tuskarora
I brought some of my gingerbread here. The accuracy is still lame, but I get incredible pleasure !!!! If it were not for snatches you could afford it ...
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The blue egg is not oblique. I do not know what is so in the photo.
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she specially painted hares in a primitive style.

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Then I tried to make faces in different ways.
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To be continued....

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tuskarora, Lena, the trees are green! great gingerbread! I especially liked the hare (everyone!) and the eggs! very nice!
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tuskarora, well done, so many different things! Standing eggs are the best, especially the last one!
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Well, tuskarora, young fellow !!!! Such variety and color! Very festive, everything is cheerful and elegant!
I liked everything, everything! She carried off the mill
I look forward to continuing
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tuskarora I liked the mill, the hares are funny, and the bottles with glasses are great
MartaIg
My Easter gingerbread, Victoria Bredis dough, size 13 cm
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These are the minions that went to the birthday of a little 26-year-old girl))) Victoria Bredis dough, size 12 cm

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MartaIg, Minions are valid!
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MartaIg, lovely, how beautiful!
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MartaIg, and the minions and the Easter gingerbread are very pretty.

Sahara, Lera, in the original (where I saw her) the mill is more beautiful. I screwed up the roof. it doesn't seem to exist, but it should be. and I also like the size in this gingerbread. The mill is quite large, so it may well be a present for someone in a single form.
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How cool and all different! And what kind of dough from Victoria, where to look at it?
Husky
Elena, I really liked the pictures. Straight picture !!
MartaIg, very beautiful Easter gingerbread.
I also have some Easter gingerbread. True, an artist from me is from the word bad!
I selected the dimensions according to the size of the packaging boxes that I could pick up at this moment.

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People, chickens are lovely. and I wanted to take a closer look at the green ones. there is such variety. class
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Husky, Luda, well, really, well, why is it "bad" Well, the chickens are amazing, each with its own expression .... what have they got there? ... icing?
Girls, the green egg idea is not mine !! I stole it from Natasha.

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I took the idea of ​​daisies from here 🔗
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Only daisies did not paint with icing, but made with the help of molds. I made small flowers with plungers.
But with chickens and ducklings, everything is not at all simple.
I'm like decent. transferred the drawing to the gingerbread with a needle. So what? But nothing. I filled everything with icing inside the contour, and I don't know where the arms, legs, beak are. I drew everything by hand at random. The beaks are all twisted. I can’t repeat it, even if you crack it. I look at the drawing and draw in another place. But I can't fix it. All the same, it is drawn immediately on clean. I say that I am no artist.
Already, she chose the simplest living creatures to paint, and then she failed.
Consoles one thing. This is handmade. How I coped, I did it. But I tried my best.
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Eggs are so spring! Lyudochka, you're slandering yourself! Nothing is bad! A real artist!
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Husky, Lyudochka, do not be shy. The gingerbread was a success! But if there are doubts about the visual talents, then I will take the liberty of advising (if it is possible to advise such a master like you) to take, print or draw a contour on paper, put the paper in a transparent file, go icing along the contour, dry it and transfer it to a drenched gingerbread dry icing contour. Then fill the path as usual.I doubt if I explained clearly ... In my opinion, you managed 5+ without any tricks. I take off my hat and crawl with my last strength to finish my gingerbread. How Lera makes two hundred of them, the mind is incomprehensible
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Husky, Lyudochka, will you show a mold with chamomile?
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Husky, Lyudochka, gingerbread, lovely sight! The girls speak correctly - you slander yourself!
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Husky, Luda is very beautiful !! I liked everyone! and chickens and ducklings! and those green eggs! wonderful!
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Husky, what a beauty! It's a pleasure to watch!
oh, thanks to everyone who appreciated my chickens and ducklings. So not everything is as bad as it seems to me.

elena88Thanks for the tips. I'll try to take your advice. She herself would have told another to do the same, but she herself did not guess. And yet, I will listen to all the advice with pleasure, since I, like everyone else, study and will see all my life to study. And that's okay. : victory: So one head is good, but a lot of tips is even better !!!

fomca, you've got real beauty, although you don't have time at all. Here is talent, he is talent in everything.

Kinglet, these are my molds. I bought them from Galina here on the forum.We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies

The small form is chamomile. More - a sunflower.
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Husky, do not be shy, gingerbread, everything worked out!
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Husky, Luda, how beautiful! Girls, I took everything to bookmarks. Maybe next year you will learn something from your own, just wonderful work you have!
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Husky, Luda, how long did you dry icing in such a mold? My molds are silicone rectangular, plump, I somehow tried to pour icing there, and it didn't seem to dry out from below, absolutely dry from above, and from below, like wet sugar when I pulled it out. Or did you keep it a little (half a day), or for Moldovans, most likely, you need more icing?
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Husky, Lyudochka, thanks for the photo, I have never met Moldovan daisies, but at Galina's - this is where, if not difficult, you can link?
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Husky, Luda! the gingerbreads are cool! so neat! The professional is immediately visible !!!!!!!!
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Husky, FEEL what a beauty you have! Happy Holidays, everyone! Peace and goodness!
Mona1, Tanya, I made flowers using molds from mastic. It never crossed my mind to try to make them out of icing. Made of mastic quickly and it seems to me they look very good on gingerbread. You can also make from colored chocolate glaze (chocolate). It also turns out quickly and well.

Kinglet, Vika, oh so you are from Ukraine. So it's even easier for you to order molds from Galina. Here is a link to her topic HERE on the forum.

ledi, Vera! And for some reason I missed your beauty !! I seem to be looking at the topic, but I have not seen so many works !! I liked the gingerbreads very much on sticks. I liked the skate very much. And with waves, where there is sand. Super!! You need to keep a folder with gingerbread ideas for yourself, otherwise it will be difficult to find in the subject.
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Husky, Luda, was that mastic? Well then, it is clear. I once tried to make chocolate glaze in these molds, it turned out every other time, it cracked when taken out, and with mastic, it should probably be fine, but I'm used to mastic with plungers. I really liked Bakels flower mastic (Sweden), it was so white, it skates thinly, the flowers are so delicate from it, but it's over, I'm just suffering, and you can't buy it purely technically.
fomca
Girls, beauty then what are your gingerbreads! I look at you all the time, I can't read everything ((
And I don’t have time for anything. Now I got up, and my dough came up and began to fall off, I am kneading the dough into beads. A minute appeared and decided to show her gingerbread. Everything in the set is quick-wet on wet.
I expose in two posts, since I am downloading from the phone, it does not allow everything to be done in one post)
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Sveta, yeah, everything is "fast" ... The gingerbread is a miracle, how good the mood rises
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fomca, Light, gingerbreads are better than each other. I love the technique wet on wet! I really liked the shape of the chickens. I will order the same for my husband. The chicken in the egg is so touching!
Girls, thank you, very nice!
Lena, I draw all the forms by hand and cut out either from thick cardboard or from a plastic folder)
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fomca, Sveta, you rarely make us happy with new works, but if you bring gingerbread, it's always a joy to look at them
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fomca, Sveta! gingerbread lovely! and the chickens are so cute! and the chickens are lovely!
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fomca, well, your general masterpieces !!! Gently, gracefully, delicate! I really liked the painting on the eggs with chickens. Sveta, what kind of dough do you have?
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fomcaYour gingerbread cookies are wonderful. I really liked it.
Girls, thank you, that's praised! Blossom) Tan, and the dough was from Lenkor.
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fomca, Sveta! amazed! from gingerbread and from photos! how can you do everything! not only do, but also present!
Mona1
Vei, Liz, I wanted to ask you. I was ordered to make an emblem for one club. A round gingerbread about 22 cm in size. How thick it is to roll out this size and what temperature-time to set. And then I’m the biggest one that baked - these are eggs 11 * 8 cm. And such a big one is not swollen in places? You can't shake him with a fork, as is usually done in such cases.
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Tanya, it all depends on the recipe, how much the gingerbread rises. In any case, not less than 8 mm, or even 1 cm. Temperature and time also depend on the recipe. The oven, of course, takes a little longer, but I leave the temperature the same.
I have no gingerbreads swelling, I have already solved this problem for myself a long time ago, and I have already written many times that the uniformity of the structure and the absence of bubbles are guaranteed if the dough is well kneaded and baked on a baking sheet dusty with flour. While rolling and cutting gingerbread, I also dust the table with flour, I get absolutely non-sticky and non-deformable dough pieces, which I carefully transfer from the table to a baking sheet. Alena was the only one who wrote that she also dust everything with flour and she had no problems with bubbles or holes on the back. I carefully brush off the excess flour with a bristly brush from the already cooled gingerbread.
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exactly! as soon as Lisa said that she was doing this and I also decided to do it. ALL! the problems were immediately resolved, before they even started
saving paper and no surprises in the form of bubbles and holes on the back of the gingerbread, so Lisa. thank you for the science
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Vei, Liza, thanks, baked 2 large gingerbread cookies, held it longer than usual, but overexposed the first a bit, began to brown from the edges, corrected the second one, everything is OK.
ledi
Girls! Christ is risen! Happy holiday to you all !!!!!!!!!
ledi
ABOUT!! how many of me!
I have a question - help! girls, please tell me ideas for kindergarten gingerbreads for the birthday. A bunch of options and balls on a stick and flowers, cupcakes, cakes. but I can’t think of anything! you need to somehow beat the holiday. I don't want just balls on a stick, I want something that would be interesting. For some reason I see Winnipuh with a barrel of honey and each a bee on a stick. what would you do?
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I wound up and couldn't write right away, so don't panic, Vera! everything will be now!
and if you take ideas from Temka https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&Itemid=136&topic=417277.0, there are so many children!
and I also really like the cubs in the sea
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=35010.0
and more like that, I don't know how many of them are for children, but as ideas you can use
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DaNiSa, Alena, thank you! So many things! you probably did not understand, or so you presented everything. how to make it a whole? I asked the teacher if there would be any scenario for the holiday, they told me no. It turns out that the children will simply be given sweets and that's it! I come up with a job myself and give you an assignment! Well, I don’t want to just gingerbread, I want a plot that would be interesting!
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how to make it a whole?
I understood that you want to make all the cakes in one style. So? or not? and you wanted to choose this style of something?
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so I thought that if you choose one theme, for example, insects, and make funny butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies, it will be fun, or the theme of some cartoon, that's how you yourself suggested Winnie the Pooh, so I chose the most diverse topics
Well, yes, like a cartoon character (one big gingerbread) and brought something to the children. So far, only this goes into my head. Make a gingerbread house and plant animals there ...
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I, lately, understand everything literally, to be honest, I've brought, for example, mushrooms
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DaNiSahow much beauty! Where did you get it?
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so where did Elya Lug send ... uh ... what is it called ... wait
right here 🔗cookies/
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Vera, do you want to use the marine theme again? here the ship sailed - brought ... also something, well, treasures ...
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you can, but damn such drawings are complex!
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No, well, what mushrooms are right now, it's spring.
What is the theme of the holiday? High school graduation?
birthday boy
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By the way you have "what kind of mushrooms right now?" and we are already collecting them, yesterday they ate the current
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brought ... also something, well, treasures ..
treasures for girls and everything else for boys?
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girls beads necklaces and boys coins
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and here's something else .. someone brought something
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it's generally lovely! Thank you! I'll think!
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Vera, or you can berries, mushrooms, fruits, and it's easy to do, and it will turn out brightly, colorfully. And if someone brought it, then a hedgehog!
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And it doesn't have to be.
Now it's spring - so that it grows.
For example, a tree with leaves, flowers, fruits on it.
And it's not difficult for you, and the children will like it. You can also write names on them (or on branches, or on leaves), if it's a name day.
Or a greenhouse, and in it strawberries, radishes ...
Or grass with flowers in it.
Vera, don't make it difficult for yourself. The main thing is to be bright, recognizable and tasty.
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ledi, Vera, and always on sticks! Children love it. By the way, I liked your idea with Winnie the Pooh the most. You can make balloons, bees, a pot of honey, heroes' faces on sticks. And in our garden it was forbidden to bring treats to children. They eat only what the kindergarten kitchen prepares. Very strict.
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we have homemade biscuits and gingerbread cookies, but not cream and with perishable fillings. Therefore, now in schools in the DR, birthday people order gingerbread with the names of classmates and classmates, if this is a kindergarten:

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Girls, dear! thank you for your help! huge !!!
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Ver, and I will insert my 5 cents, with a delay
The idea of ​​Winnie the Pooh is very cool, find a simple Pooh in the coloring pages, and the rest on a bee or a ball.
I also saw a cool set on the DR - a birthday boy - a locomotive, and the rest of the kids in a trailer, you can write a name on each, as Lisa wrote on hearts, the gingerbread cookies are just flat, but bright, colorful. Children will be delighted if they read their own name on the gingerbread!
And on the main carrot the name of the hero of the occasion and how old.
But Vinnie is a super idea! On the balls you can have names and on a pot of honey.
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Nah, we can't even fruit. The manager went on principle.
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ledi, Vera, do not complicate your life And also remember that children always think that what someone else has is always better. Well, or I have come across such children. Why am I - don't need too much variety, as a maximum - some gingerbread for boys, others for girls, so that no one would be offended. And I really liked the idea with Winnie the Pooh. And about locomotives cool
Sahara, harmful78, Girls! Thank you! Indeed, I am looking for adventure in one place. I want to please. They liked the locomotive, but for the money they will not succeed. It's bigger than my gingerbread house. True, you can put a locomotive on a substrate. In general, I think there is still time. this one is still in the background, there is an order for a cake more complicated. I went to the ambulance
Zvezdulek
Hello everybody! After reading everything about gingerbread here, I decided to try to bake and decorate.
I have never baked gingerbread, and cookies are one.Secondly, of course, and did not decorate them
But I so wanted to try, looking at you.
And that's what happened.
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Thanks everyone! Everything worked out! And very, very tasty! And the scent ...
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Zvezdulek, well done! first gingerbread and already embroidery !! clever girl!
Yes, it turned out to be the easiest for me
Mazyukala them until 4 am, but happy as an elephant!
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What is the recipe? for the first gingerbread they are just gorgeous!
I took the recipe in this thread. Just copied it without link ... Forgive me
Flour - 1 kg plus 200-300 gr for filling when kneading (in the original white flour and whole grain in half)
Powdered sugar - 300 g
Butter - 200 g (in the original 180 g of pork lard)
Honey - 450 g
Eggs - 3 pcs and 3 more yolks
Soda - 3 level teaspoons
Ground spices:
Cinnamon - 30 g
Ginger, cloves - 0.5 coffee spoons each
Zest of 1 small orange
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This is Lera Sahara's recipe
prona
Girls, the topic just got sick! I put the dough on gingerbread, now I think that I can do it in terms of decorating ... So the question arose about decorating with mastic. Are the parts from mold on the filled gingerbread to be attached immediately or on the dried fill?

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and this is as convenient as it is in a particular situation. sometimes I attach to the not dried glaze, and sometimes, like chess, I move the pieces over the gingerbread, I adapt where it will be prettier. for a start, as it seems to me, it is necessary for the glaze to dry, and then fix it
Marina!!!
Hello, I have been admiring your work for a long time! Girls, please tell me why the icing on the gingerbreads is white spots? We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies spots on a gray egg, how to avoid them?
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Marina!!!, Marinochka, well, why did you come straight off without having studied Temka from the first page, asking questions that have already been discussed more than once? I understand, new girl, look here in this post https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=35010.0 full table of contents of the entire topic, but in these posts specifically answers to your questions https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=35010.0 and https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=35010.0
and your gingerbread is very nicely decorated
Thank you for "poking your nose" - I'll be more careful! Gingerbreads are mine, only the green idea is taken on the Internet.
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Marina!!!if the glaze is stratified, and you did everything clearly according to what was written and you cannot understand the reason, then from many years of bitter experience I dare to diagnose: the glaze is undershot. It is undershot, not undermixed. I was confused all the time by the advice that the icing does not whip, but gets in the way: “we don’t need bubbles in the glaze ...” I just recently realized that the icing should be whipped. Then it will not delaminate.
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elena88, I agree 100%. I, too, was always afraid to whip, but now I am thinking: how can I manually stir such volumes that are before the holidays?
Hello! Thank you all for the advice, I have never whipped the icing, precisely because of the bubbles. And how to get rid of them, because they probably get a lot when whipping! Now I will bake gingerbread, and tomorrow I will decorate. I'll try to beat!
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Marina!!!, tip: beat the whites into a strong foam, then add the powdered sugar in portions, just stirring so that there are no lumps, at the end add a few drops of lemon juice. I hope you succeed. Good luck.
Beat the protein without anything? Thank you, I'll try, then I'll show you what happened!
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In general, I really liked the recipe on the advice of Tanya Mona1. Look at this page
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Thank you, I read everything, I just have to try! Tomorrow children go to school and kindergarten and experiment ahead.
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I also really liked Tanya's recipe, everything is much faster than the classic one. Only I put a little less acid so that it is not so sour
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So I did it before. I liked the fact that it is snow-white, since powdered sugar is added to the snow-white whipped whites, and then they began to say that whites for icing cannot be whipped and I switched to the classic one from Spence.
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and who will explain the difference to me? except for a huge amount of acid, I don't see any visible inconsistencies in the proportions with the classic recipe. But acid in large quantities makes the glaze brittle.

1 protein (+ -30g) - 160g of powder from Tanya
90g protein (+ - 3 pcs) - 450-500g classic powder
"find 10 differences!"
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Vei, Lisa, you're right, as always.Even then I told Tanya that the proportions of protein - powder are almost the same in both versions. By the way, I did not notice that the acid somehow radically changed the icing conditions. But the mixing system itself turned out to be much simpler and understandable for me. Again, I put less citric acid than Tanya's, but more than according to Spence. And one more thing: Tanya's acid is beaten with proteins and this, possibly, stabilizes the proteins. And then the powder is added. Spence adds acid at the end of the batch. Maybe that's why it's easier for me to guess the consistency from the tannin version. However, we all know that this is a purely individual matter. According to Spence, I did it twice on the third. And tannin is stable. The difference here is not in the recipe, but in the method of kneading: beat, do not beat. I think you need to beat. Again, I do not pretend to be the ultimate truth. Everyone is determined by himself. But according to Spence, the icing that stood in the refrigerator overnight is divided into fractions, but according to the tannin version, it is not. And no matter how you stir with a spoon, all the same, on the gingerbread, the Spence glaze exfoliates and becomes covered with spots. This is my experience and I do not impose it on anyone. I just found a solution to my long-term problem. Maybe someone will need it.
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Flax, it seems to me that not only in the kneading method, but maybe it's true, the acid is beaten at the beginning and somehow stabilizes the protein. And again, according to Spence, even a few drops of lemon juice are all liquid. And in this recipe there is no liquid at all during cooking. One liquid protein substance. By the way, right now, some liquid eggs have gone, very fresh, or what, I don't understand, I have 180g of powder for 1 protein right now, I add 15-25 grams already at the end under the mixer rims slowly until the desired consistency is. (protein by weight, as usual 35-36g)
By the way, I didn't really notice that some kind of fragile icing, although I didn't do it according to Spence, I can't objectively compare. But not so long ago I bought powder - 100% sugar, there is no starch in it (definitely not, I checked it at home with iodine), and before that I took powder, somewhere up to 2% starch, then up to 0.5%. So, it seemed to me that icing made of powder without starch is more brittle. Now I think to add a bit of starch myself (at least half a percent). True, there is always corn, and I have potato. I'm not sure it's okay, but I'll try.
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Liza! no differences! But when whipping the protein into a cool foam, and then gradually adding powdered sugar and stirring at a slow speed, I personally get super white icing. This is noticeable in my white saucepan from the combine. The color of the pan and icing is almost the same. And when you add powder to not whipped protein, you get a grayish tint. For me, that's just such a difference. Well, maybe the powder is still not felt, a more creamy structure is obtained
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Tanya, fresh proteins are thicker and less stable, it is necessary to whip the icing in any case, the amount of powder needs to be regulated, because the humidity in the room and the powder itself plays an important role here, so liquid lemon juice does not affect anything, 1-2 tablespoons of powder in one direction or another, nothing will radically change. If you understand what a comfortable working consistency of icing should be, then you do everything almost by eye. You don't have to be so rigidly attached to grams, you need to look at what happens.
And yes, the icing requirements for decorating a gingerbread house are still more relaxed than icing for decorating cakes. There, other techniques are used, and this makes icing more capricious, it will not tolerate any acid or starch. It's just that cake (read the classic Spence) icing for gingerbread works, but on the contrary it doesn't!
pysy - do what you want and how you want
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Maybe you're right. I really only use icing for gingerbread. I like chocolate cakes. But maybe it would be suitable for cakes, I just did not try.
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Mona1, Tan, I also noticed that the squirrels became watery. I thought it was some kind of glitch. But you noticed too. Probably, chickens are fed something that gives such an effect.Nowadays, many products are not changing for the better. Our cat stopped drinking milk. They do not allow producers to raise the price, so they shove any shmurdyak there, if only it looks like it. And you can't fool a cat. So with eggs, probably ...
As for starch in icing, I will say that such icing is called fluffy and is used by many gingerbread makers, in particular in the Czech Republic.
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Girls, of course, I'm just starting to be friends with gingerbread, but I will also express my opinion, at the stage of collecting information on dough and icing, I read a lot of Bread Maker, and in almost every topic I came across a post Vei about Spence, and decided that if the master (who would not argue that Lisa is a master?) recommends doing this, then it is necessary to do so. I made the first gingerbread cookies for Christmas: a house + for a Christmas tree + for gifts. I got a lot of pleasure, the icing is snow-white, obedient, it fits where it needs to be, does not break, the jellied, in general, a complete delight, I even decorated them with Easter cakes this year, it turned out very beautiful, strangers approached the recipe to ask. And the remnants of Christmas icing stayed in my refrigerator until March, after which I used it with success. So, why am I all this, if you do everything according to the recipe, then even for such crooked beginners like me everything turns out fine. Therefore, many thanks to Lisa for her tireless clarifications!
P.S. It's a pity that I can't confirm my words of the photo, but the camera died prematurely, and we still can't buy a new one ...
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thank you very much, this is certainly pleasant for me, but in this case the authority and the master, or rather the maestro even, is Eddie Spence, and if I can not be trusted and not trusted, then he no longer exists. If he does not understand sausage scraps icing, who then?
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That's right, but I don't know Eddie Spence at all, I haven't watched the video, I haven't read the articles, all the information, although he got it, was received from you, so thanks to you, not to him. And all the same it takes bewilderment, well, what could not work out there? Whisk and beat until you see a soft peak, yes, it's not fast, but the result is beyond praise!
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suvoyka,
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to me this too, to be honest, it is not entirely clear what may not work there
icing from Eddie Spence is the most straightforward thing you can think of. as they say simply add water mix everything and everything and beat until peaks. I timed the time with a specialist 2 times, once everything whipped up in 7 minutes, and once in 4 minutes, the powder is different, the eggs are different, maybe the time is not the same
so I whip it in every way, I only look approximately in time, I am more guided by the appearance, always fluffy and snow-white
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Then consider that I invented all the difficulties with this icing on purpose to amuse the people. By the way, I also got to the Bread Maker, because I was looking for the reasons for icing delamination and, therefore, spotting on the filling. She found the reason: after she began to beat the whites and only then add the powder, the problem disappeared. I am glad and happy to share my experience with people. Why such a harsh reaction? I didn't sell my homeland!
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I feel hurt in Lisa's voice !!!! I understand, already in many topics I wrote, what, how, how much .... !!!
Liz, we love you, read and follow !!!!
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elena88, Lenok! why do you react like that? I write my opinion, you are yours
it just seems to me that you don't whip up icing, that's why it exfoliates
and then no one here imposes anything on anyone, if you paid attention to the links on page 1, I made ALL the glaze recipes that the girls use and that they share! just so that everyone can choose what suits him. we are sharing our opinion, you are surprised that you did not succeed in classical icing, and I am surprised that you cannot succeed, that's all
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pah-pah-pah - noooo !!! you yourself do not invent anything there, the main thing is that all these problems with stratification have been resolved!
WORLD! WORK! Gingerbread!
Not Light, not that you feel that I
I feel like I will have a new oven soon!

pysy I'm nervous when newcomers ask the same questions, without even reading the table of contents of the topic, where Alena has already endured all the problems. And there is no need and sense for our own people, especially since what difference does it make who does it and how, if the result is stable? Of course, I don’t understand how Lyuba’s recipe works, but I don’t have time to go deeper, maybe later))))
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The oven is cool !!!
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aha! and most importantly, I earned it myself on gingerbread before NG! I thought I would not survive in that time trouble, but it was worth it - this is the first such tangible financial achievement!
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elena88, harmful78, Lena, Lisa. Thanks for trying the icing recipe I am using. Does it work with us? - Yes. Arranges? - Yes. Tasty? - Awesome. And that the name of some authority is not tied to him is still unknown. Eddie Spence is not the only superfood pastry chef in the world. It is possible that this recipe also has some very cool original source. I’m asking Lyuba where she dug it from. Anyway. As the saying goes - even if you call it a pot, don't put the Toko in the oven. Eddie, not Eddie. What a difference. Everyone goes their own way. The main thing is that it turns out and the gingerbread is beautiful and tasty. And the customers are satisfied.
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new oven is cool !!!!!! Congratulations! and even earned by gingerbread!
Marfa don
I bought mine last year and worked it out all year, but a new oven is a thing, sorry for the offtop
I did what I did for Easter, as always, I didn't have enough time, so don't hit hard with slippers
gingerbread according to Gerda's recipe, icing this time was made according to Eddie Spence's recipe, at first this consistency seemed a little thin, but I liked it in my work, I made a little more from albumin according to the recipe Nastasya, because the eggs ran out, and I urgently needed

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I certainly know, one of the girls told me that you first need to hone your skills in one technique, and then take on another, but I wanted all different ones, although if I did it with a spare time, many gingerbreads would be much better painted
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Marfa don, very beautiful gingerbread! most of all the hens liked the chickens. Others are also good, but I really like the technique wet on wet
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Marfa don, Alyona, the chickens are superb and the rest of the gingerbread cookies are also colorful and beautiful. So many ideas and techniques at once! Of course, if you work out one technique, then the skills are honed, and the quality of the painting increases, BUT we do all this more for our own pleasure, especially if it also brings income. Therefore, if you are interested in different styles and techniques, I think you need to try everything))) and Nastya works and teaches to work only according to Eddie Spence's recipe)) or are you talking about dry protein exactly? so there is no difference in the way out, except for safety in terms of salmonella.
elena88, Lena, thank you! You can't even imagine how I dreamed about it and what I used to bake in. These New Year's gingerbreads finished me off, and I realized that I would break myself into a cake, but I would buy a new oven! I pin such hopes on her!)))
Another fridge with a freezer for cakes would be great! and also, and also ... and even in general, your own confectionery shop or confectionery! ....)))))))))
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Vei, Liza, dreams come true, especially if you make them yourself. You will have everything. You will also be the head of your confectionery company. The main thing is to believe in it.
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Vei, Elizabeth, I envy you! And congratulations! My oven is not "God forgive me", but a gas oven. It's hard with her: it heats up unevenly, you can't put more than one baking sheet. Therefore, the baking process is quite long. But I don't have the volumes yet to set a new one. There would be funds - no problem. And so I endure
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Elizabeth, congratulations from the bottom of my heart. I can imagine how much joy. so that she always pleases you so, endlessly!
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harmful78, I have an electric oven Theca not the most expensive, but enough for me. I'm happy with her.And if you consider that I am a conservative girl and I use the microwave only for warming up, and the slow cooker (I have the smallest one for 1.5 liters) only for milk porridge for the baby (and then only because it runs off the stove), so I do everything the old fashioned way in the oven or on the stove. Therefore, the oven is the soul of the kitchen for me. So I understand Liza and am happy for her.
Now Alena will drive me out of here for the off-topic bazaar
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nope! I'm soooooo
girls suggested sites from which you can download books for free
so I pumped it into my e-mail and I am happy as happy as an elephant
and besides, the oven is our one of the main working tools
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DaNiSa, well, so share with us
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Lisa, congratulations on the oven! How to connect and try - share! And I also have joy, last month I just bought a separate refrigerator from the income from the cakes, the know frost for the cakes
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+1
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girls ... mmm ... to share sites? No problem



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And I also have joy, last month I just bought a separate refrigerator from the income from the cakes, the know frost for the cakes
Congratulations! I dream of a freezer, there is a spare refrigerator, it's old, but it didn't seem to let me down, but it freezes a little
fomca
And even if I want to, I have nowhere to put the second refrigerator ((((And in general, today my husband again said that it would be time to think about retirement ... I already got orders for May, and then I will look.
And I had an order two days in advance, since the slice of dough was in the refrigerator - the girl asked for Easter sets for the exhibition. I made only three sets - two in the "wet" technique, as I already showed, and one like this.
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This is in what sense "about retirement" If it’s time to live for yourself, travel, go to beauty salons, visit, finally, theaters and exhibitions (and my husband will actively support and sponsor this), then this is undoubtedly welcomed Like Pechkin from Prostokvashino: "I'm just starting to live - I'm going to retire"
The gingerbread sets are wonderful! Look very good
In the sense that it's time to have an official job.
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Ah-ah-ah-ah, I see ... I officially got a job two months ago. And then the mother-in-law works for her, she has been retired for a long time, she no longer needs any experience. Here is my labor and works while I work for myself. What to do if working only for the state, then you won't earn an apartment, education for children, or other joys of life. You need to either steal (which our officials successfully do) or work at your own peril and risk in a private way.
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fomca, Sveta, what a charming set !! everything is done in one style
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And I liked Sveta's chicken
Marina!!!
Hello! Thank you all for the advice: the problem of stains on the glaze is solved: yahoo: I made the glaze according to Tanya's recipe, everything worked out great, it's a pleasure to work with her! That's what I did.

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Marina!!!, it turned out very nicely! clever girl!
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Marina!!!, really nice and neat! And a chicken with chickens, and even on a stand - for me in general is a feat. Well done
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Marina!!!, very beautiful, and the chicken is generally cute, well done!
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The eggs are great, and the hen with chickens is chic, shine, beauty!
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Marina!!!, very good gingerbread turned out! I'm glad the glaze problem was resolved. I can't say that I really liked the carrots, but all the other gingerbread cookies are cute, bright, flavorful. The clearing with chicken and chickens touched me. Go on, you're good at it
Marfa don
Girls, and today I have underwear sets, although I prefer a swimsuit in general, gingerbread for men

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well, not a very successful attempt to make a postcard for the Victory Day, but to be honest, I did not prepare, but I saw it and decided to sketch

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Marfa don, Alena, very erotic series. The fill is even, shiny, smooth. Everything as the doctor ordered. Bras are nice. Well, and "tan" is certainly seductive.But the Victory Day card seems unfinished. Either draw an eye and a beak for a pigeon, or something ... You need either a bigger gingerbread or a smaller bird. And with the font the same problem: smaller letters would be needed. I don't know for sure, but something needs to be done about it. And along the edge of the gingerbread as if something is missing. For example, a border from ordinary points. Something laconic, not pretentious. In general, the idea is good, but it needs some work. Just mind, no offense, this is in terms of constructive criticism. Professionals will come and correct me, if anything, or maybe add specifics.
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I agree with Lena - the frame is not enough. She immediately gives the feeling of a holiday. Another unsuccessful choice was the color for the inscription 70 years - it merges with the main background, preferably red. The same with dates - they are completely invisible in the corner. At the same time, in reality, everything is probably visible. But I, for example, when in doubt, be sure to photograph the work (not only gingerbread, handmade too) - the photo draws out all the flaws. In general - no offense or reproach - for me personally, a dove and blue is a symbol of May 1, not May 9. For me, Victory Day is red, the St. George ribbon and Soviet symbols. I even go to the parade with the Soviet flag
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And the swimsuits are cool Only it is not clear what size they are
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It's nice to read such comments to your work!elena88I think that there should be criticism and I treat it well, I also see flaws in carrots!
Marfa don the swimsuits are beautiful and the gingerbreads themselves are very even, I have a bump in the middle.
Thank you girls for the praise and criticism, for the postcard I agree that there is not enough frame and accuracy, and by the way I did not come up with its design, I saw it on the official page of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War!
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And yesterday I saw her on the first channel in the news BUT! Alena, mind you: there is a frame here, just what we said right away. And the bird takes only one canvas of the postcard, so you need to try it in a larger format. But, to be honest, I think that 1945-2015 on the carrot will still be superfluous. Unless it's a giant carrot
harmful78,
yes, yes, I agree, and I thought about the numbers for a long time.
harmful78
Girls, here I am sitting, I think and I just can not think of it. Asked gingerbread for the teacher (graduation from elementary school). I rummaged through the entire Internet: everywhere, either the fall theme, or everything for the subject matter (mathematics, music, geography, etc.). I thought, frankly, that I would wander around the Internet and come up with something of my own from everything I saw ... I haven't come up with it yet ... Maybe someone has any ideas? This is a topic, someone else will come in handy
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harmful78, Liza, have you been to YAM? There, in my opinion, there are a lot of school topics ...
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Here, I found ...
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Liza, I just thought about what you want, maybe the following options:
- a large gingerbread with flowers, without a specific shape, just round or heart or in the form of a book
- animals and birds are scientists, you know, an owl in a graduate's hat or sitting on a pile of books or a fox, thoughtfully scratching the back of his head with a writing pen
- postcard with poems
somewhere I came across a photo, I'll look
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maybe something like that? gingerbread for ideas
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harmful78, Lisa, these are prom cakes, but they can be transformed into gingerbread
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Thank you, girls, for ideas, I will think. Then I will share.
Elena, I was at YAM, but it seems to me that these cakes are not for a primary school teacher. That is, I can't even think of what the symbol is here. Bell, probably
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harmful78, Lisa, well then you can do it in the form of an open alphabet. And Buratino somehow there to fasten. Or like this:
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Here's a simpler one:
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Natkamor, cool idea! I didn’t come across this! It should be added to the bookmarks. My carrot is not from the class, but from one person.
elena88, I also stopped at the book. Of course, I really like the first one, but I can only do it from myself as a gift.It will be too expensive for sale, this can already be done by masters. I found a simpler option, I'll post it tomorrow from the computer. By the way, I didn't come across a stack of books either. I will definitely save it, there is still teacher's day ahead
kolobashka
Natkamor, cool idea!
Virgo, everyone wanted to ask Why is the icing brilliant in the pictures? As it dries up, it becomes dull.
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kolobashka, try to dry it under the lamp.
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everything is correct you need to dry it under an incandescent lamp, then the shine appears.
oh, thanks, I'll try!
Vei
and I met here yesterday and met one of our members of the forum - the Stick. She quietly underground creates such beautiful gingerbread and in the "adult" scale!
and we don't even know here!
Nastya, exhibit here, share your experience, please!))))
harmful78
And I have a box built here. For money, for a young man born under the sign of Taurus. Size 15x15 cm

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Not perfect, but neat enough for the first try. I keep thinking: how do they manage to make these boxes so that the seams are not visible at all
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harmful78, Liza, but it turned out well! and Taurus is so expressive
I would also add a red border to the bottom of the box to emphasize it
what kind of dough?
To the bottom - is it inside? I didn't even think about it, but it would be good. I didn't do it on the lid, I was afraid that it would not dry out. I had to put a lot of dye, everything dried for a long time. And the dough is my favorite. I took it from the cook, wrote about the gingerbread houses on a branch. If necessary, I can write here too
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oh no, I didn't put it right
I meant the edging along the bottom edge of the box in a circle, well, also with dots
I'm just sick now (we have a fever, but my sore throat has begun) and my thoughts are confused, I can't say for sure
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Alena, get well soon !!! It's sad to be sick in the spring. I've also "brought" a sore throat from a working trip. It is windy and cool in Gelendzhik, despite the sun. But the sailboats have plenty of space! How you want to paint gingerbreads on a marine theme! Probably I can't resist ...
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DaNiSa, Alena, get well soon, let your forces return immediately, you have such a wide field of application, you cannot live without them
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Liza, Lena and Vika thanks for the wishes to get well!
and I also have baked gingerbread cookies, I wanted to paint, but I didn’t have the strength, and I also wanted to dream up on the marine theme, but ... I’ll have to leave it later
Matanya
Oh! Oh! How much beauty you have here .....
Until I reviewed everything, my hands were combing!
And I was on gingerbread courses, though only one day, or rather half a day, here
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Liked! I also want to, I want to learn how to do piping!
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Matanya, cool for half a day.
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Matanya, Tanya, super! What is piping?
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Matanya, I had the same question And the gingerbread is generally super! So I, too, tried the other day to try to translate the drawing into a gingerbread and did not master it. And also interesting: are thin black lines with icing or a brush (marker)?
Girls, thanks for the compliments. Piping, I don't know, maybe I heard it wrong, we need to ask our local Gurus .... But I realized that this is all that little thing like flowers that is deposited by thick icing, dried, and then glued to the product .. No? Am I calling it wrong?
Lisaaaa! Awww! What is this little thing called?
Fine lines are brush and dye. During the course, we translated the picture using a carbon copy, because it was necessary quickly ... But Olga says that half of the home craftsmen do this, and no one bothers. Personally, it was a little different to me that there was a carbon copy drawing, so I put the gingerbread cookies and they lie, I don't give them to anyone ... But there was a girl with us, she says that a charcoal pencil is sold in stores for artists, it is very loose , and if you circle the picture from the back with this pencil, and then attach it to the gingerbread and circle it with something solid on top, it will be no worse than a carbon copy, and even better ... This is my opinion ...Scratching with an awl is long and boring, but I think if you don't do it in large quantities, and one such gingerbread in the collection, you can try with an awl ...
At what time I scribbled ... read
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Matanya, just gorgeous for a beginner and not a beginner either!
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Tatyana, Thank you so much! I’m thinking: even if you use a carbon copy, you’ll go crazy to draw 50 pieces! I will not bother yet, I will draw what is simpler and improve.And if I feel like something more complicated, I will do the casting in the old fashioned way
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Matanya, gingerbread, just super awesome !!! I liked the "shadow" around the owl, tell me how to do it?
It's just tinted with flower pollen, but I think if you tint cocoa dry, it will be no worse
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As I understand it, you need to apply pollen before the drawing is applied, or after?
After, when everything is dry
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Matanya, very nice and professional! Such beauty in half a day!
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Matanya, Tanya, the gingerbreads are funny!
Vei
What is piping?

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Piping-
piping (literal translation from English - extrusion) is a technique for extruding icing slightly softer than the basic one (see the recipe from Eddie Spence), with the help of which a relief image is obtained like this:
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in Eddie's Russian textbook this technique is called press technique.

and the flowers are called "Flowers on pastry nails".
for these two techniques, a glaze of different consistency is used.
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Thank you, Lizonka! Just what's a little softer? He and the basic one is not very tough .. or am I about that?
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Yes, Lisa, from now on in more detail, pliz. I was interested in the picture that you posted for example. I correctly understood that a more liquid icing is poured into the mold, it dries up there, then it is pulled out and the already dry figure is glued to the finished product? In this case, I do not understand at all how to get such a fragile figure out of the mold? In my opinion, icing is even more fragile than chocolate. Are there any technical details?
absolutely not so)))
such beauty is squeezed out with a cornet nozzle either onto a file or directly onto a product. Icing should not be liquid, otherwise it will not keep its shape, but also not as thick as the base one, otherwise there will be bumps. Eddie generally takes basic icing, then smoothes it with a spatula to perfect smoothness, thus the bubbles disappear and the icing consistency changes, it becomes softer and more pliable (roughly - thinner).
here is a step by step:
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so, girls, it's not for nothing that they learn this separately. Gingerbread is great, but compared to cakes, it's a splint. Although there is also a lot to learn and learn.
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Vei, Lisa thanks for such a show!
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Liiiizaaaa !!! What a beautyaaaa! Is it all you yourself? Super super!
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Lisa, thanks! I didn't even know what they were doing!
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Indescribable beauty! There is no limit to perfection. Especially if you practice professionally. It probably looks magical on cakes. I certainly won't show off on gingerbread. And cakes are not my thing at all. So I will quietly admire.
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Is it all you yourself?
Oh, of course not, and unfortunately not! All hands do not reach, but I really want to! This is just a very clear example of what piping is.
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I certainly won't show off on gingerbread.
Flax, I also don’t show off on gingerbread (to be honest, I don’t show off without them)))) and I started making cakes only because of icing, I got sick with them!
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I’m thinking: people who can do THIS, probably can call themselves on you, well, they just took their breath away ...

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ledi, cool! So touching!
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ledi, Vera, it turned out great! Bright, cute and most importantly - characters dear to the heart, otherwise how you look at all sorts of freaks and gingerbread will not go into your mouth
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ledi, Vera, gorgeous gingerbread, I think the children were happy to receive such nice gifts :)
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Vera, adorable gingerbread, smart girl! By the way, I don’t even undertake such)))
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ledi, Faith beauty turned out !! even the expression of muzzles is different for everyone! Bravo!!
Girls! thanks everyone! Of course there are mistakes, well, nothing, in principle, I'm happy. I more or less figured out this technique, the main thing is not to rush when filling parts-details, but I was in a hurry. We must wait until the previous filled parts dry out.
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ledi, Vera, what are you doing? It's midnight right now, and I'm going to bed with a persistent sense of inferiority. Simply gorgeous works. I admire, admire and envy for good. Well done!
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ledi, Vera, what cool children's gingerbread!
How do you transfer the drawing? Do you cut out the template and trace it with a pencil or pierce it with an awl?
I also want to draw a four-thread :) I don't understand how to do it right
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harmful78, Liza, a cool box and a bull - like a live one.
DaNiSa, Alyonchik, get well, come on. We need you healthy here, to watch our antics.
Matanya, super gingerbread, about my people ask: what, you can eat it? - And they will not even ask about people like you, they will think that these are pictures. Probably, it takes a very long time to decorate one gingerbread?
harmful78
ledi, after your Winnie the Poohs, it's even embarrassing to show your own, but still ...
Here they are, my first Size 8 cm
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And I always have some problems with filling. While I'm doing - it seems to be good, as it dries - the bumps. And Pooh's eyes "drowned"

And this is instead of a patch

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harmful78, Lisa, very cool gingerbread!
And Piglet is so cute
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harmful78, Liza, cool Pooh, and with Piglet laughed. Such a funny thing. He probably catches Pooh when he falls from the tree. ))). And when you did the pouring, you wobble the gingerbread back and forth on the table, knock? Everything is so well leveled in this way, and if there is a bubble, it immediately pops out, I will eliminate it with a toothpick right away. Although it’s me, you’re probably doing it. It's just that sometimes something doesn't work out for me, and then it turns out that a long time ago there was a simple solution, and I didn't know. So it's me or you, or maybe who doesn't know.
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but still cool Vinnie! Or maybe the fill is thick, what is it with bumps?
and what did you paint icing, cocoa with?
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harmful78, Liza, in principle, turned out very well. If the glaze is mounds, then I agree with Alena - icing, apparently, is thick. Now, in fact: I would varnish the gingerbread under the painting - this is firstly. And secondly, the combination of the color of gingerbread and Vini merge. Look at Vera. Not Pooh is brown with yellowness and already looks more contrasting. This makes the view more presentable. In no case do I want to offend. This is, so to speak, in terms of constructive criticism. And the overall impression is very pleasant
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Look at it from different angles and different lighting, then all the flaws will be visible in their raw form.
Elizabeth, Vei, thanks, I will definitely try next time. It seems that the consistency is always the same, BUT ... When I made the box, the filling on the lid flowed over the contour. Therefore, out of fear of Pooh, I made it thicker. Painted with brown dye, Italian. And I also added black to the color for the ears and paws. I forgot to draw the claws With the color of the gingerbread, I agree, it merges a little. But I drew late in the evening so that it would probably dry out by morning and did not begin to redo it. I forgot something about the varnish. In general, I put them on the sales page in bags, they are very good at hiding everything. It's for you here in the spirit.

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And I'll even show my completely unsuccessful experiment. I tried to make a tumbler, drew 4 pieces, and they are all scary. My daughters and I ate them all

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And after that we quickly drew mice. Thanks to the branch about using forms, this is my magic wand

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harmful78, Liza, what if you try where you can draw everything white under the tumbler's face? I just remembered my tumbler as a child (I remembered my grandmother as a girl), so I don’t know how to explain it, there were no holes between the so-called “hands” (or whatever she had) and her head. I read it myself - I see that it is not very clear, but I do not know how to explain it more clearly. And you can also try to lower the "pens" a little lower. Sorry that it's so messy ... It's just that you have a sweetheart ... I wish she had the right to life
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harmful78, Liza, I like Pooh and without bags, and I really liked the mice - especially that you can use the Heart shape, I have a couple of ready-made molds on my heart. And so - yes, I, too, had just such a wish-dream to have all the molds, but my toad croaked right away, these molds are standing. I sighed, and went on to cut. And I still want to buy a stainless steel or tin strip on the market, and make molds from the heart of everyone. Not everything works out of plastic. Sharp corners do not come out.
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my toad croaked right away

What a funny expression. Mine, too, always "croaks"
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Well, girls, the toad is an amphibian that strangled half the world So, you are not the first, you are not the last
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Good Vini turned out! Yes, perhaps the icing is thick, well, everything is not so critical! I, too, is liquid, then thick!
Mona1
I made my first gingerbread cookies for the baby's birth. Boy.
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Tanya, cute set. And how many things! The combination of blue and white and burgundy (gingerbread background) is very fresh. Well, now the nitpicking: I would have done more icing for the inscription and curls. And what are the dimensions? - that's the question! And most of all I liked the stork
Lena, you're right, the inscriptions were already made when the icing in my hand warmed up (I'm not used to teaspoons as a guru), in general, I try not to make gingerbread with full fill or paint over the fill. This is all for the first time. And I was in a hurry to finish at daylight time to take a picture in daylight, so there was not much time for nuances.
The stork shamelessly slammed from one site, I hope they will forgive. The dimensions of this gingerbread are 9 * 12 cm.The stroller is 10 * 8.5 cm, the rest is also 8-11 cm. For everything I made patterns, so that each was cut with a knife, and some kind of sticky dough came out, the patterns sometimes stuck to death, I had to roll out again, so these cuties exhausted me, not that word.
And about the combination of crimson or burgundy and blue, I remember from ancient times, in my youth I bought a book for repairing the house and there about beautiful combinations of colors. Then I was very surprised by this combination, so it was kind of to think - well, how it is combined, and put these colors next to it - class. I remembered this. Right now it came in handy. True, if they order for a girl, then I don't know, a pink bag with a raspberry one probably won't be very good, right?
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Tanya, very good gingerbread! And so many and all are different!
Well, after what you wrote that you cut out each with a template, then this is generally akin to a feat!
Katerina79, Katya, and also some in several copies, for example, there were four storks.
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Mona1, Tanya is very tender, straight angelic gingerbread !!!!
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Mona1, Tanya, this is a very cozy, gentle and joyful work :)) I think your torment will pay off a hundredfold with the delight of customers, it is very pleasant to look at it
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Immediately I remembered how Kvasha said in the film "The Same Munchausen": "Maybe this is not a feat, but there is something heroic in it!" ))
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Tan, you have to try this. You can't say so offhand. But it's a fact that pink goes well with the natural color of gingerbread. Only varnish, of course. There will be a noble combination.
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Tanya, what's the last thing on the first photo? I did not get that? Very good set, most of all I liked the horse
BlackHairedGirl, Tanya, this is a rattle.
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Here I am a lamb! I thought it was a microphone. My little son had a toy one with songs, voices of animals ... And professionally, the microphone is closer to me. Here I am on a blue eye and thought
Well, no, it is necessary to remake somehow this multifunctional device, as it turned out. That doesn't sound like a rattle, does it?
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Aaaaa, exactly !!! Semyon Semyonich !!! I thought it was a baby envelope.
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Mona1, I can imagine how you suffered! This time, too, the dough stuck to me for some reason. And also had to re-roll. And immediately I wanted to order a million new molds !!!!!
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I liked everything! very nice!!
Sveta_
Girls, good evening everyone. I wandered into a new (for myself) store. I think there is a good selection of molds here.

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And also (NataST suggested) they have dry dyes that can be used to paint almost anything

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Has anyone ordered here?
Mona1
Paris series. The client needed the Eiffel Tower, or maybe something in the colors of the French flag. In general, I got carried away. Same as with the newborn series. The client took the third part, how much it was necessary, and what to do now with what "suffered"? Now Paris. Take the tower, and where to put the rest? I don't have a bunch of regular customers yet.
We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
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Mona1, beautifully! Put it in a box.
Put it up for sale!
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Tanya, excellent gingerbread, Varya says correctly - put everything in a box and put it up for sale.
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Mona1, that is, you did so much, and only the tower will be taken away? And of those for birth, how many were taken? If it `s not a secret...
Put it up for sale, and will not be sold in 3-4 weeks, eat it yourself. Or give it to someone. It's easier for me: everything that I did I photograph for the archive, and then I give it to a charity fair. At cost. And the benefit, and I fill my hand, and my "archive" is growing.
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Mona1, well it turned out great !! especially the poodle and the butterfly and the tower and ... I liked everything shorter
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Mona1Tan, you’re a Stakhanovka! Do not have time to be impressed with the set of the newborn, and you are already surprising with Paris. And in such quantities! Loved the tower and the poodle. I just liked everything else. to order, you have to work, though with a twinkle, but without fanaticism, otherwise you will go bankrupt. My husband is ready to lie down for the customer. (True, the sphere is far from catering.) If they paid more money for it, it would be another matter. And so - exhaust into the atmosphere. You need to be more calculating. Nothing personal, just business and that's it.
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Tanya, very beautiful gingerbread! Very very!!!
Girls, thank you very much. I had been hatching the idea for a month already. True, I haven't called the client yet, right now I'm going. From a set for newborns (there are more than 25 pieces), the client ordered 10, and of them only 7 are normal, good size, and 3 are pretty little hearts (5 * 5 cm) from the last photo. Well, what to do. So far, I'm only on social networks and Facebook, but it's somehow dull there. Not a single one has written on Facebook. ... it's easier with this, there are places where you can advertise for free, and even so, sometimes push ads in discussions. All my clients for Easter are from there. 12 or 13 people ordered. I just gave this order to a newborn girl. She really likes it. I just gave her a duck and a balloon. And, by the way, I asked her to advise the girls in the maternity hospital, maybe someone else might be tempted. And she also said that maybe there would be some kind of nurse or nanny who could be interested. There is also a constant flow of clients. She would show pictures to mommies, I make gingerbread, and she sells them there with a surcharge. So, I asked to see if it was possible to organize with someone like that. Or already thought, maybe, go straight to the head of the department and offer her a business. In the meantime, I have a lot of beauty at home. One asked: And this is sho, gingerbread? In general, girls, people are dark. Even seeing the pictures, they do not read the text, they scroll further, they think that these are toys.
And what kind of box it is, otherwise I don't know. In general, our post office does not work, only Gyunsel remained from the carriers, and then he works, then no. We have, of course, Donetsk residents on the forum, but I have posted pictures in Temko Donetsk a couple of times, they are aware of it, but I don't need it. And I don't want to impose myself anymore.
I'm still scared of taxes and everything. Everything is unofficial. I take out an order for each customer and think: will they take me red-handed. I usually take it to a stop not far from home. I don't call anyone to me, I don't want to save up someone else's energy here, and my husband is against making a store out of a volume.
ABOUT! And I still have joy. My youngest son began to live separately, the nursery was free, well, and stood for herself.I think: Why am I huddling in the kitchen, in general, now I have my own workshop of artistic painting. There's a huge corner computer desk with a bunch of drawers, and an air conditioner, and overall very cozy. I bake, icing and paint it in the kitchen, then I take everything into my office, and - I create in a quiet atmosphere. And then in the kitchen it is necessary to cook, then the husband has to fry something there, he had to curl up, then turn around again. And now I'm sitting there I want to.
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Mona1, Tanya! Very beautiful and neat gingerbread cookies turned out! I've already filled my hand, well done! It's a shame that not everyone is taken away. And for a newborn, too, not all take ?. I think gingerbread can be stored for up to a year. But I think you will have a reason to give or sell early!
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Mona1, that is, you did so much, and only the tower will be taken away?
Liza, the funny thing is that they won't take the tower. She wants to first look at it, and not a photo, but in a live form, and if she likes it, she will order 10 pieces in June-July. There they have some Frenchmen coming.
Here I am writing and thinking myself: Well, what kind of French will go to our DPR. What kind of relatives? Well, okay, as it will be, so it will be.

ledi, Vera, well, let's eat ourselves if anything. When I unwind, I will remember that I also once experienced such beauty. So there is a positive aspect to everything.
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Mona1, Tanya, well, this is generally fanaticism! You will surely go bankrupt! I also make samples, but not in such quantities. Now I want to draw wedding ones for example and put them up too. By the way, they take more from me through Avito
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Tanya, congratulations on your new job! It's very cool and cool to have your own office!
You coolly came up with the idea of ​​spreading gingerbread through the hospital! I think it might work.
How can you advertise in VK for free?
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This is where it just might not work. Still, this is a medical facility, docks and permits may be required. You never know, suddenly some woman in labor will pour out, and then worry about them. So, here grandmother said in two ...
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Mona1, Tan, congratulations on the workshop! Create with pleasure and inspiration. and I'll go twirling mastic roses. I recently had my daughter's DR, I made a cake, it seemed to work out well (more or less). Now I was inspired to make a cake for my sister's DR. I think I'm blind until May 6 ...
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elena88, Flax, well, how to say, it is understood that they will not crack these gingerbread there, right in the hospital. Mothers in labor just look at the photos, choose and dock me with relatives, to whom I transfer the order outside the hospital, and they will eat it after being discharged at home with the guests. But I myself would hardly dare to go to the hospital and recruit someone from the staff.
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Tanya, I congratulate you on your personal account! You can try to sell gingerbread through the school, negotiate with the buffet, and if the price is acceptable, people will buy up at breaks.
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Wow, I haven't visited girls for a long time, but here so much new beauty appeared !!!
Mona1, Tanyusha, gentle and very neat gingerbread! I liked everything, everything! And France and for the newborn is simply super!
I congratulate you on your new workshop and wish you more new clients! You can also lay out the gingerbreads at Kidstaff, there is also a very good marketplace.
Mona1
BlackHairedGirl, Tanya, it will not work here, I think, just because this is a children's institution, sanitary stations check them, they will not undertake such a thing. Well, I unofficially do it, there is no health book, any product certificates. I'll just look for a person who works in the hospital, preferably in the postpartum department, and I will agree. Let me supply customers. Photos there, and ready-made gingerbread shows there. I’ll take 1 UAH each, for example, to unfasten the gingerbread. The husband says: go to the hospital yourself and negotiate. And I am such a shy person on this score, while I will look among neighbors and acquaintances, maybe someone has such a person among their relatives or friends.
Girls, I here told someone in a personal, how you can advertise, if anyone else is interested, I'm writing. Maybe it will come in handy.
How can you advance.
You must be registered to post ads there. I am registered (created my account).
How do I do. There, next to the search line, you need to click Communities, and in the search line you need to type the word Ads and a multi-hundred list of resources will drop out. But there on the right you can limit it by selecting - region. For example, you can choose your city, for example, Kiev. And a lot of things will also drop out. There is written on each number of participants. I usually do not give where there are less than 1000 people, and so a lot comes out. I go in turns and write text and pictures everywhere. Only there at the top in each such branch carefully look at what is written. It is free everywhere, but for some you need to join the group, otherwise the moderators will delete your posts, and some zealous ones even threaten to ban. So I usually just click on Join Group and that's it, post ads there. On some they write: Don't give more than one a day, but I don't always give one, there is no time. And there are just city publics right there. Type Kiev again in the search box. And a bunch of branches will fall out. Find the one where people communicate, and where such ads like Buy and Sell appear. But here it is probably not allowed to do it strongly, although the effect is greater. Because it seems to me that the Announcements branch is entered only to advertise and leave. And I also found 4-5 such boards on the internet through a search engine, placed myself there, and from 6 to 8 photos can be placed there. So far, only one has found clients, these are just Paris and for newborns. This is the Slando message board. From the rest for a month and a half - not a single person was called or written. By the way, I have it for free on Slando, or you can pay a little, then it will appear more often in the top of ads, perhaps more people will see it. But for now, my toad is strangling me and does not allow me to throw money away.
This is my experience, maybe there are still ways, then let's share with each other, help.
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Tanya, thanks for the information!
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Sahara, Lerochka, thanks, I don’t know how it happened. But my joy was a little darkened by the fact that yesterday my oven broke down. In general, I will try to call Gorgaz tomorrow, but they are unlikely to come, my husband took off the front panel, there the wiring and outwardly nothing seems to stick out, broken off, and it's scary to disassemble the handle yourself, it holds the gas.
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Lera, is it easy to register at Kidstaff or is it a paid site?
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Mona1 on this site 🔗 you can post your work for sale
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Girls, there is absolutely no time to write here, but I look at all your works regularly, you are all smart!
I also wanted to write that you can sell your works at the fair of craftsmen
Babovka, Nansy, these are all Russian resources, it is difficult, practically impossible to send from us to Russia, it is also very difficult to send something to Ukraine, but there are loopholes. In practice, I now advertise myself in the public resources of Donetsk, only for Donetsk residents for now. I am sure that this is all temporary, everything will work out, but so far there is a very complicated connection with the world. My husband says that gingerbread is a good business. If there is nothing to eat, we can eat them. )))Nansy, Natasha, and I already looked at the fair of craftsmen, it's cool there, of course, there are so many things and a very convenient site for sales, but again, there are only 15%, as I read, Ukrainians, that is, for example, it is cool for Russians to trade there , there probably also buyers, mostly Russians, come. But the idea to be accommodated there was still in winter, but somehow it started spinning. But, you have to settle there anyway.
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Tanya, don't worry in advance, maybe they will repair everything for you, when you call, tell them that it is dangerous to use, and when they arrive, maybe give them some money and give them a gingerbread, if anything, we are all people.
On Kidstaff it seems free, you need to pay only if you want advertising in the running line.
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Tanya, exhibit anyway, maybe there will be at least 1 buyer from there, and he can bring you a chain later, especially since up to 3 works can be exhibited there for free
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But I’m thinking all the time: how profitable is it to exhibit at YAM? Do so many buyers come there for gingerbread? All the same, this is a product - when you see a person, it’s more convenient to buy from him ... Also in thought
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Tanya, Thanks for the advice! I'm really not very familiar with VK. Tanya, I joined the group, and then I don't know how to put the photo there. Need to choose the "tell your friends" feature?
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Tanya, Thanks for the advice! I'm really not very familiar with VK. Tanya, I joined the group, and then I don't know how to put the photo there. Need to choose the "tell your friends" feature?
There the line is so empty (either at the top of all comments or at the very bottom on the last page). It says Write an ad or Comment on... You write the text there, then there will be an inscription next to it Attach press it, a menu drops out, there you choose from the list Photo, you press, then you press Upload a photo, well, you are looking there among the folders of the computer, where is your photo, or in the same place your albums under Upload photos (if you have albums in your Account), moms click on the desired photo. You can upload more than one, several in a row into one ad. When everything is loaded, then you press Send message... And that's all. It turns out more beautiful if 1 photo, or 2 photos, or 4 photos. If 4, then one, the first will be large, and three small ones will be on the right in a column.
In general, girls, it is better to be placed only in groups, which are not for discussion, but which bulletin boards. Because I was blacklisted for 2 weeks in a chatting Donetsk public, because you can't post ads there. If then I still violate, then they will probably be banned for a month, and then, if anything, then for good. And where there are announcements, groups usually hang at the top of the page, you must read. In some - everything is possible, in some, only members of the group can write, you must join, in some it is forbidden to give links to your groups and pages. I do not give any link, if anyone is interested, he clicks on my name above the ad and gets to my account, and in it on the wall I post everything, otherwise my people may be too lazy to climb albums, or they don't know at all, how to do it.
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And it seems to me that one of the most effective ways of advertising is adverts at the entrance. Or in a mailbox. As a student, I glued when I worked part-time. So the one who glued always said that the effect is immediately felt: people immediately start calling.
And I hang out all day at the craftsmen fair. I think maybe you really can create a shop there? So this is how much you need to think over, immediately stock up on containers for shipment ... But there will be no orders and where to put all this?
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Tanya, Thank you! I will try to figure it out for freedom
Natasha, well, I exhibited there yesterday, posted three works. There is no expiration date, no need to renew? (not paid, but if these three just hang?)

Lerochka, Sahara, what cute sea gingerbread, I really like it, took it to the store, if not against it.

harmful78, Liza, I also glued on the porches in my youth, when they planned to exchange an apartment, and even better - at bus stops, on poles near bus stops. But not on specials. billboards for ads, they called me and scolded me there, like there only the municipal service places its own or paid ads are glued. And if they spot me again, then a large fine.
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I have been hanging for the second year already, I sometimes go in pictures and change them to more recent ones, but so that there are also 3 of them left
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Nansy, Natalia, and there were orders? If it `s not a secret...
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harmful78, Liza, there were 3 orders, 2 from Moscow, and one girl from my city ordered, so she immediately advertised me to her friends and neighbors and now they order gingerbread and cakes from me
Sahara
Wow, girls for a long time I have not come, but here so much new beauty appeared !!!

Matanya, Tan, very cool gingerbread! I am delighted with the girl, I will definitely try to do something like this, I love gingerbread with humor.
lediVerun - the set is very touching, I just shed a tear, it turned out great! You grow with every new job!

Sahara
I'll show you what set I made to order for a girl who wanted to send a humor present to her friend in America, she asked that the shark be in the national Ukrainian wreath and hold the Ukrainian flag in her teeth or fin, then I remembered how my eldest asked me to draw pictures in childhood on the verge of fantasy, for example, Dracula on a motorcycle with an atomic bomb in his head or a crusader knight on a skateboard with a bottle of cola, etc.
In general, I decided to make the shark more modest and just drew a yellow-blue ribbon
We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
And on May 1-2-3, I was at the fair, made a lot of new gingerbread, it’s a pity that I didn’t have time to take a picture, and these few photos are not of the best quality, for which I immediately apologize

We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies

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Lera, Lera! I think I liked the gift! All gingerbreads are beautiful! The photo is normal! Tell me, is a bee flying out of the hive? here is something I cannot understand. Or is it a tree?
Oh, how can my hands itch to do something. how you want to do what you like, and not the garden. Girls, going to the children in Russia, what to do? No time to look, tell me! I have ready-made dough! They have a 1 year wedding anniversary
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Vera, heart Love is ... You are doing so well now, you will certainly master it. Quite, of course, impractical advice, but this is my dream now! I have already notified all my acquaintances - I think, at least at cost price. A lot of dye and labor will go there ... And another option is a house or a box in chintz-rose coloring, with hearts with wishes inside.

Sahara, Lera, how I like your baskets! So wonderful! If I remember correctly, is the basket itself a big gingerbread?
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I will definitely not bring it. Since there are many goodies, and the road is long. Lisa, can you show what exactly you want to do?
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Ideally this is. It will suit you for sure, you love details

We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies



If there are children, then this is an option

We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies


The last heart from here 🔗 Come in, look. There are many postcards on a love theme. For sale, of course, is incorrect, but you are for yourself.

In general, this picture is Love is ... it immediately plunges me into childhood, at a time when only this gum appeared ... Therefore, maybe only I like it so much
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Liza, Thank you . They're great! But I will be in time or not. On May 7 we are already leaving. Probably I will postpone the garden work. I really want to surprise the children and draw something.
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Sahara, Lera, well, finally there was! I already thought to write to you :)
I see you can't sit without work :) And how at the fair? I also participated in the fair with gingerbread, to be honest, I didn't really like it. Our clients are not yet lining up, many are simply surprised that they can still be eaten :)
Verun, this is a hive
With a quick-spinner, you can make many small hearts of different colors and write a letter on each one, so that later you can put some kind of congratulation or wish, put everything in a basket or candy bowl and pack it beautifully, for example, I made such hearts for a girl, they formed "Lika , happy birthday! ", another girl made a casket for the name day in the middle there were hearts and adding them turned out her name in 3 versions, both girls were delighted
Mona1, Tanya, obviously not against it, I just stand up to share ideas, it's a pity that I didn't take a picture of other cool ones - people really liked the babies, horses, bouquets, seahorses, trees, etc. Oh, what a lack of time (((
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If I remember correctly, is the basket itself a big gingerbread?
Lisa, the basket is hollow, I bake it on a glass salad bowl, in the middle there is a large round plump gingerbread - I attach the buds to it with a toothpick, and then I add leaves.

Katerina79, Katyusha, our fairs are cool, I was very pleased, of course I plowed up, but the profit was tangible.
For comparison, those gingerbreads that I give in wholesale at 5 hryvnias cost 12 at the fair, the only thing that I didn’t trade myself and had to give a certain percentage to the seller, and so I would say my work was rewarded in full, especially since there was an opportunity to do something. something new and interesting, and this stimulates creative growth. I have a lot of ideas in my plans, I would like to make children's compositions on the theme of fairy tales - a bun, a teremok, a poached chicken, etc., I really want to make colored houses with a garden, gingerbread cookies on wheels, etc.
To be honest, sales at fairs are very profitable, but there is not enough time at all, you need at least 1000 pieces in 10-14 days to have time to do such an event, while simultaneously serving wholesale customers, and of course, nobody cancels the household and caring for the child ))) Since last year, since September, I have not had a single day off
It was nice that people admired my work, praised the quality and taste of gingerbread very much, many took pictures against the background of my counter), especially visitors))
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Lerochka, how nice it is when such an attitude, straight wings grow and you want to do a lot of other amazing things. And your work can be admired and admired. Congratulations on a successful fair!
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Lerochka, I'm very happy for you!
Your gingerbreads are worthy to admire!
Do you have a photo of your gingerbread stall at the fair?
Thank you girls! Your gingerbread cookies are not worse than mine and I am more than sure that you will have a lot of clients in the near future!
Katyusha, they forgot to take a picture (((I specially bought a tent and a 2 = x-meter folding table for the fair, and ordered wicker trays, trays, everything looked very decent, as they say the table was bursting There were about 110 types of gingerbread, from small on a stick to large solid Several clients came for the leftovers today, it turns out my gingerbreads are sent regularly to Italy, France, Germany, I did not even know about it And one client - a wholesaler generally told me such pleasantries that I even became proud, she has customers who have relatives in Switzerland for a long time they have had a boutique gingerbread workshop, but there they basically do not paint the gingerbread with colored glaze, but just white, as our Tanya loves, and so, they constantly ask to send them my gingerbread cookies, and if my client is telling the truth, so everyone once they are not happy with such beauty and they also really like the taste and softness of the gingerbread and they are already seriously considering including such gingerbread in their assortment.
In general, it was indecent to brag about it, forgive me girls, it's just that emotions are straight from all the cracks.
Katyusha, there were a lot of people from Kiev, many of them took on the road, like one from the Kiev region should call, wants to take wholesale, she sells wooden souvenirs and towels, travels around Ukraine, if you want, I will send to you.
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Sahara, Lera, I'm not surprised at all! you are a workaholic and your gingerbread is wonderful! and delicious!
I've baked gingerbread cookies from your dough for a friend (from Germany), I liked it very much, I made it as in the original with lard, not butter, everything is fine, they are so soft, straight fluffy, decorated, she is shocked and delighted, this recipe I also liked those, well, for me personally, that I do not always have butter, but there is a lot of pork lard
What a plus for this recipe again! +++++++++++++
I have had these gingerbread cookies covered with a rag for a week now, and they are getting softer and softer ... is this normal? do not even think to dry
Alyonushka, I have not stored it under a cloth yet))) but in closed containers they really become soft and do not stale for a very, very long time, I think this is due to the large amount of honey and plus the combination of shortbread and choux pastry give such a porous structure that holds for a long time moisture.I've been a little messy with a batch of gingerbread, I just baked it - I immediately filled it in and painted it, and an hour later I packed it, so overnight the black outline blurred, Angry Birds did, it turned out that the beaks with shadows
So, for everyone, you can paint right after baking, but still icing should dry thoroughly before packing.
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Lera, and on a plate you bake a gingerbread from your dough?
Yes,Liza, from my own, I do everything from this dough and houses as well.
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Alyona, Lera, how I envy you that your gingerbreads soften! I have EVERYTHING, absolutely all the gingerbread cookies are dry, according to Lerin's recipe, if not very thick I bake, then you can bite off in dry form, but I don't have soft ones ((((
Of course, I have very dry air in my apartment, but does this really happen?
Vei, Liz, try to put a container of water in the room where the gingerbread cookies are located, just so that the gingerbread cookies are not filled with color, otherwise icing starts to migrate. A glass or a jar of water is enough, somewhere nearby.
Or, as soon as you bake it, put it right in an airtight container, it can be warm, but not hot. maybe you bake them a lot?
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Lera, Lera! What a smart girl you are! I'm glad for you that you got to the fair! Were you constantly present there or did the seller trade himself? Was there a fair in Uzhgorod? What else did they trade there? Oh, I bombarded you with questions, so interesting!
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I, too, now often use Lera's recipe. I make butter and lard in half. Lard is cheaper than oil, it turns out profitably.
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Vei, Lisa, I try to fold and pack them as soon as they cool down. and then paint and immediately in the morning (I paint in the evening and at night) also in the package and they are soft for a long time then. And if they have dried up, then a glass of water in the container where the gingerbread. I have this pan from the airfryer and cover from the pan is just perfect. Not fast, but soft.
DaNiSa
Liza, and they become so soft that yesterday I even got a little nervous, I made 2 goldfish and since they are a little oblong, I was directly afraid that I would bend in half at the junction of the body and tail, when the fill had dried out, it became harder, it turns out, that this filling kept the gingerbread from breaking, now I will show my work, do not throw slippers too much
dough from Lera Sahara, fish size 17x13
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So I have a few pieces on the marine theme in my hands broke, also fish. It was impossible to take by the tails
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And we didn't think to throw ourselves! Cool fish! Did you cut it out by hand? And for what reason gingerbread? Order?
Vera, so I'm used to the fact that they are hard right after baking, but here they are soft, I let them rest for 5 days, so they became even softer))
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Yes, we remember that it’s wet! I will probably stop soybeans experiments and stop at the Lera recipe. I really want to try to make them with cocoa. I understand her gingerbread can be painted right away? Ahh, no, you can bake them right away. And to paint the very next day
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DaNiSa, Alyonka, the fish are cute, only with the first one on the tail you made something clever, but the second fish is just that!
thanks, Lera, I wanted to draw such a tail for her
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but already tired I had to draw them first, doesn't look like right?
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Alyonka, your fish is better!
Lerochka, thanks! calmed
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Exactly!
Katerina, Thank you!
DaNiSa
Vera, thank you)) yes I cut it by hand, made it as a gift for a friend who came with a child from Germany to visit, wait I will show you
here I have already used the molds that my husband made
Lera Sahara dough, size 13 cm
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Alyona, you gingerbreads are pretty!
I must also try to make with lard.
Girls, just don't laugh. Do you make or buy it yourself? If you do, how?
Katerina, Thank you))
For example, I just twist chunks of fat in a meat grinder, and then I melt it in a cauldron, then I filter what is melted through a colander and several layers of gauze, it freezes, then I just scoop as much of it with a spoon and that's it
this lard is absolutely not felt in the finished baked dough, in the raw one, yes, I felt it, even started to worry that something was wrong, but when the gingerbread cookies were baked everything was fine
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Alyona, thanks :) I'll have to try!
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Your other gingerbreads are good! I especially liked the roses on the fence, they look very effective and in the last photo one is better than the other - very neat and tasteful!
Vera, I paint the gingerbread cookies right after baking, sometimes I bake the last baking sheets, and I already fill the first ones)))
I myself was not at the fair, my husband took my sister out, I paid her as a seller))), the two of them were on the farm, we had a Sakura fest and a wine festival, at this time the whole city is buried in sakura flowers and magnolias, chestnuts, lilacs, etc., many tourists. They sold a lot of hand-made, basically, the entire embankment was packed, we have a lot of folk craftsmen, winemakers, beekeepers, etc. in Transcarpathia, in general, my husband says, his eyes were scattered, and handmade lamps, and all kinds of crafts made of clay, wood, carpets, towels and others, and of course there are beer-kebabs, wine all around, our people love this ... although in recent years folk festivities have become much more modest, more often charity fairs are organized.
DaNiSa
Vera, like these ones?
I can't insert the video ...
oh, sort of inserted
or these
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Alyona, Alenka! Thank you very much!!!!!! And where was it?
Vera, I'm glad that I helped)) but it was .. mmm ... it was not .. I did not find it myself, I dug it urgently for you on the Internet, but I already put the link in the table of contents, in the chapter "Master classes"
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Thank you very much! but I could not find it, only the embroidery popped up and that's it. The first video suits me better
Lada2014
Good afternoon, craftswomen.

And yet I will ask. How do you translate pictures into gingerbread. I watched the announcement of seminars at Bredis, she lists a lot of ways there. But I don't know anymore except how the ebb on the film. Tell me please. And who else had experience with stencils. Please share your experience. It seems to me that everything should be smeared.
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Lada2014, with a needle through tracing paper, and then point by point with a food marker. And I have not yet reached the stencil, although I dream
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I just draw with a food marker on the gingerbread, or on the glaze, if the drawing is on the fill, that is, I sketch the picture and everything I just used the stencil yesterday, but I drew on the mastic cake, to be careful, nothing is smeared, and there is a master classes how to do it better how to use a stencil for icing a gingerbread
how to apply icing through a stencil
thanks for the answer!
Vei
girls, they ask me for gingerbread 4x7 cm in the form of notebooks and packs with pencils and the inscription "Hurray! Holidays!" If I found notebooks, then pack with pencils, and I can't even find such a small size. Maybe someone saw where? at all, what can be offered as an alternative to the end of the 1st grade?
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A set of pencils? So draw multicolored stripes in a row with sharp tips on one gingerbread and trace the contours. You can place three or four pencils in a "pack"
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Lisa, can I make it in the form of medals? and write "Goodbye 1st grade" or something like that
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everything, thank you all, until the order has disappeared))) and on such tiny ones you can fit a pack of pencils! the truth is she confused and meant just pencils
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Irinawhat wonderful school uniforms! I really liked it. I wonder what then for the boys? By the way, I still wrote out molds for myself, I was tortured to cut with a knife
Sahara
I made just such a composition for a 7-year-old boy, there were difficulties with transferring the finished product to the substrate - the base simply cracked in the middle, (the size is of course large - A4 format, but still I dried it thoroughly before pouring.
I think the fault is high humidity, we started stormy-jdi, during the day it is hot, and at night it gets very cold.
Alyonka, nevertheless, your gingerbread cookies soften from the high humidity, now I can say this with confidence, while we had heating this did not happen. Now I'm thinking how to solve this problem.
The weight of the entire composition is about 1.5 kg, the base is 20x30, the cars are on average 12-14 cm, the dough is according to my recipe, I did not pour it on the file, I drew right from the picture, since there was no time, I fixed the figures almost wet, icing barely barely had time to match.
It turned out, of course, not very neatly, but there was time for everything about everything in 3 hours.
The second photo shows how the icing has cracked in places.
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Lera, amazing job, smart girl! Only you could make such a joy in such an incredibly short time !!!
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Lera, well, first of all, a gorgeous composition! very nice! you are a jack of all trades!
secondly, at the expense of humidity, that's for sure, it's humid here now.
thirdly, did you put any substrate under the carrot? maybe if the base itself were glued to a cardboard or thicker stand, then it would not crack? and then paint and install all this stuff
or maybe the gingerbread should be dried near the switched on oven, when there is such high humidity in the house? need to try
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Lera, you are a great fellow! That's just unrealistic what a fellow! To do such a job in 3 hours is a super class !!!
Alena speaks correctly about the substrates :) They, like a cake, probably need to be put on a dense substrate, and everything will be OK :)
Thank you girls!
Next time I will immediately put a substrate, this time I was stupid
In fact, this is the first such cumbersome composition and I somehow did not realize that transferring the gingerbread from the table to the substrate could crack.
Alyonka, I dried the gingerbread before painting, but you can see not enough, and it was too thin.
Well, nothing, this is my lesson for the future.
I told the client that there is a marriage, but nevertheless she is completely delighted and is taking a gift to her beloved nephew to another city, I really hope that everything will arrive safe and sound She managed to take a picture in half an hour and show her friends and I already have 2 similar ones order
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Sahara, Lera, super best! Three hours for such a grandiose job is incredible. but the customers now go jamb. You are a master workaholic. You can think of it as such a medical diagnosis. : girl-yes: No, honestly, I would only paint the glaze for three hours ...
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yeah, me too)))

The customers are a jamb, but the time is terrible, as there is not enough time, the child is on me all day, today I didn’t have time to draw half a gingerbread man
And the people are used to my pace.
harmful78
Lerawhat a beauty you have created! And in just 3 hours !!!
By the way, I also came to complain about the humidity. I made a box, filled the lid in the evening, and in the morning I took it by the edge in full confidence that everything was dry there, and it, too, was all cracked. I had to quickly look for a table lamp among my friends and dry it out. That's how it turned out in the end. My handwriting is still the same, of course, but we will work on it.
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I also repeated the bull, but this time in the form of a postcard. Donated to a charity fair
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And baked these mini-calves. Diameter 9 cm, drew directly on icing with icing.
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Liza, nice handwriting and a great box! Taurus is already superb!
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Vei, Thank you! All the same, I want the handwriting to be more accurate. And this time I drew the little calf on the gingerbread at once, and did not cast it. And the last time I first drew a contour, waited until it dries, and then I filled in the areas. And this time I immediately poured the plots separately. I liked the result so much
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Liza, very beautiful box!
Taurus are great!
Taurus red is just handsome! And how do you transfer the drawing to the dried glaze, first draw with a pencil?
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harmful78, Liza, the box delights! It is a pity that the sides are invisible (((From what I could see, I think the walls are very beautiful, it looks like weaving openwork.
The bull and calves are super!
I have long dreamed of making a series of gingerbread zodiacs, your Taurus is very original, I will have to look for everyone in this style.
Girls, thank you very much for the praise of my labors.Now I am concerned about the selfish question: how much to sell all this beauty? If you multiply as I consider gingerbread, it turns out a little expensive. True, a friend says: expose at a higher price, this is an exclusive!
Katerina, this time I just cut out the drawing, circled it, and then marked it inside the silhouette. A friend sketched a rose for me. All on dried glaze
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Liza, thanks :) So it was inside the drawing that you pierced the dry glaze with an awl?
Katerina, sleepily wrote yesterday and did not write the most important thing with a food marker everything: both outlined and marked. Only then you have to wait for the lines to dry out, otherwise the marker starts to mix with icing
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Liza, Thank you!
harmful78
How to bake a voluminous basket correctly
And I also tried to bake a basket like Lera's. The first time, this is what happened
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And why didn't I wrap the plate in foil ??? I do not even know. The second option did not even take a photo. She wrapped the plate with foil, but forgot to poke it with a fork. And she's all swollen, But I don't give up hope and next week I'll try again
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About the basket - it's not for nothing that I emphasize that I bake in a glass salad bowl, grease it a little with oil, you can't overbid it with butter - otherwise there will be bubbles, I must pierce it with a needle, I don't wrap it with foil, nothing sticks and it can be removed easily.The main thing is that the dishes are as smooth as possible, without any folds, sides, edging, etc., but on your plate I see that the base has something like a rim, here you definitely need to wind it up, when I roll out the dough, I sprinkle flour on the table very abundantly and apply the bottom to the salad bowl, then there is no need to sprinkle flour on the dishes.I'm sure you will succeed next time!
Sahara, Lera, I also thought about the sides when I was already picking out the gingerbread from the plate
He baked right into it. And I decided to wrap it with foil, remembering mk for bulky eggs
harmful78
Sahara, Lera, accept work The diameter of the basket turned out to be 15 cm

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Liza, cool!!!
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harmful78, Lisa, how beautiful! Straight very, very!
Katerina, Tanya, this is all thanks to Lera and her explanations. The only thing in the flowers is a miscalculation. There were not enough of them. I made 5, but I had to 7. I put in a sign (made of a flower, thanks to the branch for the original use of molds) And it's cool not even that I made it, but that I sold it. Here!
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Liza, cool everything! I love!!!
and everything is neat and so beautiful! and what size of flowers? and I don't remember, what recipe you bake?
(PS in the letter L, I would connect both lines, so it's more readable and more complete, nevertheless, but this is my IMHO, and your handwriting is excellent, do not slander!)
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Well done for selling! The basket is really very cool!
And what kind of flower is it made of :)?
Katerina, and you come in, read Temko Useful, I graze there constantly
Vei, Elizabeth, you are probably right. While writing, it seemed normal. And now I agree: it's better to connect.
Here's what I'm thinking: from tomorrow, we have rains and a cold snap, but they ordered me a house. How to collect it ??? It will get damp, the roof will surely bend. What to do? How to protect yourself?
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harmful78, Liza, what recipe are you making? I bake houses according to the recipe from Gerda - it is made of stone immediately after cooling down and still.
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harmful78, Liza, and the flowers are there, as I understand it, on skewers stuck in a convex gingerbread? And if so, how did you fix the skewers in the flowers so that they do not fall off them?
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harmful78, Liza, it turned out great! and the plate fit perfectly! But I don’t understand how you strengthened it and daisies?
If I saw correctly, is the middle of the basket empty?
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Liza, a beautiful basket turned out !! and the inscription is so neat !!
Lera, yes, empty. I baked a round gingerbread, it turned out to be a little more than 1 cm thick. I really wanted it thicker, but was afraid that it would not be baked. Does the tkby have a big, big gingerbread inside? And if so, how do you bake it?
Mona1, but did not fix it in any way, stuck it in and that's it. There are not skewers, but toothpicks. I touched it, kind of hard. She slapped the leaves between the flowers so that they also held a little. And I attached a plate for two toothpicks
And I don't make a house out of Gerda's dough, I have another recipe in use, I bake everything from it. It looks like Lera's recipe for sugar, only less honey. As a result, the gingerbread turns out to be hard to the touch, but soft to eat. For houses and boxes I dry a little more in the oven and that's it. I made the dough from Gerda once, at the very beginning, and I was so worn out that now I'm afraid to try
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Lisa, so they are all the same type, why suffer? Moreover, Gerda also made choux pastry.
Lera, but I didn’t even think of sepals. And if you glue them on icing, so the daisies will generally keep dead. Gingerbread I got the same, it turns out. When baked, it became round like a store
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!! Lera, according to the diameter of the top of the basket, right? I cut out the diameter of the bottom
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Tanyusha, 1 cm - thickness, and the diameter, like a basket, basically I get 20 cm
.Liza, well, yes, a round gingerbread should kind of be superimposed, like a lid on the basket itself.
The point is to make the size, like the bottom? The gingerbread will fail, you made me laugh ...
Sorry, I can see I'm talking about everything
Vei, Liza, I'll try sometime, get the courage. Now I will not risk it anyway, there is not much honey at all, and it’s scary to make half a portion. Suddenly not enough: there, besides the house, there will also be figures and a large stand
Lera, at first I thought that there was a gingerbread for the whole basket. In terms of the volume of the basket, thick. But then, as far as he was smart enough ... And also a person with higher education You can't stick too much into the bottom of the basket, it is solid. And that went into the gingerbread. And I also glued it to the bottom on icing. Poured - the sea! So that it was more reliable

Lera, and you put this cap on the edges? Or does it fit a little inside?
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Liza, but it turned out well!
The lid is a little inside, but sometimes I don't calculate, then I glue it on top, in my opinion, the first option is better, then it is unnecessary to make too long leaves around the perimeter of the basket in order to close the edges.
I cut the round gingerbread using the same salad bowl on which I bake the basket itself, you can first cut the round gingerbread, and then cover the plate with dough.
Lera, good, but with a lid it will be stronger and more reliable. Well, I think so. When I gave this away, I immediately said that the goods were fragile
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And they asked me to make 2 sets for newborns, I gave one yesterday, packed it in a wicker goat, I would like to put the second in a gingerbread cradle, I don’t know if it works out, I’m going to pour the details of the cradle on both sides, I’m trying to figure out how to put the whole structure together and so that, nothing fell apart. I thought when assembling I will fix it on toothpicks and glue it with icing, but I'm afraid that icing will crack if I make holes with an awl.

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Lera, I made a gingerbread cradle, and even when I didn’t know how, I didn’t fall apart. glued on the usual icing.
so it seems to me that you can safely mount on icing, but what kind of cradle design do you have?
gingerbread cookies turned out pretty!
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Sahara, Lera, cool idea with a cradle!
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Sahara, harmful78, Girls! what a beauty! Lera, your speed is amazing!
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Vera, just beautiful! I liked everything on 1 photo !! and more birds!
The rest were on the fast, for the quantity, on the fast. That would have gorged on. There were a lot of them, I didn't show all the photos
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Vera, awesome gingerbread! A la fence finally class! And hearts in roses, and birds in the heart turned out very beautifully!
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Vera, very nice! Straight chintz And what is the size of the fence and the heart with roses?
Lisa, the fence is about 16 by 8 cm, and the heart is 14 cm
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Gingerbread for Ivan Kupala Day
And I also want to share, I was invited to the fair dedicated to Ivan Kupala, which will be held on July 7 in the city. I have already agreed, but I have no idea how I will get through all this. Now it is bursting with joy. But I need to make the amount of gingerbread that I can't think of. and the gingerbread should be in the same theme. Itself has not looked for anything yet, help please, what are the options. Lerochka, ayuuuu! I need you, I know that you in western Ukraine celebrate this holiday on a large scale. What do you advise.
The most interesting thing is that KHP has already become as dear as a family. I didn’t even say anything to my husband, I’ll go straight to you!
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Vera, wreaths, fern, fire, water, sun ...
Composition of gingerbread girls in a round dance around the "fire"

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Congratulations on your invitation! It is imperative to prepare, as seriously as possible, in truth, I haven’t been to such a fair yet, of course there is such a holiday, but not in our city, but in mountain villages more, but I think you can come up with many options, be sure to make more on sticks, all flowers, suns, butterflies, etc.
Ltd! Ira, I also found these! Everything seems to be clear! but how to draw these girls, if not an artist: girl_haha: also on a gingerbread. Thank you!!!!!!!
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Vera, congratulations on your participation in the fair. I would not advise you to draw girls - it is very laborious, and you need a minimum of costs - a maximum of earnings.
Better to exploit the theme of the sun and fern branches. Possibly in wet technique, so in this direction I would think.
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Take from the ornament. For example, such:
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girls, thanks! And you can also lilies, a fire, wreaths.
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You can also tighten up the topic of fortune-telling ...
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Sahara, Lera, I really need your advice. How did you give a great composition (with cars)? On a tray? And did you put any in a bag or not?
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Liza, I will answer while Lera is gone, I collect the houses on the base of gingerbread dough, glue them to the substrate, then the substrate on double-sided tape in the box
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Liza, I did not think to glue the base to the substrate, I cut out the cardboard more tightly to the size of the substrate 20 by 30, inserted it between two gold substrates, wrapped it with tape, put it all in a large bag, or rather in 2 bags - cut the sides along the side of the bags, and then neatly, first I stuck one side into one bag, then the other side into the other bag, it turned out, as it were, I put the bag in the bag, that is, the front and back turned out to be double, I tied all this with a bow on top, gave it in a flat box.
ledi, I don't have a box, I usually put it on a substrate and pack it in mica. But the fact is that the stand is usually the size of the house. And this time there will also be figures, the stand is large. I'm afraid that it will break, we have rains and cold, +8 outside. So I think: if you put a cardboard cake substrate under the stand, will it be enough? Or is it subtle?
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Lizawhat is the size of the stand?
Lera, saw the answer. It turns out that one substrate is not enough. We need more cardboard. And you need to put in a plastic bag. I usually take craft, but this substrate will definitely not fit. Size approximately 20x20cm
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harmful78, I made a polystyrene backing for a gingerbread house, and on top of it I glued a golden cardboard cake backing, and already glued the gingerbread base of the house with icing on it. I decorate the side surfaces of polystyrene with a ribbon, which is used for bouquets, or it can be with an ordinary satin ribbon or braid. Here I will show you my substrate

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Nansy, yeah, she showed Lisa the backing, but you don't show us the gingerbread house!
Luxurious house! I took it to my bookmarks

Liza, be sure to have a piece of cardboard, all the more you say - you have dampness.
Sahara
Well, sho, I finished the MK cradle anywhere I did not find, templates too, in short, everything is my copyright
I used a big heart and a big circle.Of course, it was not without mistakes, after baking it was necessary to put the gingerbread cookies under the press, the bottom of the cradle could be made narrower, and it was not worth making the gingerbread thick, due to double-sided filling, the parts turned out to be voluminous, and the whole structure is quite cumbersome - the total weight together with gingerbread 1300g.
My dough, dried before blowing warm air, the size of the cradle height-14, width 13, length 19 cm.

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Lera, mortality
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Lera, Oh, how cool it turned out! Well done ! And where was the circle shape used? And from the photo it is not clear that the sides of the cradle are convex or is it an optical illusion?
Vera, the circle is the bottom of the sides, but the roundness was also cut off so that the cradle would not sway, did not want to glue it on the stand.
The sides are convex and everything else, did not put under oppression.
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Lera, very nice!! I liked the side of the cradle! smart girl !!
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Girls, hello!
and some of my gingerbread
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Noooooooeeee, well, you fucking give !!!!!!!!!!!!! Only the cradle was shown, followed by the thrones !!!!!!!!!!!!
Lera, Vika! You need orders in full chest! The beauty! POWER!!!!!!!!!!! FORCE!!!!!!! WORK!!!!!!
Can't imagine how you can draw faces? Elsa, Masha ...?
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I will write comments later, when I return to consciousness
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aelita1702, Vika is just something !!! gorgeous !! girls, move, I, too, will collapse in a swoon next to me !! although I have already seen these works
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aelita1702, Vika!!!! I'm in a mute delight!
so many works at once and everything is incredibly beautiful, high quality, neat and made with such taste !!!
I really don't have enough words to express my emotions, very, very beautiful works! I want to repeat almost everything (well, what can I do, I lack my imagination) I really hope that you don't mind!
Thank you very much for taking the time to exhibit your works, even if it is rare, it is very inspiring !!!
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Victoria, so much variety! Beauty and quality !!!! Bravo!!!!
It's a pleasure to consider all this !!!
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aelita1702, Vika, great! Taking off my hat.
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Vika, no words ... some emotions !!!!! Cold heart - on the verge of fantasy!
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Girls, wooooooo!
Thank you all very much for the appreciation of my work. I am very, very grateful to you and have no idea how I sit and smile now)))
A special big thank you should be said to Alena DaNiSa))) It is she who presents my works for me. I have a catastrophic lack of time, I am everywhere in raids-swoops. When I started dealing with gingerbread, I didn't think that there would be so many orders. But what can I say, you have no idea how much I like it all. This is straight mine !!! I have always dreamed of doing what I like. You won't earn much on gingerbread, but I'm happy every day !!!))) I love my customers for interesting orders. I always thought that I had big problems with my fantasy, but it turns out that it develops a little over time)) You will see the idea somewhere, and then you will add something yourself and everything looks different.
I just want to master 3D gingerbread. Hopefully in June-July time will appear))) I also want to give MK, but I can't prepare the program)) I have made two course cakes so far, now I will show you)

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Horror! Negative energy in this
How will you feel while working?
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Just about, and when I saw it, I got goosebumps, some kind of rejection immediately started to flow. I thought for a long time how to refuse politely. I wrote that, unfortunately, I can't do it, because I don't work with black.
In general, the negative emotion was balanced by the positive - it seems that my oven has been repaired today! I'll bake tomorrow!
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aelita1702, Vika, promised to comment, but I can't find words. Why so few? : girl_haha: just kidding. I would admire and admire. Masterpieces, they are so perfect !!!!!!!! And the most interesting thing is that they are perfectly flat! From what test and what do you do with them to make them so smooth and even? and yet, are they soft ??
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aelita1702, Vika, you just blew up HP with your gingerbread!
Everything is clear, stylish, professional! In short, cool is unrealistic !!!
Thank you for not forgetting us!
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aelita1702, Vika, just gorgeous work, the top of accuracy and taste! Accuracy, selection of paints is a miracle !!!
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Vika, no words ... I'm shocked ... how is this possible ... cookies are like pictures .. I can't even believe that you can do this ... I also studied here for: HP ... You are talented !!!
After such beauty, she laid out her primitive cookies ... she was already ashamed of herself ...
ledi, Vera, Thank you))) the dough according to the Bredis recipe, but it looks like the dough from Gerda. Depending on the thickness, they can be both soft and crispy.
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Subscribe. Masterpiece!
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aelita1702,
pliz tell me, and how thick are the gingerbread? and do you have ready-made forms or are you somehow?
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aelita1702, Vika, letters are beautiful! And gerberas are very, very !!!!!!
Marfa don, Alena, I roll 4 mm thick. I mean, are the forms ready?))) I have a sea of ​​molds)) and I cut out some of them by hand
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aelita1702,
And tell me please, where is your Peppa pig, did you paint the background airbrush or fill with a transition?
this is an airbrush))
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aelita1702, Vika, how do you bake gingerbread on a stick - right away with a stick or then somehow insert it?
To be honest, I can't imagine how girls stick something into already baked gingerbread and don't deform
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Liz, don't hesitate! everything works out great. and so faster!
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Vera, Vika, Lera, you are Craftswomen with a capital "M"! I have no words!!! I sat for a long time in the cake theme, missed it, I go in, and here such a beauty is going on! You are smart and cute, I smashed the plus signs, of course, but if I could, I would kiss each one
ZeZe
Girls, hello everyone .. I announced here ... How long have I been away ... I brought you my cookies ... though I didn't make friends with icing, but maybe I made little effort for friendship ... so it's easier for me decorate with mastic ...
Baby cookies Mezeshkalach prescription cookies, fondant mastic.
Kitty: We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
Spongebob: We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
Spiderman: We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
Crown: We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
Cars (not quite similar, of course, but such a photo was sent by the customer): We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
Strollers (very clumsy turned out ...) We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
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Lyaila, is this all mastic? very nice! it's good that she brought and showed, otherwise she sits there by herself sculpts beauty and does not show us
Did you also make a spider-man mask with mastic? Well, this mesh? or icing?
Alena, hello! Thank you! well, the main design is mastic, and small lines and dots are icing ... well, kanesh loudly says "icing" ... well, at least a semblance of it ... how can I get out ...
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Oh, and I missed something !!!!!! Pretty ones! Lyaila, is it really easier to decorate with mastic? After all, so many small things need to be cut and glued.
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Can you tell in detail in the corresponding Temka what is not working?
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aha, here I am about too! it's more difficult for me with mastic, although Laila and I have different mastic, maybe it depends on it
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ZeZe, gingerbreads are wonderful, but with icing, why is there no love? I also suffered for a long time, and then still made friends with him. We have Lisa a specialist in icing. I think it will help. The main thing is to put the question correctly, and the correct answer will be found together.
elena88
Vera, Vika, Lera, you are Craftswomen with a capital "M"! I have no words!!! I sat for a long time in the cake theme, missed it, I go in, and here such a beauty is going on! You are smart and cute, I smashed the plus signs, of course, but if I could, I would kiss each one
Lada2014
How else can you translate a picture into a gingerbread
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Lada2014, regarding the transfer of the picture, there is a very good way, recently suggested))) By the way, I translated Masha and the bear that way.
There is such paper in silence, so first translate the picture onto it, and then put this piece of paper with a picture on the gingerbread and draw a food marker along the contour. And FSE! A picture on a gingerbread)) You can find this fig paper in our city, or maybe I just don't know where))), but just that day I received a package with nozzles from England, which Vei Liza laid it out there, that's just the most convenient way, in this piece of paper the nozzles were wrapped)))

Good afternoon aelita1702. Thank you very much for your reply. I've read the text 100 times and don't understand. We take paper and transfer the picture. How to transfer a picture? Then with the face, where we circle the picture with a food marker and put it on the gingerbread.
Please help me figure it out.
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To be honest, I also did not understand about the transfer of the picture)))
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Lada2014, Vei, I thought it was a picture on paper in pencil.And then you put this paper on the gingerbread and circle it with a food marker on top. It gets wet through the paper and is imprinted on the gingerbread. I even bought a roll of paper for this, but nothing came of it. It turned out to be waxed - this is what Vika later wrote about

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And a marker and a food felt-tip pen are the same thing? I wanted to order, found only markers
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Verai don't know think so
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Girls, I'm baking gingerbread now and an idea came to me how to transfer a drawing to a gingerbread
While I baked the whole batch, I have already tested and photographed :)
I read that I need paper in silence. What kind of paper is this I don’t know and I’m too lazy to look for it :) But I have paper napkins! So I put them in motion. The only thing is that they are three-layer and I separated them.
We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies
The most interesting thing is that I have a Simka in my sample, which I carried with an awl when I was painting gingerbread before
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Katerina79, Katya, well finally! As they say, the ingenious is simple.
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Katerina79, Well done!! thanks for this idea !!
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And I did not understand the meaning .... How is everything done there?
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Tatyana, it's not difficult there :)
You take a picture, a napkin on top, and outline it with a pencil. Then you put this napkin with a picture on a gingerbread and draw a drawing with a food marker. Due to the thin napkin, the marker is printed on the gingerbread. All:)
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ABOUT! And then I broke my whole head, and did not think of it
THANK YOU!!!

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