Gingerbread Gingerbread Men - Creating A New Year's Atmosphere

What better gift for Christmas than homemade sweets?

Bake these gingerbread gingerbread men, so beautiful, so delicious and fragrant !!!

Recipe

Ingredients:

• Butter - 100 g
• Honey - 250 g
• Granulated sugar - 125 g
• Ground coriander - 1 tsp
• Ground cloves - 1 tsp
• Ground cinnamon - 1 tsp
• Fresh ginger - 3 cm
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.
• Salt - 0.3 tsp
• Cocoa powder - 10 g
• Wheat flour - 500 g
• Baking dough - 10 g
• Powdered sugar - 100 g
• Lemon juice - 40 ml

Preparation:

1. Heat honey, butter and sugar over low heat until the latter is completely dissolved and remove from the stove.
2. Sift the coriander, cloves (1 tsp each) through a sieve, finely chop the ginger (or grind in the same mill) and mix everything by adding cinnamon. In total, you should get 1 tbsp. l. spices.
3. Add salt, cocoa and spices to the butter-honey mixture. When it cools down to a warm state, mix with an egg. Mix the flour with baking powder and gradually add to the gingerbread mixture.
4. Knead not tough dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for about 2-3 hours. The dough turns out to be quite liquid, but don't let that scare you.
5. We heat the oven to 170 ° C. Next, roll out the dough 6 mm thick on a floured board.
6. We cut out with a sharp mold little men, or your favorite molds.
7. Lightly sprinkle a baking sheet with oil and put our gingerbread there. Put in the oven for about 10 minutes. It is important not to overexpose the gingerbread cookies, otherwise they burn instantly.
8. The finished gingerbread should be firm, but soft on the inside. We shift to the wire rack, cool.
9. Cooking the icing. In a bowl, mix the icing sugar and lemon juice. You need to mix gradually so that the glaze does not turn out to be too thin. For 100 g of powder, there are about 2 tbsp. l. liquids. By the way, you can mix powder with water or milk.
10. We paint the gingerbread with icing as our heart desires.

If you wish, you can make a sweet garland out of them, just do not forget to make holes in the dough before baking.

Bon Appetit!!!