Gingerbread cookies in the form of funny little men can become both a delicacy and a fun addition to New Year's gifts. The cute figurines are easy to make yourself and be sure to attract children who will help you dress up this nice family in colorful sugar clothes.
It is necessary
- For the test:
- - 1 egg;
- - 375 g flour;
- - 75 g brown sugar;
- - 100 g of light molasses (honey);
- - 125 g butter;
- - 1 teaspoon of baking soda;
- - 0.5 teaspoon baking powder;
- - 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon;
- - 2 teaspoons of ground ginger.
- For decoration:
- - icing sugar;
- - sugar colored mastic;
- - liquid sugar glaze (white and colored);
- - colored sugar noodles, sugar balls, dragees;
Instructions
Step 1
Grind brown sugar in a coffee grinder. Beat the softened butter and sugar with a mixer. While continuing to beat, add the pounded egg, molasses (honey). Whisk until soft, fluffy. Then add the sifted flour to the creamy mixture, add baking soda, baking powder, ginger and cinnamon.
Step 2
Stir well to combine the ingredients evenly with the butter cream. While kneading the dough, collect it with your hands in a ball and transfer it to a board lightly sprinkled with flour, knead for 2 minutes. Form the dough into a ball, wrap with cling film and place in the refrigerator for 2-3 hours. Prepare baking trays, grease them with oil and line them with parchment paper.
Step 3
After dusting the work surface and rolling pin with flour, roll half of the dough into a layer 5 mm thick. Leave the other half of the dough covered with plastic wrap. Using four cookie cutters, cut out little men from the rolled dough, place them on a baking sheet and set aside. After collecting the dough cuttings, roll them out again with the second half of the dough.
Step 4
Cut out approximately the same number of figures with each mold to make a total of about 25 pieces. Transfer the people to the baking sheets. Bake for 10-15 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C - the cookies will become hard to the touch. Leave to cool on baking sheets for 5 minutes, then transfer gently to a wire rack until it cools completely.
Step 5
Make templates for making clothes for men. Circle the shapes of the little men with a pencil on a sheet of baking paper and cut out. Roll sugar mastic on the board and use templates to make outfits. Stick the outfits on the little people, slightly wetting the clothes from the bottom with water or a drop of icing sugar.
Step 6
Fill a pastry pen with sugar liquid icing with a spoon and draw features and clothing details for the little men. Decorate the silhouettes with powdered sugar: balls, colored sugar noodles, pills.
Step 7
Arrange the finished decorated little men on a platter or place them vertically. To do this, attach a ball of sugar mastic from each end to a piece of plastic straw (half of a toothpick). Attach one end of a straw (toothpicks) with a ball to the back of the little man, and the other to the board so that the figure stands upright.
Step 8
You can also cut out from scraps of dough dogs, kittens or your favorite toys - trains or balls and, accordingly, decorate them. Leave so that the decorated products dry thoroughly and the glaze does not creep during storage.
