Gingerbread house (how to assemble and decorate)

[Happy Christmas to all Catholics!]

Happy Christmas to all Catholics!
Well, finally, I crawled with my houses. There are a lot of pictures, I immediately apologize, I will torment you a little. I made 5 houses, 3 of which according to one template, and the 4th and 5th according to two others. Not everything worked out, but I'm glad that at least somehow I succeeded, considering that it was the first time. There are no chimneys (like we have gas in our apartment) But she put electricity into all the houses in the form of key chains. I used the dough for the houses from Gerda, and for the stands for the houses (except for the house with the deer) - according to the recipe for gingerbread dough from wheat and rye flour (the dough turns out to be lighter because it does not contain cocoa, as in Gerdin.
Well, the houses turned out to be not purely Christmas, but New Years, so there is Santa Claus, as well as a symbol of the New Year - a figurine of a white horse on the facades of the houses.
Here is my village

Tanyushenka! : ng5: I already wrote to you in PM. Here I will add - there is no chapel for my admiration!

Lyubochka, this is your merit. You are here for many an ideological inspirer and mentor!

Tanya, I am delighted with your houses, YOUNG MAN !!! So beautiful and neat, it's a sight for sore eyes. So far, for the third day, I baked 10 baking trays all in gingerbread and that's not all, I also really want to decorate seven houses somewhere, but I have no templates, and I myself will not draw Everyone with the coming New Year.

Olesya, maybe one of my templates will work? This is the house near which there are deer, and there are two more such. All sizes are there, the windows are about 2.5 cm by 2.5 cm

I apologize for the photo right away. But if you click on it to enlarge, then everything seems to be visible.

The beauty! The whole village is New Year's!

Tanya everyone: mail1: THANKS !!! Do you need a lot of dough for one house?

Oh I do not know. Well, I made 5 pieces at once, and they were according to different patterns. I made 2 recipes from Gerda and 2 more kneads of wheat-rye dough for coasters for 4 houses. And then came 5 houses, stands, sleds with reindeer, and 2 pans of gingerbread.
I think that half of the recipe from Gerda should be enough (this is for such a house along with a stand), maybe the decorations will come out)

I'm not Tanya, but I will answer. From 2 \ 3 parts of the test from Gerda, I got 3 large houses 10 \ 10 cm around the perimeter.

Mona1
Tanya, it turned out very cool !!! I was confidently leading, I have a trained eye, I just mint from the sleds, I ordered felling in the Czech Republic, I'm waiting now

Thank you, Natasha, I was so afraid of this icing, I have never had anything to do with it yet, so it is clear that something happened with fright.

TanyaMona 1, I do not bake gingerbread houses, because it is incomprehensible to me. But as a connoisseur of beauty I will say- your work is masterpiece
YOU ARE THE GENIUS OF THE GINGER HOUSE !!! : bravo: 1000 times

I will subscribe under every word! Masterpiece! Genius! The beauty! No words, really, really, that's why I'm quoting Valeria.

No, our genius is Lyuba, but I am, an apprentice.

Girlswhat are you all smart girls! Such beauty is indescribable! You just need to see it! Eye-catching!

Lida, Olya Goldy, come join us, you will still have time to make a house for the holiday. Toko is not necessary - like I can't, we try many here for the first time, the main thing is to start, then it won't come off, as it will tighten.

Tanya, so I have been with you for a long time, I have already shown my worn-out yard (in comparison with yours). Today I bought a five-color keychain flashlight. I'll open the house behind a bit and insert it. And I bought a little white tray for the next time.

Just look with the keychain carefully, I almost fell completely inside right with the ring that on it, I made a too big hole.So I then attached the cap from the handle to the ring, so that it was like a stop. And then imagine a smut, if it falls inside, how to get it out of there. So it will burn for how long the battery lasts.
By the way, the keychain, if left for a long time, heats up. So you have to watch out, otherwise something will start to melt, don't turn it on for a long time.
Yes, and also, when you pick up, then do it not perpendicular to the surface, as if obliquely, like when the house is assembled, so that the hole goes more or less vertically, otherwise the keychain will not fit well, and, accordingly, it will be pulled out ...

Tanya, everything is fine! There is nothing complicated there. The gingerbread is already soft, the knife has gone into butter. I carefully cut out a small square, at the very bottom of the back. She wrapped the keychain flashlight with cling film and inserted it halfway into the hole, and the button for turning on remained outside. It turns out that the flashlight just lies ... and will not run anywhere. I turned it on for a minute ... blinked and that's enough ... until next time. Flashing five colors, so beautiful, as if the tree inside the house is shining with lights!

Girls, maybe someone needs. I made reindeer and sleighs using these patterns, I found them in the Internet. Previously on a computer to the desired size increased

Tanya, the houses are all for sore eyes!
Thank you for sharing! Just in time!

Girls, dear! Thank you so much for your advice, tips, and help in preparing gingerbread houses. How much warmth and kindness comes from you, as much as your hands stretch out to knead the dough. I just wanted to admire the beautiful works, but you paint in such a way, you seduce with your photos so that you can't resist. Kneading the dough, and she thought about you. I never cease to rejoice that I was so lucky to find our forum. I make houses in several stages. I can't make it in one day.

Mona1, Vei, Ksynya, Parallel, Lyuba 1955, the houses are very, very beautiful! A lovely sight!
Lyuba1955, Mona1, thanks for the patterns of houses, deer and sledges! Now I don't have to search and invent.

Here is my house.
Something I swung with dimensions, B 15 cm long, and as much as 26 cm in height.
probably the top of the facade bent inward because of the weight, but it all started so well.

The frames are still dry.

Tanya, cool houses, I love it when they are gingerbread, only the gingerbread itself and icing, without any bells and whistles in the form of nuts, marmalade, chocolate. Kind of like Tula gingerbread. Are blue snowflakes colored icing?
In general, you surprised me. When you have time, like a couple of hours ago on the forum unsubscribed, and then fuck bang - and houses.

Snowflakes are mastic. here you can see better.

Girls, you all have wonderful houses !!! And also many thanks for the patterns of deer and sleigh! Well, this is already the next year, I have already run out of dough ...

The dough can be put new and the same mass of holidays until January 25

Your truth will probably have to be, all the more so your family hints ...

With me on "You", Ok? I had different doughs for 3 kg of flour, but not a single house was left for myself, only a tree and a little gingerbread, I also think, can I try any other dough?

I, too, slowly distribute gingerbread, then to my friends, then my daughter to school for girlfriends. I tried Gerda's dough, very fragrant, I liked it at work. What else would Natasha advise?

I also made dough, which my friend gave me, I made Christmas trees from it and from rye flour, but it should last three weeks from rye flour. Some of the girls praised Larisa Volnitskaya, so she would have tried it again

the dough is just great! aromatic and tasty. I only give cloves there a lot less - not 2 tsp, but a pinch, for me cloves are a very strong spice. and another 40 grams of flour I replace with cocoa - I like how the icing looks against the dark background of the house.

[Natalii9507]

Yes, girls, this business is TIGHTENING.
here are the next houses:

Stunned The first impression was - "Oh, people are already gluing lace on the house!"How much time did you spend on drawing this lace !!! Indescribable beauty! And what is addictive is yes !!! Itself for two weeks in the evenings after work - to the houses. The truth has not yet decided to post a photo of her first-borns. Yes, I lived before - before the "bread machine" - calmly, in the evenings - TV, and now - the kitchen, then a cake, then buns, and now the houses are attacked. And the kitchen from technology begins to burst at the seams!

What an openwork! Straight grandmother's lace!
I bow my head to skill and patience!

Natalii9507!
Bravo! this skill of painting with icing can only be applauded !!!

Well, just the words are all dry! I thought that I barely survived after my houses, I didn’t feel any hands or feet, but to create such a thing, well, I simply cannot be understood ... One thing in my head: HOW? Well done! You definitely won't want to eat such a house, just a hand won't rise on it!

Such beauty is generally necessary in a museum ... Yeah ... Girls, what fabulous craftswomen you are!

Now this is art. The beauty!!!!!

Natalii9507, incomparable houses! Such delicate, very neat.

Girls, thank you very much for your kind words!

Photos from the North Carolina Gingerbread House Festival - it's all gingerbread!


And then in general they swung at the Colosseum

And how can it rise jaw hand to destroy all this for the good of the womb?

Nobody eats such exhibition work.

Here is an interesting video, how neat everything is, lovely

[Christmas apples.]

But I also found it, although these are not houses, but they are called Christmas apples. By the way, you can practice painting on them, but there are plenty of apples.

Great! Such a variety! Thank you!

Yes, you can use pictures from these apples in the painting of houses, but I have problems with imagination, for example, but if there is a sample, it is easier like that.

Tanya, where did you "dig up" such painted apples ?! People came up with it ... There, by chance, it was not written - are these icing patterns?

Well, yes, this is the usual icing. Here are the details of the technique
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Girls put the gingerbread cookies in a container to ripen. I didn't paint with icing yet.
Guests (children, grandchildren) come for all the holidays, so before Christmas we will paint together. I hope everyone will be interested.

Galya, deer and sleighs, I see, also did it. You know, I cut them out like you, the halves of the sleigh - in a mirror image, and I also circled one of the deer, then I turned over the paper-pattern and circled the second. So, then, when I began to paint them, I realized that the deer did not have to be made in a mirror, they should look in one direction with their muzzles in the harness, I had to turn one deer so that the wrong side was in front of the view, and it was already painted (though , before that she painted everything from her face, she was so happy, and then I realized that the muzzle of this deer was looking in the wrong direction). True, I put this deer in the background.
I don’t know, I wrote it chaotically, maybe it’s not clear.

Tanya, wrote everything clearly! Sleds and reindeer immediately sunk into my soul, such a beauty. The patterns were handy.
You know, I figured out about the deer when all the dough was over. Maybe I'll put one olezhka separately. To be honest, I am generally very glad that I baked gingerbread, I thought I would not find time.

Just paint from the inside out and put it behind the first, it will be imperceptible. And then in a team it is more beautiful with two deer, when one is a little ahead of the other.
And my gingerbread is something hard yet. A week has already passed. And the girls, the students will come to me on Monday, after the lesson I will give them gingerbread, icing, and show them how to draw. There are 6 girls, third-graders. And let these gingerbreads take home. so I worry that suddenly they are so firm and will remain, disgraced in front of their parents.

After the first pancakelumpy house, decided on the second.
Here I collected an already painted house.
Here is my shit from two houses.
Many thanks to everyone for the kind advice!

I admire all the patterns, The lines are so thin, is it a nozzle of 1 mm or less? And then I got a bit thick. And I also look and do not understand, there and on the windows icing, you probably did it separately, and then glued it to the wall of the house?

Ising squeezed out of a paper cornet. I dried it separately on the windows and glued it to icing.
Tanya, thanks to your embroidered houses, I decided on the second one! Thank you very much!

Tanya, the houses are very delicate! How well I thought of the windows, so unusual, well done!

tania T, the houses are amazing, the lights are awesome!

Our first house did not work out very well. clumsy, played enough with icing, somehow it didn't work out very well, but we tried, the child painted, so don't judge strictly

Elena, what a smart child your child is, it turned out to be a very pretty house.

Lena, what a cool house! And the fact that the kid himself decorated, so it's so great! It turned out pretty, and the bunny is near the house. Eh, when my granddaughter grows up, so she can paint like that too!

Thank you girls, we are very pleased, next year we will definitely try again, my daughter really liked this work. The husband asked how to eat him, so we said let him eat bread, and this is for beauty

I think that everyone will agree that no matter how we all got the houses, the main thing is what positive we and our family experienced when preparing them! This is incomparable! Let my Christmas tree be crooked, but no one has one!

I absolutely agree that you can buy a lot of things, just not buy those positive emotions and moods with which home masterpieces are created.

Lena, you and your daughter have made a wonderful house! and not at all clumsy!
The main thing is that you enjoyed working together and gained invaluable experience.
I think you will be looking forward to the next New Year, anticipating the joy of creativity.

Irina, how right you are! All our houses are, indeed, a solid positive, especially if children and husbands are involved. Girls, everyone has wonderful, unique houses, GOOD MEN! Holiday greetings!

Girls you are a hundred times right! The main thing is that we have created a holiday mood in the family! Children are happy and looking forward to the holiday! Husbands are also happy and bloodthirsty glances towards gingerbread houses and edible Christmas tree decorations .. Another New Year's tradition is to "build" gingerbread houses! THANK YOU ! To you craftswomen for help for tips and for such beauty! Health and happiness to your families in the coming Year! HURRAH!!!!!

Hi there. I'll show you my houses. This is last year


Last year I glued it with caramel and burned it. I whipped the icing, did not know what was not necessary, in the end it was very brittle.
This current

On the one hand, she decorated herself, on the other, her daughter.

We didn’t worry much about the beauty, we’ll still gobble it up, but the decoration itself gives a lot of pleasure.
By the way, the glaze this time did not beat, it came out thick and dense, it dried very quickly, so I collected the house on glaze.

Wonderful houses, straight with family and animals, super

Thank you. Yeah, a family with a "animal".
Girls. I wanted to express my admiration for your houses. And it doesn't matter if they are the first or the hundred and twenty-fifths, the main thing is that they are handmade - this means that they are made with a soul.
Here is our house in the "forest".

Wonderful houses! And the gingerbreads are super!
By next year too: yes: I will buy myself such gingerbread tins.

Girls, I have been reading this topic for 2 weeks. What are you all clever! Thank you all for your advice and exhibits! So I wanted to create something like that myself. I am making houses for the first time, but for some reason I decided to immediately cook on a grand scale in order to present my family and friends. I collected 7 houses and I must say - I was worn out. New Year is on the nose, and I'm all in the houses. But I finally finished and here is the result of several sleepless nights:

Zhanna, Natalia, amazing houses! A lovely sight!

Yes, everything turned out great, and the assistants are wonderful.I just thought that my already adult children associate the New Year with the smell of a Christmas tree and tangerines, so they got used to it from an early age, but for my grandchildren, I think it will already be the smell of a Christmas tree and gingerbread houses. It's nice that I can now create such a fairy tale for them every year!

Natasha, the pictures are great! How to make such a background? well that there would be nothing superfluous. Maybe there is such a topic? show where to learn

Vera, you can read about the correct supply of confectionery in this Temka: https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=137689.0 ... This thread discusses how best to take a photo and how to process the background in Photoshop. I prefer to take pictures with a prepared background than waste time processing the photos later.

Thank you! I will stay

: elka: Gingerbread house

[Vei]

Good evening!
My first experience in making gingerbread houses. There are many shortcomings, but I liked the process
Before giving, I will sprinkle it with powdered sugar, put candles inside, the platform under them will be cakes with snow from protein cream. So, it's still semi-finished products.

Julia, very nice houses!
I've just baked three more houses, gifts for NG, I'll decorate tomorrow. And today I was both an architect and a builder, tomorrow - a decorator))))

Vei, Prus - 2 , THANK YOU!
During the manufacture, I encountered some difficulties: the dough was not kneaded steep (there is less flour than in the recipe) and the details, when transferred from the working surface to the baking sheet, led a little, because of this, the exact connection did not work. I tried to rub the distorted joints with a fine grater, in order to more accurately fit each other, but I broke a couple of walls, I had to glue them.
I experimented with cutting dough from an already baked, hot layer, but the dough cools faster than I cut it, so I gave up this idea.

Yulichka, we wrote in the subject many times - roll out and cut out the parts on baking paper and transfer them to a baking sheet with it!
You didn't read carefully - now bear it in mind! And at the same time - the houses are lovely!

THANKS, next time I will!

[tania T, Lasunya, glykoza, Tala, Iriska, Surname]

Dear girls - it was not a couple of days with a general cleaning, but such beauty here! tania T, Lasunya, glykoza, Tala, Iriska, Surname - girls, what are you clever - needlewomen! How beautiful and unique are all your houses! Not just houses, works of art! Very, very beautiful for everyone, just masterpieces! Happy New Years to you all!

[tuskarora]

Well, I got my hands on this year's house. While one, the second will be later.



Oops, I forgot to take out the toothpick from the Christmas tree before the photo. I apologize for the quality of the photos. The fotik has broken down completely, so only the phone is now.

tuskarora! ! Emotions go wild! Very nice! How is it done - with colored flood icing? Or mastic? Anyway - amazing, a real house of fairytale heroes - maybe 7 dwarfs?

Filled icing done. I have a baking dish for Lily's house parts. There are corrugated roof details. Here, along the hollow, at first the contours are white, and then it was filled with contrasting more liquid ones.

It's great who else would prepare, fill and serve the icing - so I would draw and glue such houses from morning till night

And I also liked the cute bright mini-houses:

[julifera]

julifera! Thank you dear for such a wonderful video! Next year there will be an opportunity to roam!

[Girls, dear! Happy New Year to you craftswomen - needlewomen! May the New Year bring you the conquest of new horizons! Happiness and good luck to all of you!]

Girls, dear! Happy New Year to you craftswomen - needlewomen! May the New Year bring you the conquest of new horizons! Happiness and good luck to all of you!
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Girls! Beauties! Happy New Year! All the best to you in your work and in life in general, in your family!As long as I have not been here, there are so many interesting photos, I can't take my eyes off the houses! So many ideas !!!!! : feer: bravo! And I also want to thank everyone for their support! Thanks to you, I got so carried away that I even had orders for houses (that's why I didn't look here, I didn't have time at all) I'll show you a few of my products, of course they are all similar, so there is no point in posting pictures

Vera, dear! Happy New Year! Your houses are amazing! The impression that you have been working with icing for several years! Thank you, dear, for the beauty!

Thank you! it's so exciting!

Hello! Happy New Year to everyone, may the horse bring good luck and creative success to everyone!
I'll show you my house too.

The dough was made according to Gerda's recipe, all the flour left me, I liked the dough - it was tasty, and aromatic, and plastic. A small house according to the dimensions that Lyuba Prus - 2 indicated, icing also according to her recipe. Lyuba - thanks! I glued it right away (with thick icing), I didn't have to prop up the walls, I only held the roof for some time, until I stopped sliding, I could not support it with anything other than my handles. The house door was eaten along with the scraps. The dough was enough for a house, fences, pebbles, three little horses and a stand for the house. She rolled out the dough 0.5 cm thick. In the photographs, the house is the same.

Svetochka! Happy New Year and the beginning of an active life at our Bread Maker! I am very glad to be the first to greet you! Good luck in the New Year, new creative tasty victories! And the house is very, very cool! I'm glad that my advice was useful to you! And the solution with the color ice -, I'll take it into service!

[Girls, Happy New Year! May happiness and joy enter every home! Peace to all, love, kindness, warmth, health and prosperity!]

Girls, Happy New Year! May happiness and joy enter every home! Peace to all, love, kindness, warmth, health and prosperity!

HAPPY NEW YEAR GIRL !!!!!!!!!!!! The Horse is lucky!
There is a whole cart behind the Horse:
Tangerines, chocolates,
And a beautiful steam locomotive ...

Bring us, Horse
A mountain of happiness and love
Wise thoughts, for order,
And honestly stripped everyone!

New Year with a new house! I did it based on the house from Dasha Rokitskaya, but due to circumstances she moved away from the original:




The walls and the roof were covered with flooded icing, and the tree was squeezed out by icing the consistency to hard peaks with an asterisk nozzle number 5.

Lizochka, Happy New Year! And with such a lovely new house! Amazing! I congratulate you on your Victory!

Liza, you have not a house, but a fabulous tower! Is this for grandma?

Ira, this is a gift from your test for her husband's parents - the result of a week's work))) I have 2 more in line. .. Now it should go faster, firstly, the skill appeared, and secondly - the time (before that I could only work a little at night).

Oh, what a nice house and garlands I came up with to hang - super! The hand is stuffing

Thanks for the praises, but I slammed the idea of ​​the garlands from Dasha Rokitskaya! True, she did not have trees, these are already my notions)))

what a great idea! And the twigs are like real!

So I finally decided to make houses, not as beautiful as your craftsmanship, but still very happy, the very first
here and put a candle inside it is very beautiful when you turn off the light, it's a holiday

and closer near the Christmas tree

Girls, there is no need to be complex about their skills, the main thing is the process itself and the joy that our loved ones received from this. All the same, it's great to make houses for the holiday and a lot of everything that is time consuming and tasty! I do not wrap my gingerbread in anything because it is first of all a festive decoration, and then a treat. Many of those to whom I gave gingerbreads and do not dare to eat them, keep them for years. This is their choice. And we gradually eat everything at home - next year there will be an incentive to create something new!
All who participated in this work are great fellows and in December they will certainly not forget to knead several kilograms of fragrant dough!

Ira, I will repeat once again - I really liked your dough (especially the taste!). Huge request to put it in a separate recipe !!! it's so hard to look for it or write it down on paper!

Girls, Ukrainian women. Yesterday the news on several channels showed an exhibition of gingerbread houses in Odessa. And the houses are different there! Beautiful and ordinary! So, the truth is, there is no need to complex what kind of house it turned out. He made the main thing with his own hands and with soul! Like this! And Odessa women can still go to the exhibition and see.

Lisa, I'm glad you liked the recipe. I did not put it in a separate post, so as not to produce similar recipes. But you have almost convinced me.I want to reread all the gingerbread recipes on the forum and, if this is not the case, I will write.

Irin, I will wait !!! They may be similar, but the proportions are different everywhere.

The first houses
I was having fun at night like this ... I wanted to try it for a long time, I reviewed many recipes and now I baked it)))
1 problem: a little gingerbread was deformed when baking
Problem 2: the chocolate didn't freeze on them, it's a miracle ... the gingerbread cookies were cold, but they froze in the saucepan))) I glued the walls with caramel, so ..
3 and more: the gingerbread cookies are delicious, but tough ... are they all like that or just mine)))?
well, here's what happened:

Alena, very nice houses and gingerbread!
I, too, slightly "led" the details when baking, maybe due to the fact that they smeared with an egg? She fastened it with chocolate, like Lyuba, but until it froze, she chopped off the pieces with pins. In the morning everything was like cement. My daughter decided to collect one of the houses for caramel. After 2-3 weeks, caramel began to drip, and when they wanted to give this house, they could not move it, it stuck and practically collapsed ...
Gingerbread from this dough turns out to be tough, but when you take a bite, they melt in your mouth, however, they bite quite easily too.

And here is my house, baked for the first time according to the scheme from the Internet:

[Hello girls !!!Congratulations to ALL on the Coming NG !!!]

Hello girls !!!
Congratulations to ALL on the Coming NG !!!
I came to YOU ​​for a light to warm up with my first Gingerbread House in my life.

[Gingerbread]

Girls, Merry Christmas everyone!

Gingerbread,
Wow, what a beauty! Thank you for such a wonderful gingerbread greeting!
Merry Christmas!!!

Girls! Merry Christmas everyone! Happiness, love, warmth and joy to you!
How many wonderful new houses! There will be plenty to choose from for the next year!

Gingerbread, Do you have a cake covered with mastic below? A very interesting solution! :)

Gingerbread, Do you have a cake covered with mastic below? A very interesting solution! :)

Below is the body of the cake itself (like "Swan Lake" is my favorite. Moreover, it comes with coconut flakes and on top of the "snow" I sprinkled a little coconut chips. So the harmony of taste is preserved), which I covered with mastic masonry). This is a rectangle 21 x 21 cm and a height of 12 cm. True, on top, I also laid a biscuit cake 3 cm high (to the base of the windows) for the reliability of the structure and surface in order to install the lighting device.

This is the view.

Then I also covered the surface with a very thin layer of mastic. Lubricating the edges with protein and on top "planted" the second floor - a gingerbread house. It was already prepared, but without a roof. Then I inserted the tree and arranged the shapes, gluing them with squirrel.
That's the whole technology. The construction is very stable. It was transported to the other end of the city without any problems.

Gingerbread is there a tree in the house? Well this is generally

Gingerbread, well, it's all gingerbread Gingerbread! Someone is lucky !!!

In the house there is not only a Christmas tree, but also Santa Claus and Snegurochka next to it. If you look through the windows of the house, when the lights are on there, you can see that a fairy tale is being performed in the house.

Gingerbread, very beautiful You are a pro

It's just fantastic, so gorgeous, no words.

N @ T @, love-apple, Vei, Luciole, Hotice-1, Lyuba1955, Mona1 Thank you very much for appreciating my humble architectural work. And I will be very glad if I somehow suggested some ideas, some fantasies. Made a gingerbread house for the first time. Honestly, the most difficult thing for me was working with icing: it was difficult to guess the consistency, so that the "snow" seemed more natural (on the one hand), and on the other hand, so that the icicles were obtained. For such a large house, I baked small pieces and connected the walls with them (look at the photo - you can see it there). At the same time, the structure was more durable and it was easier for me. And one more thing: in order for the product to keep the shape exactly the one I asked for it, I did not put any ripper or soda in the dough.

no words! : bravo: Beauty! How to get into a fairy tale or a cartoon

Gingerbread, what cool ideas - to put figurines and blocks for the walls in the house! The house turned out to be amazing! I'll take it on board for next year. Live and learn! Thank you!
Girls, everyone beautiful houses, I will not list by name!
ksyha076, Ksyushenka, only the pads had to be cut into two halves. They would better fit the roof.

In my very first houses (2011) there were windows from "Barberry", I read about this method in the cook, crush caramel, fall asleep in the window and at a low temperature (at which, sorry, I don’t remember), hold it in the oven until it melted completely. My windows did not melt, my houses stood for 10 days and nothing melted, then I gave them to my loved ones and they did not melt, then they were successfully eaten))) I’ll show them to you now, just stop laughing, I had no idea then, how it's done

And I don't think to laugh. Nice house for the first one? I still have no idea how it's done. I won't finish my house that day. I'll start, and then things are forced to postpone "for later". Soon old NG, and I will not be in time for baptism too))

Natalia, thanks for the advice! I melted the candies as soon as I baked the houses. Now I will try at low temperatures. Maybe the whole trick is just this!
Py: SY: and the houses are wonderful! On the contrary, let people see that it is not the gods who burn the pots, and what can be learned! And then if we only exhibit super-duper beauty, many will not even want to take up work, thinking that I will definitely never do it THAT! We do not brag to each other, but consult and share our experience! For which I love our forum! HURRAH! Good luck to everyone in your endeavors!

[Akimell]

Let me also boast of my little house. For the first time I made both the house itself and the gingerbread dough in general. The child asked for Christmas, could not refuse ... The little hands, of course, were shaking, so it turned out crooked, but she herself was happy with the result. It was interesting to do. And the gingerbread itself turned out to be surprisingly tasty. Children do not eat purchased gingerbread at all, but this one was crushed for a sweet soul. I took the recipe from a textbook for pastry chefs, almost in accordance with GOST. The house turned out to be quite large: about 23 cm by 28 cm and 30 cm in height.

Akimell, a great house turned out, but about the recipe for the dough I would like to learn more about the taste. I see the walls are thick enough, is it soft? I here got hooked on different gingerbread (to make) and collect recipes, especially for the gingerbread board.

Akimell, Elena, a beautiful house turned out! I am also interested in the recipe!
N @ T @, Natalia, here some of the girls gave a link to a site where there are a lot of recipes for gingerbread, and a lot of useful things. I'll try to throw links 🔗 and here 🔗 In general, there are many pages here.

Lena, a very pretty house, big and neat!

Girls, and I have already run out of gingerbread, but there were two huge pans! My family began to quietly pick either a Christmas tree or a bunny near our house, but today I look, there are no deer, and the sled is standing. But how delicious it is this dough from Gerda!

Tanya, come to me, next to me! I have to eat the gingerbread alone. Children live in another country, my husband does not eat sweets. Yesterday I was breaking the house, creaking my soul. I put it in a plastic bag, and sent more than half of it to the freezer. I began to cut the stand for the house piece by piece a long time ago. Yes, indeed, the dough from Gerda is just awesome! I also made another dough (from rye flour), baked different figures, I did not like these gingerbread cookies. And it's a shame to treat them like that. I'll put it in the freezer too, maybe whenever I want.

Lidochka, countrywoman,
Was there only rye flour? I also made dough, but it was rye and wheat in half, I made coasters for houses from it. So I haven't tried it yet, I don't know how it tasted.

Tanya, there was a recipe that you can put 50x50 wheat and rye flour, and in the reviews one madam wrote that she and her mother put only rye flour, so they say it's tastier, well, I listened.In general, she ate, but without any pleasure. Maybe 50x50 different flour will be tastier, then you will tell. But in any case, I will never bake gingerbread from such a dough. Only from Gerda! May God grant her health! And I am very grateful to Lyubochka (Plus-2) for the inspiration and the recipe tip!

I just looked at my recipe, it turns out, not even 50/50, but 2 times more wheat, but there is no cocoa in the dough, as in Gerdin, so I wonder what it tasted like. It is much lighter in color, and due to the lack of cocoa. Here is the prescription amount:
Wheat flour of the highest grade - 240g.
Peeled rye flour - 120g.
Honey - 150g.
Sugar - 150g.
Yolks - 2 pcs
Butter - 50 g
Soda - 0.5 tsp.
Vanillin
Ground ginger -1 tsp.
Cardamom, anise, fennel, coriander, cumin, cloves, cinnamon - a little bit each (I put these, and who likes what spices)
When mixing, I used HP.
1. Heat honey, sugar and butter in a water bath until sugar dissolves. Remove from the bath and cool slightly (but not lower than 70 degrees). Add flavoring. Mix.
2. Mix a glass of wheat flour with spices, pour into the honey-oil mixture, stir thoroughly so that there are no lumps. Cool slightly.
3. Beat the egg yolks. Pour the yolks into the honey mixture cooled to a warm state, grind.
4. Mix rye flour with the remaining wheat flour and soda, then pour a third of this amount into the CP.
5. Pour the egg mixture on top of the flour in a bucket of HP.
6. Turn on the Dough mode (I included Pizza in my Panasonic). When mixed until smooth, start pouring in the remaining 2/3 of the mixture. The kneading took about 10 minutes. When we got a good kolobok, turn it off.
7. The dough should be non-sticky, plastic, dense.
8. Further, in the original recipe, for some reason the dough does not lie off, but it is immediately rolled out, maybe they just did not indicate this, thinking that this should be clear anyway, although for a teapot like me it is not clear at all.
In any case, I sent him to the refrigerator for a day (even 1.5 days left)
9. Roll out the dough on a floured table to a thickness of 0.5-0.7 cm, cut out the blanks for the gingerbread house according to the template. Transfer the workpieces to a baking sheet, spread them out at a distance of at least 2 cm from each other.
10. Bake gingerbread pieces at a temperature of + 220 ° С for about 8 minutes; make sure not to burn.
11. Cool the baked details of the gingerbread house. They can be stored for several days in a closed cardboard box at room temperature until the house is assembled.

No, Tanya, I have a different recipe (so don't worry!). Here's a link https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=330014.0 (I remembered - you can make a hyperlink here).

I also made these gingerbread cookies, 100% on rye flour and lard, but I made big gingerbread cookies with jam - well, I really liked them, but trimming without jam is not at all the same

Well, that means that this is my mistake, I had to do it with jam. And I painted with glaze. And I have dough and butter. Thank you, Natasha, for resolving the issue. Maybe some of the girls would like to make gingerbread cookies from such a dough, but here I charmed him.

Lydia 777
Lida, I read the entire branch there, I asked around for the girls and realized that they needed to be made large like those in Tula, I just ordered the gingerbread boards from Alisa, and they turned out to be big, one gingerbread with 2 parts and jam hung 300g. I also realized that you need not to overexpose in the oven, otherwise they will be harsh, those that I baked correctly - soft, straight melting turned out. Everyone I gave to try - everyone liked it

Natasha, I did not make gingerbread too small, from 10 to 15 cm in diameter. And I didn't make thin ones, from 0.8 to 10 cm of raw dough. I didn't bake it in the oven, they are soft, crumbly, yes, melting, but I did not like the taste itself. Maybe, really, it would be much tastier with jam, I agree. I made the dough for 1 portion, that is, for 1 kg of flour. I didn't bake everything right away, and there were so many. And baked the second half on the 8th, they lie in a box, I don't even want to decorate.Idea! I’ll send my husband to the cellar for some jam. I will cover them with jam, see what happens, what they taste like. I will report tomorrow

Thank you for your kind words .
Yes, the gingerbread is pretty soft. I rolled it to about 0.8 cm. It rose twice in the oven. It tastes pleasant, gingerbread ... And most importantly - not sticky: you know, as sometimes happens - when chewed, gingerbread sticks to the palate so that it is difficult to swallow. Mine can't stand it. And everyone liked this gingerbread. But here, as they say, the taste and color ...

Recipe:
Flour 1 grade - 750 gr.,
Flour in. from. - 250 gr.,
Honey - 300 gr.,
Brown sugar - 300 gr.,
Water - 230 gr.,
Eggs - 2 pcs.,
Butter - 100 gr.,
Salt - 5 gr.,
Soda - 15 gr.,
Lemon to-that - 2 gr.,
Dry spices: cinnamon - 1.5 tsp, cloves - 3 buds, black and allspice - 3 peas each, ground ginger - 0.3 tsp, cardamom - on the tip of a knife.

The mixture of spices was according to the textbook (in percent): cinnamon - 60%, cloves - 12%, allspice - 12, black pepper - 4, cardamom - 4, ginger - 8%.

Mixed all dry ingredients. Dissolved sugar and honey in water. I didn't heat it up much - as soon as everything melted, I turned it off. While I was mixing everything dry, the syrup was almost cold. I drove eggs and heavily softened butter into the syrup, and blurted it out. Little by little I added to the flour mixture and kneaded. Covered with foil and left for a day.

That's how it is. In the recipe, I deviated slightly from what was in the tutorial. If anyone is interested in the original, please contact us.

Akimell, thanks for the recipe, I'll take it to my piggy bank

Girls, as promised, I will report. I covered the gingerbread cookies with plum jam from the back and folded them in two, well, that there were 2 hearts, 2 snowflakes, 2 houses, 2 large clouds. I crushed it with a load, they stayed with me for the night. Today, I slightly smeared it with jam on top, left it to dry open. Then scribbled decorated (if I may say so) with glaze. The jam shines, it turned out so glossy. I've already tried it. Of course, the taste has changed. The jam gave a certain sourness. In general, you can eat, but I would not dare to treat someone

I got a giant over 5 kg. I copied the patterns on a well-known website. Gathering easily. But she did it for a whole week. The granddaughters ate in two days. I'll try to insert a photo

Natasha, show me the pictures

So I put it in that topic, we are already writing not on the topic here or in the topic "End Boards"
A heart of two parts, the bottom circled the board and cut out, between the parts a plum jam.


Here's another one, in this and smeared the top with plum jam

: girl_claping: Thank you! So appetizing, I already presented their taste. And the dostochka is cool, only the toad still strangles me to order it. Now, if someone gave it. And I still need so much more

[ledi]

Here is my third house, of course I like it more than the two previous ones, it turned out to be neater and smoother.

Oh, what great houses everyone has! Super! Well done! I have already given everything away to everyone, I haven't eaten mine yet, it smells worth it)))

professionally done. : feer: the walls are not thin, there is no curvature at all

ledi, thanks, I got my hand a little on the gingerbread. You have a wonderful house, and most importantly you have a sleigh and a horse with Santa Claus !!! Next year I also want to try the sleigh ...

and this is my last

[Akimell]

Akimell, Elena, Ksynya, ledi, all have luxurious gingerbread houses! It's great, after all, that we are all going to make them! It's so nice to look at them, it's still worth it at my house.

This is a house, and how does it just keep the roof

[Vei]

Happy Old New Year to everyone!
My next house:

Vei, just a lace masterpiece!
how long did the decor take?

Veiwhat a wonderful house, I love it !!! Bravo!!!!!

N @ T @,
About 5 nights)))

Stunned !!!! Didn't sleep at all? !!!

Oh horror, that's why I'm afraid of houses, I can't stand the drain
Liza - you are a fine fellow - write out everything so elegantly and in detail

N @ T @,
No, I'm only able to work up to 4 hours)))
Yul, this is so addictive, I go to bed afterwards, but toss and turn for another hour, think about colors, patterns, etc.))))

This is a lace miracle! A very delicate and airy house turned out!

Girls, thank you very much, it's so nice! Today I have another house next in line, but I’m really trying different techniques so far, so they are all different. When I feel my style, I will improve in one thing.

And I have repeated many times - THIS IS VERY TIGHTENING! I don't care about taste, I don't even leave houses at home, I feel sorry for them

I only tried cuttings and substandard, very tasty gingerbread (according to the Merri recipe). The husband suggested not to give the houses to anyone, but to eat them ourselves. And it's easier for me to give it away and not see that it will be eaten than so many hours of labor before my eyes)))

Mamadarahaya !!! Liza! I have no idea how such beauty can be done! This is some kind of miracle! No, not some, this is a lace miracle !!!

Lisa, what a beauty. What kind of patience is needed to do such a miracle. I am delighted.

Such beauty is nizyayayaya, she just needs to admire.

irman,
Ir, I am now painting the last blank of the house, and already thinking about the next game. But if these were spent on gifts for important people, then there is no point in giving the rest, it's a pity, but where to put them?))) I was even confused by this thought ...
But when at least something turns out, then I experience such satisfaction and joy that it is already difficult to stop.
I have tremendous progress in half a month!

Liz, I’ll never do that, I’m not patient enough. I am very glad that you are doing so well, I will watch your progress. I have never seen this topic, I really liked the houses that the girls make here.

I thought so too, three weeks ago * JOKINGLY * Join !!!!

I will read you, maybe I will mature.

Lizochka, well, this is just such a fabulous hut. Rather, for some reason I remembered that in old Soviet films-fairy tales by Alexander Row, the film often begins with such a zbushka with one window. There, an old woman in a handkerchief sat at the window and said: In a certain kingdom, in a certain state, .... And at the end of the film: That's the end of the fairy tale, and who listened - well done. And the shutters were closing.

Vei, Lizaaa, beauty !!! You're doing fine!!

And it is not necessary to make houses, ahead of February 14 - paint hearts large and small, you can bake a gingerbread box in the shape of a heart. The gingerbread theme not only for New Year and Christmas, I looked at the work of experienced craftswomen - so my head was already spinning from this beauty

I join the previous speaker

N @ T @,
Natasha, can you share links to the work of experienced craftswomen, can you in a personal?

I'm a middle-aged aunt, of course, but better on "you" :-)

maybe not in a personal .N @ T @ yes on one half of the roof and near the windows. sledges and deer with felling would have been easier. but so far, it's okay with my hands and boxes in the form of hearts are cool. if only to see how it looks

Natasha, I did not save the links, I scored "painted gingerbread" in Google and received links to the sale of gingerbread, and there was a bunch of gingerbread. The gingerbread box was made by Olesya Golumbevskaya from our website.

N @ T @,
And who is Olesya? I saw the boxes, but not in the form of a heart, so I didn't quite understand how to bake them. Lay out the sides of the mold and bake?

Liza, now Olesya is a rare guest on the forum, because she teaches courses in sugar flowers and is very busy, she was with us under the nickname Alesja, there are her cakes in the gallery, maybe I saw her heart on her page in Odnoklassniki

Found in her gallery https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=83975.0

[chapic]

Take mine too. second in life))).

tightens to draw))).

Natasha, It turned out very nicely! I was very interested in patterns. It seems that they were not made with a nozzle or a cornet, and not with a flood ice, but such clear lines, like a stencil, as it were. So yes?

chapic,
I really liked your house, or rather the whole yard! Everything, as alive and at the same time fabulous. But I also did not quite understand how you made the pattern, and were the icicles from icing?
To be honest, my icicles somehow didn't work out very well, so I don't touch them yet. My motive is not snowy, but I am simply inspired by fairy tales about Hansel and Gretel.

chapic, second, but very beautiful, as I understand it, did you use the stencil? How I like the sleds, I would buy a felling with pleasure, but I haven’t met yet, unfortunately I understand that you can make a template, but the felling is easier

[Vei]

Girls, but my grief is almost grief! I glued my last house, the most advanced in skill, and it fell and crashed. I was so upset!

Liz, don't be upset)
You did it like the Tibetan monks. They make pictures of pollen, and then they take and blow away everything that shows how in everything in this life is not constant !!
Oh how !!
You worked hard, put your soul into it, so it was necessary!
The next house will be even better))

Liza, you and I are in sorrow and in joy.

In-in, but this one will be remembered better than anyone!)))
Do not be sad!)))

Vei, Liza! Do not worry! They say that everything does not happen for the best! Maybe there was a catch in it? But all the next ones will be more beautiful than the previous one !!

[SvetlanaS]

My house stood for the holidays and now we are slowly eating it. While they were cutting off and eating the stand, the fences, everything was fine, but today they cut the house itself (a piece for my grandmother to take with her, and so drink tea) I immediately received a "hat" from my son. Nu-nu, mom! and almost with tears threw something at me and was offended. Although he himself had nibbled the corners, icicles, beads on it before. Well, we agreed with him for a new house.

Did you do the first together? Our mom is very fond of "helping" you give him a piece of dough, a small rolling pin and the child sits playing! So good luck with your further construction! This is a very exciting activity! Let it be a good New Year's tradition: make gingerbread houses with the children!

I baked without him, it's impossible with him, if it helps, then it's enough to play with your piece of dough for a couple of minutes, and when decorating, all the beads and sprinkles and cream immediately fly into your mouth. I will deal with the cakes and knead the dough, make 2 smaller houses.

SvetlanaS, good luck to you and your little helper!

Thank you!

[N @ T @]

Take my house for Hansel and Gretel))))




With houses, perhaps that's all, I turn to hearts and boxes))))

Lizochka, you have such a progress !!! The hand is already confident, does not tremble, the house is a feast for the eyes!

N @ T @,
Natasha, I'm stubborn, if it doesn't work out, then I won't calm down until I win))))
And here I was very seriously carried away by everything, I will continue to study and improve. I have not plunged into this topic like a child.

Oh, what patterns are thin, graceful, straight lace house! I am amazed at such perseverance, when I decorate, I already have no strength and I quickly decorate a blooper. And here - just art!

Vei, Lisaaaa !! I'm crazy !! So beautiful !!!
You are a master !!

Girls, thanks a lot! I myself got unreal pleasure from the process, especially when it began to work out. Plans are now enormous, even the first orders appeared by February 14th.
And the recipients were also delighted, which is especially pleasant when the work is appreciated.

Lizonka, dear!- this is for you from me with admiration! What are you clever! A tear is coming straight through! Well done, wonderful girl with golden hands!

Lisa, well done! You finished it. Very beautiful. Yes, the hand is already much more confident.
And what of the rose nozzle did not work to make a curb along the edge of the roof, as you said?

Eye-catching. As if from a fairy tale

Nope, Aising turned out to be watery and I did not begin to thicken it, I decided next time to learn from something else.

Lisa, I am delighted with such beauty !!! ... You need to have such perseverance, smart girl. I will look forward to your next masterpieces.

Prus - 2,
Lyuba, do you remember what my first house was just a month ago? How ugly he was, and I kept crying that nothing was working out for me)))) and you, Tanya and Vera wiped my nose and supported me!
Thank you girls very much! Thanks to you, I discovered such pleasure and joy of creativity!

Lizonka! I have always believed in you - in your incredible abilities, in your creative nature! And why in the beginning it didn’t work out as I wanted - because I wanted perfection! And you did it! Incredible beauty!

Liza! Very very beautiful! Well done!

Vei, Lizonka, and I am delighted with your houses! If you have such progress in a month, then what will happen next ?! Smart girl!

[nik-irina]

This week I made my first houses, whether I was thinking of putting them here or not.
Today I decided to post and show, but after SUCH beauty my houses
But all the same I will lay them out, though I am not a decorator, and I was in a hurry with their "decoration", and my daughter also "helped" me. I used to draw with a file with a cut off tip, so there could not even be any thin lines on my houses. But I made them !!!!!

And here is the second house from different sides.


The first house went to his mother to wait for his finest hour, the niece walks around him every day and says, "When are we going to eat today?"
And I decided to leave the second at home, it is also packed in cellophane.

Only when it was baked - some gingerbread cookies (from the remaining dough) turned out to be tough, and some are soft enough that you can still eat them now. And the houses are both hard

P.S. dough made gingerbread from Gerda

nik-irina,
Irina, you have a wonderful house! I'm ashamed to put my first next to yours)))
And in order to draw thin lines, it is better to use baking paper cornets from improvised means. There are many videos on YouTube showing how to make them.

For a long time already the holidays have subsided, I went for a walk in Temka, and here life is in full swing! Awesome hobby! We recently gnawed at our huts with sheep, everything was somehow a pity ...

Vei, Thank you.
if I don't buy a pastry syringe until the next houses, then I'll try with baking paper

nik-irina,
It is inconvenient to use a confectionery syringe, or a cornet made of baking paper, or confectionery disposable plastic bags (you cut off a corner and that's it), but ideally buy nozzles for them. Round sizes 0, 1, 2, 3. The most popular are 0 and 1. The pros still have 000, 00. But they are very thin, there is a powder, like starch dust, otherwise it will clog up.

Vei, but I didn’t know that it would be uncomfortable for them, thanks for prompting me.
I will then look for disposable + attachments

Ir, proceed from the fact that for a smooth and even line, even pressing and pressure on the container with icing is necessary. The thinner and more pliable it is (capacity), the easier it is to control the pressure and, accordingly, draw the pattern line. By the way, once again about grinding the powder, until I bought an expensive French one, I didn’t feel the beauty of the process and the result. With her, the lines are wonderful, and the fill is smooth, smooth, like glass, and even with a mother-of-pearl overflow. In general, sheer pleasure.
Watch the video of the famous American Julia M Usher on YouTube. It shows how to twist cornets, how to make Aising, and how to apply a fill from it, and then the basic techniques of "extrusion". She has a lot of very cool lessons and ideas too. I can't stop now)))
Today I kneaded the recipe for Hungarian gingerbread, I will try to bake hearts and decorate for St. Valentine. And the plans also include the Arkhangelsk gingerbread roe, they really are based on burnt sugar ...

Vei,
I wrote it down in my notebook, I will study

[gadassa]

Finally, I got around to show you my first gingerbread house, appreciate

gadassathat no house is a masterpiece! Everyone is so different, but the beauty is indescribable!

Girls, everyone has such beauty! ...
If you still indicated the approximate dimensions ...
And I recently bought a Teskomovsky set called "House
in the village ", a metal mold wall-roof and more
several molds for Christmas gingerbread.
We will try to do architecture with the child!)))

extraordinary beauty! we must also decide and create!

[Dream House.]

I looked through the whole topic from the first page.Such beauty is fabulous, there are simply no words. This year I also kneaded the dough, baked the blanks, but did not have time to decorate. Mine were all smashed, they said it was delicious without decoration. I have a problem with this, how they smell the smell of baking, they immediately flock like bees, and nothing can drive them away, all my plans are ruined.
And I baked this house 3 years ago, I will give it as a gift. He dreamed of buying a large country house, so for his birthday he was given such a house.
Dream House.

I first assembled the house, and then drew windows on it, so we got such curves. Now I would have done differently.
I'd like to try again to make a house, just need to figure out where to send my family for this time.

Selen,
Come on, Lena, join in! It is very interesting and exciting!
And your house is pretty, but what is the lawn with the herringbone made of?

Lawn and Christmas trees made of marmalade. It's soooo sticky, I'm trying to stick it on the gingerbread, but it sticks on my fingers and on the knife. I didn't have enough patience to plant more lawn, that's why it's so short.

["Gingerbread house"]

And the last New Year's.

"Gingerbread house"

Gingerbread dough recipe Gingerbread cookies.
The windows are isomalt.
Bakels Pettinis mastic.

Good afternoon, lovely craftswomen !!! I haven't come to visit you for a long time, so much is new !!!!!! My next house ...