Gingerbread house (how to assemble and decorate)

[Taranolka]

Taranolkawhat a house! Cool !!!

+100.

[Elena]

Elena, Hurrah!!! I'm not lonely!!!

Added Saturday 22 Oct 2016 3:57 PM

Irina, DonnaRosa, thanks)) but I'm not very ... I even know why ... He is naked and not living.

I have a second ready. And it's not that. I don’t know what I want. It seems to be normal, but not ah ...

Olya, and I like your house texture "under the stone" - is it a rolling pin or a mat?
It seems to me that it will turn out well if the volume of the stones is emphasized with a brush, in lighter or even white shades.

but I don't really ... I even know why ... He is naked and not living.

I liked the door. There are not enough windows.

[Irina]

Irina, no, it's just icing from a bag.
Yes, perhaps I'll try to play with the color, thanks for the hint

DonnaRosa, yes, it also seems to me that we need to make a window next to the door.

[Taranolka]

Taranolka, Olya, awesome houses !!)
What is missing...? A window, a bullfinch on the roof)) ... something brighter ... then the house will become "more comfortable")

[Tatyana]

Tatyana, I don't want a bullfinch, I need windows, that's for sure

[Taranolka]

Taranolka,
Olga, I like the house. But something is missing. Perhaps the stones should be shaded, as Irina wrote.

[Taranolka]

Taranolka, but it seems to me that the house will definitely find its admirer. It is very strict, stylish, all chocolate with a bright wreath and covered in snow. Christmas!!!

How long does it take to bake Gerda's dough? It is completely unusual to me, dense. I will bake it into a crouton, then I will not bake it. Here a stand under the house was baked. she's still kind of soft, as if not baked. How thick should the dough be rolled out onto the support? Yes, and I see, sometimes the details of the house are shiny. How is it better to lubricate them?

Added Sunday 23 Oct 2016 08:45 PM

Carrying my first rehearsal house. Gerda's dough. House at the base 7 x 8 cm, height 12 cm.Fir trees 11 and 17 cm

[Taranolka]

Taranolka, a cool house, I would say stylish and sustained in the same style, you could also put a small garland around the door, but not very fluffy, such that it would be combined with a wreath, or a couple of bells tied with a ribbon could be attached to the doors.
The window next to the doors, it seems to me, would not look very good, there would be too many windows, and the doors would have to be made smaller or on the side.
Next time, you can try, instead of a wreath on top, make a small window, and attach a wreath on the door.
Would you like to put a little cockerel on the roof? type of outbuilding?

Added on Tuesday 25 Oct 2016 7:53 PM

floksovodik, Lena, nice, neat little house. I can't tell you anything about the test, maybe the girls will tell you. In appearance - the gingerbread cookies are smooth and seem to be baked normally. You can grease with egg whites or cream to make them shine a little. Or try to cover it with red varnish.

I smeared with cream. But here's what I noticed on Gerda's test. When I collect the scraps and mix and roll them again, the dough is terribly tight! And after baking it is not comme il faut. Some divorces. Maybe my dough is too tight? A little dough diluted the honey-oil, it became softer (not pruning), but some kind of living thing, creeps. I'm already carving on the rug.
Lera, I made this house out of your dough. It could have been rolled out thinner (I forgot that there was more soda there)

It somehow suits me better. Not so sugary-sweet, and I'm more comfortable working with him. For houses, soda just needs to be reduced, probably

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, Flax, for a house it is certainly better to reduce the soda, you can even 3 times, try to reduce the powder by 100 grams, maybe it will not be so sweet? I somehow added one more egg and 100 grams of flour more, the rest I left according to the recipe, like the gingerbreads were not so sweet.
For color, you can replace 40-50 grams of flour with cocoa.

[Katya1234]

Katya1234, Merri, thanks for the tip!

Sahara, Lera, thanks for the advice, I will definitely take everything into account))

floksovodikhow cute! Also with Christmas trees!

Girls, please tell me on this issue.
I plan to transfer the ready-made gingerbread to my mother in Italy.
The package will go to her for a week.
Tell me how to pack them correctly and in what material so that they reach mom in edible form.
I will bake on Sunday, the dough is ready.
The package will be dispatched on Tuesday.
Thanks in advance to everyone!

[Elena]

Lera, I made this house out of your dough.

ElenaWhat a beautiful house! How exquisitely decorated!
Where is the recipe Lera's test look?

This is it?

Recipe for soft gingerbread cookies that you need to bake right away. (Sahara)

[vorobyshek]

vorobyshek, Valentine, pack each gingerbread in a separate cellophane or polypropylene bag and tie it tightly with a ribbon, you can also put a cardboard or a laminated backing in the size of the gingerbread in each bag, cover the whole parcel with a bubble wrap, and put the gingerbread cookies so that they also alternate with this film. The girls also wrote that the gingerbread bags were glued to the cardboard boxes with tape. For a week on the road, they will not have anything. The main thing is to pack it as vacuum as possible so that the air does not get in.

Added on Friday 28 Oct 2016 00:10

A.lenka, Elena, everything is correct a house for this recipe.

I completed another house.
I looked through many pictures of New Year's houses (not gingerbread) and my brain put this information together.
4 days of work. All details are edible. Decorating glaze, mastic and sugar dragee. Electricity is supplied and the windows glow in the dark.
I'm glad!!!
By the way, this is my tenth anniversary house. Not this year, but everything.

Photos from different angles will be later, this is so, in a hurry.

[Taranolka]

Taranolka, dear mom, no words, MASTERPIECE! and a gnome or a rabbit (hard to see) from the mastic?Olga, liar, you probably riveted these houses for several years. I collected my first two (for my daughter and niece in DR), I was so tired, kapets! The third ate was mastered by September 1, and it’s still not good, and you’re probably 10th anniversary in 10 days. Yes, you have snow and a pre-New Year mood, but today I cut the last roses and cleaned the foliage. what a New Year, the sun is shining!

[Taranolka]

Taranolka, Olga, this is the best house I've ever seen! So realistic, just a delight!

[vorobyshek]

vorobyshek, Valentine, pack each gingerbread in a separate cellophane or polypropylene bag and tie it tightly with a ribbon, you can also put a cardboard or a laminated backing in the size of the gingerbread in each bag, cover the whole parcel with a bubble wrap, and put the gingerbread cookies so that they also alternate with this film. The girls also wrote that the gingerbread bags were glued to the cardboard boxes with tape. For a week on the road, they will not have anything. The main thing is to pack it as vacuum as possible so that the air does not get in.

Thanks a lot !!!!!!!

[mamo4ka]

mamo4ka, Larissa, no, I'm not lying, my first last year's houses seem to be on the 15th or 13th page of this topic. I didn't do it during the year, I need a New Year mood.
Yes, about the snow, it's some kind of kapets this year, it's piled up, as if it's already February, everything has skidded. The trees are still green under the snow, the leaves did not even have time to turn yellow, let alone fall. Until the end of September + 20 + 25 ° was, and immediately bam, winter. Left without autumn this year.
Merri, Irina, thank you, I'm proud of myself. True, my back ached from zeal, today I have been lying all day. Construction is hard work

[Salmina_78]

Girls, can I try to upload my work for the first time? I worry, of course, that I will receive a portion of criticism from venerable gingerbread makers, but I really want to participate in your friendly conversations. in general, I have a gingerbread house))).I wanted to make it for a long time, but somehow I was afraid, and here in the garden my son has a handicraft contest "New Year's Round Dance of the Snow Maiden". and I, with all my penchant for adventures, did it))). Its size is decent, the diameter of the stand is 29 cm, the height is about 19 cm. And so only photos and templates remained). The dough is recommended by Dasha Rokitskaya

Salmina_78, Nina, very cute, neat and beautiful!
1st place and son's pride in mom is guaranteed

Salmina_78, very nice house, neat, embroidery turned out great! Nina, I also really liked how you decorated the lower part of the house (the white part with a wavy edge) and the figures are pretty, Snow Maiden in a painted fur coat😍😍 And we also have a special topic about gingerbread houses. Take your house there

Irina Fina, thanks for the comment, very nice words))). And about the roses, it's poinsettia))). So, it doesn't look like it turned out). and on the windows there is a garland of "mistletoe". anyway, so it was intended

Girls, good afternoon! I have a question about isomalt windows, how best to make them? I read the 3rd day of Google, everywhere they write different ways. One way is to color isomalt crystals in a bag and pour them into the window of unbaked dough, and the second is to first bake the part, and then fill the window with melted colored isomalt. Can you please tell me what's best? Thank you in advance!

[gitaneka]

gitaneka, better colored melted .. It melts at a very high temperature.

[gitaneka]

Tatyana, thank you very much! And the gingerbread does not dry from the fact that it is sent to the oven twice? And tell me, please, after I poured the melted isomalt into the gingerbread, how long should it be sent to the oven and at what temperature? or not, and leave to dry?

gitaneka, better colored when melted .. It melts at a very high temperature.

[gitaneka]

gitanekaIf you pour it with melted isomalt, you don't need to put it in the oven. Isomalt hardens quickly. Store in a dry, dark place. True, after a while, isomalt, like any caramel, can fade and become slightly sticky.
Therefore, girls advise melting the marmalade. At the same time, the gingerbread is not in the oven for long and does not lose its qualities)

[gitaneka]

Thank you so much! Some kind of special marmalade must be from pastry shops?

gitanekaIf you pour it with melted isomalt, you don't need to put it in the oven. Isomalt hardens quickly. Store in a dry, dark place. True, after a while, isomalt, like any caramel, can fade and become slightly sticky.
Therefore, girls advise melting the marmalade. At the same time, the gingerbread is not in the oven for long and does not lose its qualities)

[gitaneka]

gitaneka, no .. just marmalade without sprinkled sugar))

[Tatiana, pssaha]

Tatiana, pssaha Thank you very much! I found a detailed description of the technology with marmalade on the forum, I will try.
Can you ask another question - I have already purchased isomalt, in crumbs, but there is no instruction for it, please tell me how to melt it correctly - just in a saucepan, and over medium heat, stir it, and paint it already hot? Or if in the microwave, how much? I read that in the microwave in silicone molds you just need to warm it up.

gitaneka, no .. just marmalade without sprinkled sugar))

[gitaneka]

gitanekaI drown in a micron in a silicone mold. Pulse for 30 seconds ... it will begin to melt and bubble .. Pour onto a silicone mat. And it's VERY hot!

I show my work. House 20x22x22. I don’t do that anymore. The stand under it flexes, I had to come up with a solid foundation, otherwise everything would fall apart. Girls, from what do you make windows in houses, isomalt or your own caramel? I make from isomalt, but over time they become so cloudy that all beauty disappears.





Constructive criticism is always welcome.

Added on Friday 18 Nov 2016 11:11 PM

I completed another house.
I looked through a lot of pictures of New Year's houses (not gingerbread ones) and my brain put this information together.
4 days of work. All details are edible. Decorating glaze, mastic and sugar dragee. Electricity is supplied and the windows glow in the dark.

Very nice house! What kind of test do you make? And how does this structure hold up? Is there something extra inside? Marmalade windows?
I would not undertake this ... Well, only for very big money)))))

[holgan]

holgan, Gerda's dough, candy windows, keeps on icing, nothing inside. I did it not for money, but for myself, I wanted to))
You have a fabulous house, just a hut of Santa Claus! And what are the walls covered with, I can't make out?

Posted on Monday 21 Nov 2016 11:53 AM

I have two more houses ready. Gingerbread minimalism

[Olga]

Olga, wow minimalism! embroidery on the house! beautifully!

[holgan]

holgan, a beautiful New Year's house! it seems that everything is shining!

[Tatyana]

TatyanaThank you very much for your advice! I tried on the weekend, bought 2 marmalades - jelly, and sandwich in briquettes, without sugar. While I tried it with jelly - it turns out very cool, convenient, fast, simple. This is genius! I haven't tried the sandwich yet.

gitaneka, no .. just marmalade without sprinkled sugar))

[Salmina_78]

Salmina_78, Ninahow I was hooked by your beautiful house! You look at it - and you see how much love, patience and imagination has been invested in it :) Your poinsettia is quite recognizable, maybe you just had to add green leaves to it, so that you wouldn't confuse a Christmas flower with anything, but even without it - the house is very nice, it is lively, fabulous, filled with warmth and joy of the holiday. I really, really liked it :)))

Hello! I have a question about Gerda's gingerbread dough. I cooked for the last time, and probably the mixture has cooled down below 68 degrees, I do not have a thermometer, I check the temperature by touch every time, this time I did not guess. In general, I rolled out the parts, and they practically did not rise in height in the oven, as usual. Apparently the baking powder didn't work, I don't know. I have been working with this test for six months, and this is the first time. Can this dough somehow be saved?

Can this dough somehow be saved?

why save him? It is generally undesirable for houses to rise during baking. This dough for houses is used because, in principle, it practically does not rise and does not deform. Many, including myself sometimes, do not add baking powder to the dough at all for 3D structures. Just roll a little thicker.

I use it not only for houses. I got used to my oven, and I get them tastier and softer than sugar cakes, well, I can't get soft cakes from her recipe. And everyone really likes gingerbread dough from Gerda, although they write on the forum that it is not for gingerbread and is too hard. I usually come out soft. But that's not the point, I want to understand the error in technology, why it happened. I have gingerbread cookies of the same shape and size from different mixes, they were rolled out the same, the products are the same, and something is wrong with the latter. I want to understand the reason, is it really that the honey-oil mixture is too cold.

why save him?

girls help! tell me, I baked the details of the house, began to glue them, and the walls are soft, they bend, which I did seem to do everything according to the recipe. maybe I didn't knead the dough enough, but the dough shouldn't be steep in the recipe either! what a nitak! prompt pozhaaaluystaaa !!!

[tatiana]

tatiana, from what dough? .. what thickness? .. Maybe not finished baking? .. How long did they lie down after baking? .. What were they from the oven right away? Maybe the house is very humid? ..

You have a fabulous house, just a hut of Santa Claus! And what are the walls covered with, I can't make out?

Thank you, the walls are kandurin)) I didn't want a lot of glaze

[TAHR]

My first creation. I needed a craft for kindergarten, I wanted something unusual

Added Saturday 10 Dec 2016 06:14 AM

TAHRI think it turned out well

Thank you! Thanks to all of you, I have been admiring your work for a whole year.

TAHRas a beginner, a very amazingly good job. I also once started with houses, but my first-borns turned out worse for me.

TAHR, the beauty. I also want to make a house with a bunch on the roof. What is the size of the house? The cockerel is very cute. And the tree behind the house is beautiful. And the color is so interesting green.

House 7 * 8, height 15, made of shortcrust pastry for cookies. Thank you very much for your kind words.

Craftswomen, good afternoon! Help me please! On the weekend I will make a house, and the question arose: how to fill the windows? I will make the house as a gift, and, perhaps, it will stand at home for two weeks before the donation. Can the caramel melt? I read about gummy windows, but I can't find the technology. Can you tell me?

Good morning!
Alexandra, marmalade is needed without filling. How to cook: in a saucepan + - 50 ml of water (maybe a little less), 10 pcs marmalade and boil. I cook until a drop dripping from a spoon starts to leave a thread behind. Or you can try on a soft ball.
I do not know how to explain (((, I hope I could.

binka, thanks a lot for the answer! And another question: if I understood correctly, then pour the mass into a ready-made gingerbread? How long can such windows stand?

[Alexandra Sergeevna]

Alexandra Sergeevna, month exactly) Pour the finished mass into the window. Example,

Girls, thank you all for the topic, tips, recipes. I made a house for the first time, dough from Gerda (very tasty!) I made two houses, for my daughter and nephews, size 20-25cm. There are many flaws, but I really liked the process!

[Evgeniya]

Evgeniya, nice houses, especially the second one, and the pipe at the first one is simply gorgeous, like a real one!