoon of lemon juice. If you do not have lemon juice, you can take advantage of lemon acid that you need to pre-dilute in water.
Continue to beat the icing for about five minutes.

The glaze should be homogeneous and sufficiently thick. Please note that the glaze prepared in this way will dry very quickly, so it's not worth cooking in advance. If you still prepared it in advance, then close it with food film.

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Decorate cookies New Year's ginger cookies

To give the liver more festive look, color cooked glaze with different colors. Make it you can with food dyes. The painted glaze must be decomposed on pastry packages and immediately begin the decoration of gingerbread. So that the glaze does not spread out of the cookies, make the outline and only then pour biscuits entirely. You can paint ready-made cookies with any way you like.

For decoration, various confectionery sprinkles are suitable.

Colored cookies should dry, and only then it is ready to use. The gingerbread painted in this way will serve as an excellent decoration of the New Year's table.