We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies

Girls, hello everyone! Excuse the asshole, haven't come in for a hundred years! But I'm still in the ranks) I ran through the last topics, what can I say ... Do not be afraid to dry in the oven, do not dry anything, unless of course you keep them there for a day) an hour or two is fine, you can pack. can be about 15 minutes, if there are a lot of gingerbread, and dry in batches in turn. To just bring the gloss, and dry up in the room. I'm working on albufix now - I'm in love with it. I would never trade it for raw protein and dry too)) Well, a little work:


cottage 18cm high, with removable roof

But a mammoth a year and a half ago and now)






And a little more

I started adding glucose syrup to icing, 1 tsp. (it is very thick from the refrigerator, scooped up with a slide, but I take it along the edge) 450-500 gr. powder. A pleasant-looking gloss appeared, besides, glucose syrup does not allow icing to quickly "grab", so the surface of the gingerbread is smoother. I also began to dry the gingerbread cookies in the oven. Even in gas it is possible) The main thing is on a minimum fire, with an open door and preferably in general cooling, so as not to spoil it (it happened that the top layer of icing burst and small bubbles were inflated from places of violation of integrity) The experiments on adding glucose and artificial drying coincided , so I won't say which gives glossiness more.
Here are the extreme glucose-free ones:


And these are already with the top layer dried in the oven, and with glucose syrup in icing

I leave my comfort zone, learn to draw cartoons, it is difficult with this and for a long time, the lines, especially the contour ones, strive to "lie" in the wrong place ... I struggle with my curvature, while the victory is behind her)))





So lace and embroidery are much more to my liking, although they are also time-consuming:

[marikosha]

marikosha, Marina, what wonderful works! The house is generally a feast for the eyes, and the mammoth, and the heart with flowers is so cool, I really liked everything. Is albuphix the same as albumin? We just do not have albufix on the Ukrainian market, but there is albumin (protein powder) By the way, I google it - albuphix is ​​also written as dry protein.



KaterinaM, Katya, I added a little glucose syrup to the icing for flowers. Smooth ones came out, not matte. You have cute cartoons. But I, on the contrary, left the cartoons almost completely. And so little I had, and now only 2-3 heroes left my loved ones and that's it. As it is not mine.

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, you slander yourself! Excellent characters, I don't see any curved lines anywhere, everything is perfectly drawn!
As for the gloss, first of all it is given by proper drying, I put it in the oven at 40-50 degrees with convection. With glucose, the gloss will be, too, if dried. If left to dry by gravity, they can also be rough. Especially if the air is humid. Glucose in icing helps a lot when you paint wet, and you need it not to crumple while you play it))



Mona1, Tanya, Thank you!
Yes, albufix is ​​a dry protein, but right away with citric acid, Tragant stabilizer and vanilla. I first switched from live to albumin. It is more convenient that you do not fiddle with the nozzles, it whips up much faster, especially if you whip a kilogram or two at once, you cannot compare it with a live one! But when I tried Albufix, it was a delight! It whips up even better, very stable. And even when you work with dry ones, the base does not soften when it just stands, but it feels like it becomes denser. Apparently, the protein is still swelling a little. And the smell is immediately pleasant at albufix. Albumin is not very appetizing)) you need to add vanilla. Although, when dry, the smell of dry protein disappears too. We take Albufix in Almaty, there is a packing of 5 kg, we cooperate with the girls, we buy how much to whom, the local girl takes, packs up to whom how much, half a kilo to whom, 1-2 to whom, and sends it. Something like this)

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tanya, it's great when you work for pleasure and the results of your work are in demand. I also like to draw, but since I have no special skills in drawing, I have to "kill" a lot of time.

marikosha, Marina, thanks for the assessment, of course, I'm trying, still not for myself - although my husband and son always point out to me flaws, they are quite capable of closing their eyes to them. But at the same time I know my weak points (the photo should have been uploaded in a larger shot, the jambs would have been more obvious) and I am working on it. I hope that I will gain speed over time and accuracy in drawing also requires experience. I am even more annoyed by how long it takes, to be honest. On the other hand, as I always say, it's great that there is something to strive for, where to grow).
And I agree with Tanya, I also really liked your house. Straight very, very) Here is a barrier for me while in front of 3D structures ...

[KaterinaM]

KaterinaM, Down with the barriers! The first gingerbread that I baked, and there was a house for Christmas!))) The second approach was exactly a year later, another house! And only before Easter, I learned that icing exists in the world and that you can create beauty with it!

Girls, I brought you my minions here)) I would be very grateful if you could tell me what and how it was necessary to do better

[Kinglet]

Kinglet, Vika, healthy come out! In my opinion, everything is just perfect. Are flower buttons a mastic?

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tanya, thank you very much, as if I passed the exam))) Yes, the buttons are mastic

Hello everyone. Didn't find any reviews about IL icing here, who uses it, tell me, is it better than alter icing?

I needed to quickly bake one order, only IL icing was on sale, I liked it. I tried different ones before, it seemed no worse.

[Arlei]

Arlei, And how to learn how to write letters so beautifully? Is it you a brush or is it a stencil?

[Tanya]

Tanya, brush. I print out the inscription and mark the height-width with dots.

[Arlei]

Arlei, thanks then I'll try too.

Girls, I brought you my minions here))

Minions are just lovely!
What size are they?

Tanya, with a brush.

very neat lettering!

[Nata zap gk]

What size are they?

Nata zap gk, thanks, on average - the size is somewhere around 12-13 by 8-10 cm.

and I thought that smaller, they seem so miniature
Cool, I really liked it, I think I need to repeat

I found inspiration in this thread, many thanks to everyone who shares. Bouquets for my students.




But these were ordered for the kindergarten.

Goodnight!
Can you please tell me how to make a translucent white background on a gingerbread, around a glued sugar picture?
I can't find something ...

[taneskaa]

taneskaa, first make the background, then glue the picture on top.

Nastenka, that's understandable))
How to make a translucent background?
I understand that this is probably not craquelure ...
Is that the icing?
But how to do that?
Just pour the gingerbread, it doesn't suit me, I need a translucent background😖

[taneskaa]

taneskaa, and, I realized))) I dilute the icing thinner and apply it with a brush to the gingerbread.



Here is exactly how I did the background.

Thank you so much!!!
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girls-craftswomen, I really need your help, if I got in the wrong place, I'm sorry. Can you please tell me if the gingerbread plate that is attached to the side wall of the cake (about 12 cm long, 7 cm high) should be curved along the diameter of the cake? If so, then how to fill it with icing, or can you cover it with mastic, and make the inscription with icing? Thank you for sharing your knowledge, I am learning a lot on this forum, but I just can't get myself out of the bushes

I don’t bend, no one has asked yet) especially since you usually don’t know exactly what the cake will be.

[Rowan777]

Rowan777, Olya, it's better not to bend the gingerbread. You bake, fill with icing and decorate like a regular gingerbread.I attach the gingerbread cookies to the cake with chocolate (melt in a water bath or in a micron). Everything is going well. In the refrigerator, too, nothing bad happens to them)))

Thank you very much, otherwise I broke my head. now I understand that a bent plate is probably made of mastic, when its soft is applied to the wall. Olga, the cake is just wonderful, I just want to repeat it, but so far the skill is not enough

Girls, please share how do you wash stencils after airbrushing?



Oh, that's all, thanks, the question is removed, it is simply washed under running water)))

Hello everyone! looked at your beauty here! mmm, everyone is smart, and everyone is quiet ... that you probably sculpt pigs? I'm just waiting for my forms

but for now I'll show you something, but I'm not a gingerbread master, although well, I really love this business
gingerbread set for doctor

I made these owls with small things for cake

metric for a little girl

I made the box for the first time in my life, everything glued together perfectly, adorned the truth with mastic, because there was not enough time to dry, and I thought that the textured walls would be more interesting, but still unhappy, I have no imagination

[Alyona]

Alyona, chic gingerbread! I really liked the gingerbread for the doctor, just super!

[Marfa don]

Marfa don, Alyona, compatriot, why not immediately - not a gingerbread master. Very much even a master. The gingerbreads are super, very neat, stylish. I’ll even say more - if you have some main other job besides gingerbread, then it may make sense to change their places by priority? Although, on my own, I will say that in our city the demand for gingerbread has dropped sharply over the past year or two. Either the people ate, or whether this is no longer such an unusual curiosity, I don't know. Or maybe this is not only our case. Girls, how is demand in your area in recent years?

Girls, what beautiful gingerbread you have !!! I tried to bake a gingerbread house, a casket, but I probably can't learn how to decorate it. I will come to admire your work.

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tanechka, sometimes such a crazy thought comes to my mind - to quit my job, all my accounting, office equipment and cartridges and do nothing but gingerbread. .. But .. the mind still stops. In Barnaul, I will definitely never earn more per month on gingerbread than my salary at an official job. : pardon: Orders only by word of mouth, from Instagram, zero))) Sometimes there are no orders at all, and sometimes you have to sit all night long. To say that people are full, no, many of us don't even know about gingerbread, and when they find out the price, they ask, Is this for a kg?
So I am slowly drawing now for my own pleasure, I have already started the winter collection)) Last New Year I had a stir - in the literal sense of the word

[Mona1]

Mona1,
Tan, I quit my job a long time ago, or rather, my decree smoothly flows into cakes, it's just that gingerbread is more of a seasonal product,

Unfortunately, in our city people are not particularly solvent, so I cannot put, for example, the price of a cake, as in Russia for girls, although you yourself know that the products are the same for the price. And I generally keep quiet about gingerbreads, in terms of labor costs, some gingerbreads take a lot of time (even though I don't create masterpieces), and we have only a few material connoisseurs, so I'm waiting for it to get better. I even remember that I made a little more gingerbread , on March 8, and then ran to the nearest shops, humiliating herself, saying that this is handwork fu, now I'm only on order

Olgabozhok,
very charming New Year's gingerbread cookies, you could still take a closer look) why don't you take a picture one by one?

[Alyona]

AlyonaThank you Fotay, one by one, and in pairs, I spread it to the carousel, but I like group photos more, as they say, all in one shot

[Olgabozhok]

Olgabozhok, I also want to make a house this year, I have a felling, but somehow there are no ideas for it, I like yours, nothing extra, but it looks great)) A house and 3 pigs)) I also saw it as an idea

[Marfa don]

Marfa don, Alena, what cool!))).Gingerbread houses are always a win-win option, you can make different colors, I really like muted pastel shades, it looks very gentle))) It can be like village huts made of logs - in general, a flight of imagination !! I will still make fireplaces this year, I don’t know how, but I’ve already cut out the shape myself, I’m studying photos of different fireplaces.

[Olgabozhok]

Olgabozhok, Olya, very good work, I liked the picture with the Nutcrackers and Santa Clauses. I don't have Nutcrackers at all, no one has ever asked them, and there are three Santa Clauses, but they are all in a minimalist style - white on bare gingerbread. They usually order for children because there is no paint there.
Well, I didn't want to make pigs, the year of the pig brought me a lot of grief 12 years ago. So I don't like this character, but since the renovation of the kitchen has eaten everything I earned over the past years, and all the clients want piglets, so I did - well, just one, but the most beautiful one I found. As if not a pig at all, I called him Mimishka.)) The size of the pig itself is 13 * 10 cm.

[Mona1]

Mona1, Tanya, thank you!))) I've been doing gingerbreads for a year and now it just started to turn out a little) What a wonderful mimic you have, adorable baby !!!
I have been in love with the Nutcracker since childhood (I even live on Tchaikovsky Street), but for me they turned out to be rather complicated, maybe it will be easier with a stencil, I draw everything by hand, I dream of a projector ...

Girls-needlewomen, tell me how to glue a sugar picture on a gingerbread. I searched the entire forum, went through all the topics where you can find the answer to this question. Found nothing.

I'll also wait and listen, it's just that the gingerbread flooded with icing doesn't work, the picture is deformed.

how to glue a sugar picture on a gingerbread

She did not glue it herself, but the girl from whom she ordered the gingerbread with a picture said that she glued it on the decor gel, did not cover it on top.

Glue in the same way as wafer. There is a lot of information on the waffle, there are links on the first page of the topic.

Girls, dear, please help!

I need to decorate gingerbread on MK. Could you please tell me the recipe without blemish, so that children can decorate the gingerbread without much hassle!

how to glue a sugar picture on a gingerbread.

I only pasted waffle pictures on the decor-gel - everything is cool) I think that sugar is also needed ..

Girls, hello everyone! What are you all MASTERS !!!! Two years ago, I also got carried away with this business, but for the last New Year I didn’t manage to do anything, repairs at home and when it will end is unknown. And now the renovation has smoothly flowed into the kitchen. And my hands are itching, I want to give all my friends and relatives gingerbread and tea, which I prepared myself in the summer, for the holidays. Lay out your ideas, work. My imagination is a little tight, so I take ideas from the Internet. There are a lot of gingerbread molds, because my son prints them to me on a 3D printer. I liked the idea with the box. It will be possible to put tea in such a box ...

[alena40]

alena40, and you rustle in IS, there are so many ideas. For now, everything is modest for me, I do what the skill allows. I have been in gingerbread for 4 months in total.

[Yulia]

Yulia, Thank you. From me, if you take all the time that I could carve out for gingerbread, at best, 10 months.
P.S. Julia, if it's not a secret, can you find out more specifically where you live? (In HP?)

A little more New Year's, set-puzzles of two gingerbread cookies 8.5 * 8.5 cm. One of them is shown in the package. I do it myself, for each ordered amount of gingerbread, I don’t like purchased boxes, it’s always too small, but everything inside dangles, it’s not even an hour to beat. And I have everything in size))

[Tanya]

Tanya, How interesting!! do you first draw a drawing with something sharp, and then apply color?