Gingerbread man is a symbol of Christmas

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Gingerbread men are delicious cookies that you can bake almost every day. It keeps for quite a long time. Children are very fond of such cookies: after all, the gingerbread man is funny and tasty, and you can also decorate it at your discretion. Many decorate it with colored dragees, frame the head and hands with glaze. Children are delighted to be entrusted with creating their own dessert, which will then be hung on the tree or served on the table.

In order to prepare such "little men" cookies, you need very few ingredients, most of which are always in the hands of a thrifty hostess. Let's get started.

Ingredients and process for making Gingerbread Man Cookies

The basis of cookies is honey, so to prepare the dough we need: 250 grams of honey, 130 grams of sugar (if you take brown, then the amount is halved), the same amount of butter and one raw egg. The following is a list of bulk ingredients: one small spoon each of ground cloves, fragrant coriander and cinnamon, a small crushed ginger root (the size oflittle finger) and a pinch of s alt, a couple of tablespoons of cocoa for the dark color of the little man and the same amount of baking powder for the splendor and lightness of baking. To this list we add a glass of lemon juice (natural), 100 grams of powdered sugar and half a kilogram of flour (if the dough turns out to be watery, more flour will be needed).

The Gingerbread Man cookie dough is made in this way. It is necessary to put butter, honey and sugar in a refractory container, and melt everything over a fire (do not bring to a boil). Sift the cloves and coriander through a fine sieve (so that large pieces, falling on the teeth, do not spoil the taste), chop the ginger root and add cinnamon to the spices.

Add s alt and cocoa into melted honey, mix well (there should be no lumps), you can add sifted spices. An egg is added to the mixture, which has cooled to room temperature.

Flour in a convenient container should be mixed with baking powder and spooned into the honey mixture, stirring and getting rid of lumps.

Now the resulting mixture can be put on the table and knead a soft and uncooked dough. The table must first be sprinkled with flour. The resulting dough should be wrapped in cling film and put in the refrigerator for several hours. If there is no cling film on hand, it can be replaced with a regular plastic bag.

After a specified period of time, the dough can be taken out. Sprinkle the table with flour and, pinching off a piece of dough, roll it out no thinner than 7 mm (otherwise it will not be gingerbread, but dry cookies). Take a metal or plastic mold and squeezefigurine - you get a gingerbread man.

In the preheated oven we send the little men on a greased baking sheet. They bake very quickly, 10-13 minutes are enough, so keep an eye on readiness. The resulting gingerbread must be cooled. It is better to do this on a wooden plank or grate - so the gingerbread man does not get damp.

To make the glaze, you need to mix powder and lemon juice. Do this gradually, otherwise the icing will be too runny and won't set. The resulting mixture is decorated with little men using a match or a toothpick.

This is how the gingerbread man is prepared. Other figures can be prepared in the same way. If you do not have molds, you can simply cut the dough layer with a knife into triangles or arbitrary shapes, which are also decorated with icing.