Lemon gingerbread

Category: Bakery products

Ingredients
Wheat flour	600 g
Sugar	250 g
Margarine	150 g
Egg	1 PC.
Honey	250 g
Cocoa	25 g
Baking powder	1 tsp
Rum	1.5 tbsp. l.
Cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, ginger, anise	by a pinch
Zest of 0.5 orange and 0.5 lemon
Vanilla

Cooking method

1. Put honey, sugar, margarine on the stove until the sugar is completely dissolved. Do not boil !!! Remove from stove and cool slightly.
2. Mix flour with spices, baking powder, zest, cocoa.
3. Introduce the egg mixed until smooth into the warm mass. Add rum or cognac or flavor.
4. Gradually pour the flour and spices into the honey-egg mixture in parts and knead the dough very well. The dough won't be as thick as you'd like, but you don't need to add more flour.
Put the dough in a bag and refrigerate overnight. The next day, knead the dough again, and if you feel that it should be stronger, add a little more flour, no more than 50 grams ... The time depends on the thickness of the gingerbread, as soon as it is browned, your gingerbread is ready.

Cooking program:

We bake at temp. 180 degrees

Damochca

I finally found it !!!
I want to torment you with questions ....: D Still, how thick should the gingerbread dough be rolled out for houses? And for caskets? And the bunny? And how long should you bake so as not to dry? Are the boxes baked directly on the mold? And the walls of the house are glued together with what? Are the texture of walls and tiles textured rugs? The size is also interesting for houses and caskets .... (How big can a casket be made so that it does not crumble from its contents?) Are the Christmas trees cut out using star shapes of different sizes? And also, probably, "glued" like the walls? I hope I didn’t get tired of asking questions ...
Colored decorgel on a gingerbread base looks great !!!

Pluss

Hey. Thank you.
Well, I answer.
The dough was rolled out no more than 3-4 mm,
for caskets, it turned out a little thicker.
bunnies are also mm 3-5
baked in different ways, depending on the thickness and size of the product, as soon as you see that it is browned, take it out.
I baked the box on a plate, sprinkled flour on both the plate and the dough very abundantly, one burst because it was stuck. She turned the plate upside down, sprinkled it with flour very well and covered the dough that was also well sprinkled with flour, smoothed it out, like the mastic on the cake, level it out, cut the edges, cut holes with a mold and into the oven.
I glued houses with icing, although I think it was necessary to glue them on thick syrup.
the texture of the roof and walls, something done with textured rugs, something simply squeezed out with molds.
The size of the houses is 7x7x11 cm, the box is D 18 cm
As for how big a box can be made, I think if it is solid like this, then how much the oven allows, but I would still make the dough thicker, and if I peck the parts, it will still be more vulnerable to break,
large Christmas trees are made of six-pointed stars, five-pointed ones, well, they didn’t want to work out (there were no molds of different sizes, my husband cut out blanks from cardboard), and maybe it even came out more puffy, the parts were glued for icing, I squeezed more icing between the parts with a bag to create volume
Colored decor, this is a separate song, I want to make a mosaic cake, so I decided to try what would come out. I think it should turn out not bad.

Lady with @

Pluss , New Year is just around the corner and in this regard there is a question - is it possible to bake gingerbread in advance? If possible, how and where is it better to store it before decorating the cake?