We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies

[Elya]

Girls, can I comment on all the gingerbreads later? I am now dismantling the Chinese parcel. So many little things came! An extruder, a couple of attachments and four types of boxes for gingerbread, and a set of cuttings for snowflakes, just in time for NG! All, boasted, I will go further to disassemble. Something else I haven't considered by
Elyahere are my riches

Well, so little things ...

elena88, good wealth. Boxes for what came out? Where did you get the link?

elena88, congratulations on your purchase!

kolobashka, Var, if you subscribe to Tao, then I will give you a link. And so you can search on Ali. They cost me from 20 to 32 rubles per piece. Don't know if it's expensive or cheap? I didn't find it in Russia at all. And from China, delivery is more expensive than the product itself. But I still plan to write out cellophane bags.

[tuskarora]

tuskarora, successful session, gingerbread will wait.
Pluss, Irina, I think you won't regret it!
elena88, Lena, you are serious about packing. Class! And with the mastic you will be serious.
ledi, Vera, it's a shame, but health is more important, there will be more reasons for gingerbread.
Nehorushka, thanks for the tip.

[Larissa u]

I came to cry ... Tomorrow I have a course with Nellie Josephsen ... I am lying with a temperature. There is no voice at all, it's a shame to tears ... 😢😢😢
It would be in our city, I would spit on everything and go, and also go 300 km 😪😪😪😪

Larissa u, Larochka dear, get well soon! KAMAZ with gingerbread will also turn over on your street.

thank you Len!

Larissa, Oh, Laris, how unlucky you are. You've been looking forward to these courses ... Well, don't be upset, I think they will be more than once. But in such a state it is better not to go. It is necessary to feel sorry for yourself, first of all, and those around you. Now you need to lie down. It is not known how the disease will come out if you stay on your feet all day

ledi, Ver, thanks!
All the same, I collected everything, if there is no temperature at night, I'll go!

Larissa, I hold my fists for you

Girls, what am I going to tell you ... it's just some kind of obsession ...
I wake up this morning I slept all night, there was no temperature. I’m lying down, weakness anyway, no, I think I won’t go! Then my husband jumps off and says, get up, let's go! I think, well, if my husband voluntarily is going to take me, I'm going!
Gathered, we leave. We need to refuel. The time is already 7:00 am, refueling from 6:00. We call in for one - closed. The second one is closed. We don't have this at all, we are in shock. Suddenly, the husband remembers that he forgot his license. We come back. We take away the license, go to the gas station again! Openly, thank God, we refuel and move on. Downpour, wind, fog. We drive 150 km, halfway, a car breaks down. Nothing is clear, the car stopped pulling, barely barely drives. We drive off to the gas station. We understand that we need to call the repair team. We call them, tell them everything, they advise us to return home on the sly, if we suddenly deafen completely, they will drive up.
Let's go back ..... As if nothing had happened. Slow at first, then faster and faster, the car is fine. I'm sitting at home in shock. A complete feeling that something did not let me see Nelly ...
Well, how can there be so many coincidences !!!! ??
My husband was terribly upset, but I'm thinking, maybe God was saving something ?? !! (it's better to think so, otherwise I'll start crying)

Larissa u, Larissa think so, the signs of fate are given to us for a reason ... Do not worry, do not be in pain, but there will still be sooo many courses

Larissa, that's the story! And it seems to me that fate has taken it away from something ... Don't worry, it's better so!

Girls, thanks for your support, I try to think that everything is for the best!
Honestly, money is also a pity. Superfluous as it is not found .... Just in the trail.Since I’ll hardly make up my mind on such a waste ...
No no no!!! All goes to good!!!

Larissawhat is not done is all for the best. It's a shame, of course. but in everything you need to see the positive. really so many incidents are not easy. right to come back. will still be super. and the courses will not be alone. Get well

Larissa, but with regards to money. so there is such an order - thank you, God, for taking the money) maybe there would be big expenses., but God took away

Larissa u, Lar, well, it really is not destiny. Exactly Natkamor said the Lord took the money. Think so. And do not try to become limp !!!

Girls, dear! Thanks again to everyone!

Larissa u, I support the previous speakers. And don't hurt.

Larissa u, Larissa, this is a story! Straight some kind of mysticism! This is definitely a sign from above, you could not go there!
Get well and tune in for the best!

How much New Year's beauty they have done! The eye rejoices
Girls, but tell me, please, how do you explain to customers what needs to be done to make the gingerbread soft? In winter, I switch to a recipe for thin crumbly cookies, which should be dry. And I really want gingerbreads, but I wonder if my Bashkirs will understand if the gingerbreads become completely oak ... There are those that are hung on the tree, they will completely dry out and that's all ... And the gingerbreads that are initially soft, are they plump? Not too heavy for a tree?

And take care of yourself! The weather is bad everywhere now ... Be healthy!

Ira, I mean, how do you explain? As we write here, we also explain: put gingerbread cookies in a container with a lid overnight and put half an apple or a slice of black bread or a cup of water in the same place. And in the morning there will be soft gingerbread. All. Like, these are the magic gingerbread. Hard on the tree so as not to break, and for tea (after a little manipulation) soft. I think the Kazakhs will appreciate it.

[How to use xanthan in icing painting]

How to use xanthan in icing painting
Yrochka, Ira, and I have a counter question: how do you do gold icing? Is this some kind of secret technology or can you share it? I just tried to pour kandurin into icing, the effect was not impressive.

elena88, not a secret at all. To make it shine, you need not pour it into the icing itself, but with a brush on top. To breed Kandurin. At the same time, paint with icing a couple of tones darker than kandurin. Looks better. On a lighter color, non-shiny bald spots will be noticeable.

Ira, tell me this: what are you, when you made gold frames, painted everything on top with a brush ?! Did you dilute Kandurin with vodka? And how did you add xanthan? Otherwise, I diluted it with water and now stands in the refrigerator like an orphan.

elena88, yes, she did it on top. So it’s fast. First, dilute the xanthan chuuuuteku in some water. So that not a gel turns out, but just a suspension of kandurin is supported by this liquid. So for the airbrush I also do it with a brush when, then you can have more kandurin. And you can also have a little dye there and you can make any color. From gold, bronze or emerald, for example. You don't have to buy a lot of flowers, I mean. Previously, I used to hoar around with everyone, but now I only take gold and silver.

Yrochka, Ira, thanks for the info. Honestly, you disappointed me ... I was hoping there was some secret of golden icing, so that later I wouldn't waste time on coloring. Eh, I'll have to paint again!

[elena88]

elena88, just according to my many years of observation among the people, for the most part, it flies into one ear, flies into the other. So it was when I soaped, and when I sewed toys. When they stop looking at them and want to eat, even what flew in will not work already. When I only started to deal with gingerbread and was subscribed to our gingerbread elite on Instagram, they periodically had a question about firmness, buyers did not expect such a setup and were unhappy. I think you can make a small label?
And this ... I have Bashkirs, not Kazakhs) By the way, they also have their own national gingerbread, it is stuffed and sliced. Persuaded to participate in the "Tourist souvenir" competition from the Chamber of Commerce of the Republic of Bashkortostan.There was a gastronomic nomination. Well, I'm waiting for the results. My "Bashkirs":
And either the weather influences that way, or the body is harmful, but I don't want to do anything. Absolutely. Sadness is sad. I just make myself draw. Maybe when the deadline catches up, it will be at least easier with these blanks ...

And this one is for a gingerbread card

And a bunch of snowmen, like I already had. Different in complexity.

Yrochka, Ira, sorry, confused the native Bashkirs with foreigners.
As far as links are concerned, only inactive links can be inserted. And you can also hide it under the spoiler for reliability. Who needs to see and go to the address so, insert, do not be shy.

Yeah, I can imagine what beauty you paint! I'm still from those snowmen in culture shock. Itself one drawing zhaomyachila, but I do not know whether hands will reach. Now I play with gingerbread. Nothing serious, but it takes a lot of time.

Stained glass ...
I learned so much here! Our local gingerbread community has stalled at the fill level. I will amaze thanks to you girls!

And stained glass gingerbread in my performance is unlikely to be a masterpiece. Something design does not suit me. The kalyaks-smalls are solid. Childish primitivism. Already rummaged through vector drawings. I look, I like it. I start to do - bullshit comes out

Yrochka, Ira, very beautiful drawings!
Hope you get a prize!
And what is the size of your deer and where are there so many of them?

Katerina79, the deer are scanty, even where they are. It can be patterned on balls or on sweaters for bears and men.

Lera Sahara You threw a link to a store with dry dyes, but do not tell me which ones are better in quality than those that follow the link or Ukrasa?

[Mona1]

it should be put so that the apple does not come into contact with the gingerbread. because one part can soften more, and I didn't like the smell of the apple in the gingerbread. As I understand it, Ira has not decorated them yet

Girls, and if I need to quickly soften the gingerbread cookies, I put them vertically in the pan, cover the pan with a plastic multi-boiler, put a damp wrung-out cloth on it (on the holes) and cover the double boiler with a lid with a cloth (so that the fabric doesn't dry out quickly). A three-liter enamelled pot, a double boiler with a diameter, like the lid of this pot, it seems to stand on it, without falling inside. The pan turns out as if under such a damp hood. Half a day - and the gingerbreads have softened, or even less. Depends on the degree of dryness.

Mona1, Tanya, cool way!

[Vei]

but I have continuous orders, there is not enough time for masterpieces, but the Snow Maidens are still all different)) these gingerbread cookies left for the fair and the festival.

Vei, how great! Dear grandfathers!

Vei, Lisa, what elegant and New Year's gingerbread you have! Class !!!

Lisa, how beautiful! Snow maidens look like you.

Vei, Liza, have you decided to join the Stakhanovites too ?! Impressive volumes. and the faces of the Snow Maidens are pretty. Forgive me, please, if the question is not on the topic: you got a job working in a gingerbread workshop. Is it still there or am I missing something?

Vei, wow, this is a quick job! And the Snow Maidens really - each - with its own facial expression. And Frosts are of Nashin's blood, nor any Klausy there.

VeiVery beautiful openwork snowflakes and Snow Maiden with Santa Claus, just like from a Russian folk tale, but I still can't dare to draw faces, but I really like it!

girls, I beg your pardon, I read about the hardness of gingerbread and apples, etc. options (problems in my opinion)
but I don't see one way that I use: in the microwave for 30-40 seconds, depending on the size of the gingerbread - and the softest delicious gingerbread is ready.
I just found three last year's gingerbread (and the other day I thought that everything, after all, had already been eaten, no, still remained)
here in the micra - and it's soft :-)

I do not recommend doing that. I don't know what the trick is, but I wrote about similar experiments a couple of months ago.Already at 10 seconds, the gingerbread burned to a black coal, then for almost a day I aired the apartment from the smell of burning. I didn't understand why, but be prepared for such a result))

may depend on the composition of the dough and microwave power. but nothing ever burned for me

There is also a nuance that after the microwave, if the gingerbread is not eaten right away, it becomes even more oak than it was before.

[elena88]

elena88, yesterday I experimented with boiled condensed milk filling - IT TURNED! very tasty. Chocolate gingerbread with condensed milk! Bomb!

Marina, share the recipe, please

zaman, are the gingerbread soft? Otherwise I can't get to them.

diveroni, elena88, I bake according to Irina Khlebnikova's recipe - honey dough. With flour there you need to be careful not to overdo it. let it stick, but the gingerbread is soft and does not "breathe" with soda. Due to the stickiness of the dough, the edges stick well together and the filling does not flow out. I press only a little. It is not necessary to pinch and twist the edges into braids like in Vyazma. I did round ones, but I think that complex shapes can be made. I roll out the layer a little thinner than usual and make two identical cakes. On one bed there is boiled condensed milk (a teaspoon for a diameter of 8 cm), and I cover with the other cake. I press the edges lightly. With a toothpick I make several holes on top so that the air comes out and the gingerbread is not very convex, otherwise it is not convenient to paint.

zaman, Marin, well, at least show me what happens. As I understand it, it looks like goat dough with burnt sugar. Only goats without honey. And here is burnt and honey. Right?

elena88, ha! They had already been devoured ... I didn't even have time to paint, it was a trial batch .. Tomorrow I'll bake and take a picture! According to the test, yes, there is sugar and honey. If I make chocolate gingerbread, then I mix the sugar with instant coffee. And you get a cool taste if you take orange juice (naturally hot) instead of water. And here's my postcard for you.

[kolobashka]

And they finally brought the boxes to me.

kolobashka, Varya, congratulations! Packaging is very ennobling to work.

[What should be used to grease the gingerbread before baking or after baking, so that it turns dark from a light gingerbread?]

Girls, something looked at the table of contents, but did not find the answer to your question. What should be used to grease the gingerbread before baking or after baking, so that it turns dark from a light gingerbread? Dough without added cocoa.

Hungarian varnish, only the dye is brown, not red.

Elizabeth, smack !! I wouldn't have thought of it in life !! Here is red - please, and brown ...

Husky, here I have it, but I don't remember who wrote it, it seems Tanya Mona After baking, grease while still hot with an egg shaken with 1 tablespoon of strong black coffee. The gingerbread gets a glossy surface and icing is better on it

No, Elechka, I fished it from the Internet, but I don't paint this method brown, only gives it a little shade. I have a dough with cocoa, and I mix the yolk for lubrication with a dessert spoon of strong coffee, but the effect is not impressive, in truth. Here are my monkeys, the one on the left - the surface of the gingerbread is smeared with yolk and coffee. I would say that the more cocoa in the dough affects the color in this case. And Husky has dough without cocoa, so coffee in the lubricant will not help at all.

[Larissa u]

and I seem to have been accused of lying. It's unpleasant to tears just. Somehow I'm not used to this ...
(Read "gratitude" from KIZYA in profile)

Larissa u, Larissa, do not pay attention!
believe you! it was not your day, it so happens that the trip did not work out correctly, you decided to return home.

Larissa u, Larisa, do not bother. After all, in fact, each of these two words separately is a compliment. And their combination (without going into the situation) is AAAH what a compliment. And in our business without this you will not create anything worthwhile.

unpleasantly all the same awful ... I raised four daughters, grandchildren are growing up, and here is such an accusation. Most importantly, SENSE ??? WHAT FOR? To draw attention? so I'm not deprived of it.
I’m at work now, I called my husband, and he’s laughing! says: And I probably wouldn't have believed it either!
and somehow it became easier at once.But all the same, without knowing the person, it is not worth to offend like this in passing.
As a believer, I pray for her. Maybe I have had enough. maybe they deceived a lot ... God forbid!

Larissa, maybe she is not in the sense that she does not believe, but in the fact that we are too superstitious, or something. the person simply did not believe that these were signs, and did not doubt what had happened. but in general, we pass by and forget) and about what happened, and about the discussions)) everything will be as it should be.

Larissa u, Lar, I cannot understand the opponent. That is, according to her, it turns out that you paid the money and did not go just on a whim? For what? In spite of mom's ears freezing? I can still understand when you sleep at school and make excuses for the teacher. Why then? I want to understand the logic of a person purely out of interest. How did she reason? It seems to me that any person in life has stories about which you prefer not to spread precisely because of their implausibility. In any case, I will definitely have a couple of them. And when, after a sufficient number of years have passed, you begin to remember them, you will sometimes even doubt yourself. Was there such a thing? Could this have happened? But thank God there are witnesses. And you still understand what's still in your mind. And this is not a figment of your sick imagination ...

elena88, Len, thanks, but I already forgot

[Ljna]

girls, baked gingerbread cookies in February according to I. Khlebnikova's recipe, they turned out very tasty and soft. Made with a filling of mashed currants, greased with sugar syrup on top.

girls, any gingerbread cookies, if baked with filling and covered with icing immediately, will be soft and tasty!

I, in the month of January of this year, baked an old Polish gingerbread. Cut into three pieces and spread with apricot jam. I wrapped it in silicone baking material and ... safely forgot about it. Here the other day I began to disassemble the locker and found something wrapped. Looked at this gingerbread. Long remembered what kind of gingerbread. I remembered. Dry, but you can nibble. I put it in a container with a slice of apple. A few days later, fresh, as if freshly baked. Every night I cut myself a bite and enjoy. Vkuuuuuusno !!

Ljna, And you did not thicken the currants with anything, well, how for strudel, for example, with starch? Just rubbed and that's it? It seems to me a bit wet for the filling. The juice didn't run out?

brewed with starch

[Yrochka]

Girls, forgive me, asshole for not commenting on your work, there is absolutely no time! I look, but I have no time to write
Yrochka, Ira, your work is like a breath of fresh air on the forum! I get such aesthetic pleasure from your gingerbread, as I went to a museum, honestly! Just standing ovation!
Mona1, Tanya, you have grown SO! You make awesome gingerbread!
ledi, Vera, I really liked your monkeys and Santa Clauses! cool!
Sahara, Lera, as always, I am in a loss for your efficiency. So many, so different, very colorful, I admire you!
Girls, forgive who I have forgotten, you are all great clever girls and craftswomen!
I'll show my last ones, otherwise Alenka swears at me that I don't. Maybe someone will need ideas.
All my gingerbreads are made from Lencor dough. For the most part I did the felling myself, unsubscribed about this in the appropriate Temko.
"New Year's openwork"





"Mitten-felt-cap set"

"Tree sticks"


Well my "New Year's monkeys"

Nansy, Natasha, everything is simply incredibly beautiful! your openwork is delightful, and the monkeys are so good-natured and cute, just bravo !!!

Nansy, straight more tender

Natasha, thanks for the gingerbread!

NansyNatasha, what can I say? The beauty is incomparable! And even simple Christmas trees look impressive. The openwork classics are mesmerizing.
Hat disarray set - the feeling of a holiday. And the monkeys are cute. What a smooth filling!

Nansy, Natalia, I can not walk by! Just super beauty! Do you fill the path first, then fill it? The edges are so flat!

I really want to add a rat here that falls with delight And not one
Here, I found it!

Elena_Kamch, thank you very much!
Yes, first I make a contour, then draw a mesh inside the openwork and then fill it

Natal, does the contour have time to dry out by the time of filling? Or not? Probably, it depends on the speed of work ... and if the contour dries up, is it bad for filling? Or is it normal? It didn't seem to me very much.But again, the reasons when the gingerbread are the first, maybe a lot)))))))

Yes, I'm also interested in the outline. I read in this thread that you have to wait to dry out. And I watched the video, they immediately filled it in and did not understand how best ...

The contour and fill are done with icing of different consistency. Therefore, the contour grasps very quickly. Circle 5 gingerbreads and fill in turns. It will be the most.

I fill in when the contour is dry, it's more convenient for me. When the contour is damp, then I often lubricate it with a toothpick, with which I smear the jellied icing

Nansy, Natasha, wonderful gingerbread !!!
The openwork is very beautiful!
The monkeys are so mysterious!

Nansy, Natasha, openwork, snow-white, well, I really like it !!!! such a neat job!

thanks girls!

[Nansy]

Nansy, Your New Year's openwork set is incomparable! And here are my birds))

zaman, Marina, the birds are good! I like these winter gingerbreads! Does it seem to me, or is the fill a little uneven on the white part?

zaman, excellent bullfinches

Nansy,Pluss, Thank you for the compliments. Yes, the fill is uneven - I made a thicker icing ((In general, to be honest, I always suffer with it, sometimes it's thick, sometimes it's empty. I just can't catch the desired consistency ..

zaman, beautiful, and loved it! Did you paint the white feathers on the wings with paint? or is it all icing?

DaNiSa, all icing, mixed immediately with a toothpick until it grabbed.

Marina, Thank you!

zaman, Marina, wonderful bullfinches. I have long dreamed of drawing birds. At least don't come in here, I want to repeat everything right away. You know, if you use a thin brush, then the feathers can be made more effective and it is easier to blend with a brush. The gingerbreads turned out to be very wintery!

People, and how much powder to add for standing icing, you need to make needles on the tree, an open star with a nozzle, but mine doesn't want to stand

[ledi]

Girls, maybe someone will need an idea. my last three gingerbread before illness. In general, I have an inflamed, pinched nerve. Girls, do not sit over gingerbread for a long time. Warm up in between decorating. I can't tell you what pain it is. I can neither sit, nor walk, nor lie. Now I am typing while standing. I already missed HP, did not leave for three days

Faith ... I can imagine what it would be like. Get well soon!
And the idea is superb. Very nice, here is the tenderness of these paws that peep out of their socks - like a kitten and a puppy

ledi, Vera, get well soon!
and your gingerbreads are cute! very good idea, thanks for bringing it so on time

ledi, Vera, this is a good idea and a wonderful performance! Get well soon and join our slender ranks

ledi, Vera, speedy recovery !!!
Very beautiful and extraordinary gingerbread !!!

[gattta]

Girls, hello everyone! I read the topic with pleasure and benefit. However, I cannot comment.
Solid oohs and oohs
Your photos, stories and recipes are not in vain. Honestly, honestly Thank you very much for your knowledge and inspiration, which you generously share!
My works are not original, but touching the gingerbread business was a great joy

gattta, very very, very tender gingerbread!

gattta, Natasha, gently, wintry, gracefully

gattta, Natalia, very cute gingerbread, well done!

gattta, Natasha, very cool gingerbread!
Neat work, well done!

Girls, thanks a lot for your feedback! There is something magically handicraft about working with icing. With your light hand now in love with him

[elena88]

elena88, Thanks for the advice. Need to try. It's all a matter of experience, practice, and this, as they say, is profitable. But while I was doing the wedding))

Marina, I saw MK on such gingerbread))) But your photos do not show them very well, unfortunately. Therefore, it is impossible to understand whether you have the same version or a different version. And very interesting!

Natalia, maybe it's better here? Something like this...

Found a wonderful MK - we draw an iPhone with icing

Video - MK decorating cookies with mastic

Video decorating cookies (herringbone, stars) with icing

Video tutorial - Mirror glaze for decorating cookies (Mirror glaze) from Natalia Fedorova

Making royal icing

Girls, please tell me, and when the gingerbread cookies are coated with Hungarian varnish, is drying in the oven a fundamental moment? I just have an oven with a heating top, when I take out the cookies they are already dry and always leave them to cool on this hot surface. So I took out the gingerbread, bedspreads and it turns out they were dried in the open air. Now 2 hours have passed, everything is dry, solid. Can I start painting? And I also have doubts about how the icing will stick to the surface of the varnish. Does it fly off over time? Can you breed in a special way? Whisk less?
I always leave control copies. So there is no such thing that after a month, say, something does not fall off from a gingerbread that is not completely covered with glaze. The eyes, the outline of the gingerbread men - everything falls off. For me, the most reliable option is to completely cover the gingerbread with icing and only then draw anything on it, even with dots or commas. Does it happen otherwise?

[Katyusha]

I'll show you my New Years too :)
I have been making such mittens and boots for the second year in a row, I only change the date :)
Snowmen, Christmas trees, snowflakes.
Nothing original for the assortment :)



My vision of a monkey :)

And for this boot thanks to Lerochka Sahara
I licked the idea :)

More Christmas decorations and an inscription.


All!

Katyusha , and you finally cannibalistic monkey, where is there for me! And every year mittens, boots, just beauty and neatness! And I also liked how you licked the idea with Santa Claus on boots with Lerchik. Did you draw on the gingerbread, or did you do the grandfathers on the file beforehand?

Mona1, Tanyusha, thanks!
Your monkeys are very cool, original and cute! Creative work!
And I have it, more cliche
I drew grandfathers on top of a gingerbread.

Kat, and toys without holes? Or are they big and not for hanging on a Christmas tree? And I baked small fry from my smallest gingerbread cookies, I made holes, and they are still there, I want to try Lerochkin's varnish, but then one thing, then another.

Good evening to all the girls. I've been sitting for three hours already, reading everything that I missed in the last month or even more (the tablet has broken, now I'm writing from someone else's), so many beautiful gingerbread cookies have been made by everyone, without exception, well done girls!
Katerina79, Katerina, cool boots and mittens, I also want to make these with a year and with Santa Claus are great too! The monkey is very cute!

Tanyusha, I didn't even have such a thought!
And now you wrote and yes, it would be logical to do it with holes. The size is not very large, 12 cm.
By the way, I read that they make holes already on a gingerbread filled with a drill. It turns out neatly and quickly.

Katerina79, Katyusha, maybe you don't need holes if 12 cm. Are you small? I just can't imagine a tree whose twigs can withstand such a weight,

[Yrochka]

Yrochka, IRA, and from your gingerbread I am in general silent delight, no words, such beauty !!! I wish you to take a prize in the competition!
And your snowmen are something (I faint with the mice) and thanks for the craquelure, I will definitely try to do it!

Sahara, Lerochka, thank you very much for your varnish on condensed milk, I'll make the next gingerbread with it
I also made New Year's gingerbread, if the photos are saved in the tablet, I will show what I did, I hope

[taneskaa]

Girls, please tell me how you can decorate a gingerbread with a logo and whether you need to decorate it? Can glue waffle paper enough. And what to glue the gel on to the decor, or is it better to make a substrate between the gingerbread and the picture made of plastic mastic.
And the most important question is how can you make gingerbread cookies with sugar paper in advance? If done in two weeks, the paper will not get wet on the gingerbread? I just need 120 of them. I will bake gingerbread according to the Sahara recipe. Very tasty, but for some reason I don't have softness in them. I roll it out 4 mm thick and do not hold it to the ruddy edges. As soon as I stopped sticking to my finger, I take it off. I did it to drain. oil, now I will make lard. The first such order and everyone was excited!

taneskaa, I sculpt a picture on sugar paper directly on a thin fill, immediately fill in and apply. It dries after about 5 hours and I pack so that the gingerbread remains soft. And I prefer to hide the "seam". The edges of my picture rise when the glaze layer dries up. If the picture is square, then it is better to round its corners a little, they will rise less. But, of course, this is all irrelevant if you get confused by gluing on honey or mastic.
Nothing will get wet, will not fade and will not go anywhere. A control batch with such pictures was stored for more than six months.

Yrochka, Irina, you get masterpieces even in mass production!
Do you draw drawings on sugar paper first?

Elena_Kamchthank you
I print first

What is it like? I'm in that kettle, I'm sorry

Elena_Kamch, printers with food dyes are available. I order such a seal.

Yeah, okay, thanks! I really thought to manually paint so much How long does it take ...
Can you just find and print pictures on the Internet?

Elena_Kamch, in general, yes, pictures from the Internet, but I additionally correct them for the printer. It prints dark and therefore lightens as much as possible. It's scary to watch on a computer, but in the end it turns out well. If you are going to print a logo, then it is better to get to know the printer first. Blue can become almost black, red - burgundy. Often we still have such an unpleasant moment that the owners do not bother themselves informing customers that the printer leaves a strip, for example, or stains some fragment of the sheet. Clarify everything

Irina, Yrochka, thank you very much!
And if the picture is not sugar, but a waffle one and stick it on honey, or gel, and then make an edging? Will it work?

taneskaadidnt work with waffle. On them, the clarity of the image is initially lower than on sugar paper. And the taste of sugar is much nicer, with vanilla. The only negative is the price. Today they ordered 70 gingerbread cookies with a logo ... 25% of the cost - printing. But sometimes you can spend so much money on fashion orders, I think ...

[Irina Fina]

Girls, and I have a question, how do you save your favorite photos of gingerbread in bookmarks, I like so many gingerbread cookies, I want to repeat and I do not know how to save the pictures so as not to search all over the feed later. Tell me please

Irina Fina, Ira, and I created a dock file for myself and save the photo there. But if you urgently need it and the Internet is not needed, the photo is at hand

Elena_Kamch, Lena, thank you, apparently I'll do it too. It's just that the girls here wrote that they save them in bookmarks, but I try and nothing works

Irina Fina, you can use a special site - Pinterest, in it you can make albums and save photos, search for new ones. Here, for example, a cookie album, by clicking on a photo, you can see it in a larger size and similar photos. 🔗

Elya_lug, Elya, thanks, only I want to somehow save the gingerbreads from the xp forum, I read the girls' bookmarks, so the question arose, I don't understand how they do it. And so we will create a file and save them there. And in Pinterest, I already didn’t save a bunch of gingerbread!

this is a figurative expression, but each is preserved in its own way. As a rule, you just "save the image" to your computer's hard drive.

Vei, Lisa, thanks, now the question has disappeared. I just have been living in Greece for 13 years now, I begin to understand all figurative expressions literally, the lack of communication in Russian affects

Irina Fina, register on Pint, set the Pin button, click on the photo you like on the bread maker and save it on the pint.

Elya, thanks for the science, I didn't know this

how and where to install it? I did not really understand

Uh, I have it installed, but how did I do it.
Then you can immediately zap any picture, except for FBuchs.

so where is it installed? in a browser or on a Pinterest website? I don't understand what I'm talking about at all! where to find and install this button!

I have it ..... In short, here
🔗

Lisa, there is a plus sign on the open Pinterest page in the lower right corner. Click - there you will see a red button, on it and it will be written "Install Pinterest button"

[Marfa don]

girls, well, I finally helped to color, do not judge strictly, I paint them only 2 times a year on big holidays, I want to devote more time, but somehow it takes more time for cakes
Dough from Gerda. molds from Dasha Rokitskaya

Marfa don, Alena, the gingerbread cookies are very beautiful!
And if you only do them twice a year, then it's generally gorgeous!

Marfa don, very beautiful gingerbread cookies, I've been looking at boots for a long time, I want to try to make them. Twice a year, but probably for many years? very cool turned out

[Angelina Pryanikova]

Girls, good day. I have disappeared completely, there is no time to even sit down and reconsider a new beauty!

Can I first with a question, and then, when there is time, I will comment? Although there is nothing to comment on, I save all the photos to my hard drive, because the beauty is indescribable.

Girls, they called me yesterday, they offered to paint the gingerbread cookies, the customer's raw materials (and the gingerbread cookies and icing), the drawing is like that, without pouring, but at 1.5 UAH per piece, you need 2000 pieces, I thought that I need to spend 17 hours on them , but ... with a small child, I can only at night, it's late to draw, and they need to dry out. And the terms were set for me as soon as possible. In general, I refused. What do you think, in vain or not in vain? I just get the same amount for 30 of my gingerbread cookies as for their 500 and my work is a pleasure, but here ... a stereotyped malyak ... and somehow quite cheap, in my opinion.

Angelina Pryanikova, all right, I think! Quite a freebie. They just lay out and collect them. Take your refusal to take on this job as a bonus to self-esteem!

I also have a dilemma: take cash, bulk orders that are not New Year's and of the same type, or make New Year's gingerbreads for free sale. They will still sell, but the pleasure of work is greater.

It's not money anyway! In looking for fools !!!!! Correctly, that she refused !!!

and I have a dilemma: take New Year's money, but my same type of gingerbread (just a large circulation) or draw new different ones for free sale. I'm not interested in making the same snow maidens and frosts for 100-200 pieces, but money is needed, and there is no time for the rest. It was necessary to start with creativity earlier (((
an assistant to me, eeeh!

Alla, the most expensive thing about gingerbread is painting! people have a sweet word for FREE! Well done that she refused.

Angelina Pryanikova, for that kind of money and such an amount, let them sit and paint, especially since the gingerbread and their icing

[Lyra Belaqua]

Hello everyone! Can you please tell me if it is possible to replace honey in Lera Sahara's gingerbread dough recipe with sugar? If so, how to do it and how much sugar should there be? And another question about painting gingerbread. Girls who make gingerbread in large quantities, tell me which cornets you use if you use several icing colors at once.Which is better and more convenient, from cellophane, from parchment, or is it better to buy ready-made special cornets with attachments? I understand that all the options are suitable, but I want to know what real professionals use, who post their masterpieces here, and even in such a quantity. I look at your gingerbread cookies and it seems to me that you are just painting them with a magic wand))))))

Lyra Belaqua, and what, an allergy to honey? Then try this recipe:
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=396449.0

Lyra Belaqua, it is best to have disposable bags (although I have them dense and I just wash well and use it repeatedly). These are the types of 🔗
Only I cut it off in the wider part, so that it is shorter, when buying, you can look for a shorter length, then it will be cheaper. In the narrow part I cut off a little so that the adapter for the nozzles fits into the hole, but not so that it falls out, but so that it fits tightly in the bag, on it - the nozzle you need, and - I create. Cornets made of parchment and cellophane - for a little icing, with a teaspoon or less. I put on cornetics and they are still not so comfortable and sticks with me all the time, or I don’t know whether we have such a powder right now.
And we also have girls who are not accustomed to the attachments it is more convenient for them to draw with cellophane bags (like from tights). Cut off a corner so that there is a tiny hole, and that's it. Draw. And it turns out - just a feast for the eyes, I would never have thought myself that such miracles could be done with bags. So it all depends - who is used to and from which place the hands grow for one and the other method.

I caught a virus on my computer and now, when I open it, it throws me to bad sites and does not show pictures. I struggle in different ways, unsuccessfully so far. I will try to see the work later and comment.
I do not recommend doing this. I replaced half of the honey with invert syrup (with sugar). All the soda did not react, then it felt like lumps in the dough. And the gingerbread themselves became tougher and not so fragrant

Mom Tanya, Mona1Thank you very much, you helped a lot !!!! Just super, what you need!

[Verochka]

Girls! How I miss you: girl_cray: I look for 5 sec. I can’t sit. Nervous shocks did not pass by. Tomorrow I am going for an MRI and so I think they will leave me on hospitalization for two weeks.

Verochka, get well soon!

I wish everything was good! Vera, get well soon!

thanks girls!

[Pluss]

Hello everyone.
Finally, I received boxes and paper filler ... damn it, I promised myself a hundred times to start all preparations for a month in 3, not 1 ...
I really hope not to forget next year

We started making sets, I post it to your court

Beautiful sets! This is a seal on sah. paper or is it such a thin drawing?

Pluss, Ira looks very colorful and elegant!
It's a pity the quality of the photo is such that you can't really see it.
This is your waffle picture, right?
Have you glued on dry icing or on mastic? And I have the same song!

Angelina Pryanikova, Katerina79, merci and now I have an assistant in the face of a grown-up daughter ..
waffle paper
Katya, but in different ways, both for icing and for mastic .. when how .. these sets seem to be icing, I don't remember a few more sets are not photographed, maybe tomorrow we will finish

The helper is great!
Do you cover the top with decor gel?

Girls, does anyone know how to replace the box filler? Maybe there are some homemade options. I make gingerbread cookies as gifts to friends, for sure if you order such a filler, then the volume is needed. And I only have 3-4 boxes.

Lyra Belaqua, I cut corrugated paper into thin strips. Here you can see a little.

Katerina79Katya, I never cover her with a gel on top at all, I don't like this vidocq it shines with no clear reason ...
Lyra Belaqua, in stores there is crumpled paper, tissue paper, you don't even need to cut it, just squeeze it as you need it and lay it on the bottom ...or there is still paper in silence, of course it will be more interesting with it. also just crumple it beautifully

Pluss, very beautiful sets!
Just do not be offended, please. Itself for a long time closed my eyes to this thing. I use the same boxes and if they are not tightly packed with gingerbread, then by the time of donation, after all the transportation, all the gingerbread cookies hang out in one corner and there is no view in the end ... The filler simply does not hold them in place.
And another question: girls, how do you feel about hygiene standards that prohibit the storage of food in packaging that is not intended for this? Do you pay attention to the packaging label (fork icon)? I saw gingerbread just lying in filling at fairs. Even responsible soap makers do not allow contact with packaging that is painted with potentially toxic dyes. Corrugated paper and bright copies in silence at a certain humidity, for example, willingly give up dye. I really hope that the individual packaging is simply not visible in the photo ... Sorry again, I didn't want to hurt anyone.

Girls, I also assumed corrugated paper, but also doubted its food suitability. But I wonder what material is the factory filler made of? It turns out that we only have food paper for baking at our disposal, but it is only in two colors, either white or brown, but we want to choose the right colors in the color of the gingerbread.

It seems to me that then you can wrap each gingerbread in a cling film in one layer and put it on any filler. I generally plan to put them in transparent plastic containers.

kolobashka, I already love your Snowman so much))))) Such a cute !! Lives and defiles on the pages of the site))) One of the most beautiful representatives of the gingerbread kingdom !!)))))

Elya_lug, great idea!! So I will. I will put them in cellophane on a multi-colored bast. I bought it at Leonardo for a long time.

Yrochka, Irin, thank you .. dear, what insults ...
As for filling the boxes, thanks for the hint, although we additionally put chocolate figurines ... well, moronic boxes, then smallO then large ...
I really hope that the presentation will remain.
And as for non-food packaging, they simply photographed without cellophane, it glares in the photo, it only interferes, so they took off where there were already bags and did not put on where they did not have time to put them on. And so, all the gingerbread cookies will be in bags ..

Yrochka, I agree 100%! I constantly see cookies and gingerbreads in paper scraps and the first thought is in the dust there!

Girls, and I thinly cut ordinary white napkins into strips, crumple them slightly and put gingerbread cookies in these nests. But this is when in boxes. In general, more often in an individual. sachets either one at a time or three at all without filler. Or in wicker candy bowls on a carved round paper napkin and wrap it tightly with foil. Do not break like. But I haven't had big orders yet, mostly from friends and acquaintances. In general, it will be necessary to think over this question. Today a roll of film for flowers was sent, there is something to pack the houses, hurray !!!

good sets! bright and festive!

thanks, Alena!

[DaNiSa]

Girls, hello! I love everyone! I dream with cookies at least by Easter to be in time, but so far in no way with time, here again the wedding is under pressure.
I dreamed again about participating in the exhibition in May, but this year they removed the category of cookies, can you imagine !!! how so? That's a shame !!
I will participate with cakes in two categories.
The girls who read about my misadventures on the way to the Nelly Josefsen course. So there you go! I wrote to her, told her everything, she wrote me a long letter !! It turns out that once, too, on courses in Germany, she first fell ill, and then went with a temperature and their car broke down on the road !!!
And they were waiting for me, and the coordinator was even worried, he said, one girl (nice, damn it!) Had to come from afar and did not come, if only nothing happened on the road.
Well, Nelly will tell me about the trail.Courses in Germany, and if I can and want, I can come! Can you imagine !! ??

oh, Larissa. how nice to read that! nice to hear that! we are all human, we are all human and anything can happen!
So you have already paid for this course.
and I am glad and I am sure that next time you will be able to come to her courses!

DaNiSa, Alyon, yes, I paid, of course!

[Lyra Belaqua]

Can you please tell me the windows in the gingerbread house are better to be made of gummies or candies?

I made from gummies, otherwise people say that lollipops melt over time

thanks, so I read that melt. And do you just glue gummies for icing?

it tastes better with gummies, but the windows are not transparent, if you don't plan to insert a light bulb inside, then you don't need lollipops at all.

Girls, I also have a question about the windows in the gingerbread house. For the second year I have been baking and suffering them, lollipops flow out over time, they just flow in streams. At first I thought that the humidity in the apartment was high, but this year we moved. The heating here is excellent, the apartment is dry, and the windows this time, too, leaked out and ruined my snow-white icing snow. Maybe there is some secret for sturdy lollipop windows. Of course I make them gummy now, but still I wonder if someone solved this problem in a different way?

They say that isomalt doesn't flow, but I haven't tried it myself.

Girls, isomalt does not flow! I make "sails" for cakes out of them, like this:

and stand perfectly.

Lyra Belaqua, Vei, about the windows: I melt shop caramels, do not flow. There were two houses with them for a month. Today I just gave it away. Everything is in place

Yrochka, and what kind of caramels, they are apparently not visible?)))))))) I bought transparent ones before Ukrainian Roshen, they strongly leaked out. This year I made myself out of sugar and tinted it with jam, everything worked out so well at first, and then everything flowed out after a few days.

Larissa u, isomalt, judging by the photo, is a great thing, but this is the first time I hear about it, I don't even know what it is, where to buy it? I assume that this is a substitute of some kind, huh?

Lyra Belaqua, made in Krasnoarmeysk. In the composition of sugar, syrup, starch and citric acid.

I tried the usual Duchess, Orbit - nothing flowed.

I had a barberry mouth of the front, while it was dry in the apartment, it did not flow, and then it did flow away))
no, I don’t want caramels solely because of the taste, even my daughter didn’t eat all the cakes with caramels, but eats absolutely everything sweet, especially gingerbread. But she said it wasn’t tasty and hurt my teeth. She gnawed at the gingerbread, and only got my hands dirty in the caramel.

girls, thank you very much for the detailed answers!

Girls, hello, here in this video a gingerbread on the side is embossed, how to make such a relief?
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...010.0

it is a sprinkle, and on top is a pearlescent spray.

Thank you, Lisa. And what is the sprinkling made of?

girls, I beg your pardon, I read about the hardness of gingerbread and apples, etc. options (problems in my opinion)
but I don't see one way that I use: in the microwave for 30-40 seconds, depending on the size of the gingerbread - and the softest delicious gingerbread is ready.
I just found three last year's gingerbread (and the other day I thought that everything, after all, had already been eaten, no, still remained)
here in the micra - and it's soft :-)
Quote: Vei on Nov 30. 2015, 14:47
I do not recommend doing that. I don't know what the trick is, but I wrote about similar experiments a couple of months ago. Already at 10 seconds, the gingerbread burned to a black coal, then for almost a day I aired the apartment from the smell of burning. I didn't understand why, but be prepared for such a result))
may depend on the composition of the dough and microwave power. but nothing ever burned for me
More details: https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...010.0

girls, about this method of softening the gingerbread, well, I can’t resist, I did this experiment for this second, I report the gingerbread Mezeshkalach, I put it on the highest power for 5 seconds! the flight is excellent! softened!
and after 10 seconds 1 side was already burnt, Liz, you're right, it stinks horror and dyymymu I continued (I must set the limits) and I missed the gingerbread a bit without filling! In general, this method takes place, but you have to be extremely careful!
and as Lena correctly wrote - then this gingerbread generally dried up into a crouton, that is, if you can soften it like that, then eat right away

[Vei]

Girls, what is the optimal cut size for gingerbread / cookies? For example, for Santa Claus, mittens, snowman, Christmas tree, snowflakes, heart? In general, for everyone. Here I see there are dimensions 6 * 4 cm. But it seems to me not enough. Or are they really? Just in the photo do the gingerbread seem more?

I am less than 10-12 cm doing nothing at all. I have American molds of mittens -13-12 cm, excellent size, with a good child's palm.
But these same American sock molds 11-6 cm are small for me, this year I have not made them already, I ordered forms from a 3d printer felt boots, there I have 12 cm and 18 cm.The first are normal, the second are large.
BUT if I make gingerbread specifically for the Christmas tree, then it is better to take forms of about 8 cm, otherwise the gingerbread is heavy and the branch does not hold. An exception is the Mezeshkolac recipe, where the ready-made gingerbread is very light.

Vei, Liz, thank you very much for such a detailed answer. So, I will look for 10-12. As I understand it, the most popular.

[Angelina Pryanikova]

Angelina Pryanikova, please tell me, where can you buy a roll of transparent packaging for flowers and where can you buy individual bags for small gingerbread? I don’t need so many of them, but I still need them. I want to arrange everything beautifully, aesthetically and hygienically)))))

Lyra, in Kiev I ordered a film in an online flower shop, and I also looked for bags on the Internet, introduced packaging and decor, such bags go as packaging for gingerbread, soap, etc. You can see it in soap shops.

Lyra Belaqua, in Moscow I buy all this in the Ideal Floristic store on 4th Novokuzminskaya Street.

thanks girls!

Girls, thanks to you, my first gingerbread is ready. Thanks everyone for the advice. And tell me how to post a photo, otherwise I want to show off, but I don’t know how))))))

And tell me how to upload a photo

Lilya, upload a photo to your gallery, a code will be generated. Copy this code into the message.

[yalexandrina]

yalexandrina, thanks, added to the gallery, it says 1 Picture in the text: and something like a link and 2 Preview - increase on click: is this it?

[Lily]

Girls, thanks to you, my first gingerbread is ready. Thanks everyone for the advice.

Lily, stunned, beauty! Mittens with grandfathers and monkeys generally conquered.

Alexandra, thank you very much!

lilycha, Very beautiful gingerbread! Mittens and boots - especially!

Great gingerbread !!! Plus to boots and mittens

lilycha, Lily, I also join in the praise! Beautiful gingerbread!
Christmas trees and bells are so elegant too
The first gingerbread and so successful!

Elena_Kamch, thank you, there are of course a lot of blunders, but the main thing is that my daughter is delighted)))) and by the way, these gingerbread cookies are very addictive, if there was something else I would draw today. One of these days you need to bake again))))

And I still won't mature morally for decorating ... Already the gingerbreads are lying down ...
Lily, and you whipped icing with a mixer or just mixed. I have read various information, I will not decide everything now how to do it

Elena_Kamch, I also had 2 weeks, I could not decide, and then it started. And I whipped icing with a mixer, but all the same on dried gingerbread you can see where the icing was of good consistency, and where it was thick or liquid, but now I know what it should be))))

Yes, the main thing is practice. And nowhere to get away from this ... We must take and do.

that's for sure, so good luck!

lilycha, beautiful gingerbread !!

lilycha, Lilya, very festive gingerbread! For the first experience, it just worked out great. You can see uneven contours, which means you need a little thinner icing, then it will be squeezed out more smoothly. Well, and fill your hand, of course.

Whisk !!!! Whisk definitely. Don't repeat my mistakes. I've also read right away that it is better to mix gently, preferably with a spoon, so that God forbid there were no bubbles, etc., etc. I suffered for five years, could not understand why the icing exfoliates and dries out with such "marble "spots. No one could really explain. I asked questions on several sites. Until I realized that all normal people whip icing, and do not interfere with a spoon. Now I beat with a mixer at the lowest speed. Many times faster and better.I don't even remember the spots. And there is no migration of paints. And that was just a disaster.

Uneven contours are visible, this means a little thinner icing is needed,

thanks, but for the consistency of icing, I realized that it was thick when I drew with it on the second day when it became thinner and it became easier to draw, but there was nothing to compare with and of course still studying and learning

but here they never wrote how to do icing?

lilycha, very beautiful and so many at once

Liza, they wrote of course! But I didn't ask how to do icing, but why does it exfoliate when it dries? They just didn’t suppose: the moisture content, and the quality of the powder, and the brand of the dye, and the methods of drying ... I didn’t even think that I was nailing it up incorrectly. Then I read it by letter how and what. Then I understood the reason. And in the original source they strictly warned not to whip.

Here are the girls, I tormented you for a long time, sorry, it turns out that all three times I got the icing)))) here are my first gingerbread cookies, please criticize, what's wrong? Please tell me how to make the edging, instead of red, in a circle so that the branches of the Christmas tree are and look inward, apply a strip and shade with a toothpick, pull to the center? The base turned out to be kind of white but not quite even, because my first gingerbread cookies were not quite even. Why does the glaze dry so quickly, should it be? All that remains is the icing for the fill, red, so I made a contour for it, so it's not clear. What is the name of a needle with a handle that is used instead of a toothpick and where can I get it?

very funny monkey turned out! Now about the cons ... the fill is unevenly distributed and therefore, in general, it does not look very neat, if this type of fur can come off on a monkey, it even looks like this, then it is not very good on a white background. no offence
in order to shade in the form of a herringbone, you can thinly apply stripes in the form of a twig and shade with a toothpick, I do this, so clearer contours are obtained.
the glaze does not dry very quickly - you can do everything, maybe you do it for a long time, it's just out of habit! further work will be more fun to go. ruik will remember how to do everything, you just need to continue

[Vei]

Girls, I communicate well and know personally the teacher of technology for children with disabilities from the Khabarovsk Territory. She had a question about gingerbread. What kind of gingerbread can she bake with the girls in a multicooker under painting? What topic should I look for?

Tanya, you can't bake anything in a multicooker, I know that Kolobashka baked in AG, but there was little happiness either.

Vei, of course, Lizonka, I'll pass it on.

Giraffe, these are very tasty gingerbread cookies in the cartoon, but they are lush, round, it will be difficult to fill it. https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=178632.0
A search on the site popped up a few more gingerbread recipes in the cartoon, but they are baked entirely like a cake.

Elya, I immediately gave these gingerbread cookies, since I myself baked them more than once. Thanks for your willingness to help.

[how to make the waffle pictures not bend?]

Here are my first ones. It seems to me small, 7 cm.
And immediately the question how to make the waffle pictures not bend? Glued on icing, even tried to drown in it, it does not help

Olga, very beautiful, colorful and neat gingerbread!

Taranolka, well, very good !! and smooth and tidy, vumnitsa ... and about the picture, you glued the picture, turn the gingerbread picture down, let it dry like that

Pluss, well, exactly the same! All ingenious is simple! Thank you very much!!!

[zaman]

girls, here are the promised gingerbread with condensed milk filling

zaman, wow, what awesome simps. And I can imagine how delicious it is. Somewhere I came across what recipe you use to make the dough, but I don't remember

very impressive! so beautiful and even stuffed, bravo!
1) do you cook condensed milk yourself or use the store?
2) how thick should it be?
3) and how thick are you rolling out the dough?
4) what height do they end up with filling?

Vei, yalexandrinaThank you for the compliments! : girl_love: Honey dough from IKhlebnikova (slightly improved). Store boiled condensed milk (there was no time to cook). We ate the first batch - I didn't even have time to take a picture, but these went to the exhibition. The height comes out 1 cm, I roll it out on the floor cm. But it is possible and thicker, whoever likes it. I pierce it with a toothpick after 5 minutes in the oven, then bake it further. The filling does not flow out, but if not pierced from above, it bends strongly. The top needs to be rolled out thinner than the bottom, then, after cooling, the tops are slightly leveled. Try it! Pts delicious!

kolobashka, With jam - it's interesting .. They ask me to make an assortment here, I thought orange ones, but I’ll probably mind apricot jam ..

and for what purpose do you add semolina? what is her effect?

Elizabeth, In different recipes, old ones, the nuns added semolina (formerly semolina) to any baked goods. It does not allow baked goods to deteriorate for a long time, the product becomes more porous, or something. It does not harden for a long time. This trick works great on yeast dough, and no one has kept gingerbread cookies for so long ... you will have to leave a couple for the experiment. But I tend to believe the old recipes))

zaman, and you paint the other side, I almost always do this ..
write the recipe ..

zaman, Marina, such cute snowmen! How were they drawn? Separately on file?

I'm not Marina, but I know how. Go to the training videos on the first page. Scrolling sooner or later you will find a video where Olaf is being made. I drew from the same. By the way, only now I saw that I had not drawn buttons and eyebrows. I'll fix it.

If you do not find it, then briefly the order is as follows: First, fill the gingerbread with a blue background. Allow to dry completely (overnight). Then take a paper snowman pattern with a necessarily cut mouth. Apply to the background and scratch out the contours. Then we take black icing, apply it to the place of the mouth and blend it with a brush so that the black speck goes beyond the contours of the mouth. Let it dry. again we apply the pattern and already on black we draw the contours of the mouth with a needle. Then we circle with white icing and fill first the head and the lower ball of the body. let it dry for about an hour. Then the middle ball and legs. Let it dry longer and squeeze out the tubercles of the eyes, draw twigs - handles, hair. So somehow. Sorry if I got into my own business with advice.

Girls, here is such a question. I make gingerbread cookies with apricot jam (purchased) (like Tula) and I also wanted to make those on NG. And then she changed her mind. I was afraid that the jam inside would become moldy in a month. Although, it seems, should not.

should not, I had gingerbread cookies in the summer, ready-made, smeared with currant jam and are still excellent. I did it for the sake of experiment. I wanted to see how the gingerbread would behave, slowly the filling is absorbed into the gingerbread and dries up.