Christmas gingerbread house with your own hands - like how to bake a gingerbread house at home on New Year's Eve, a step by step recipe photos

On the eve of Christmas and New Year is the time to prepare a gingerbread house, as well, to bake and decorate gingerbread honey. I want to share my version of New Year's dessert.

To make things easy, I shared the cooking stages. First prepared gingerbread dough and freeze it. At the right moment I have left to get ready the dough, thaw and bake cakes. All tips and a detailed description of my recipes with step by step captured image, which will help you to bake your Christmas cookies and make sweet Christmas gingerbread house with your own hands.

Ingredients:

• 1 serving delicious honey gingerbread;
• 1 serving custard dough for gingerbread with honey;
• 4 servings icing - royal icing.

When all the ingredients are prepared, it's time to start to create a New Year's fairy tale. ????

How to make Christmas gingerbread house with gingerbread

Before proceeding to the manufacture of a house, we need the pattern template. Of course, you can use ready-made molds for test cuts, but not all they are. Therefore, make a stencil by hand. So, first you need to draw pictures in the photo.

First you have to draw the first drawing. All dimensions are in the pattern. Such elements of the test, we need two things.

In the photo below - the second pattern for the house. Each element in the test we also need to duplicate. One small caveat. The size of the roof on the pattern Set 12x12 cm (as proposed in the original recipe), but it seemed to me that it would not really look beautiful. Therefore, I have a roof made of 16x16 cm and as a result I really was pleased with the fact that this has changed size. The number of parts of the fence - 6 pieces.

When the template is finished, go to the bakery.

How to bake a gingerbread house

Preheat oven to 200 ° C.

Begin to roll tasty honey gingerbread dough about 1 cm thick on a silicone mat. We draw the pattern and cut out the items you want to us.

Otpekaem gingerbread items about 5-7 minutes. The time depends entirely on your oven. But remember that the gingerbread dough otpekaetsya quickly. We take out the hot items from the oven cool for them on a flat surface so that they are not deformed. I have baked and round base, which will establish a house.

How to make Christmas cookies

Similarly we proceed with custard dough for gingerbread honey. Roll out on a silicone mat, but thinner than the house. It is better to do it through the plastic wrap that the dough is not sticking to the rolling pin.

molds Cut the needed shape otpekaem about 5 minutes, take out on a flat surface. And while they're hot, you can make holes, to gingerbread can be hung as a decoration. To do this, a wooden skewer (blunt end), click on the hot cake.

To complement the composition of the New Year gingerbread house this test I will have two Christmas trees.

How to decorate a gingerbread house

When all the blanks have cooled gingerbread, signs of icing. Protein glaze fill a special pastry bag or a paper cornet, which is very simple to make with your own hands.

Let's start with the roof. Icing cornet is applied as a mesh, but try to observe the size. All cells should be the same size. Leave to harden for 20 minutes.

To paint was easy and did not make mistakes, preparing a stencil for painting.

Now, to put the icing droplets in cells according to the stencil.

The remaining gingerbread preform uniformly applied icing and leave to solidify for about 10 minutes. Then, on top put a droplet and draw snowflakes.

How to build a gingerbread house

First it is necessary to glue the house wall. Apply the icing on joints and connect the side and end walls, giving dry out.

Then, in the same way glue roof. Top close the roof seam icing, and until it is frozen, insert the previously made and has already frozen icing decorations.

Then to put the oblong droplets on the roof perimeter and at the windows.

While house freezes, on the basis of gingerbread for the house we shall be uniformly applied and immediately put on his house, fence and fir trees that froze based.

Similarly, according to the same system, paint the rest of the New gingerbread, dried icing, and they can be suspended in anticipation of Santa Claus.

Here is a Christmas gingerbread house with Christmas cakes I did.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year !!!