We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, Katyusha, amazing work!

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, Katya, I really liked everything, especially Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. What's wrong with icing? I did not notice any particular flaws. From experience I can tell you that when you dilute ordinary icing to pouring, then pour water not with a spoon, but pour water from a spray bottle. A couple of times pshiknula, stirred. If you see, it’s thick, then more pshikni.

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, gingerbread lovely sight! And how many! I just can't master my plan. Today I was not allowed to work at all tomorrow I will come off! Rather finish! I wouldn’t have thought of a spray gun myself, thanks! With a spoon, it turns out to be uneven for a long time ...

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, Katyusha, amazing work!

Thank you)

KaterinaM, Katya, I really liked everything, especially Santa Claus and Snow Maiden. What's wrong with icing? I did not notice any particular flaws. From experience I can tell you that when you dilute ordinary icing to pouring, then pour water not with a spoon, but pour water from a spray bottle. A couple of times pshiknula, stirred. If you see, it’s thick, then another pshikni.

Thank you) Aising is often thicker than necessary, spreads poorly. And then blockages (pits) are formed here and there ... Is it because, on the contrary, are watery? Cast on film is very fragile. I will try the idea with a spray gun

KaterinaM, gingerbread lovely sight! And how many! I just can't master my plan. Today I was not allowed to work at all tomorrow I will come off! Rather finish! I wouldn’t have thought of a spray gun myself, thanks! With a spoon, it turns out to be uneven for a long time ...

My work is in full swing only at night. In the afternoon between a second-grader, a year-old and their dad I rush about) Thank you for the tip!

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, I also liked the gingerbread! But on Antosha I would not separate the letter.




I carry my musicians

[floksovodik]

mix....
My work is in full swing only at night. In the afternoon between a second-grader, a year-old and their dad I rush about) Thank you for the tip!

Oh, I have a similar story. Only 25, 4.5 and 3 years old + dad))) and study. But I don't see life without a pastry chef))) so we'll break through. I. I have the same story with glaze. Began to do a little thinner. I add water and scratch with a toothpick, I count to 10 if the trace disappears, then it is normal, if not, dilute it again.



floksovodikwhat rockers you are Santa Claus! Class!

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, Len, well, great grandfathers!))) And some musicians have already sounded this, right?
KaterinaM, Katya, pits - yes, this is watery icing. More often pits appear on some narrow details. It is necessary, when the contour is applied to narrow details, then pour it without waiting for drying, but literally in a couple of minutes carefully, and so that the filling is not liquid and covers the contour (with a toothpick, as it were, to correct the fill on the contour). By the way, you write that icing is often thick and spreads poorly. But icing shouldn't flow straight. We don't need this liquid. I put (usually with a spoon or small details - with a toothpick) on the gingerbread, on the central part, leveled it on the sides with a spoon, without reaching the edges, and then I push this mass around with a toothpick, trying to also capture a bit of the contour, cover the contour later was visible. But here you have to be careful. Because if the gingerbread is rolled along the edge, then it can overflow. Then you need to tap the gingerbread on the table so that the bubbles come out, pierce them with an awl, toothpick or needle. And also on the table, sharply move the gingerbread back and forth to smooth out the remnants of tuberosity, if any.

[Mona1]

Mona1Thank you very much for your advice! Very relevant for me!

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tan, I showed you a 2-meter beauty, to which I go to concerts. So, these rockers + other gingerbread (there will be sets) as a gift to his musicians, with the appropriate instruments. I wanted to do something cool. At first I found and made snowmen. And then I came across these old men. Well, I couldn't help but make them!

Girls, I read and consider your masterpieces. I have never made gingerbread or painted, but this year, while on maternity leave, I wanted to try to bake and decorate. But I'm not an artist - I want the simplest things, like stars, and decorate them with white icing. And here are the questions, do you need icing along the contour? Or just flatten with a spoon on top? Read the thread - is it better to make icing according to Eddie Spence's recipe? There are a lot of questions, maybe you will poke me into a link, suddenly there is somewhere a description - how to make the simplest gingerbread and decorate with icing? If you don't swear, I read the thread slowly, and on the first page I slowly follow the links, but there is so much information))

Preferably with a contour. It will not let the fill flow

I carry my musicians

beautiful!
Did you draw these musicians yourself? Did you cut out the shape of the gingerbread for the musicians?

I cut the gingerbread under the picture. Translated the drawing into a gingerbread. I found the picture in the internet. I am never an artist

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, Len, exactly, you told me about the musicians. By the way, I decided not to make the same snowmen as yours. I also found pictures of a slightly different type, but also cool, as one series will be, simpler than yours. I just thought that I would spend less time on them, yours are chic, but more time consuming, as it seemed to me. I'll save them for next year. In general, if something worthwhile comes out, I'll show you here, I also found a series of cool dogs, I also found a simple one. With them I decided to make it even easier. I cast the bodies, along with the eyes and noses, on the file, and then I will just throw them on the gingerbread fill and when it dries quickly I will paint the legs, arms and tails with a brush. And then in December there are a lot of people, we need more quick-gingerbread.

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, very funny musicians!

All girls clever, artistes. They create such beauty!
I would also like to try to make at least something remotely reminiscent of the beauty exhibited here.

I read from the tablet and there are so many screenshots from this topic. We need to figure out how to save text on a tablet.

To begin with, I wanted to order waffle pictures for gingerbread cookies, cookies. Easier and faster to do, I hope. But until I find where to order. One week left, and then two granddaughters, birthdays and a lot of gingerbread to school. I am looking for sites where you can order pictures cheaper and quickly, but it doesn’t work very well.

Here, too, I’ll ask a question, maybe someone ordered something for the "cake inventory"?

... With them I decided to make it even easier. I cast the bodies, along with the eyes and noses, on the file, and then I will just throw them on the gingerbread fill and when it dries quickly I will paint the legs, arms and tails with a brush

Ha, everything is so "simple" .........
I went to read, search ..... ehhh

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, Helen! Masterpiece !!!

[Elfa]

Elfa, I make a contour. The Edie Spence icing recipe suited me best. The main thing is that the icing sugar is good. It is necessary to sift!

[Elfa]

Elfa, Lena, I'm not sure that there is a direct description of the gingerbread from A to Z. We all learned here mainly by reading and searching the internet, on our forum, there are also forums with gingerbread Temko. The first page contains the basics of making. Take the dough recipe from there, you can Lera Sahara, he is praised, or there are others. It is desirable to try a few so that you understand which one you like. Icing - you can according to Spence, you can have a recipe, as I do, I have it Lyuba Prus-2 presented, there is also a link on 1 page. Simple and never let down. And the taste is more pleasant than Spenso's, not so sweet and sweet. Make a cornet from cellophane or from a bag from cellophane tights or from milk a bag as a last resort, cut off a corner very little.Put a spoon there - two icings and twist the bag on top, I still pinch it with a clothespin, well, squeeze the thread along the edge, as if laying this thread with a string along the edge, so that the tip of the coretic bag is 1-2 cm from the gingerbread, does not touch it , you can not lay the thread along the very edge if the edges are very rounded, but a couple of millimeters stepping back from the edge. When the contour is applied, let it dry for at least 10 minutes, while you are still filling it if you want to fill it solidly. You take the same icing as much as you need from a container, into a cup, for example, and puff some water from a spray bottle, then stir with a spoon. You puff more, interfere again. Until you get a density of about 15% sour cream (although sour cream is different for all of us). In general, so as not to flow straight. They put a spoon in the center of the gingerbread, scattered it first with a spoon and then with a toothpick over the entire area, tapped and moved, I already wrote above today. Well, let it dry for a few hours. Then you can draw patterns with the same coretic with icing as the outline was drawn. You can paint the filling icing and cover the gingerbread with colored, you can leave the white fill, and paint the icing for drawings. But it needs food coloring. I'm not sure if the ones sold in the markets for dyeing eggs are good. I order myself on the Internet in special shops for confectioners, but if just for one time, then it makes no sense to you, they are expensive. So the easiest option for you is to bake gingerbread cookies, anoint them immediately after taking them out of the oven with a mixture of raw yolk with water (for 1 large yolk - 1 tablespoon of room water). For confidence, you can anoint and immediately put it in the oven again for a minute. But not longer, otherwise the yolk from the temperature can curl up and gingerbread grains will be. Then you take out the baking sheet, lay out the gingerbread cookies on paper (I have a regular writing for the printer) and I usually cover the top with the same piece of paper so that the moisture does not go away actively while they are hot. Wait until it has completely cooled down, that is, three hours, at least. Then you can paint. Or bake today, and schedule the other day, when there is time. In this case, transfer the completely cooled gingerbread cookies to a container and close the lid. I put it in this way, shifting the pieces of paper, they will take over the excess moisture in the container.

If there is no container, then line the shoebox with paper and fold it in it, cover it with a lid and put the box itself in a plastic bag so that, again, moisture does not escape from the gingerbread cookies.

Ha, everything is so "simple" .........
I went to read, search ..... ehhh

Ira, I answered Lena, about simple. We're like in a movie - we've been sitting here for a long time))) Therefore, it's easy for us, we read from cover to cover all Temko's pages. And there it is written about everything and about the casting on the file too. And even a link to the video is on the first page. Do not forget to look there. Here
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&Itemid=136&topic=35010.0

[Mona1]

Mona1, Thank you.
I read, but so far in my head a complete mess.
It is very convenient that there are links on the first pages of topics.

And I have a question that is ripe. How to evaluate your gingerbread in monetary terms ... I'd like to hear those who work on order. I did a lot ... but here's how to implement them now ... so as not to overestimate myself and vice versa ... It's one thing for relatives, friends, and another thing for clients.

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, thank you for your comment, a very important nuance.
Musicians are just head off!) It's interesting to hear WHAT they play)))

Mona1, I breed icing according to the 10 second rule. I try to "impose" on the contour, but, apparently, not enough, because it is visible. We will work) And for the tip with sharp movements to prevent tuberosity, thanks too.

Iri55, I ordered a size 4x6 cm at 5 rubles / piece. But they didn’t impress me at all. They lie waiting, maybe they will wait in the wings.

I also wanted to ask if anyone uses Top Product dyes? I can't get a really scarlet hue from red (scarlet). In dark pink leaves. I already added a little yellow ...

[Christmas tree323]

Christmas tree323, https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/in...010.0



KaterinaM, give me an email, I'll show you what they play. Also head off!



KaterinaM, I have Russian dyes, Orekhovo-Zuevskie, in tubes. I add a little yellow or orange to the scarlet. Up to dark coral. When dry, the icing darkens, it turns out what you need

[Mona1]

Mona1, TanyaThank you so much for such a detailed introductory mini-course. You should definitely link to your post on the first page as a guide for the first time. I think that the process of the first production will facilitate a lot of people, I now have clarity in my head. And for the information on dyes too.

Girls, good afternoon!
If you are in Moscow and you have a desire / opportunity to learn gingerbread craft, I invite you to my master class on painting gingerbread. The closest will be this Sunday, details in a personal.

But finally, my first samples for the New Year. The diameter is 10 cm. There will be a series of 8 such snowmen and 12 of these dogs in different poses. Well, about five with New Year's plots.

Class! The dog is so valid! If possible, send a picture to the mail plizz !!!!

Girls, please tell me for those who are in the tank or poke their noses, but how do you use the pictures? Do you sketch them?

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, Len, there is a whole series of this dog in different angles. I'll send you an email right now.
Cook, translate to gingerbread. By different methods. I use two. First - I have a copy screen, like this

You can print a picture on a printer, cut it out, then put it on the gingerbread and scratch gently along the contour with a needle. Or if you do this by filling it dry, then you can not with a needle, but with a simple pencil, the softest, B3 which. It is also harmless, pure graphite. At the dawn of my gingerbread making, I transferred lines from the picture to the gingerbread without filling (not the outline, but the inner lines) simply by attaching the picture to the gingerbread and often, often pricking along the lines with a needle, and scratching the outline around it. Then I removed the picture and connected the punctures with a needle in lines, otherwise nothing is visible at all. But now I have my two ways.))
In general, for tablets and smartphones on Android there is a free program "The Eye of the Artist", the screen becomes transparent, as if looking through it, and on the screen is your picture. on the back of the tablet you put your gingerbread, above it in the horizontal plane, the tablet, but from above you look and draw on the gingerbread along the lines of the image on the screen. Only a stand is needed under the tablet, so that it lies horizontally on it, at a height above the table, so that you can put your hand under it and draw or outline a contour with a pencil or immediately with icing. I installed it on my smartphone, but the screen is too small, but there is no tablet, I want to buy it in the future just for the sake of this program.

Well, and another method, put a leaf with a picture in a file and fill it with a file. When dry after a day, it is easily removed. You put the fill on the gingerbread. Let it dry a little for 15-20 minutes and then carefully put your molded part on it. The rest - fine and fine details you paint later. For example, in my photo above, a candle with balls and the body of a dog with eyes and a nose and a toy on a twig were cast on the file. The legs to the dog and the tail and twigs of the pine were then drawn after the pouring had dried with a brush with paint slightly diluted in vodka.

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tanechka, such cool balls. Thank you very much for the drawing methods, so far I only use the needle method. I'll know)

[Mona1]

Mona1, very cute mini postcards.

Just the question is ripe for filling on the file. They ordered me the heroes of the cartoon Gravity Falls. You must surrender in 10 days. Rehearse the beginnings of the previous night, and immediately from the most complex and detailed character. Here's what happened:


The drawing was applied with an awl. Of course, there are a lot of jambs - both colors and hands, especially the one in which the microphone, and the left eyebrow that crawled out to unknown place, and the hero's torso (Uncle Stan) are thicker than necessary, and the face of the face, on the contrary, had to be made wider, glasses ... do not count. I decided to fill in the file again.I watched the video - it was cast in layers: first the topmost one, then the second one from the top and onto it, still liquid, - the dried details of the upper layer, etc. The question is - can you fill in separate segments one by one? Will it act then normally? When casting on a file, a contour is required (without it, icing rolls down), or can the icing be made thicker? I, however, cast on a film for packaging flowers, it is dense. Maybe because of this icing rolls down?

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tanyush! Thank you so much for the detailed MK! I didn't even hear about the screen (to the village)

So everything is clear and visual, once again a huge human merci's.

My daughter wants to try to make gingerbread cookies, so I am slowly and wondering.

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, I did not fill in layers. Icing is a usual fill when, then I first made the contour with a thick contour icing, then I filled it in. But the last time I made the icing thicker than the pouring one, then through the nozzle I applied it along the contour and immediately squeezed the icing flagellum from the contour with a spiral to the center, corrected it with a toothpick where necessary. But not in layers. A dog, for example, flooded the torso, but where the eyes were, she left them blank. After drying, she flooded her eyes.
Only from your picture I did not understand. Is there a drawing on a bare gingerbread, not on a fill? Simply in this case, if you cast all such a figure on a file, then how will you glue it on a gingerbread? The gingerbread is not perfectly flat, and the molded part is even. If you smear it with icing from below and press it, then icing will come out somewhere, and somewhere it will not reach the gingerbread. Will it look beautiful and reliable. Cast parts are very fragile. And the figurine is long, the arms and legs are thin. It can break from removing it from the file and when you press it to the gingerbread. It is convenient to put the castings on the pouring dried up little pieces.
By the way, by the files. I bought some files, but they are somehow matte, not directly transparent as a glass. And to the touch as if ribbed, rough. For documents, this is probably bad, lack of transparency, but for casting, the fact that they are so rough, I think, is very good so that the icing does not spread. By the way, the film for packaging is cellophane - much slicker than any file, like mine and any other, it seems to me so.

[Mona1]

Mona1, yes without filling. For example, they sent me other heroes in gingerbread performance. They are without filling. I did this as well. What tips can you give for working with this character?

I've never cast it on tape yet. And this is how I translate. I print the picture I like in the right solution on the printer. I put parchment on the picture (for baking, which is white). I trace all the contours with a pencil. I turn over the parchment with the sketched picture and trace around the contour again. Now I put this sheet on the fill and circle it again. On the reverse side, the pencil is imprinted on the fill. Nothing gets dirty. I do not risk copying.
Here's my last grandfather

[Mona1]

Mona1, yes without filling. For example, they sent me other heroes in gingerbread performance. They are without filling. I did this as well. What tips can you give for working with this character?

I didn't do such heroes, it's not mine. But if I did, it would not be a casting, but would draw the contours and inner lines on the gingerbread, I would walk along them with contour icing, and then fill in the segments. Narrow segments must be poured immediately so that there are no holes and dents. I also fill my eyes after my face is flooded and almost dry. Well, or if the face is small, then I paint with a thin eye brush. But then they will just be black or brown eyes or a dot or something like on my Aliska. Although she had a face of a normal size, now I would have made normal eyes, but this is a photo of two years ago, then I could not do otherwise.))

[floksovodik]

floksovodik, I did not immediately understand that the picture must be circled twice in order to get it on the gingerbread, and not its mirror image) Can print the mirror version at once faster? All the same, a lot of time is taken up by the manipulation of transferring a picture to paper.Or is it only for beginners?)

Mona1, I don't really like it either, but I don't have to choose. At least I'll fill my hand.
And I tested the Artist's Eye. I installed it on a smartphone, translated the drawing onto paper. The device was placed on 2 tubes from under children's New Year's gifts, 20 cm high. An interesting thing. But skill needs to be picked up. Since it is very slow. And more suitable for transferring a picture to a fill. And how does the small diagonal of the phone affect the work with this application?

[Mona1]

Mona1
And I tested the Artist's Eye. And how does the small diagonal of the phone affect the work with this application?

Well, how does it affect. If you have a big gingerbread, then the whole screen will not fit)). Piece by piece you don't want to do it, it's good when the whole picture fits perfectly with the gingerbread.
By the way, for smartphones on Ali I saw special holders. So as not to use tubes or other available material. And then nothing bothers the hands.

Hello everyone, I haven't looked at the page for so long. There was no time at all. I enrolled in a gingerbread school. Two months passed quickly, I received a lot of information. I want to show some of my work.
New Year card. Size23 × 19



Clock - height 25 cm.








New Year's house is my first.



Mitten 19cm


Well, this is for the soul - colors of autumn Diameter 18cm

[lutik54]

lutik54, Lyudochka! I'm in culture shock !!! How can you eat a work of art?

[lutik54]

lutik54, How beautiful it is!

[Cook]

Cook, Thank you. To be honest, I don't eat them. I feel sorry for . I understand that these are gingerbread and are made to be eaten, but it is unpleasant for me when I give the gingerbread to someone and they immediately start eating it in front of my eyes. Indeed, in every gingerbread I put a piece of my soul .. Perhaps when you make gingerbread to order, in a stream, the attitude towards them changes.

lutik54, how beautiful!

Thank you very much.

[lutik54]

lutik54, Masterpiece!

[lutik54]

lutik54, what a beauty ! It's just a miracle!

[Cook]

Cook, Thank you. To be honest, I don't eat them. I feel sorry for . I understand that these are gingerbread and are made to be eaten , but it is unpleasant for me when I give a gingerbread to someone and they immediately start eating it in front of my eyes. Indeed, in every gingerbread I put a piece of my soul .. Perhaps when you make gingerbread to order, in a stream, the attitude towards them changes.

Here I am about it! So much work and so much love spent ...

[lutik54]

lutik54, Luda, please tell us what a "school of gingerbread art" is?

[Air]

Air,

lutik54, Luda, please tell us what a "school of gingerbread art" is?

Nina, go to @ gift_cookies. There, on the page, Nikolai announced the recruitment of SPI4. School starts on February 4th, 2 months.
This was my first gingerbread training. I am self-taught, perhaps I would not have gone here either, but my circumstances were such that I needed to distract myself with something in order not to go crazy.
What can I say about the school - a lot of good things, they give a lot of MC from schools1'2 ', set a task, give marks for them. Conduct MK live, where you can ask any question. But at the same time, which I did not really like, the frequent change in the time of classes. Although they then give links to download the lesson. And yet, I am very grateful to them for having met the girls who will help to deal with all the gingerbread problems.

For some reason, the bread maker throws out the site where you need to go.
I write letters at intervals and n s t a g r a m.

Here is the helper of Santa Claus.

[Christmas tree323]

Christmas tree323, What job! Taking off my hat!!!

Thank you! I really like making complex gingerbread. I'm diving into another world))))

I saw this topic for the first time today. How beautiful it is!!!! What are you all smart girls!
I had been jealous for a long time when I saw such gingerbread beauty, but she still did not dare to join. Now I have made up my mind! I'm already studying the topic. I want to make gingerbread with NG and a Christmas theme for gifts to loved ones by the New Year.The most pleasant thing would be to get one, and even made with love with your own hands. Therefore, I will give everyone myself !!!