We decorate gingerbread cookies, cookies

[how to dry gingerbread under a lamp?]

Girls, explain to me: how to dry gingerbread under a lamp? I dried the bells here, and in the morning I look at their entire surface as rough as emery.
I thought because of icing, but then I filled in the same five and everything is fine

Liza, this can happen for several reasons:
1) poor coarsely dispersed powder
2) a large amount of acid in icing, which makes the protein structure fragile and porous
3) a dye with glycerin, which can also affect the porosity and brittleness of the glaze.
But according to my observations, this is more often due to acid.
With the correct recipe and icing mixing, this does not happen.

Under my lamp, only a shine appears, if you sow through an organza, then an even softer and pearlescent shine:

Then it was because of the powder (this icing according to Eddie Spence and the juice was exactly 6 drops) I bought it for the last time, sifted it, and there it turned out almost a glass of dropout out of 600 grams. The toad strangled me, I sifted this screening through the mesh and made background icing to fill it. I think there is a large hole in the same place, it will not clog. Here is the result ... P.S. I just went to a fabric store the other day and found that what I used to sow the powder through is called not organza, but mesh. And the organza is very different
Today I ran through all departments at two bases and found powder in only one. Unpack. 150 grams for 28.5 rubles

it's expensive, but do you have a Metro store?

no In all stores, 50 grams each. In one I found 200 g for 30 rubles, but with so much waste, it's a nightmare. In general, we have a deficit. I signed up with Sahara, they offer it for 73 rubles / kg. Plus shipping. Probably 1000, no less

And I still need gingerbread, powder in the dough. So I just grind sugar there. Dreary, but much cheaper

Here are the ones on! And yesterday I bought a lamp with a specialist, otherwise I have all daylight or halogens, and now I will not risk it. I didn't sow the powder. Let it be better matte than skewed.

Hi Liza.
Did you cast these pictures onto a file? Please tell me, then did you put on wet? Or put it on dry. And if wet, but there was no such thing that the paint spreads. I had such an experience on wet everything floated, and on a dry one a separately cast picture sticks out.

Lena, I immediately drew on the gingerbread without casting on a file. I myself do not risk it through the file. I just put a drawing on the dried fill with a food marker, and then squeezed out what was needed one by one so that the contours did not merge.

[Husky]

I used a gingerbread in the form of a wall for a cake from elena88 "soft gingerbread dough". She baked a gingerbread with skewers inserted. I inserted skewers into the cake to the full height. I gave the gingerbread separately, as it turned out to be quite heavy.

Husky, The cake is cool and the idea of ​​the wall is original! Well thought up! It's a pity you rarely please us with your masterpieces

Husky, Luda, the wall is so super-duper, the leaves are like living! and the cake itself is so cute! and this is such a cool idea to make a wall not from gelatin, but from gingerbread! in the summer I just need a cake with a house in the meadow, so now I will definitely make a gingerbread house

[Coco]

Girls, dear, help me deal with the icing, otherwise I'm on the verge of despair! Not so long ago I started decorating gingerbread cookies, and at first everything was fine, but lately there are continuous problems with the icing, and I have no idea what the reason is, because earlier everything worked out with the same recipe. After some time after application, the glaze begins to crack, or depressions and sometimes holes form in it. Moreover, this happens with both small and large parts.It turns out very ugly, and most importantly, I don't know how to deal with it. I tried to distribute the glaze well with a toothpick immediately after application, but it did not help. If anyone knows what could be the reason, please tell me. And also, if possible, share a proven recipe - maybe something is wrong with mine. I would be very, very grateful for any help

Coco, you first show what you get, then describe what kind of glaze you use, and look at the beginning of the topic 3 post links on the whole topic maybe there is an answer to your question
and do not panic, everything will work out, since it worked out before

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look now!
And as for the photo - to be honest, I didn't think to take a photo. Although, rather, she was so upset about the result that she did not want to capture such a deplorable result.

Coco, I have holes, if the glaze is not just made, but has already stood for a day or two in the refrigerator (not pouring, but ordinary, for lines), and then I use it for pouring, add a little water, and now it seems to me, then whether there is too much water, or whether it is not too much, but the glaze did not mix well with it. And when the filling dries up, the water evaporates, and where the filling was thicker, it is normal there, there is something to keep the density dry, and where it is more liquid - there the water disappeared, and in its place - a hole remained.
Once when I was a student, I went to a construction brigade, they plastered something there. The experience came in handy, so I then putty these holes with medium density glaze. I squeezed it out of the nozzle and gently smoothed it with my finger. Not perfect, of course, but there is no hole.

[Liza]

Maybe you can tell me then ... I fill, for example, the middle of the flower. I fill in more, I try to make it convex. And when it dries, the center of this middle falls through, a hole is obtained approximately the size of a match head. I thought that icing was watery, I tried to make it thicker, but it doesn't spread at all then. In short, I'm prostrated

Liza, all the same, if the holes are watery, and if there are thick bumps.

Liza, when it's normal, it doesn't spread very easily for me, I push it with a toothpick in a circular motion, and then move the gingerbread a little to the sides quickly, then the surface is smooth, without bumps, and I tap it lightly on the table, then some bubbles will pop out, I I prick them with a toothpick or a needle. And if it's one that spreads well, that's where I have holes.

there are 2 options: either liquid icing, or a bubble that eventually bursts. Well, remind me once again, what recipe and how do you mix icing?

Now, according to Eddie Spence, I have mastered him. Lately, I’m doing just fine. In this regard, I made two valuable observations. First, the quality of the eggs greatly affects the result. At first I bought eggs for baking in a nearby supermarket, and then I discovered that they were from Novokuznetsk. Can you imagine ?! It is 4.5 days to go from us to Novosibirsk, and this is even further. Surely these eggs are processed with something, because icing from them has always been whipped very badly. And exfoliated at a wild speed. Iceing from local eggs turned out to be more or less normal. And after I sifted the powder through the organza, the icing came out just great! And whipped fine and thickened well
It took so long

[Liza]

Eh, we will try. I will show my purchase for 99 rubles

Matchbox for sizing. For me - normal molds.
And this is a rattle and a pacifier bought on the Internet

Liza, great purchase! and the size is suitable
but the rattle and the dummy seem too small

Girls, today I saw in IKEA a set of similar molds, only metal and a little larger.
I didn't remember the price, but very inexpensive. There are all sorts of animals and stuff.
In addition, these molds can obviously be bent in a different shape if some animal is not needed. For example, take 2 sets, leave one as it is, and reshape the other.I wanted to take a picture and write down the price for you, but decided that it would be better to show you from the IKEYAVSKY catalog, but in the Russian one they are not!
Several times revised up and down
But in the Swedish catalog they are:

True, I definitely saw here, for example, a cow, but here I don't, what else happened - I don't remember, but the idea is the same.
Here the size is clear, they are not very small, about the size of a palm and a little smaller.

The series is called DROMMAR (DRÖMMAR)

and I, I want these! you have to go to the children's shops. Or is it sold in stationery?

Vera, I found it here, look 🔗 or here 🔗

Girls, thanks. now I will know that in Ukraine it is also possible to order

[Lada2014]

Good morning.

So I finally learned how to insert pictures. Hurrah!!

I would like to share my attempts to translate the picture into gingerbread.
Made postcards 27x20 and call them prototypes

Lada2014, very nice bear, well done! and how did you translate the picture? but there were so many ways and tips

Lada2014, cute bear. I subscribe to Alena's question.

Thank you. glad you like my teddy bear.
First, I translated it into paper, like in silence (I realized that I had bought the wrong one). the picture did not translate into a gingerbread. Then she made small holes with a needle and once again transferred the drawing to a gingerbread, and so they appeared
points. And in general, I cut out along the contour and brought the drawing along the already finished points.
Considering that I decided to make this gingerbread in the size of 30x20. And this made it easier for myself, probably.

I don’t know how it will work with small drawings, but I’m still glad of this bear.

So thanks again for your support.

[Larissa]

Girls, everything has happened! I'm going to the exhibition tomorrow!
I am satisfied, unfortunately, I didn’t stay with my work, I did it a hundred times. Well, as they say, the first pancake!
What is there! Wish me no fluff !!
I'll show you everything on Sunday!

Larissa, I probably missed something. I am reading about the exhibition for the first time. But with all my heart I wish that everything went well for you. So that you get a lot of positive and gain experience for further creativity.

Larissa, no feathers to you !!! so that everything goes well!

Girls, thanks !! I will photograph all the beauty that I will see and bring.
Two days of almost endless master classes from renowned designers. So waiting !!
Thank you!

Larissa u, Lar, good luck, fresh impressions. And of course new photos for us

Larissa u, I join all the wishes! And I look forward to your photos and story!

[In order to achieve the perfect color for sculpting people, we mix white mastic with peach color and a drop of red.And yet, in order for dry paint not to stain, but to be distributed evenly, you need to mix it with starch!]

Girls, thanks again for all your words and wishes !!
So, the first day is over, I can already tell you something, so far without a photo, since a photo can be published only after the results are announced.
I do not even know where to start . Probably from the fact that my mills (and I made 3 mills from 12 cookies), when packing (thank God, I decided to do this yesterday, not today!)
Three wings broke off, one on two and one on one. Shock! I grabbed the icing, let's stick it, thank God it worked out, and, like, veiled this place, but no! I saw, the jury saw this case
Explained to me today how the seats are allocated. 12 jury members (individually) give points on certain points (accuracy, new idea, manual work, etc., etc.) Then points for each (and each participant only has a number, no names) are added and are counted. For each place, a certain number of points. That is, three bronzes are possible, and zero gold and silver. In principle, fair, right?
I was terribly afraid of some kind of incident, but the cookies got there without any problems!
Girls, I was shocked by everything !! From people around, from talents! I felt like a complete incompetent, to be honest (I’m here not so much about cookies, but about cakes, about modeling) THERE ARE SUCH MASTERS !! I only spent two hours at the stand at Carlos Lischetti (I looked at his modeling, he sculpted, sculpted, endlessly) that I learned useful things, I share right away. In order to achieve the perfect color for sculpting people, we mix white mastic with peach color and a drop of red.
And yet, in order for dry paint not to stain, but to be distributed evenly, you need to mix it with starch!
To be continued....

Larissa, Oops! I can imagine how worried you are! Well, thank God that at least I managed to glue everything. So the exhibition turns out to be not only gingerbread? Larissa, what else did you do? So interesting! Can't you show your photos too?

exhibition Cake and Bake Germany show.

ledi, Ver, no, not just gingerbread
1. Wedding cakes
2. Party cakes
3.3d cakes
4. Floristry
5.cakes
6.cakes or gingerbread
7.children's work
I can not put any photos, the condition of the competition. tomorrow

I can't wait to see khachu !!! H-A-chuuuuu !!!!

Larissa, look forward to!!

Irina Dolars, Irin, but you can probably make a separate topic and there information about exhibitions and fairs, eh? I have a bunch of photos

Larissa, you can kanesh !! give a new topic! report on fairs and exhibitions

And a link here, if possible

PLEASE visit!

[Larissa]

Girls, dear!
So far, I only show my works, I have 600 photos for the exhibition, they need to be reduced a little and streamlined. I will do a little every day and exhibit

Larissa, what a beauty! Just a lovely sight! The two bottom photos, the landscapes are spring, summer, autumn? Very nice!

Larissa, Very beautiful, exquisite! Well done!!!

And she designed the stand so beautifully, very organically. And the selection of topics is wonderful: although they seem to be different techniques, they are all in one topic, folk-natural, like a gingerbread journey through the village.

And the painting is good! You can even see the rays of the sun breaking through!

Larissa, no words just! you are a TALENT! these landscapes are magnificent, I can't take my eyes off them

Larissa u, Larochka, killed on the spot! Mills are lovely! I took it to the bookmarks. And the landscapes struck to the core. : girl-swoon: I ask MK for landscapes. I'm dying, I want to see how you can do it with your hands!

Yes, we are looking forward to!

Girls. mk ??? Well, I'll think about how to do it, okay. Thank you!!!

[Coco]

Coco, you first show what you get, then describe what kind of glaze you use, and look at the beginning of the topic 3 post links on the whole topic maybe there is an answer to your question
and do not panic, everything will work out, since it worked out before

Good afternoon, I still decided to photograph how my holes and depressions look. And this hole on the wing is the second in a row (it was already plastered in place). And at the lighthouse there are hollows. And I've had this all the time lately


The most amazing thing is that my very first gingerbread cookies looked perfect according to the same recipe. compared to these. I then thought that it would only get better further, but no, as it turned out. A bird of medium consistency glaze (which itself does not spread), a beacon - pouring 15 sec. After reading the tips, I thought that the glaze was still thin, and to pour the gingerbread about 15x15 cm I recently mixed the thickest glaze for me. Eventually, the already applied glaze started to set before I finished pouring. In places of such "joints" I tried to smooth them out on a part of the gingerbread cookies with a toothpick, and on the other part I slightly tapped the gingerbread cookies on the table and gently shook them from side to side. As a result, the coating turned out to be uneven, with humps, and cracks appeared in the places of "joints" during drying (which I again did not document). So a thicker fill than the one I did before did not suit me

Coco, I have a feeling that this hole in the wing is due to the air bubble there ...

Coco, my opinion is that icing is broken, too airy.
For such small fragments, I do the icing more densely, add more powder, but beat much less with a hand mixer at the lowest speed.

Thanks for the answer! I'll try to beat less.
I do not exclude this possibility. Although I held the finished glaze for half an hour, so that the bubbles came out, and already worked on the bird with a toothpick.

Here it is, my problem! I also have this - depressions and dents in those places where I try to pour more glaze
Lera, Sahara, manual - is it manual electric? Or completely tame, from the Soviet past?

Coco, and what is the recipe for icing?
at the lighthouse, the dips are absolutely certain due to the fact that not enough icing was squeezed into the middle, you just need to look at different angles when distributing icing. but with a wing, this can be for various reasons. And so that there are no bubbles, you need not only leave icing for half an hour, but also iron it on the board with a spatula.

Recipe: 250 g of powder for protein, a couple of drops of lemon juice and 1/4 tsp. glucose syrup. To the consistency of pouring, we dilute a little with drinking water. They gave such a recipe for MK. In front of my eyes, they made icing according to the same recipe in the same combine and the same attachment as mine, and I personally drew with it - then everything was super. And, as I said, at first everything worked out for me. I'm probably the only person in the world who gets worse with experience, and not vice versa. If you know and can give another proven recipe, I will be very grateful.
And for the first time I hear about a board and a spatula. Pour the glaze in portions onto the board and iron it with a spatula? If so, then, in my opinion, this is an unreal work: rose: I also want to clarify about the filling of large areas so that there are no bumps. In foreign videos I saw this option: squeeze out the glaze along the perimeter from the edges to the center and then align it with a toothpick in spiral movements.
And this: after applying the glaze, we move the gingerbread from side to side, without lifting it from the table (I tried both options, anyway, humps if the filling is thick and / or cracks, if more liquid).
Would you say that any of these methods are better? Or maybe there are better options?

Coco, choose which one is closer to you
icing according to Eddie Spence's prescription
protein powder icing
icing with citric acid from Lyuba Prus-2
egg-free glaze recipe
on my own I will say that I use the recipe from Eddie Spence, every craftswoman here on the forum has her own favorite recipe, so that you decide what you need to taste everything
py. sy. all the same, go to the beginning of the topic and read the links

thanks, I will look for my recipe

on large pouring areas, I got used to spreading it with a spoon, and then I just spread it with a toothpick, squeeze out the squiggly areas through the nozzle, and then I still distribute it with a toothpick and constantly raise it to eye level to see the irregularities

and so I'll try

[Lada2014]

Good day to all.

Here's what I wanted to ask. First time like this.
After the oven, I put the gingerbread on napkins face down.
And when they cool down, they bend a little. Although immediately after baking I level and press down the gingerbread with a wooden cutting board and they are even.

What's the matter. Somewhere there is a mistake and I do not understand what is wrong.

Lada2014, perhaps they are different in thickness, somewhere too thin, and dry unevenly. What recipe do you bake, how thinly and equally do you roll out, and what size gingerbread bends? attach a photo.

Unfortunately, I ate everything curved and there is nothing to photograph.
Prepared according to Gerda's recipe.

But interestingly, the properties of the dough change if you take the dough out of the refrigerator several times, defrost it and return it to the refrigerator.

I did just that, and it was Gerda's dough - I didn't notice any difference, every time I baked the walls of the house
why are you writing? are you freezing him or what?

no, I just keep it in the fridge

[Lada2014]

Lada2014,
I want to write a little about baking - how I do it.
From my own experience. Perhaps someone will add.
If the dough several times in heat and cold, it will definitely deform.

We take the whole piece of dough, it heats up a little at room temperature - about half an hour so that you can work with it, break off the desired piece for rolling, knead, roll, cut ..., break off the next one, mix it with the scraps, work on. If the temperature in the room is high, we put a large piece back in the refrigerator, it has not yet overheated.We mix the next portion of scraps with a new piece from the refrigerator (I tear off a piece right in the refrigerator.) During the time we are working this large piece will still not have time to cool down to an oak state.
And if I mix the scraps (which are already overheated from the warmth of my hands and rolling) with the dough at room temperature, it becomes oily and becomes rubbery already during rolling, you roll it, and it shrinks and then the baked figures shrink and bulge.
When rolling, if we see that the dough is oily, sprinkle it with a little flour. It should be matte.
This, in principle, is suitable for any dough with butter - it does not like overheating.
That is, you need to maintain a balance of temperature in the dough.
And if I do not use all the dough at a time, I put a piece of scraps in the refrigerator and in the future the difference is very visible - this piece is denser and more capricious. Therefore, next time I definitely mix it with the dough that I did not touch.
The baking itself. To speed up the process, I make several blanks at once: I roll them out on pieces of baking paper to the size of the baking sheet (I cut corners off the paper - just like on a baking sheet so that the paper lies evenly - I use them several times later), put them on baking sheets and put them in the refrigerator. How much will fit in the refrigerator. Then I bake three baking sheets at once on convection. Sometimes I have to turn one baking sheet - because I have one fan in the oven and hot air moves along the same path all the time. But it is still better than one oven at a time without convection.
Woooot .... hope it helps ....

Taax .... I will share one more ...
How to mix colors in icing.
Again, I do not pretend to be the ultimate truth, but it is sooo comfortable for me to stir in dye or water with a small narrow silicone spatula from Tupperware dishes. At one time my mother was carried away by this dish and there she was given this indistinct spatula for something. At first it was convenient for her to pick out only the remnants of condensed milk from the can, and then she tried icing ... Well, that's all .... Now without her, as if without hands .... She has already worn out two shoulder blades (tearing at the junction of plastic and silicone). I tried to look for a replacement - I already have an exhibition of all kinds of small silicone shovels, but it's not that. I don't know how to insert photos - if someone uses one, maybe they will take a picture. There, the silicone part itself is narrow and small, and the handle is long. But this is also convenient when intervening. On the one hand, the surface is flat, narrow, like a knife, on the other, it scrapes everything from the bottom and walls and then there are no unmixed streaks and less bubbles in the color icing. Well, it's also convenient to apply icing - every drop ...
Ps .: current dear, infection, like a cast-iron bridge ....

Thank you very much for such complete answers.
Another question. I bake according to Gerda's recipe. And accordingly gingerbread "stone". And I know to put in a container with a cut apple overnight and they will become soft. QUESTION should this be done before painting?
And also on dyes. I use American. The taste is bitter and I don't like it.
What are you doing about it. Or recommend others. Thank you for your reply.

Lada2014, take a look at the first page
Look for the string Frequently asked questions here:

https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=35010.0

[Technique for decorating gingerbread through a stencil]

Technique for decorating gingerbread through a stencil

Hello everyone. I saw an interesting technique for decorating gingerbread through a stencil, I can share. 🔗

Elya, Thank you! come in handy

DaNiSaI have no doubt that we should look for stencils.

[Vera]

And I came to cry. Well, I can't do anything, everything falls off my hands. I can’t think of anything normal for the fair. One month left In general, everything is not right. Not only are there not enough ideas, but everything still does not work out, then the icing is not of the same density. Yesterday I wasted a bunch of gingerbread. SpongeBob couldn't draw. Everything is so terrible.
It's a fern so to speak

So, Vera, do not panic, These ferns of course do not fit, but you just need to change the idea, this one is mentally blurred and it does not stick.Plus some thick nozzles, you need to take thinner, everything will be more elegant and neat at the exit. Now I just have no time, the cake is burning on time, but for a week I will have to think again what and how you should do better.

Vera, and in what style do you need to decorate? or arbitrary?

holiday of Ivan Kupala

ledi, Vera, don't panic, switch to something else temporarily. This is what I found

Vei, Elya_lug, Thank you!!!!!!! So I put it off, I am engaged in children. But, the main thing first needs to be done on the topic. And yesterday I took up these and sho got navarganila

and you do not do children, but something elegant for inspiration. Otherwise it will be harder and harder to switch from children to Ivan Kupala.

Elya, Ideas are very interesting! Thank you! Probably need to draw on a gingerbread not flooded with icing. translate drawing with a needle. Because the needle does not pierce my dried icing. I spoiled a lot of gingerbread yesterday

Vei, Lisa, it just doesn't work at all. Yesterday, like Lada, there were a lot of gingerbread. I think there was a draft, they cooled down quickly, the window was open. In general, my hands dropped. Here and now gingerbread aside, and I bake a pie, pamper my husband

Vera, but try to make a flower stencil from the plastic cover from the folder

Elya, and then? I have no food marker.

Vera, and you are now baking gingerbread according to what recipe? I have now switched to the recipe from Lera, I am very pleased with it, especially the fact that you can bake it right away. Gingerbread is delicious and soft if the air in the apartment is not very dry.

Girls, excuse me for being different here. Probably it happens to everyone, and many leave the creative mood, the muse, so to speak ...

Lisa, so I switched to him. They never got bogged down, but yesterday on you. I really added cocoa 50 gr. And the fact that my husband rejected something, said that there was none: wall: He's probably full, now he is criticizing.

Ver, you just grab onto everything right away, maybe you are a little tired and torn between the house, the garden and the gingerbread.
By the way, I liked the middle gingerbread, only it turned out a little rough, Lisa is right - take the thinner tip, make the flower yourself simpler, so that there are fewer petals, like the one in the first picture that Elya gave, but you can draw the leaves as I drew the eyelids mimosas on eights, only a little thicker, you can pour the flowers on the file, and the leaves can be wet on wet, draw stripes, and then walk with a toothpick in smooth lines, on top of several branches with a tip. M yet, I would not have sculpted so much on a din gingerbread-flower a few twigs. Try to make wreaths, as I advised you - cut out a circle in it, flowers of different colors with nozzles, and leaves also with nozzles - different shades of green icing can be done, it will turn out beautifully.
And don't make new ones for kids yet, do first what you did, and if you have time, you will do something new and more difficult.
Your hearts turned out gorgeous, hearts are also in use.
In general, you need to organize your work, do the main ones first, and then supplement them.
By the way, I am also falling off my hands now, most likely because of the heat.
Gingerbread cookies can bend due to dry dough, perhaps the flour was too much or not baked enough, in the heat the damp dough simply dried out and deformed.

Try to make wreaths

Lera has already baked. I will try. Thank you for your advice, I felt a little better. : girl_love: I'll go and see your mimosa. I looked. So draw more branches or draw less?

I think that you can have one large flower and 3-4 twigs, you can try 2 wavy twigs, and in the middle of the flower, you can have a fern twig and on it several small flowers, for example, similar to fuchsia flowers.
Vooschem here it is necessary to look.

Vera, and then apply the drawing with a spatula through a stencil.

Sahara, Lera, I did the last order according to your recipe. I liked the taste very much.The customers liked the same. Thank you.
ledi, but you just need to take a break, switch to what thread is generally different. Well, it happens, not a creative day.

And this option

Babovka, I don’t know your name, sorry. I could not answer in a personal message that I had something there with a message box. And the links also failed to open. I looked at these options. Everything seems to be clear with wreaths. I just didn't get the fern and I panicked.

Olesya. Vera is such a picture

Vera, and if in this spirit to paint

and such a drawing, I think, can be completely wet to make both leaves and petals. the fern flower itself is also symbolic of fire.

Girls! Thank you! I will definitely not draw the dancing girls. I liked the fern, I'll think about it.

[How to transfer a drawing through a stencil]

How to transfer a drawing through a stencil
To transfer the flower to the gingerbread, instead of a marker, you can take a piece of sponge, drop some dye on a plate and smudge the sponge there with the flat side, then smack it a little on a clean one to remove the excess and then put a homemade stencil on the gingerbread and smudge it gently - without fanaticism The drawing will be imprinted. Try to make the main contours visible - it is not necessary to cover up the whole flower. Well, don't move the stencil
Sometimes I even make type stencils out of ordinary paper - they, of course, only grab them for 10-15 hours - then they get wet, and the flower is the main thing, the contours to be imprinted. For logos, this option is suitable (for me, anyway)
It may not always turn out clearly (especially small details), but still there will be a landmark.You can first try on a piece of paper to understand the amount of paint and the pressure.

I cut out stencils with a collet knife with replaceable blades - it's like a scalpel, you can make very thin holes neatly. Sold in stationery or in stores for model airplanes, toy cars ...

[ledi]

here are my yesterday's suns size 13 cm. Dough from Lera.

ledi, Ver, well, that's great !!!
And what a good photo!

ledi, Verun, the girls advised everything on the case. But Olesya Babovka has a very spectacular fern. I'm really looking forward to how you portray him. And, as the unforgettable Carlson said: "Calm, only calm." And everything will work out.
And yesterday I almost had an order. They wanted 50 gingerbread for the wedding at 50 rubles apiece. So that they are different and pretty. I imagined how much I would fuck with "different and pretty" for that kind of money and refused. If they ask me, I won't make a professional gingerbread and cake maker, I name the price for which I would not waste time in scrap, and most importantly - nerves. Naturally, people find it dear. I have so many nerves while working on an order, when I do it for money! Several times I tried to take the order, so I was in a semi-faint state for several days. Therefore, when I refused this order, I experienced great relief.

And I think that on the contrary, you acted like a professional who knows his worth!

Vera, very beautiful suns! Directly sunny! :)

elena88, Lena! I won't be able to portray him. The area of ​​the gingerbread will not allow. I will listen to Lerin's advice and draw fewer petals.

elena88,
You shouldn't take on such orders. If they want 50 rubles. - please, the same hearts 5 cm in size with polka dots! Will it suit?
And 50 different ones will take a day or two for ideas and templates and a day for implementation! -It's not worth it.
Plus the packaging. It takes me an hour to put 50 pieces in bags, to tie the bows! This is despite the fact that I cut the bows according to the template and I learned to throw everything into packages at the third speed - so that they lay flat and looked in one direction: you still need to pack everything in some kind of box for transportation ... you can't pour them into your hands ... So count ...
... It's always difficult for me to come up with a price for a gingerbread.Often I give a discount on the gingerbread - if, for example, there are a lot of them alike, or they are outwardly spectacular (painting on wet, for example), but simple in execution. But all sorts of nets and dots - here kill me - I won't throw off the price .... and if they refuse, it's also a huge relief! And all sorts of cartoons, for example ... there is a lot of fine work - and everything should be recognizable ... I won't make such cheap ones either ... Sometimes I even raise the price a little so that they don't order

[Vera]

Girls, here are the wreaths! Diameter 11cm. The photo somehow distorted the shape, in fact, it seems like a hole in the middle. Or maybe live it is simply not visible that one side is smaller.

Vera, Verunka, it turned out superbly !!!! The suns are so perky! And the wreaths are very colorful!
You can also tie satin ribbons to the wreaths, although the idea in small bags will not be very clear, but at the fair you can hang one wreath without packaging for a sample so that the ribbons flow. You can, when packing, use 2-3 ribbons, and leave the tails of the bow longer. If you are going to make more wreaths, try to make them without orange ones, it seems to me that flowers are not very good with this nozzle, but the little white and red ones are beautiful.
Just don't be offended, please ...

ledi, Ver, it seems to me that if the background of the gingerbread was flooded with light icing, it would be much more effective. I totally agree about the ribbons. They will enliven and complement the design.

Don't be offended, please ...

Lera, don't you even dare think so! For what can I be offended then? You advise me from the bottom of your heart, I don’t understand! And your advice is very important to me! Thank you!elena88, Lena, I drew them late yesterday and still did not have time to finish. And in the morning I get up, looked at them in the daylight and realized that they should have been covered with a lacquer glaze though, like suns and wreaths would have played !!!!!! But the train left, so to speak.

Vera, in my opinion - you don't need a base-background, you just get a gingerbread with a hole and flowers, but we need wreaths))
For me, the goal has been achieved, but if you want to make them even more organic - add greenery, stick different shades and sizes of leaves, but do not draw, but with the help of attachments, volume will be added at the same time.

Lera, I won't add anything. I do not want ...
But I think what is wrong with icing. I sinned that I was diluting it with a dye and it was not the same proportion. And this turns out to be heat.

on the wreaths, not only white, but light green. weave wreaths of greenery)
and, be sure, if the wreaths do not seem quite even, then it's even good. there is no perfectly evenly woven wreath)
ribbons are not worth knitting. unless on the sample posted. it's better to do something like that

and you can also take such an idea with a whole gingerbread, so as not to cut out the middle. in the center you can have a bird and the same fern flower and fire and a candle

And the stove is reluctant, and it's a pity to throw it away

Let it lie! It can lie for a long time, six months for sure

Some children's gingerbread)) The dough according to my recipe, the size of the gingerbread is 6-8 cm.



I don’t know how you girls, but it’s very hard for me to work in the heat, the icing delaminates very quickly, literally in 30-40 minutes, the density changes right in the pastry bag, you have to dilute and beat it all the time, dry out - you get stains, humps, and shine disappears ... not work, but a waste of nerves Last year, it seems, I did not observe this, although now there is still no peak of heat.

Lera the gingerbreads are cool, I liked everyone. Most of all the ladybug.

Yeah, I also liked the cows the most. And also kittens with suns and bears. And the rest are good. And now I don't bake gingerbread. Something is tired of them. The dough has been in the refrigerator for a month now. And the stove is reluctant, and it's a pity to throw it away

so pretty! I liked everyone!
I’m looking at the bears and I think maybe they can draw another mouth under their nose. well, how is it drawn ... with a hook? otherwise something is missing

[Natkamor]

Natkamor, Thank you so much! I took note of the last option.All! no more ferns! Well, they didn't go with me. Here. size 12cm

ledi, Ver, don't force yourself! She died so died, as they say. Ferns and God with them did not go. The light did not converge on them like a wedge. In my opinion, the fern should be painted wet on wet. Ver, do you remember when I drew gingerbread cookies with roses on March 8? I took wreaths as an example. I'll look now. May come in handy for a change.

I found it.

Vera, very much even nothing happened You just put them aside and forget for a while, and then you will look at them with a fresh look, and now you will see that they are beautiful. It's just that your eyes are already blurred with these paporoniki

ledi, Ver, everything is great, well done !! The people will be delighted!

Forgive me for getting in, I'm just starting to tinker with gingerbread, but I've been reading the topic for a long time and with pleasure, now I was looking for options for flower gingerbread on the net and came across such a picture, I immediately remembered about you, a red heart on a big gingerbread - why not a fern? The shape can be changed, and the twigs around, probably, make them green. And the firebird, it seems to me, will also be on the topic ...

ledi, Vera, good wreaths turned out! Of course, you can try to tie ribbons, but I think it's not worth it. Maybe it's better to just try a bow? And then take a picture and look at the photo: everything is always perceived from the outside. And I agree with Leroy: the orange ones need to be removed. Or, you know, add more yellow to this orange, then the color itself will be brighter and lighter and will not merge with red flowers. Or, instead of orange flowers, add greenery, just a slightly different shade. In general, I liked them, so that you don't say

and these very well even turned out! remind me of postcards

[Larissa u]

Girls swimming in glory.
The local newspaper wrote about me and my work, and it is sooo important for me that I plan the courses from September (free advertising). And I really plan more on cakes, close-fitting, flowers and decorations from molds for ordinary people who are far from design, here the locals love it very much

Larissa u, Lara, congratulations from the bottom of my heart !!!! I'm very happy for you

Larissa, Wow!!!! Congratulations !!!! What a pretty picture you are! It’s a pity not to read the text
Maybe you can write at least briefly what it says about? Well, please!

Larissa u, I join Lera. I also really want to know what is there in the article
P.S. And I recently discovered you on Instagram

Larissa, Congratulations! cool! Wait, people will flock to the courses! and I repeat once again, your landscapes just knocked me off my feet and I am still out of them!

and I also want to find her on Instagram and Vika, I don't know how to use it! tell me where to look

Alena, now I'll write in a personal

and I want to know how to use it!

Girls, thanks !! Tomorrow I will write briefly what the article is about

Wow !!!! Congratulations! Larissa. you will succeed!
You are so funny in the photo. cheerful!

Girls, briefly about the article: I write as there.
350 € for one cake? Never! I'll do it myself! These words led L.W. two years ago to decorate cakes. Now this hobby has grown into a professional passion, which not only evokes the delight and praise of others, but also brought bronze at the international exhibition in Dortmund. And then, her first experience with the first cake turned into a real struggle: in two days I was already ready to pay 700 €, laughs L. U (well, I mean) :-) but the cake was made and she "got a taste" , one by one cakes were born, ideas became more interesting, cakes were more fantastic
(then they write to whom and for what holiday what was done, and that there was even a cake (and it was!), which was never allowed to be cut)
Many hours, and depending on the difficulty of reproduction and days the artist needs (oh! This is me!) For her work.Of course, when she heard about the exhibition (such and such), she definitely wanted to participate. Unfortunately, in the category of cakes, all the places were occupied, but in the category of "cookies" there were places (because I got the bronze, and about the mass, that the strictest jury was also extremely interested.
She has not yet made LU her passion a profession, but from September she plans to start courses for those wishing to learn how to decorate cakes (oh! Advertising!) And there is also that I passed the exam for master pastry chef, etc. Next project - mom's birthday cake (yes, exactly, she is 70 years old on June 18, "naked" I dream to try.
(girls, that's it ....)

Larissahow happy I am for you. it's great that then I decided to participate. and we did not doubt this result, knowing your hard work and talent

Girls, thank you so much that they were happy for me and with me. Really? Thank you!

Larissa, how nice it is to read! And even with your humorous presentation!
You are our pride and inspiration! Thank you so much!

Larochka, so proud of you, so proud!
As if they wrote this about me!

Larissa u, well done! Such articles are always pleasant, and in this case they will certainly be useful as well! The advertisement is engine of the trade

Larissa, so nice to read about you! good luck with the courses!
and I was also interested in what kind of naked cake you mean?

Girls, thanks again for your words !! They are a hundred times more expensive for me than this article ...

Move over, ladies ... I also want to be proud of our Larissa!
Thanks to the exhibition and this article, or more precisely, thanks to your talent, information will be scattered with great speed. Let more customers, as well as fans, appear in your creative life!

Larissa u, you are a real / real (underline as necessary) well done, living illustration for the phrase "Go to your dream!" ... I sincerely wish you further success and victories! Love Naked Cake very much, can you share your knowledge on this topic too?

Girls are dear !! And I'm proud !! I want you to understand me, my this "immodesty". When we came here 15 years ago, I got to work in the red cross, they treated me like some kind of stupid, underdeveloped, always haughty, what I endured, it's just horror. (and they told me with my higher education: the only thing we can offer you, and if you contradict, we will force you to work in three shifts on a conveyor belt at a confectionery (oh! Confectionery!) factory. We scare children with this factory! salary is a penny!)
To be honest, I always dreamed that someday the day would come and I would look at them like that (not just like that, but on business, deservedly! Complex, apparently). So forgive my immodesty and thank you all very much !!

Larissa, even though I am still in the bushes, but let me give a voice from here - BRAVO! A true success story!

[harmful78]

And we had a city day here, so I built such a gingerbread, for a charity fair, size 14x14 cm

I also tested new molds that I subscribed to on the Internet. Not all, but those that are acceptable in size. Something turned out ok, something not very

harmful78, Lisa, it turned out cool! and what size of molds? I liked the dogs and the cat and butterflies

harmful78, Lisa, it turned out cool! and what size of molds? I liked the dogs and the cat and butterflies

Dresses 8x6 cm, butterflies 7x6 cm, the dog is the same, and the cat is small 6x4.5. And in general I didn’t like it, I was killed while I figured out how to paint this mold. And I came up with another application for the dress, tied it to a diaper cake, just ordered

Liza, children's gingerbread cookies are awesome! Have you sold the big gingerbread? Do you know his fate?

Oooh, diaper cake! you can do that too !!!!!!!

ledi, Vera, yes I can do a lot of things That I just haven't tried to earn extra money. Best of all went diaper cakes and gingerbread.And then I decided to "unite the brands" Tomorrow I'll give it back, I'll find out if I liked the gingerbread surprise. Little children's gingerbread cookies - there were a little more than 30 of them - were sold all yesterday, at the fair. A big one today, at the local forum (there is a branch for the needs of children). I will still find out about the fate I'll write to the customer in a personal message

harmful78, Lisa, great gingerbread, everyone! I really liked everything, let alone the puppies, and everything is so neat !!!!

Vei, Elizabeth, thank you very much. To be honest, it was difficult for me to draw - only there were a lot of puppies, about 10, probably. The rest were all baked in 2-3 pieces. Nowhere to take a walk And on a big gingerbread made a mistake and saw her already when she posted a photo on Instagram. And the carrot had already been given away by that time.

harmful78, dogs are lovely!

[suvoyka]

Hello, craftswomen! I admired your works, admired, and decided to try it myself, it turned out, of course, not very well, but the process is exciting, I will learn. So, a clearing of daisies, based on the flower baskets that I saw in this thread, mezeshkalach dough

suvoyka, it turned out very nice !! and now write, from which test did you insert an addition into your message, so to speak
Is it a flat gingerbread below?

I am very pleased thank you!
Oh, but I still do not know how to complement the message, the dough is mazeshkalach, I really like the gingerbread cookies made from it, soft, tender, moderately spicy, and it is easy to work with it while it is my favorites. Yes, there is a flat gingerbread below, but it is tall - 2.5-3 centimeters, not very visible in the photo.

suvoyka, Interesting! Chamomile on toothpicks?
What is your name, write your name in the profile. So it will be more convenient to communicate!

Yes, with toothpicks, attached to a drop of icing on both sides.

suvoyka, a good clearing turned out. But, it seems to me, it is necessary to do a little more filling for the petals - then the petals will be convex, and the gingerbread will not shine through them. Is this the first experience of making gingerbread?

Thank you, this is not the first experience, but one of the first, before that I tried to decorate a gingerbread house for Christmas, but then there was no camera to share. I don't even know about the filling, I think that I was just greedy for icing, I had to pour more on the petal, and I was afraid that the gingerbreads would overflow through the contour, the gingerbreads are a little convex, but next time I will try to make it thicker, in general I have to try.

In this case, I try to make the contour thicker. Well, the fill is thicker. And some even immediately after baking the gingerbread cookies with a board press down for a few seconds so that they are not so convex

Thank you, I'll try to play with the outline, I read about the board, but I like convex gingerbread more

[Larissa]

Girls, uh. My first and unsuccessful experience of painting with "chalk"
I made two conclusions: 1. The brush should be thin
2. My paint is white rubbish, it folds, you can't draw, but I thought that I painted with a double stroke with watercolors like nothing, but gel paints are just a nightmare!
Advise white good

Larissa, here we present such paint exactly as for drawing. I have not tried it myself, and I have not found any reviews yet. but it may give you an idea. it seems to be imported. can you have some info on the forums 🔗

Thank you Nat, I have just one! She's somehow translucent! Not white. Although written - pure white

Larissa, but have you seen such paint?
Liquid food paint for painting Squires Kitchen, England
but I haven't tried it myself, I just heard

Alena, I have just such paint!

oo did not see what is written in small letters

Larissa u,
And if you try a white dry dye - titanium dioxide?
It can be diluted with alcohol to the desired density - I did not do it myself, but I thought ...

I read that titanium / white / paints with alcohol if diluted, then fold. only with water. either work dry and spray with steam

very well these paints are diluted with boiling water, the density can be adjusted at will.

[harmful78]

I'll squeeze in here modestly. Made for the upcoming holiday. Diameter 9 cm, my favorite dough, I painted everything with icing

the doctor came out crooked, but a friend told me not to worry: doctors in life are always "crooked"

harmful78, Liza, why is it crooked? for me everything is so great! great idea, so decorate the gingerbread

LizaEverything worked out well. Did you fill in the rose on the file?

ledi, Vera, no, I drew a rose like that.

harmful78,
The doctor is gorgeous! In the style of a child's drawing! - so you will draw specially figs! She just finished doing aybolits - she was tortured with them - and your doctor just conquered! I have long wanted to make a series of such drawings! If to this doctor a gingerbread with a flower is drawn in the same black and imperfectly even (chamomile - as children draw) and even the sun - it will be terribly stylish!
It's good to add a smear of color to such a gingerbread (a little, a detail) For example, a doctor with a red cross on his hat, a flower with a green leaf and a sun with a yellow center. And yet another option - before drawing the contour with a brush with a colored dye, you can make wide colored watercolor strokes in place of the drawing - and when a black drawing is applied on top - the contour - there will be the effect of children's coloring - as children usually paint with paints - a couple of strokes that go beyond the edges!
Ehhhh ... Ostap suffered ...

[Vera]

Well, I also brought my losers

I did not specifically take pictures separately. that would be less visible errors. there are others, but I don't like them any more. Size 11.5 cm

And you are in vain talking about yourself. I really liked the red and white! Then, after your "losers" I looked closely, noticed small, I would say, roughness. But it's not scary at all. Believe me - the first impression is great. You are not going to show them. Or an exhibition?

Vera, on the contrary, I liked these last gingerbreads much more than the previous ones! Very nice!

[Wand]

Here are my favorites

Wanddamn cool! So many details! All sorts of dashes, strokes ... For me it's still a dark forest I cast my Simon on the file

I'm simpler ... I'm not an artist, so I invent all sorts of things for convenience and accuracy
I cut out a stencil from a piece of paper. Like this

And then on the gingerbread I circle either the hole or the figure itself with a black food marker. And from above the outline is already - the main thing is to overlap the marker so that no one will guess
The stencil is made very quickly and a simple piece of paper has been serving for a very long time.
I'll find another option now with an airbrush. Guess how the cat stayed white
By the way, I just translate the picture from the monitor screen - I attach a piece of paper, turn off the light and circle ...
I really wanted to try the airbrush! And she didn't want to dirty the cats.

I cut it with these knives - very quickly.

On a self-tightening craft mat - I have one specifically for culinary purposes.

Wand, cool cats!

Wand, really liked it !!! The beauty is simple !!

Wand, naughty cats! And in my opinion the work with the aerial was successful.

Wand, Nastya, what a cool cat! I almost cried with delight. Do you mind if I plagiarize him someday? Damn, my head is not at all capable of coming up with this.

just wonderful Simon!

[Lada2014]

Good afternoon, dear craftswomen.

This is the first time I exhibit my work.

Lada2014, well, everything is great !! If the photo were better, it would be so great !!

Lada2014, cute set. Well, Larisa has already said about the photo.

I would like to introduce you to the works of a creative Canadian girl - maybe someone will come in handy. For example, to make a cookie - a presentation of a fashion store, she sketched several models of dresses from the collection on sale and transformed them into cookies using mastic and icing. The style is close to primitivism, and it turns out completely charming and original.

I liked the vintage cups in the thrift store - I sketched a drawing, cut out paper blanks, and this is what happened:

Wedding cookies:

And just like that, spring theme

I’m not happy about something.
Sloppy, simple horror!
Oh! I hope it's not you!

Lar, at HP she would be advised to learn from our masters. In any case, this cannot be done on request
By the way, I am waiting for MK on your exhibition gingerbread with awe ...

[Mona1]

I was recently chided here that I somehow stopped exhibiting here. That somehow once, then I am engaged in self-criticism. Well, yesterday I made a bouquet for the customer, my first bouquet in general. The photo, excuse me, is lousy, everything glittered on the cellophane. I chose more decently.

Here without cellophane, half here, really. In total, the bouquet contains 6 large daisies, 5 small and 5 leaves, also 3 large and 2 smaller ones.

Mona1, Tanya, cool bouquet. Concise and neat

Simple white daisies always look great! Sometimes better than bouquets of different flowers ....

From me, too, a bunch! I really liked the pot

[Anastasia]

Now I have experience in shipping gingerbread. Not entirely successful, really. I sent it to my sister in Norilsk. She laid the layers with paper, lined the bottom of the parcel and lined the top with viscose rags (household). There were a lot of gingerbread, probably about 50. Several did not reach



P.S. I apologize for the photo, they sent it via vatsap

It is best to lay it with bubble wrap and press down the entire remaining space very tightly with crumpled newspaper so that everything is very tight and cannot move inside. When I close the box, I have to close the lid with little effort. Then they will not hang out and beat there.

I thought about the film, but since it was not an order, I did not buy it. Anastasia, do you (or do you, I don’t know) have experience in sending large gingerbread? Well, 15 centimeters

harmful78,
Me on "you"
And the big ones are also sent to the bubble wrap. There it turns out the gingerbread itself in a bag, wrap it with one layer of bubbles, and if the gingerbread is large, then under the bottom of the gingerbread there is a hard cardboard - the main thing is that there is no bend. If you just wrap the big gingerbread, there will be a chance that it will crack in half. But usually, I don't send really big naked ones - in a box with a transparent lid, and the box is slightly filled with crumpled cut paper - it also springs a little. The most important thing is that it is very tight and nothing dangles - and if it does not move, it will not break. Although the probability is always there - no one knows what they are doing there at the post office with parcels - I once received a parcel in such a jammed box - what happened to it? .....

Exactly, a box!

[natallli111]

Good day, everyone. Haven't looked here for a long time. Girls, you have done so much beauty, so many useful things, re-read for two hours. But I am also not empty-handed. I tried to make a gingerbread carousel, share photos
.
Already when I began to exhibit the horses, I realized that it was necessary to draw from both sides, but ... what is done is done. I have a question for you, how to glue the parts? I collected thick for icing, but I didn't really like it ...

natallli111, a wonderful carousel turned out! And what about the column? I glue the parts with thick icing. Not always convenient, but reliable. If it dries up normally, then the gingerbread will sooner crack than split along the seam.

natallli111,
I also glue with thick icing - the most reliable way
And, by the way, on the one hand, gingerbreads are also painted in bulk products, otherwise, if on both sides, it is very sweet, solid sugar, and the junction of fillings is very difficult to beautifully close up especially in complex shapes - there you will have to puff over one gingerbread all day : dry one side, then the other, then the joint ...

natallli111, wonderful carousel !! bright, beautiful, festive!
What kind of dough do you make? and what is the size of this structure?

[How to make ladybugs from icing]

How to make ladybugs from icing
Girls, but tiny ladybugs on flowers - are they not gingerbread, something mastic? Is it so small that it must be purchased? Or somehow you can make this pot-bellied little thing from mastic. Molds, probably there are such?

Mona1, I saw yesterday how such bugs are made, it's just icing and the dots on top are painted with paint, well, I don’t know exactly how they were made, but it seems to me that icing is the easiest

Mona1,
These are usually made separately on a file or parchment from icing - first, a red volumetric dot is made and, after drying, is tinted with a black marker, and then molded onto the finished product with a drop of icing. You can make a million of them at once and then sculpt where necessary - even for a gingerbread, even for a cake. And if you do not need to tint - for example, you just need a black ball for the little body of a small spider - then they also make a voluminous black dot on the finished product and, after drying with a marker or a thin nozzle, paint on the legs with black icing

Mona1, the girls are right, most likely the cows were made with icing. I tried to make mastic cows on my "Cabbage" cake. Of course I did, but I was tortured and then I think: well, woe from wits - it could have been icing. And easier and more accurate
As for the joining of parts with icing, to make the joints look neater, icing is painted in the color of gingerbread

DaNiSa, Wand, elena88, girls, thanks a lot! It didn't even occur to me that it was icing.

About the dye. I once made ladybugs out of leftovers and cut a large hole on a cornet with black icing. That is, the head can be made, but the point is not. So, out of laziness, I put dots straight with a black (gel) dye. She dipped a toothpick into it and poked it. She was so pleased with herself! And then there were holes in place of these points

[Wand]

In general, icing can be very widely used - all small things can be poured on a file and then onto a cake, a cupcake ... Basically, only roses are made this way or circles for a cake, but in fact you can think of a lot. Little bears - bunnies - suns .....
Here are small carrots, for example. True, they are not very clearly visible, but the meaning, I think, is clear. They are made simply, quickly and deliciously crunchy. (we don't pay attention to hares in chickenpox - the customers needed them in polka dots)

Wand, how lovely! also show your photos of cookies

Wand, Nastya, she made such beauty, and there was even an attempt to make a good photo (background, etc.), but all this huge background did not show us all the beauty, and there is BEAUTY!
I could not stand it, processed it, just cut it out, look the difference

[Vei]

And here I had an express gingerbread as a gift to a friend for one good deed. There was not much inspiration, there was no time, too, the pouring was dried in the oven for everything about three hours, it's good that there were several roses from the cake, it will be necessary to wind up different ones at leisure and not only roses, Nastya is right, a lot of all sorts of small things can be done ... And I also understood and was convinced once again6 that when there is no project and inspiration in my head, the work moves slowly, and the quality suffers terribly !!! I will not show everything, because the rest is a shame

Vei, Liza, such gingerbread cookies are super! if it's a bad quality for you. then for me it is .. ehhh ... out of reach. well, I can't even draw such tiny curls correctly

Vei, Liz, this is certainly very mine, what you did! Well, straight mine, mine !!
When will I learn to twirl such rolls ??? (I answer to myself: when will you start learning !!)
After all, I talked with the masters at the exhibition, with the same Ananyeva! And they say: before you start work, practice on paper !!!!)

The only thing that spoiled the view a little is the color of the leaves and flowers (some dirty ones). Moreover, I remember them on the cake! They were there absolutely perfect both in color and in bouquet !! And the color is one to one! Maybe just a small surface ??
And the arrangement of the bouquet, curls - just can't take your eyes off!

You see, Lar, but for me it's not mine))))))))
and I do not like the filling, and in general, so much icing is too hard and sweet for me.

Vei, Liz, I'm not talking about the taste !! About the view!

Larissa, I understood, and I'm talking about the look and taste to the heap. I only seem to like mezeshkalachki with ksalokai)))

[Vei]

Vei, precisely noticed. And sometimes it just doesn't work and that's it. Now I'll show my experiment, I just finished


I gave it as a gift to one good person. I tried. But this is how it did not go at first (it ruined the fill, all the edges are crooked), so it continued. I filled in everything, decided to circle the contour with a brush (before that I trained on castings), my hands more or less turned out, and with the face in general it is a disaster. It would be better if I did not touch this paint at all, it was necessary to leave it beige and that's it. In short, I filled this child's scary face again, with a second layer. And ruined my chin

And most importantly, I have another similar gingerbread in the process. And the edges on it are also crooked. Can I hide them somehow, huh?

harmful78, Liza, yes, there is absolutely trouble with the chin ... and how did she get out of the situation with her face or did she leave it like that?

Alyona, but not yet. I sit, look and think: try to shoot and do it again? Or don't touch anything, since it doesn't go

somewhere I saw a video of a face filling in and I’m just looking for it and I can’t find it, damn this video everything is so simple

I would redo it, especially a gift, a good idea, but do you have time?

do not touch anything else, but for the future, do not make a black outline on the pens, just fill it with the same at first, it will dry out, then the fingers will be on top. and so-very nice gingerbread!

Kitty, what can you do? Experience, they say, comes over the years Thanks for the advice

[Kitty]

hello, and recently I fell in love with painted gingerbread

Kitty, Hi! Did you love to eat or draw? very nice! real baby pictures

Kitty, hello! Did you love to eat or draw?

I don't eat sweets, I'm indifferent, I would have meat.
here's a little more

Kitty, did you do all this? beautifully!! so many cats you are just an artist

Kitty, your gingerbread cookies are beautiful and colorful, but personally, I generally do not accept just drawing with dyes, they paint languages ​​very much, customers do not like it. Therefore, only icing

bulk gingerbread

oooo, and bring the houses to the next Temko !! Gingerbread house what a beauty!

but this is already super-super!

[Kitty]

Therefore, only icing

and from icing the language is not painted? : girl_wink: how many "copies" are broken, I paint with dry paints, dilute with vodka, I don’t think that this way more paint will be eaten than if the entire layer is painted over.










here, by the way, mixed technique-fill + modeling

no, icing does not paint that way, and in general we work in different styles and topics.
I, in principle, love monochrome gingerbread and I do not like children's cakes or gingerbread.

well, and I have children's cakes and gingerbread - this is most of my work, I, of course, also sometimes yearn, making the thirtieth cat on a pillow, but our town is small, and there are many cake decorators, good ones, though less, but people often chasing the price and do not see the difference.

Kitty, I really liked the last gingerbread with a bunny. All the rest are a little overloaded with details, due to the fact that the drawing goes to the full size of the carrot. If he would have gathered a little in the center, would have left it free, would not have circled the edges, it would have been so much better!
I liked the elephant and the bears, but! White-pink roses would look more harmonious with bears, this is generally a gorgeous combination - gray-pink! And the houses, so wonderful, but also overloaded with color (very bright), and the number of roses (oh, how many more houses would be enough!)
But it is clear that there will be masterpieces ahead!

yes, here life dictates. Now I also take everything, I don’t have to choose, but before I didn’t take children’s, or rather, I didn’t take cartoons.I made popular prints in folklore style with pleasure.
So, from where I started, that I am more engaged in gingerbread for pleasure, they are not cost-effective for me in terms of time, so I still try to take only those orders that are interesting to me.

If he would have gathered a little in the center, would have left it free, would not have turned the edges, it would have been so much better!

probably, but then I would "break" my eyes. it was a massive order for DSV, not counting a bunch of hearts and other "in love" paraphernalia.

Kitty, Oh yeah!!! Eyes certainly suffer from bulk orders!

a little more "risovashek"), then I will show the fillings

[Kitty]

Kitty, beautiful things! And the bear is so cute. I just made a bear on dnfh, but I’m not so cute



But as for drawing, my hands do not grow from the right place. Today's history is another confirmation of this. She remade her girl's face. It turned out not so hot, but a little better than it was. I won't touch any more - what if it gets worse?

do not touch anything else, but for the future, do not make a black outline on the pens, just fill it with the same at first, it will dry out, then the fingers will be on top. and so-very nice gingerbread!

harmful78, Liz, well, it's a good bear! Only you poured a heart from above on the muzzle, or what?

Larissa u, no, not in the face. Everything is as it should be, in parts. And at the top of the heart there was a name, I photographed it. The bear is good, but there are such bears on instagram ... And here I have a sports organization with its own logo. Now I sit and think: can I translate this on a carrot? And How?! Try to cut a stencil or again suffer with a brush Everything would be fine, only with a brush I have a BAD. In general, I'm in sorrow

Is it possible to order a seal? look, the photo printing looks good on the gingerbread and there is practically no hassle, there is one nuance to pack until the picture is dry to the touch, otherwise the picture will stick to the packaging

Kitty, yes, indeed printing is the way out! Looks very good!

In our city, printing is not an option A4 sheet costs 1200 rubles. Then there will be golden gingerbread. I think, can they be cast on a file and glued on icing? Their, in the sense, hieroglyphs

order by mail, for example, I found it much cheaper than in our city, and I order, but how many gingerbread? on A4 you can shove 12 pictures, however, it's up to you, I would hardly agree to break my eyes on such small things. You can cast hieroglyphs, of course, the text annoys me more.

Kitty, I have already written to them that the text should be shortened to an abbreviation or removed altogether. Tomorrow I will still calculate how much it will cost with a printout and will also offer it. You can't order mail - we have a very long delivery, I plan to order for some holiday (by September 1, for example)

look, girls, I found this video-how to draw a girl's face, you don't have to draw Elsa or Anna ... suddenly come in handy

thanks,: rose: as I understand it, do they prepare their eyes in advance? but the "trick" with a nose is interesting)

yeah, I also liked how the nose is done, personally I would do exactly the opposite and would stick out my nose with a button
eyes, yes, such a trifle is better done in advance

I fill in the place, cast eyes-confusion in advance, but you need to try, an interesting trick, I made an eye-hole

Yeah, now I see how thin the brush is. Mine was three times thicker, it's not surprising that I smeared my whole face and my hands turned out at random

[How to give different texture to the gingerbread]

How to give different texture to the gingerbread

[Vei]

And I don't like gingerbread. None. In general, I don't like dry baked goods. But I appreciate their artistic component.

and I do not like cookies, but I respect soft gingerbread cookies, not crispy.

Vei, Liz, so I thought so !! But I found a recipe that, with icing or mastic, is just perfect and just sooo tasty.I still can't get the recipe to publish, I'll do it on the weekend. And even they are just perfect!

Larissa, we are waiting for the recipe) otherwise I really like these gingerbread cookies, but the taste is not very good ... only while I love hot and soft ones, but when they cool down - no (I can't find my perfect recipe.

I will really wait for the recipe, I have a good one, but I'm still looking for the perfect one.

I join the previous speakers

And even I join :))

Girls, use it!
Cookies that taste perfect when combined with icing and mastic

Thank you!

[Lera]

Lera, SaharaI need your advice on baskets. I remember you did this option: the basket was plastic, and the flowers were gingerbread. Was there a round gingerbread inside too? And did you wrap it up, this gingerbread, or not?

harmful78, Liza, she asked, she answered)))
Sorry, I just saw your question now.
I simply put the gingerbread flowers "full length" in a basket, it is woven from a vine, inside there is only a napkin.
And small baskets, where only the heads of flowers, were attached with a toothpick to a round or oval gingerbread (depending on the shape of the basket), the principle is the same as for a gingerbread basket.

Sahara, yes, my aunt here really liked the basket with flowers, but speaks expensively. So I was in a hurry looking for your "budget" options and apparently in a hurry I could not find. Girls I have a question (if not here - transfer it): how do you think, how can you make a rough surface on a gingerbread? Something like here

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harmful78, Liz, this is already a dry fill. Squeeze out icing a little, and then spank with a rough brush

harmful78, we even have a video somewhere, and they also did the same, now I'll look
how to make fur on a bear

Thank you so much! I missed this video for some reason. I remember about the wedding dress. All right, I ran

[Tatyana]

look, girls, I found this video-how to draw a girl's face, you don't have to draw Elsa or Anna ... suddenly come in handy

Alena, my video is not displayed, can I have a link?

Tatyana,

Natkamor, thank you, what a beauty!

[harmful78]

Here are the girls, my creation. Vase diameter 15 cm, height 12. Inside there are 8 hearts with wishes. My dough is universal (you can already call it something and write it down)



view from above

a cup, a la vase, it turned out great. on what did you bake the leg as / from glued round pieces? / not the right word)

harmful78, Lisa, great creation turned out !! and on what did you bake? just a bowl? did not lubricate with anything? or foil?

Thank you girls! She baked on an ordinary ceramic bowl, wrapped it in foil and sprinkled it with flour. After baking, smeared with yolk and dye. I wanted a beautiful shine. But I noticed: the yolk makes the gingerbread very soft. Last time I had it this way too. The vase was so soft that it seemed to me that it would break from hearts. The leg was made of round ones, that's right. When gluing, it was very difficult to align the vase, everything mowed it to one side. But the most difficult thing is painting. The photo is not very visible, but it is uneven every time. I got used to how icing behaves on a flat surface, but here is a sphere. I icing is both thicker and thinner, but it dries up with mounds, then flows where it is not necessary. In short, I was so worn out that I decided that next time I would name SUCH price ... so as not to order. Here.

And I did this for a friend. She wanted to congratulate someone, but not to be very expensive. And for a long time it was burning for me to do this. So I suggested. Almost at cost. But now everything, as my grandmother whispered, and at all sorts of slippers, gingerbread hats, immediately stopped looking

Liza, cool vase !!! I don't see any jambs. Neat work, hearts - pretty! Now you have such a difficult job in your portfolio! Well done!

Katerina, Thank you. For the sake of the portfolio I did, to be honest

harmful78, Lisa, I really like the vase. Well done. I may also dare someday, but I will try to make more painting, less filling, since it is difficult to cope with it on a curved surface.

harmful78, Liza, it turned out very cool! Here she pleased her friend and gained experience herself, and now you know the price of such work!
Honestly, I don’t know how you got the fill on the hemisphere. I’m sure, I didn’t risk it, and you are great!
And the girls are right - no flaws are visible! And to the hats, slippers, etc., I think you will still get there

Lera, no, I definitely forgot about the slippers-hats. While I was making the vase, I remembered all the quotation from the film: why of them a cable? So here: why make these slippers from gingerbread? Of the three-dimensional, I think, now I will only make a cradle, at least the surfaces are even there. And the vase, probably, should either only be decorated with painting, or completely filled. Here in some video there was

But to me, the idea with slippers seems cool, somehow I will try to make a pair for someone as a gift))
So that, Liza, thanks for the idea
They just ordered me a large corporate gingerbread with a logo, made a base fill, and although the gingerbread was on the substrate, all the same, the entire filling cracked when I tried to rearrange it together with the substrate to another place ((I already thought - my work is down the drain .. .. and here your question about the "fur coat" is very useful.
So, dear girls, everyone, everyone, thank you very much for your help and tips! Thank you for not passing by and do not be lazy to write-suggest-advise!
How good it is to know that there is a cozy, sincere place where you will be supported and helped!

Lerochka, it's a shame! It's good that I figured out how to get out!
It seems to me that you are using a thin substrate, it is soft and not hard enough. For large gingerbread cookies, a 5 mm thick backing is needed as for cakes.
Please us with new works!

Katyusha, you are right, the gingerbread was just on the substrate (((And although I already stepped on this rake, laziness prevented me from making the substrate denser.
Somehow I don’t want to show new works, after the beautiful gingerbreads that are exhibited here, I’m somehow ashamed to glow with my "clumsy" ones. But if I do something interesting, I will definitely show it, so to speak, I will contribute to our common collection of ideas.

you do not need to make the substrate denser, the gingerbread lies on the table, albeit on a thin substrate, you bring any plate end-to-end to the table, push the gingerbread with the substrate onto it and carry it to dry, in the end, everyone is happy - both you and the gingerbread

No, on a simple substrate such a number will not work, even if the fill is completely dry, during transfer everything will still crack, even if the gingerbread is 3-4 cm thick.
The gingerbread is really big 22 by 32 cm, it plays anyway.

do not transfer, I wrote-OVER-SHOOT! that is, you push the gingerbread from the table onto a plank leaning against the edge of the table. This is the only way I do it, nowhere has it cracked.

Kitty, well, it is clear what to put it over, but then, when it dries up, it must be transported somehow, with such dimensions - it will crack anyway, and it is impossible to make a very thick one, it will not bake, so there is only one way out, as Katyusha suggests, a dense substrate -tray.

Liza, beautiful vase, well done!

thanks Lisa!

Liza, Great vase! Everything turned out well! I think you will forget your torment and do it again someday.

I also once made a vase. Now I'll find a photo photo vase
At least I remembered how I filled it in. It turns out I placed it sideways in the tray and poured it as it dries.

Vera, a good vase. I won't even ask the details of the fill - I don't want to do it yet. But for the future, I made several conclusions for myself. The main one is more painting. And it's better without filling at all

Hello girls! you create such beauty here! ....... sorry, maybe I am writing in the wrong place, but I have such a problem, they cut out the dough evenly, and the gingerbread after baking is crooked and often bumps on them, which is not so

uneven this is because the dough is deformed (slightly stretched) when transferred to a baking sheet, you need to either immediately cut it out on the baking sheet, or transfer it more carefully
and the bumps can be for many reasons, FROM depending on what you bake and BEFORE what dough and kneading, you need to analyze

Thank you, I will read and try!

[Vera, Lisa]

Vera, Lisa-you are heroes! to fill such surfaces with icing is tantamount to a feat!

Girls, and I decided for myself all the convex surfaces, either mastic or painting, here are my gingerbread eggs - the first ones are covered with mastic, the last one is covered with icing (as I remember, I shudder), I also sculpted chickens for the first gingerbread cookies, this year I have already baked gingerbread eggs -a sweet thing! and New Year's balls are also painted-sequins-pictures.









this one is flooded with icing


and in the New Year's balls kandurin right on the gingerbread, then various fyndyki-curls, it looked very cute.

Kitty, cool! The eggs are beautiful, but I'm not friends with mastic. The maximum I dream about is to make roses out of it. And the balls are generally cool. The idea with kandurin is great. Then the gingerbread will not be as sweet as if you pour it all over with icing (many complain about this). And they look right like New Year's. In short, I liked them very much. Can I plagiarize?

In general, what does kandurin taste like?

none, brilliant. : girl_wink: try, of course, last New Year, these balls were favorites of orders.

Still, such a beauty! Kandurin is a good replacement for the yolk coating. I noticed that the gingerbread from such a coating softens a lot. And it was the same with my vase. I was afraid that she would break from the weight of the hearts. Kitty, tell me, do you pierce the hemisphere when you bake with a fork or not? And then how do you hide the holes: under the patterns or does Kandurin paint them over?

I don’t poke gingerbread, and I bake hemispheres, then I’ll bake them straight on a hot iron with a mastic, if suddenly it’s uneven somewhere, but basically everything is fine, and if something is not ideal, cover it with a pattern.

Clearly, I don't have an iron. I somehow baked the basket, didn't poke it, so it was all mounds. I had to "dispose of" for a couple with a child And poked the vase, but the yolk coating hid all the holes. Okay, the New Year is still far away, we can think of something

And probably you don't grease with yolk when baking, right? The iron will stick to hot, if coated.

no, I don't grease with anything. girls-ironing is not necessary, roll it on a flat surface without removing it from the mold, the task is to just smooth out all the roughness, if the gingerbread, then I press down with a glass shelf (I remove it in the refrigerator), as a result, the gingerbread is perfectly even, then pour it calmly , as for convex surfaces, then use the means at hand, yes, you won't be able to bake a lot at the same time, because I usually bake 2 pieces in parallel, that is, two halves, while a flat batch is baked, which can be baked in 6 pieces, I fiddle with round oval.

Kitty, and on what tins do you bake? Did you buy it somewhere? What is the size of the balls? And another question - how do you put candurin on a gingerbread?
In the sense of dry or something you breed? And which brush? Forgive me for filling up with questions))) Very interesting balls turned out, I think they are irresistible on the tree!

Lera, I apply the kandurin dry, not with a brush, but with a foam sponge and, as it were, rub the kandurin over the surface, I’ll say right away, you’ll get dirty, you can hold it over the steam to fix the shine, but just literally pour it over and let it dry. now, as for the forms, when I started, I had homemade papier-mâché, I did it myself, for almost a week, because each new layer needs to be dried, I used as a source (that is, where to ram this papier-mâché) eggs from under the kinders. in the same way, you can find a ball of a suitable size. this is how it looked







then I became "cool") and bought silicone molds, these are these, now I use them, the diameter of the ball is 8 cm, I don't remember eggs, something is 10 cm



this is a product of Silikomart, for sure you have it too.

Kitty, thanks for the answer! But I'll torment you, but what about a silicone oven? are they not hollow? Or do you somehow spread the dough in a thin layer? and when baking it will not fall off?
And when should the ferry be doused, before or after painting?

As for the balls, of course they are hollow, you can even put a candy inside, but you bake it not inside the sphere, but on top, roll it out thinly, cut out a circle, put it ON the sphere, carefully distribute it, smooth it out, cut it off and bake the excess, bake it, leave it to cool, because remove the mold from under the hot gingerbread - guaranteed to break it.

At the expense of the balls, I somehow did not realize that you can bake from above))) Here, I'll buy myself such silicones and try!
Flat gingerbreads are good, but still not so effective))

by the way, flat gingerbread toys also look fine