Homemade gingerbread - 8 simple and delicious recipes

Gingerbread is a great sweet treat that kids and adults alike love. It's time to bake such pastries for Christmas or New Year's Eve, since gingerbread cookies are easy to decorate and make them elegant, festive. Among 8 simple and delicious recipes for gingerbread at home, step by step with a photo, you can choose the very recipe that is right for you!

Andy Chef's Gingerbread Recipe

Cooking time - 1 hour

Servings - 20

Delicious and elegant gingerbread from Andy Chef will definitely not leave indifferent either you or your guests. If you carefully follow all the steps of this recipe, you will get the result no worse than that of the eminent pastry chef!

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  First of all, prepare and put on the table all the ingredients you need to prepare the treats.
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  Next, you need to take hard, cold butter and chop it. The most convenient way to use a blender is to make a cold butter paste pretty quickly.
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  Add sifted flour and cornstarch to a mixer bowl or convenient bowl to start making the dough. Add baking powder, butter and eggs there.
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  Add the cinnamon and ground ginger immediately at this stage. Be sure to take dry foods. In addition to cinnamon with ginger, it is permissible to add nutmeg, cocoa, and ground cloves to the dough. This will make your gingerbread cookies unique in taste.
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  Lastly, add melted honey and granulated sugar to the dough. You can take any honey, the main thing is that it is natural.
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  Knead the dough very quickly using a mixer, manual or stationary. In extreme cases, you can knead the gingerbread dough with your hands, but you need to act very quickly.
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  As a result, you should get a crumbly, almost dry crumb, as in the photo.
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  Place the dough on a cutting board and quickly form into a sausage.
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  Make small pancakes from the dough, about a centimeter thick. Then wrap the pancakes with plastic wrap and refrigerate to cool. This will take you about half an hour or a little more.
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  Place the dough between two sheets of parchment and start rolling the pieces four millimeters high.
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  Using various molds, cut out the gingerbread figures that you will bake from the dough.
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  Move the parchment with gingerbread figures to a baking sheet.
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  In an oven preheated to 180 degrees, bake the gingerbread cookies literally until the thinnest part of the dough is browned.

Homemade gingerbread with icing

Beautiful and elegant - these are, of course, gingerbread with glaze. It is not so difficult to prepare this sweet delicacy, the main thing is to correctly observe the cooking technology and stock up on imagination to decorate your products.

Ingredients:

For the test:

• Wheat flour - 0.5 kg.
• Honey - 200 gr.
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.
• Granulated sugar - 100 gr.
• Butter - 130 gr.
• Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
• Baking powder for dough - 10 gr.
• Ground ginger - 1 tsp
• Ground cinnamon - ½ tsp
• Nutmeg - 1/3 tsp

For glaze:

• Egg white - 1 pc.
• Powdered sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Lemon juice - 1 tsp

Cooking process:

1. Before you start making beautiful and delicious gingerbread, prepare all the ingredients for the gingerbread dough.
2. Also, prepare and set aside all the icing ingredients.
3. In a container that can be placed on a stove or a water bath, combine honey, granulated sugar and all the spices: cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, ginger and others to your liking. Place the container on fire and heat slowly until honey begins to foam.
4. The finished mass should be smooth - as shown in the photo.
5. Pour the hot liquid mixture into a convenient container and immediately add the slightly melted butter. Stir the base thoroughly and then add the egg and mix again. Lastly, add baking powder and flour to the dough, and then knead the dough.
6. When you get a smooth dough that doesn't stick to your hands, wrap it in plastic and refrigerate for an hour.
7. Roll out the chilled dough to a thickness of about four to five millimeters, and then cut a variety of dough figures using molds. Send the gingerbread cookies to the oven at 180 degrees for ten to fifteen minutes.
8. Next, prepare the icing that you will use to cover the gingerbread cookies. To do this, combine slightly whipped protein and powdered sugar in a mixer bowl. Whisk the mixture gently to create a fairly pliable and moderately runny frosting.
9. Distribute the icing over the pastry bags. If you are using dyes, you will need several different containers for different colors. After that, start decorating your gingerbread cookies with various patterns and inscriptions.
10. Ready-made gingerbread cookies can simply be served or used as a decoration for a Christmas tree, cake, pack them as a gift.

Bon Appetit!

The classic recipe for gingerbread Christmas cookies

One way or another, all gingerbread cookies are very similar to each other. But, at the same time, they can all have a completely different aroma. Some gingerbreads are richer, some of them lighter. New Year's gingerbread cookies should be very tart and remind with their aroma of the upcoming holiday.

Ingredients:

• Liquid honey -150 gr.
• Sugar -100 gr.
• Butter -100 gr.
• Flour –370 gr.
• Egg -4 Pieces
• Ground ginger -1 tsp.
• Cinnamon -1 tsp.
• Cocoa -1 tsp.
• Baking powder –2 tsp.
• Orange zest -1 tsp.
• Vanillin - a pinch

Cooking process:

1. First, knead a high-quality dense dough from your ingredients that does not stick to your hands. To do this, combine honey, granulated sugar and butter in a convenient container, and then add all the dry ingredients - flour sifted with spices.
2. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin to a height of about half a centimeter or slightly thinner. For convenience, you can roll out the dough between two sheets of parchment or using cling film.
3. Cut out various figures from the dough using cookie cutters, put the blanks on parchment and transfer it all to a baking sheet.
4. Gingerbread should be baked in the oven for literally ten minutes, setting a constant temperature of 180 degrees.
5. You can decorate the finished gingerbread with white or colored glaze, and then serve them with tea, coffee, cocoa or pack them in a gift box.

How to bake delicious honey gingerbread?

Honey-gingerbread cookies are very fragrant and delicate due to the natural aroma of honey in the composition of the product. There is no need to add any additional spices to such gingerbread cookies, since they themselves have an excellent aroma and taste.

Ingredients:

• Butter - 110 gr.
• Wheat flour 2nd grade - 310 gr.
• Corn starch - 40 gr.
• Chicken egg - 2 pcs.
• Baking powder for dough - 1 tsp.
• Ground ginger - ½ tsp
• Natural aromatic honey - 100 gr.
• Granulated sugar - 50 gr.
• Powdered sugar - 250 gr.
• Egg white - 1 pc.

Cooking process:

1. First, grind cold butter and combine it with honey, egg and granulated sugar.
2. Add ginger to the base, and then add wheat flour sifted with baking powder. Knead the gingerbread dough quickly, then wrap it in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about one hour.
3. Roll the chilled dough to a small thickness (4-5 millimeters) and cut out various figures from it using molds.
4. Send the workpiece to be baked in an oven preheated to 180 degrees, and at this time prepare the icing from protein and powdered sugar.
5. Decorate ready-made gingerbread cookies, which have cooled down a little or completely, with a pastry bag with various patterns or simply cover the products with glaze evenly. You can add food coloring to it to make the products brighter.
6. Serve the gingerbread when the frosting is completely cool. This item is perfect as a Christmas tree decoration or a sweet gift.

Diet gingerbread (pp recipe)

Even while on a diet, you often want to indulge in something tasty. It is not so easy to find recipes for dietary sweets, but this question is very relevant in the pre-holiday time. You can easily cook gingerbread cookies right in your kitchen and enjoy them with tea or coffee even in the evening without remorse.

Ingredients:

• Almond flour - 100 gr.
• Ground oat flakes - 80 gr.
• Ripe banana - ½ banana
• Natural honey - 1/2 tsp
• Stevia (drops) - a couple of drops
• Natural cocoa powder - 10 gr.
• Baking powder - 1/2 tsp
• Peanut butter - 1 tbsp l.
• Cinnamon - a pinch
• Ginger - a pinch

Glaze (optional)

• Egg white - 1 pc.
• Erythritol

Cooking process:

1. In order to make a gingerbread dough, you first need to combine all the liquid ingredients and mix them, and then add to them all the dry ingredients that have already been sifted together. Knead the dough directly with your hands, but act quickly.
2. Next, roll out your gingerbread dough about half a centimeter thick using a handy rolling pin and parchment paper.
3. From the dough, you can cut out holiday figures or ordinary circles-squares-triangles, and then transfer the gingerbread dough to parchment paper on a baking sheet and send the products to the oven for 10-15 minutes at 180 degrees.
4. If you have a desire to decorate the products, then you need to beat the egg white with erythritol for this and prepare a frosting of a moderate consistency. It must be applied to the already cooled gingerbread so that it seizes well.
5. Decorate the gingerbread cookies with a piping bag or toothpicks for subtle curly patterns. Serve cold and store in a paper bag.

A simple and delicious recipe for gingerbread without eggs

For one reason or another, many people choose baked goods without eggs. In this regard, we want to invite you to pay attention to the recipe for gingerbread without eggs in the composition. The gingerbread cookies are really delicious and the absence of eggs in the dough does not make them worse.

Ingredients:

• Butter -60 gr.
• Sugar -0.5 tbsp.
• Whole grain flour –2 tbsp.
• Honey - 2-3 tbsp.
• Soda -1 tsp.
• Ginger –2 tsp. (fresh, grated)
• Nutmeg - pinch
• Ground cardamom –2 pinch

Cooking process:

1. In order to make gingerbread without eggs in the composition, prepare all the ingredients you need and put them in your field of vision.
2. Grate the lemon zest and fresh peeled ginger on a fine grater and send to a bowl. Send melted butter there.
3. Add spices and granulated sugar to the bowl of ingredients and stir everything together. Place the bowl with the ingredients on a very low heat and heat until all the ingredients are combined.
4. As a result, you should get a more or less homogeneous mixture, quite liquid in consistency. Remove from heat and continue to cook the dough.
5. Start gradually pouring flour into the dough, stirring it and forming a good blank for gingerbread.
6. Cool the finished dough and roll out sheets of moderate thickness from which cut out various figures using cookie cutters. Place the figurines on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and place in the oven for about ten minutes at 180 degrees.
7. When the gingerbread cookies are cool, you can decorate them with different patterns using glaze or simply cover them with a layer of white or colored glaze. Serve the gingerbread cookies fresh and store them in a paper container to prevent the gingerbread from drying out.

Step-by-step recipe for making gingerbread custard

Very few people like to tinker with shortbread dough, since its correct preparation requires speed of movement and accuracy. In addition, until the shortcrust pastry products are in the oven, it is difficult to guess whether the dough is made correctly and whether the gingerbread will "float" on the baking sheet. Choux pastry is much simpler and more stable in this regard.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 0.5 kg.
• Honey - 200 gr.
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.
• Granulated sugar - 100 gr.
• Butter - 130 gr.
• Cocoa powder - 1 tablespoon
• Baking powder for dough - 10 gr.
• Ground ginger - 1 tsp
• Ground cinnamon - ½ tsp
• Nutmeg - 1/3 tsp

Cooking process:

1. Add spices and granulated sugar to the bowl of ingredients and stir everything together. Add honey and place bowl of ingredients in water bath or over fire and heat all ingredients until foam rises.
2. Add chicken eggs to the slightly cooled mixture and knead thoroughly, then begin to gradually add flour and knead a dense gingerbread dough.
3. Cool the finished dough completely and roll out medium-thick sheets by placing the dough on baking paper lightly floured. Cut out various figures from the layers of dough or make ordinary circles. Place the figurines on a baking sheet lined with baking paper and place in the oven for about ten minutes at 180 degrees.
4. When the gingerbread cookies are cold, you can decorate them with various glazes - chocolate, protein, colored, and immediately decorate with various sprinkles.

How to make burnt sugar gingerbread?

Burnt sugar gingerbread has a very special taste and aroma. In order to properly prepare such a dough, you will have to work a little, but the result will meet your expectations and will allow you to cook original, mouth-watering gingerbread cookies right in your kitchen.

Ingredients:

• Granulated sugar - 450 gr.
• Wheat flour - 150 gr.
• Rye flour - 150 gr.
• Flour of 1 or 2 grade - 0.5 kg.
• Natural honey - 450 ml.
• Butter - 160 gr.
• Chicken egg - 3 pcs.
• Cocoa - 30 gr.
• Water - 1 tbsp.
• Ginger - 1 tsp

Cooking process:

1. First, boil the water so that you have boiling water on hand. And then pour half the granulated sugar into a thick-bottomed saucepan or saucepan and put the container on a low heat to melt the sugar. It takes about three minutes to get the burnt sugar.
2. Very carefully start adding boiling water to the caramel, literally one spoon at a time. Use a long spoon for this and never lean close to the pot.
3. Add the second half of granulated sugar and honey, stir. When these ingredients are melted, remove the pan from the heat and add the spices and oil to the dough. Sift 150 grams of wheat flour there.
4. Pour baking soda into the dough, stir and leave the mixture until the dough is just warm, not hot. Bubbles will appear on the surface of the dough from the interaction of hot honey with baking soda.
5. Beat the eggs separately with a fork, avoiding using a mixer for this purpose. Add the eggs to the dough, and then begin to gradually sift the flour until you get a thick dough that can no longer be mixed with a spoon.
6. Form the dough into balls on the cutting surface, then put them under the plastic in the refrigerator for about half a day. Only then can you make gingerbread from this type of dough.
7. Next, you need to act as usual: roll out the dough, cut out the figures and bake them in an oven preheated to 180 degrees. If you wish, you can decorate the gingerbread with icing and sprinkles.

Bon appetit and culinary success!