Gingerbread house

Description

In the New year all the children and adults really want to find yourself in a sweet gingerbread Kingdom. What if you try to bake it? "Great idea!" - shouted in one voice are my kids. Well, then go ahead! (And let it only one house, anyway - this is the tale!) I want to congratulate all of the cook of this wonderful holiday.

Ingredients

Flour

2 cup
Sugar

0.333 cup
Chicken egg

1 piece
Soda

1 tsp
Cinnamon

0.5 tsp
Cardamom

0.5 tsp
Butter

50 g
Honey

5 Tbsp
Milk

3 Tbsp
Egg white

1 piece
Powdered sugar

300 g
Lemon juice

4 Tbsp

Cooking

In advance of cardboard don't forget to make the cutting house: front, back, side walls, and the roof and the pipe. Can doors and shutters (all depends on the imagination). So, prepare the dough: Honey with butter and milk heat to a liquid state. Mix flour with soda, cinnamon and cardamom. Part of the flour mixture pour in the honey mixture, knead well, allow to cool slightly. Egg to mix with sugar. In a cooled to lukewarm honey mixture to enter the egg with sugar, mix and add the remaining flour mixture.

The dough should be pliable and not sticky.

To all parts of the house were of the same thickness, it's best to roll out the dough between two identical thickness plates or slats. The thickness of the rolled dough should be approximately 5mm.

To cut out stencils made on the part of the house. Don't forget about the Windows and doors. Turn on the oven at 180 degrees.

While the oven heats up, and cut parts of the house waiting on the baking sheet, you need to chop (the pieces of) candies.

Cookies bake at 180 degrees for about 7-8 minutes. Minutes for 2 until tender remove the pan from the oven. In the openings of the Windows and pour larentsova pieces and again put it in the oven to candy canes have melted and formed a glazed window.

After the oven the cookies cool, the candy to harden and then remove from the pan and cover with icing (100g icing sugar+ + 4st. L. lemon juice)

Prepare the glaze for gluing: Egg protein to whisk, gradually adding the powdered sugar in small portions and 7-8 drops of lemon juice. At the end of icing RUB with a spoon until white. If you want, you can divide the icing into parts and tint dyes.

Let the glaze does not freeze, you should immediately wrap it in a pastry bag.

For decoration you can use anything you have on hand, depending on Your imagination.

Collecting house, for emphasis you can use different jars or mugs. Joints smelt pour the icing and let dry.

Happy New Year! And may the New year You will have a sweet, like a gingerbread house.

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