Gingerbread house (how to assemble and decorate)

And she also made the first box ...

[Ksynya]

Here is a general view

Ksynyawhat a smart girl you are! Everything is beautiful - both the house and the casket, Bravo!

[DaNiSa]

aaaaa I also want gingerbread houses to do everything, I'll go print the house and cook the sleigh - winter is just around the corner
everybody has such beautiful houses !! just everything !! infected me !!!!!!!!!
Well, I kneaded all the dough yesterday. baked today, tomorrow I will decorate,: girl_hollyday: if no one bothers
children carry cookies. in vain, it turns out that I was afraid that they would not like it, everyone very much appreciated

Waiting !!!!!!!!!!!!!

DaNiSaAlena, and what recipe did you use to make the house? what test rate did you take? and what is the size of the house, with or without a gingerbread stand?

Vei, the dough from our forum, from Lenkor, only without cardamom, because I did not find it. houses are several sizes, the size of a fist and a little larger, I need to buy a lemon for icing, knead and try to do something. while I baked 3 houses and Christmas trees, with bunnies
and should the gingerbread be soft from the very beginning? from reading Temka I got the impression. that they are tough at first, and then they will soften, but now I looked, and they are so .... not solid, will the houses stand?ledi, I will try to quickly! your hands itch, but the little one must first be tamped down

Alain, did you put soda in the dough? There, the recipe says that you should not put soda for the houses. I get these cookies as soon as you bake hard, but the longer they are, the softer they become. I think the house needs a little harder, I will also start making houses soon, I will try the dough without soda

But this is a dough for cookies, not gingerbread, I don't even know what is better for baking houses ...

I did not get that! isn't it the same
Veiyou drove me into a stupor

gingerbread is not a cookie at all. Cookies are fattier, looser and shortbread, in principle more fragile. And gingerbread ... they are different, but definitely not cookies!

girls, I compared a bunch of dough, in principle, it is not much different, it's just that I tried the gingerbread from this dough I liked. I put soda, because the main thing is to make cookies from this dough. but I decided to knead again and this time just for the house and not put soda, they are too soft, it seems to me, they probably will not hold
it's okay, my children will gobble it up anyway, and I'll bake it, but for me there will be experience
here are my blanks

But I haven’t decorated these yet, I decided to do it with jellied icing, maybe the walls will be stronger?

2 incomprehensible shapes of things, these stands will be under the houses, I love asymmetry
painted together with the eldest son, so what happened

Alyona, you prepare in advance :-) well, smart :-) you must also try :-)

OlgaI don't mean that you just need to put creative energy somewhere in advance. there's silence with cakes, but I've been looking at the houses for a long time, licking my lips
the more they say that they stand for a long time, do you think they will stand by the New Year?

I will definitely not stay even for a couple of days if I bake :-)

Duc and I dismiss everyone, but if you hide it, will they stand?

: pardon: I don't know, ask the experienced :-) I'm a layman in gingerbread

DaNiSa, I stood for 20 days, and then we began to gnaw it. I made dough from Gerda. Alena, you made dough without honey, did I understand correctly?

lediwhy no honey? even with honey! aaa looked at the recipe, I replaced corn syrup with honey, and everything else is strictly according to the recipe now I want to make the same dough, only with cocoa and without soda: girl-th: girls, I just read other recipes and they also put soda there for the house maybe they just do not indicate that it is not necessary for the house
so I put it down, well, in principle, the houses are small, they can withstand their own weight, I will definitely report

It is good to disguise, but the smell will give the place
Last year I did it at about that time, I survived until spring, but many attempted to kill ... and I was sorry to break it.
The candy windows melted, then crashed to the floor at night (the heat began)

Sima, about the disguise, that's yeah! but it's unlikely, my grazing is strict, they will have to give away 2 houses to tear apart and secretly still do, and I stuck marmalade in the windows, it turns out I don't like empty windows, the house looks abandoned, but I heard enough about the candies that they melt and did not do them

In order not to eat everything at once, there is one secret method .. We need to bake them so that they don’t fit in !!! ... Last year we baked two portions of half a kilo of honey each. I liked Gerda's recipe very much. And they made a house out of it, and small gingerbread cookies. From this amount of honey it turned out gingerbread ... um ... a 13 liter plastic bucket full, and a bunch of tin cans from under Danish cookies. We ate gingerbread until February 23

And yes, the further they lay, the softer they became. This year I asked, will we still bake? Mine in one voice - yeah!

Vooot and I mean the same !! baking powder is included in the recipe from Gerda! then all the same, soft cookies are obtained and the walls of the house too

And they made a house out of it

Or did you not use a ripper for the house?

Girls, Liza, Alena, this is the dough we are talking about, it is certainly not gingerbread, but not entirely shortbread, it turns out not so loose, rather hard, I always bake it myself, for houses just right, I think. For the sake of simplicity, I myself always call these cookies gingerbread

Natalia, so I'm already confused, it's time to sleep, however! what kind of dough do you mean? from Gerda or from Lenkor? in general, I convinced myself tomorrow I will knead the dough from Gerda for comparison, the more he still needs to mature

Gerda's dough is very hard. Many who I baked do not like the hardness, but the taste is awesome. from the recipes that I used from Gerda the most delicious. Maybe it seems so because you have to chew it for a long time and you feel the taste

Alyona, I'm talking about the Lenkor dough. I have this very favorite recipe for gingerbread cookies :)

I've read so much about Gerdino's dough, everyone says that over time, the gingerbread cookies become soft, and even houses can break from this. They are never soft for me, and maybe I didn’t become so, but they lay with me for several months, and without apples they don’t even think to crumple.
It is the gingerbread that I bake according to a different recipe, but there the dough rises strongly during baking and becomes round, it is not convenient for houses, but the house will still remain strong.

[that its hardness often depends on honey, everyone has different honey, so the dough turns out in different ways. and someone weighed the finished dough, how much is it? I just weighed it turned out exactly 2600 g]

in general, the girls report kneading the dough from Gerda, let it lie down for a couple of days, then bake it, only again without cardamom, such a seasoning is simply elusive, no one has heard anything about it, it does not appear in stores, so without it, and everything else is strictly according to recipes ...
and I also read about ginger dough, that its hardness often depends on honey, everyone has different honey, so the dough turns out in different ways. and someone weighed the finished dough, how much is it? I just weighed it turned out exactly 2600 g, I'm afraid to even imagine how many cookies will turn out from so many

I make dough from Lenkor with corn syrup, maybe I have cookies are quite hard from him? It seems to me that with honey it should be softer

Natasha, the dough from Lenkor on honey is very soft, he even has to stand, I confirm it

Alyona, well, then for the houses you need to do not with honey, but with syrup

Girls, I also made this dough 3 times already ... and I make it on corn syrup, well, strictly according to the recipe ... even with soda, they are always solid, well, not very oak, but they keep their shape perfectly, I do I think that it would even be possible to put together a house ... now they become softer after a long stay in the refrigerator ... it turns out that 2 cookies from the last order were lying in the refrigerator ... I tried it yesterday ... expecting to leave my teeth on them, but to my surprise - the cookies are soft, tasty ... they have not lost either taste or aroma ... I just ate it with pleasure ... Alena, it's strange that you get soft ...maybe because of the honey ?! and what thickness did you roll out? maybe thickly? or vice versa too thin ?! I rolled the pechenyuhi 3-4 mm, then they rose a little and turned out to be excellent !!!

Lyaila, rolled less than 5 mm, that's for sure, they rose well, maybe I didn't "fry" them very much? maybe you need to keep it in the oven longer?

I’m not very strong, we have no syrup in the afternoon with fire
and the houses are already standing: two-ok: I'm frying, try it all the same not on honey, but on syrup

so weld invert, look online for a recipe from Larisa Volnitskaya

Natalia, it seems there you need a special thermometer, or be able to determine the readiness of the syrup "test for a soft ball". I don’t know how, so I don’t bother.

[DaNiSa]

but our houses, to say mine, the language does not turn because my son took an active part in their manufacture

this son is already cookies torments decorates

and this is what we did with him

DaNiSa, Alena, wow !!! Well, you are great! Both the houses and the cookies turned out very well! Assistant to you soon and will help you bake the cakes

DaNiSa,: swoon: Of course, with such an assistant, you can easily set up so many houses !!!!!!!!! Alyona! Cool! And bring gingerbread to another topic! show there.

where is it?

Alena, haven't you been there yet? There is so much beauty!https://mcooker-enm.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=35010.920

ledithanks for the hint! I already took cookies there

[Marohka]

I saw enough of your gingerbread and decided to show my trial gingerbread house

Marohkawhat a beautiful stylish summer house. wow trial.
immediately and questions. from which test. how long did it stand. how edible it was) it's not winter, the atmosphere is different)

What a trial, what a beauty!

Marohka, the house is magical! Did you decorate with icing or is it yellow mastic? Are the borders and flowers icing too? And then I tried with him once, but by the time of eating it was so dry that it scratched the gums.

Marohka, familiar house))) is it by chance not from Lenochka MK?

Marohka, wow trial !! fine!!!!!

Marohka, that's so beautiful! Super house!

[If the roof is filled with icing, is it to decorate it on a flat surface, then just assemble it?]

Oh, another question. If the roof is filled with icing, is it to decorate it on a flat surface, then just assemble it? After all, it will drain off the slope. And all sorts of squiggles already on the assembled house to draw? After reading it, I decided that it is most reliable to glue on icing?))

Girls, I remind you that first, all the panels of the house need to be painted (fill, drawing, etc.) and only after complete drying, collect, glue and decorate with icicles.
You do not need to first assemble the house, and then suffer with the decoration, if only you plan to paint it with icing at all. If you decorate with lollipops and waffles, and not with aying, then collect and glue sweets on it.

Vei, Lisa, you probably missed my question)) have you posted your gingerbread recipe yet? Do you only bake gingerbread using it or houses too?))

Mezeshkalach - Hungarian honey gingerbread (Vei)



for houses it is puffy, but you can simply halve the soda, then it will not rise so much.

[and about how much you need to keep the parts so that the icing glues them together?]

Girls, and about how much you need to keep the parts so that the icing glues them together? I had nothing to do with him. I met that they use toothpicks to help with the "glue". But if the dough is hard, the toothpick won't fit, will it? And if the dough is so soft that a toothpick enters it, will the house break? And such a question. Leave the glued walls to dry around 24 hours, then just glue the roof?

They are also fastened with sewing pins. With a bead which. I watched the video, so everything is immediately captured in it. And the roof too. Everything is shown very clearly.
mk video gingerbread house 23 minutes in my opinion there is a video

VictoriaCam, I saw how they were fastened with needles by tailors with multi-colored balls on the tips. And I won't tell you how much to keep, I haven't done it yet.

I didn't do that !! when you glue the house together, it is already firmly standing, I literally held the walls for half a minute with my fingers and installed everything on a stand, which I filled with icing literally 10 minutes before I began to glue the house. the house sank beautifully in icing, this can be seen on the house with blue snow. the rest of the houses waited a day before installing them on the stand. but it seemed to me to wait so long. I even liked it better when you put it on a non-dried icing right away.
now what about the roof. after 10 minutes, after gluing the walls, I have already installed the roof. and then these 10 minutes I just tried on how convenient it is to make it symmetrical and binding with needles - maybe this is when complex houses are made? well, there are balconies and stuff ..

DaNiSa, Alain, that is, you only used icing for fastening?)))

I'm not Alena, but I will answer)))
I glue the house only for icing, for the first few minutes propping up the walls with a cup or something heavy that can withstand the weight of the house. I also like the idea of ​​pins, but it is not always permissible for me, so I have all the panels with a fill, in which you cannot stick a pin!

yes, only by icing, it keeps perfectly fine

And I fastened the house that year with melted chocolate icing (which is like coins). Three minutes - and the walls can not be held, it grasps. Then I stood a little while trying on the roof and it is already possible to install it. True, the glaze was brown. Then I decorated the seams outside with icing and stuck the figurines of Christmas trees and other things in the corners so that the chocolate was not visible.

Mona1, Tanya, a nice house. Please tell me the dimensions. And what glows inside. What about a star with electricity? ))

The star - just cast white chocolate in a silicone mold, passed it with a silver canandurin brush (this is such a dry paint. Light - there is a small flashlight-keychain for keys on the LED. Here I told and fotala
https://mcooker-enm.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=2187.0
and below a couple of posts there I just gave a pattern of this house with dimensions.

Mona1, Tanyusha, thanks. There are so many of your houses. So much beauty) And I avidly read all the pages and now I do not remember everything))
I copied the pattern.

[DaNiSa]

In general, how much dough does Lenkor need for one BIG house? There is no one to give the remains. And on the 20th we are already leaving, we will not be able to take with us. My husband and I are on a diet, and we won't be able to eat this for a long time)

the concept of a BIG or a small house is relative for everyone))): girl_romashka: knead a full portion of dough, what kind of house you need, put the rest of the dough in the refrigerator and let it lie until Easter, for example, then you will still make the house just decorate it in spring.
or do you mean that 1 portion of dough is not enough for a house?

and I dream to bake a BIG house! no, really big, with a side of at least 30 cm. what do you think is real? won't break? I want to decorate it with jellied icing, so the walls are stronger.
did anyone make such houses?

DaNiSa, but take it and be the first. I thought that one portion would be a lot for me. I decided to make a full portion. Tomorrow I will go to Lviv for a day, and then into battle)

cool! This did not occur to me in my head, I have 3 or 4 patterns of houses, let's see which one will be more beautiful

Little houses you say? Gingerbread? I guess I need to. And what, there is English cake, the old Polish gingerbread is ripening, for the complete happiness of the house there is not enough even a custard tree. And then tea-tea-tea and that's all ... So after all, you also need a cake, besides the New Year, I also have a birthday ... wow, as if someone burst from home

Alena, could you share the patterns. I just can't decide what kind of house I need. The girl asked for 200 hryvnyas. Now I'm tormented by the question - what should it be for UAH 200)))

I could, only I have nothing special, I just took one house from the Internet and then enlarged it on it. so that there are different options for houses, look, yesterday I specially sat down and measured them

and now I think that the roof of the house should be lengthened by a couple of centimeters to be more beautiful. but that's my opinion

And I like it better. When I glued the roof, it turned out end-to-end.
DaNiSa, Alena, thank you. I kept all the patterns.

[Musenovna]

Musenovna, I repeat once again that the most correct recipe for Royal icing , and therefore the most convenient, since it has been tested for centuries -
90g raw protein
455 (maximum 500g) powdered sugar, very finely ground and sifted at least through a very fine sieve, and preferably through organza
5-7 (!) Drops of lemon juice

if you do not need a lot of icing, then make half a serving, or a third, but observe the proportions, based on the classic recipe!

pour the proteins into a bowl, pour the powder on top and beat with a mixer at first at low speed (so that the powder does not stand in a pillar) until it combines with the protein, and then at medium speed until smooth and peaks slightly harder than soft ones. That is, when pulling the rim out of the bowl, our mass should only slightly lower the head at the end, and not bend completely. Add lemon juice at the end of the batch.
After that, cover the bowl with a terry (thick) towel dipped in cold (!) Water and let it rest for about 10 minutes. After that, fill the cornets and draw. Before each subsequent filling of the cornet, stir the remaining mass in the bowl vigorously until smooth.
For the fills, draw the outline with our basic icing, after the outline has dried, fill it with fill icing.

To prepare the pouring icing, we take our basic icing, transfer it to another bowl and dilute it with cold (!) Water (not lemon juice) to such a consistency, when, after holding a sharp knife through our diluted icing, the trace from it will completely disappear and dissolve until we count to 10 at a calm pace, like in seconds. It's called 10-second icing. The disappearance of the trail must be looked at carefully from different lighting angles. If the icing is thick, then you will not get a smooth and even surface, if it is liquid, then it will flow beyond the contours and there will be dips, and not a smooth surface. It is better to dry the fill for at least the first 3 hours under incandescent lamps. That is, put on the table and the table lamp on top, you do not need to lower it very low. If there is no lamp, then it does not matter, it will dry out and so, only longer and there will not be such a pronounced mother-of-pearl shine.
You can store icing in an airtight container wrapped in a damp towel and bag for up to a week. The less air there is between the icing and the container lid, the better the icing will remain. Before re-use, "stale" icing should be whipped with a mixer with a small 1-2-3 tablespoons of powder, since it liquefies in storage.
And one more small clarification. It is best to squeeze out icing from very small (so that the hand does not get tired) cornetics made of wax / baking paper, insert the nozzle inside. How to make a paper cornet look on YouTube. If there is no nozzle, then with a microspik cut we cut off the corner of the cornet. For large jobs, such as icicles, where curly star attachments are required, disposable piping bags can be used. If there are no stars, but you really want to, then we make a double cornet and make a V-shaped incision, and then another one perpendicular to the first. I hope you understand))
If you put a lot of icing in a cornet at once, the hand will quickly get tired, movements will become uncertain, icing from the heat of the hand will begin to lose structure. Therefore, just a little bit.

Good luck to everyone and try the right recipes right away for the best results. Check out the topic Decorating gingerbread and cookies. There is a lot of useful information, but as far as information about icing is concerned, look for the Eddie Spence recipe in the title!

Girls, I agree with every word of Lisa Vei. It doesn't matter who and what was there last year from what. Many newcomers come here, read about all these experiments with incomprehensible icing recipes and think that they can then try to do according to these recipes. There is a great proven recipe that never fails, why do you need these experiments? Try to make the right icing at least once and you yourself will understand the difference!

[Vei]

Vei And you can tint the jellied icing with natural juice, for example, cherries. Or will it be very faded? I have never used dyes due to skin problems in eaters. I look at the girls, I admire. It is beautiful to paint with color aspic. You, too, have painted hearts. Over red and white, classic.

I am also very interested in this question. Is it possible to use natural dyes and how to add them correctly ?!

I have never tried natural dyes. I know that you can use beet juice and turmeric, but I have no such experience. It is difficult to paint icing in a saturated color, especially with natural juice (((

I found about natural dyes: 🔗 It's just not clear whether it is possible to tint the icing with the help of them, will it spread?

[Vei]

Vei, a in Royal Ice after being whipped and added with lemon juice, you feel powdered sugar? There is a lot of it in the recipe. Or will the icing become smooth without grains after soaking?

grains should not be there either before or after. And there really should not be any resting, this dough needs to mature, and the icing just rest and stand for 10 minutes.
It should be smooth, and if there are grains, then either the powder is large and has not been sifted, or the icing has not yet been adjusted.

Oh, I put it wrong. I meant after the rest.
But stale icing also needs to be whipped to a state where

when pulling the whisk out of the bowl, our mass should only slightly lower the head at the end, and not bend completely.

What is it like?

_Milana_, yes, that's right, because this is the working consistency and icing state. After the refrigerator, it is divided into water and sugar, whipping it with an additional amount of powder, you will bring it back to normal. You just need to do this without fanaticism, so that the icing is not interrupted. In general, it is best to use the lowest mixer speeds and mix initially and then revive.
and do not forget on the first day, thoroughly mix each new portion for the cornet until smooth.

[VictoriaCam]

Girls, brought the house))
The lines, of course, are uncertain, and I still haven't finished off the icing. But all the same, I'm happy, I really liked the process. In the next. since I want to make a low house so that it looks like a hut))

I haven't made the substrate yet, it turned out to be the largest flat surface for me)))
The water icing, of course, did not dry out. But it played into my hands - slipped like snow. And the second side is mowing - it spread a little icing and thickly - quickly set. But also not scary

And I made a pipe from one rectangle, although I baked all 4.
Gerda's dough.

the beauty! my hands are itching to start making houses !!

VictoriaCam, great house !!!!! cool!!! and what are the sizes? atleast approximately

DaNiSa, Alain, thank you)) longitudinal wall 14 * 11, transverse wall 11 * 10 cm (I don’t remember the height), roof 16 * 10 cm. Approximately such figures. Now I want to expand the transverse wall so that the house is lower. But when I get myself together, I don't know, maybe even on the trail. year))
I liked the taste of Gerda's dough, in general. I did not put too much spices, I added the zest in full, although I baked half a portion. And I had enough cocoa, there is color and taste)) They lie for several days, they have already become softer) And immediately after baking they crunched well, like sugar cookies. I haven't tried the dough from Lenkor yet. But Liza Vei has already kneaded and baked twice - delicious))

[DaNiSa]

DaNiSa, Alena, thank you. I kept all the patterns.
Here is my house. Made from Gerda's dough. It smells strongly of orange peel to me. Lenkor liked the taste better.
It is more chocolatey and the edges are crispy. Details from it are ready. Tomorrow I will decorate.
Ising made according to the Royal recipe. For some reason, the powder went more. In general, I liked it.

thrill, well!!!!! super!!! and the size is possible?

DaNiSa, thanks) I wanted to put a photo of the pattern right away, but they write something with the extension that is not right (So I will write)
Walls - 14 * 10, roof - 15 * 11 (longer should be done), facade - height 17 (wall height 10 + tower height 7 cm), bottom of the facade 12.5 cm
Gingerbread stand under the house 27 * 18

thrill, Lyuba! Cool house!

[Liliya64]

Hello girls, I haven't been here for a long time, so it turns out that there is nothing to show,
but I can't live without my favorite "stove", every day I watch your masterpieces,
I decided to show the house for the first time, the dough from Gerda, so carried away
The house turned out to be 39 length and 35 height.
Take

Wow! Not a house, but a whole house! Class!

Liliya64, yes, there is a whole installation! Very good! Well done, girls, such serious preparations are already in advance !!!

Liliya64, very nice!! the pipe is super !! and I also want to post this

Thank you girls for paying attention to my house

Liliya64, and how much test did it take for your composition? One serving or more?

One portion according to the recipe of "Gerda", only it took not 1 kg250 of flour, but exactly one kilogram.
I didn’t add it yet, I put the soft one in the refrigerator, and started the oven after 2 weeks, it was just what I needed and not hard and not sticky, it was very easy to work with it, I liked it.
Only harsh, like croutons, but delicious.
True, the girls say that they will stand up packed and be softer

do not worry! it will definitely be softer

: girl_love: I hope I don't want to sit in a puddle

how great everything! What do you have a gingerbread lamb from?

No, the lamb mastic is milk)), but of course it would be cool if from a gingerbread

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And here, look how the cake was decorated with houses

[I am reporting as I promised today I baked cookies and parts of a house with dough from Gerda. what can I say? the taste is not even bad, even better than from Lencor, maybe because there are not so many seasonings there. and I really liked the consistency of the dough, it rolls out easily, is easily transferred to a baking sheet, does not break.]

in general, girls! I am reporting as I promised today I baked cookies and parts of a house with dough from Gerda. what can I say? the taste is not even bad, even better than from Lencor, maybe because there are not so many seasonings there. and I really liked the consistency of the dough, it rolls out easily, is easily transferred to a baking sheet, does not break. The eldest child immediately saw through that with cocoa, dragged the raw dough, he liked it, but he didn't check out the finished one, because it was too hard ...
1 baking sheet really fried a lot, because the phone rang at the wrong time. VERY DISAPPOINTING! what do you think about the release?
everything is very rock-solid as a recipe should be. I immediately put a couple of cookies in a container with a cut apple to check how long they will soften. how was it in this regard?

DaNiSa, Alena, it will become softer in a few hours. After baking, I compare it with sugar cookies for myself - it crunches the same way)) I bite with my back teeth, while it was not difficult for me to chew. I have a kind of napkin, maybe a couple of weeks already, they have become softer. Delicious)) And lysines are also stored - they become drier, but do not harden and are more aromatic than steel. I would not throw out the fried ones, I would also put them to the apple or eat it like that)) of course., If they did not burn specifically)))

yes, it seems not very strong. just fried around the edges, and now I'm thinking of decorating them or not to transfer the glaze to them? Okay, I will not decorate them, then someone will get the thread and the person will remember it for life. that gingerbread cookies are bitter

DaNiSa, and the taste is bitter? I would break off and eat

Victoria, bitter, for comparison, ate a normal cookie, the difference is capital! no I will not smear. so let them lie. all night lay a couple of cookies near the apple, perfectly softened.
now next in line are Vei gingerbread. I really want to try to cook them
but first you need to paint the enti, it's a pity that burnt baking sheet ... there were very interesting shapes, I cut them out by hand, I don't have big molds

And I just kneaded the dough :-)
Liza! The other day I will bake and fill myself :-) thanks for the recipe

Girls, what to do? Help out. Sister came and baked together houses and gingerbread from the remains. Dough according to Gerda's recipe. I was worried that it was oak, but it stuck to the rolling pin when it got hot. In short, baked, I say, bake, you won't bite.The roof will collapse if it is not heated. And now I watch some with dark spots. Yes, and an hour later she cut out the doorway, safely forgotten. It was cut softly in the center, and barely pressed through at the edge. I think some are not baked Maybe put it back in the oven before it's too late? Baked today at 19:00
Here is the house and the bell in the middle of the dark
🔗With a dark middle, a little more baked I sit I'm happy I already had to keep the defense from the "starving"

Larissa, you caught yourself in time! The dark center is an unbaked dough, when it cools it becomes oaky, viscous.

[Elizabeth]

Hello everyone in the new season! You meet my corporate house, or rather, according to the scenario, this is the depot, from which the branded train leaves))
The dough recipe from Gerda, the dimensions of the house are 20x25 cm, the height is about 20 cm, the size of the gingerbread stand is about 36-40 cm.
The electric locomotive and the train are made of gingerbread cookies with marmalade, decorated with icing.

Special thanks to Luda Huska for allowing her to bake the stand; it would not fit on my baking sheet.

Lisa, I'm just awful, awesome job! Very cool! And I just read in the ambulance today that you had such an order. Are the customers satisfied?

Elizabeth,, otpad, beauty then what. How much work and diligence is needed. But the beauty is unreal, honestly !!!

Vei, shocked! The beauty is incredible !!!

Well, those who took him, of course, yes, but the reaction of the leadership is still unknown to me. The biggest plug was with the electric locomotive, which was supposed to be gingerbread, not mastic, grayish, but cheerful and similar to a real electric locomotive, not stylized and so that it did not look like a bus. In general, all the time and energy was spent fighting this gray beast. But the house turned out easily and with pleasure.
There are still a lot of houses ahead, only the time is catastrophically short, because everyone remembers the gifts at the last moment. But I will still have where to roam, though, again, there should be corporate symbols, but I think we will all get married and make friends))

Lizochka, and with what nozzle and how did you make the tiles on the roof?
the house is super, the train is awful. I had no doubt that everything will work out for you. Bravo

Lisa is so pretty and neat, line to line
I liked the house and the little train very much, I wish I could learn how

Lizonka, what a wonderful house !!! And the engine is similar!
And I just got ready to put the dough today, on Monday I will bake my houses.

really liked it !! the roof of the house is generally super!

DELIGHT!!!

So the roof is painted with red icing and there is a drawing on it, right? I'm crazy!

: elka: the new year just blew !!!!!!!! super!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! the locomotive is cool !!!!!!!!

Vei, well, look how wonderful it turned out! The house is unreal, but it did an excellent job as a train! Did you hide your gingerbreads under the mastic? Was it normally cut out of them?

Girls, thank you all for your kind words. Yesterday I was not at all in myself, since this house was ordered in two days, I made it for 2 nights, and during the day there were other things, in general, I somehow got tired.

Lizochka, and with what nozzle and how did you make a tile on the roof?

The PME nozzle # 3 made such twisted bagels. Everything else is mainly with nozzle # 1.5 and partially # 2.

So the roof is painted with red icing and there is a drawing on it, right?

Almost))) I still had quite a bit of red liquidish pouring icing from other gingerbread cookies, I applied it directly to the roof with a wide brush to just tint it red. I knew that red would be little visible, and I don't like the taste of the fill. And here the color appeared, and without a thick fill layer.

Did you hide your gingerbreads under the mastic? Was it normally cut out of them?

The customers did not like the ideas with a mastic or waffle locomotive, they had to bake and glue it out of gingerbread, there are 3 layers of gingerbread with a layer of marmalade. And I fought over the form for a very long time, grinded each element on a grater before gluing them together.But the difficulty was, first of all, that it didn’t work out in my head how to make it, and there was no final picture. Then, at the last moment, she did everything.

Lizonka, you have become a real master in a year! And I baked the blanks and I don't know how to approach them (((

First, check that they fit well to each other at the joints, if necessary, go over them with a grater / file.
After that, you need to decorate each panel separately with glaze, let it dry well and assemble the house. It is best to glue on a fairly thick icing, propping up the walls with cans / boxes / hands of assistants))) If the recipe and technology for preparing icing are correct (according to Eddie Spence), then everything will hold stronger than cement.
But it is imperative to insure the walls until they dry.
We install the roof last. After that, we close the joints of the house with decorative icing seams, you can use sweets, etc., and make icicles on the roof with a round nozzle.

Vei, Liza!! I admire !! Especially after I know that you had nothing at all! How did you manage !!
An excellent composition turned out.
Lisa, I have to you question... As a gingerbread specialist.

could you measure the diameter of the hole? Oh please!! otherwise you won't understand anything from these numbers,
I just have the smallest nozzle of 2 mm and it is very thick, right?
but it always seemed to me that the nozzle No. is the size of the hole ...

Vei, Liza! I liked the house very much! Especially the colored roof! The red color gave it some liveliness !!!! I can't find the words, I'm sorry. Generally class! Can you pull off an idea? I don't want to make the houses pure white this year. How much test did it take for the whole track?

could you measure the diameter of the hole?

now there is no possibility, but I will definitely measure it.

Can you pull off an idea?

of course you can! Moreover, it even surprises me6 that girls ask them about cakes as well. I believe6 that if a work is published on the network, especially on the forum, then it is with the aim of showing-inspiring-helping, and not just to amuse your pride. I will be very glad if it helps someone, and even more so to you, Vera !!!

How much test did it take for the whole track?

It's very difficult for me to answer this question, I have a lot of dough mixed in, but mentally I figure out 2 houses with one portion of Gerdin's dough. Sometimes it is not enough, sometimes it remains.

with a base for a house? I baked so many of them that year, but I didn't write anything down anywhere. Now I remember and cannot remember. I remember that it would be cheaper, I replaced the stand with a waffle cake.

I cannot make a non-gingerbread stand, my prices do not allow doing so. We have everything - the highest class, champion category)))

Vei, I am grateful to you BIG GREAT !!!! I baked and assembled a house, so wrong, but I'm happy like an elephant after swimming
Baking from the dough that you laid out on gingerbread :-) even icing turned out right at once :-) hurray !!!!

Olka I, and where is the photo? We won't believe without a photo! :))))

[Olka I]

Photos from a tablet, tomorrow I'll throw beautiful ones from my computer :-)

Olka I, smart girl! Cool house! And what is in your house?

Olka Iwhat a fine fellow !! really what is in the house?
but does this dough rise so little? For some reason I decided that it was growing in the oven, but then all the details turned out to be even ..

Olka I, Cool house! And the toys are mastic? Girls, it seems to me that the houses cannot be beautiful, each one is beautiful and individual in its own way. Because there is a handful of Christmas in it !!!!!!!!!

Nansy, ledi, DaNiSa, thanks girls))
Toys are simple figures :-) I took them out of the bins for a photo :-) inside the house there are flashing multicolored diodes :-) Liza recently made out the dough in a separate post, I changed the whole norm of the dough and baked gingerbread three times and there was enough for the house :-) the children gobble up this way :-)

I'm Olka, a beautiful house.

I also glued on icing. And the parents haven't eaten yet either. It's a pity, they say.And I said that until last year's is eaten, you won't get New Year's))

Thank you girls :-) if only you would never have dared to do it :-) but now I want to repeat it :-) today I will knead and bake the dough the other day :-) I want to make some spicy sheep, and I saw mk on gingerbread postcards in deco cake , I want to try :-)
How long can icing be kept in the refrigerator? Otherwise, it's a pity to throw it out

Icing, you can store it in the refrigerator for a week, I saw it somewhere at the gingerbread masters ... I don't know anymore.
Although it seems to me that more can be stored.
Nina Tarasova seems to have read somewhere that egg whites can be stored in a container in the refrigerator for three weeks. And in general, they make pasta on aged proteins, although they are baked, of course ...

[tania T]

I will also show you my gingerbread village, some of my houses are sad this year.
I am very grateful to Lizochka for the red icing for the gingerbread!
I covered the houses with glaze, here's the result, I haven't made any coasters yet, I'm waiting, maybe someone will order a cake with a house.

tania T, such beautiful houses, why do you say that they are sad? only small photos to make out everything is difficult.
I see that you repeated one of my mistakes - did not make icicles along the bottom of the roof from the sides. I did it because icing was over, and the customers were already waiting at the door. But it is better not to do that, it is very lacking.
Glad the glaze came in handy

What size are the houses?
What was the recipe for baking?
how many houses came out with one rate of this recipe?
how thick did you roll out the dough?
what fastened the walls?

The beauty!!!! I also want answers to Lizonka's questions! I want to bake today! and what other icing?
Beauty-ah !!!!

Lizonka, Daryushka, thank you!
1. Size of houses: side 13.5 * 8
butt end 8.5 * 13.5
roof 14.5 * 8
2. baked according to Gerda's recipe for 500g. honey.
3. 4 houses and 28 toys came out, sizes from 7 * 7 (lambs) to 9.5 ** 9.5 boots
4.rolled 0.5-0.6mm
5.fastened with icing and fixed with needles

Icicles flew on the side of one house, I wanted to consult with you, whether to do or not at all. I already understood the answer, I will finish it.
And the houses are sad because I came from vacation (it was 3 weeks) and only one order for a cake (I lost all clients !!! and just made houses for friends as a gift.
Here's another gingerbread from the same piece of dough. that's not all.

Be strong !!!! Everything will be fine! Oh, beauty!

tania T, Tanya, lovely houses and gingerbread)) and very pretty! ))))

If I can have a larger photo, I'll insert it now

I increased the size, but here the size remained small, what should I do?

And I, girls, made a small house - a New Year's craft for the garden. I did it sooo quickly, not letting the icing dry out too much. The pipe was specially unevenly covered, but I see that it does not look neat in the photo. Better live.
Mezeshkalach dough from Liza)) baked details can lie for a week. I went a little over the gluing places with a grater and it was fine)) the size is about 10 * 8 along the longitudinal wall. The height of the transverse wall is in the region of 13 cm.And painted all the walls, forgot to leave a place for the door, giggle

Victoria, what a sweet house

[Margot21]

Hello everybody! HAVING SEASONED your beautiful houses, I just fired up the desire to create something similar this year. The first house failed. The details were very thick and I did not dry it out (I was in a hurry to see what it would be like for me) I started to fix the roof, as a result, it fell apart. The son said "don't be upset, you have a nice house, just blown up. We will eat it anyway." The son is five years old. The sadness disappeared somewhere after this phrase and a second wind opened. Here is my long-awaited gingerbread house.



Happy New Year, everyone!!!

Wow! What a cool house! The design is interesting, the roof is so unusual. Well done!

Very nice house. And I'll decorate mine tomorrow.And I think of the waters by icing according to the Master, it is good to draw, fill, and for the girls some roofs are just like thickly covered with lush snow. Maybe they whipped the icing with a mixer, and did not mix it? I want to make a roof with lush snow.

Margot21with a mixer, of course! And, of course, sow powder through organza !!!

Margot21, see how to do icing correctly! it will be very lush, believe me click here

Oh, thanks !!!) Such a detailed explanation. I'm going to whip and taste. Otherwise, I couldn't draw thin lines in any way (I beat up 30g of protein with 150g of sifted powder, let it stand under a wet towel. It seems that the line was kept between my fingers, but let's draw - the hand is shaking with effort, but the line is thin and does not lie like I want to. In general, I still need a lot of practice. I spread it a little with water. I draw. But I understand that it’s not right. I start to press, and the tail is wrapped.

Out of the bag? Without a nozzle? And it will wrap up !!!

it may be from habit, if the hand is already shaking, or from the fact that you are holding the bag incorrectly in your hand or from the fact that you put too much icing into the bag at once, you need a little bit, and it may also be because the icing is broken ... but there is an opportunity to take a picture of it and show it to us, by joint efforts we will figure it out

Made of silicone bag, with attachment.

it is very difficult to squeeze out of a silicone bag, we do not have a cream. Therefore, you need to take such a container so that the mass moves very easily under your fingers - a cornet made of waxed paper (baking paper), in extreme cases, a disposable bag with a nozzle. BUT it is imperative to fill the cornet / bag with no more than 1.5 tablespoons of glaze, otherwise it is difficult to press and the hand gets tired very quickly.

Margot21, in order to learn how to insert a photo, you need to visit the topic "I'm a beginner! What you need to know to communicate on the forum"
There are links on the first page with tips.
One of them is "How to insert a photo into your message"
Read this post in full and follow the links (highlighted sentences)
There are several options for posting photos on the forum.
It is best to post YOUR photos through our gallery.
How to insert a photo into a message
it describes how to insert a photo if a photo is made by yourself and how to insert a photo if it is from other sites

[Margot21]

Very good advice, thanks
With the help of your advice and your website in general, my first gingerbread house was born so far

Margot21, great gingerbread and house !! the snowmen shine, in my opinion everything worked out. and the house is nice. What dough did you do?

Thank you) Your opinion is important to me) But I understand that I still have to fight against icing)) I made it from the classic gingerbread recipe, just added a little cocoa, orange and lemon zest.

Margot21, do not fight icing, you make friends with him, you will succeed, because the first pancake you are not at all lumpy

Thank you. Here I am making the second house. Hope to be friends. )) Decorate - exhibit.

Margot21, the house is excellent, and the gingerbread is generally wonderful! Come on, dare on!

Thanks for the support. I will improve.)

[How to make gingerbread even after baking]

How to make gingerbread even after baking
Girls, I’m looking at your houses, they are flat, but I’m like in the snow, a curved surface, how to make it even?

firstly, what recipe was used for baking?
secondly, how did you roll it out and on what did you bake it?
third, The newly baked panels of the house must be taken out of the oven, immediately turned over onto a flat surface face down, and press down on top with another flat surface while the gingerbread is still hot, while not just putting the board down, but pressing down. For this I use a wooden board, sometimes a baking sheet on which I baked, in general, whatever is at hand. True, now I rarely have gingerbreads bubbling, I’ve already lost it)))))

Vei, Recipe from Gerda
She rolled it out on the table, transferred it to paper, cut it out on it, and baked it on it.
Well, I didn't know the rest. I just put it on the table and cooled down. If you press down with oppression, then the ends will not be wrapped, right?
Now I know, BIG thanks !!!!
And one recipe or what another do you need?

[Irina]

This year I also decided to make a house.
Thank you, Irina for the recipe for a wonderful gingerbread dough and Lisa for a detailed description of working with icing and gingerbread dough.
And here is my first house

The beauty!

The girls are my first house this year. Prescription doughhttps://mcooker-enm.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=401161.0 The stand and the walls are slightly bent. Noah did not press down, but simply turned over. And a little bubble came, but in principle it is not visible

I look at the houses and rejoice at how much celebration, comfort and warmth of home they have! It is so nice that every year there are more and more of us! And for those who are not in the first round, skill is added. Happy everyone !!!

My house))

[Nansy]

Girls, what good fellows you are, very beautiful houses in all! You look at them and the mood becomes festive!
I will show you my first house, I have been doing it in fits and starts since the end of November, all the time they took away the gingerbread, but I finally finished it today. Dough from Lenkor.




Closer photos under the spoiler

Nansy, Natasha, this is fantastic! The work is just colossal! Very nice! One of the best houses I've seen lately! Bravo!
But this is such an exclusive for myself, most likely, right?)))

Lisa, thank you very much! It is very important for me to hear these words from you! This is a gift to my godson, and to their whole family.

Nansy, WOW !!!! I am absolutely delighted !!!!!!!!!!
The dough itself is already lying down !!!

Nansy, very nice! You're just an ACC!

Larissa, Barbara, thanks, girls! For the second day my husband, like a child, jumps around this house with a breath, looks from all sides, although usually he does not pay attention to my work at all

Duc has something to jump from !!!)

Nansy, Natasha, I am delighted! Exclusive house! everything is correct! Such things should be done for so long, with pleasure, for the soul! It's just a 3D picture! This is not for sale when they want it quickly and cheaply. I would also like to decorate like that! I'll put the picture on my computer, it will be easier to find and look at it there! Admire! Masterpiece! Natasha curtains made of mastic?

Natasha curtains from mastic?

Tanya, Vera, thank you !!!
Yes, curtains made of mastic, I processed the edges with a curly hole punch

oh, girls, and I just gave away 15 houses, and today there are 6 more to come. And I didn't even have time to take a single photo, in general, not even a rough one! So insulting, they were beautiful
but in general, I'm already losing my roof

still would not move out, with such and such quantity! When did you last sleep ???
Can you ask your customers to take a picture? It's a shame that there are no photos ...

and there, along the way, the driver simply took them to a higher organization for gifts, but they themselves did not see them, maybe they won’t see them. Yes, and somehow uncomfortable for me, very serious people-customers, and I with my photos, like a small child, and not a professional))) 1.5 days ago (((now I will go to bake the rest.

That's what I wrote about above! That such work should be enjoyed, it's like drawing, like cross-stitching, and on the contrary, we don't get enough sleep at night ... Well, nothing Lizonka, but joy to people! I just got a call from a customer who needed to make a soft house (her husband took her a gingerbread house today) and she already praised it! Already at the DR, the child (the girl does not eat cakes) asks for something gingerbread to do on January 18. People are pleased and I am happy that they like it!

Natasha ... no words ... what a beauty! I did such a painstaking work .. I can't even imagine how this can be done ... everything is soooo neat! clearly! beautifully!!! and everything is exactly .... incomparable !!! Bravo!!!!!

1.5 days ago (((now I will go to bake the remaining

Tin ... Although I myself have not really slept for a week now, gingerbread - gingerbread - gingerbread, cupcakes in between, 31 cakes to order and the family needs it too ... it's not up to the holiday pancake

Vei, Liz, are you running the entire self-destruct program, or what! Need to sleep! This must be the law! We have children and families to whom we are responsible and health is above all!
Go to sleep!!

Nansy, Natalia, I saw a lot of beautiful houses, but with openwork curtains !!! Struck down to fall! Clever girl!

Merri, I already blushed :))) Thank you very much!

Nansy, Natalia, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah, kakooooooooy house !!!! Curtains, a fence, a chimney, bell windows! I'll die right now!)))
I want-want-want soooo! Do you mind if I take it to my bookmarks - after the holidays I want to try to make ...
The painting is very delicate and festive!

Sahara, Lera, thank you very much! Of course, take it, that's what I'm showing, what if some idea is useful to someone

Natalia, once again admired your house. Please tell me, are the walls covered with jellied icing or mastic?
Elizaveta, if you want it like a real house, take any project that are available everywhere without details, make a scale model from the test.

Irina, everything is done by icing, except for the curtains

Captures and inspires the spirit!

Nansy, you have a very beautiful house! It can be seen that you are friends with icing))
I'll bring my first to show soon)
I decided to decorate the first house with marshmallows.

Milaslava, Thank you! We wait! Unusually, I have never seen a house with marshmallows!

[prascovia]

Yeah! Gingerbread, they are so addictive! And my daughter cried out the house! I wish there were 3 rooms! That all three rooms were of different heights! I'm a fool, I bought into tears, and I sit for the second day shoveling the net to find a pattern! Girls, please, can someone have something more skinny! But can’t I run to the architect?

prascovia, amused :)))) and maybe really find some kind of architectural drawing?

Nashenka! Baby weeps in three streams! She says that she saw such a house in a dream! Here's what to do ?!

Yo-my, well, the child just anneals :)))) You didn't see him in a dream, how are you going to do something?))

prascovia, well, look, the simplest, as it seems to me, is to do something like this

Here a pattern on a piece of paper can be made

Yes, I'm all overlaid with drawings! If during the night I don't "face" I will have to look for an architect .....

Make it easier! Yes, and there is not much time left until NG.Look, for what I drew, even the stove does not need 6 side walls, but only 4, the walls of the highest serve as walls of the lowest

prascovia, Natalya says business. I would do that too. The child will like it. And collecting is not difficult.

Girls! Thank you for taking part! I uploaded myself a screen to the gallery, only such a descendant wants.
(I will remove it from the gallery later)

prascovia, I myself have thought more than once about an architect who would develop a good project of a house of different sizes, convenient to assemble, but so far it is a little expensive.

The photo of the house is not mine, I just took a screen

prascovia, I would do this: first assemble the tallest house. The smallest one can be made without a back wall, collect 3 walls and immediately lean against the high one. The middle one can also be made without a back wall, lean (glue) to the side wall of a high one. In order not to miss the dimensions and there was room for maneuvers when installing roofs, I would make the tallest house a couple of cm wider than the lowest house and also the side walls of the high one a couple of cm wider than the width of the average one. Now I'm throwing it schematically

well like this

Natasha! Thank you so much! Your advice helped me a lot! I made a drawing of the house, you can call in !!!
BUT! Not to be us with a house on NG! we were covered with snow !!! You can't move into a magician, I have two spoons of honey in the house ... And from spices only pepper ...

prascovia, but there is nothing for that Do not despair, make the dough according to Vlnitskaya, which is from Lenkor, there on invert syrup, do it without spices, it will still be delicious! Or rub the zest even there

Natasha! I didn't find a recipe from Volnitskaya .....

Is this what you are looking for?
https://mcooker-enm.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=201040.0
There is a link to Volnitskaya's recipe below. I also baked half of everything according to this recipe this year, and the second - according to Gerdin.

prascovia, Tanya gave the correct link! There, according to the recipe, the dough should lie down for a day, you do not have so much time, hold it for an hour at least in the refrigerator

girls thank you very much!

[Mona1]

Here is my house

There are 2 rooms in the house, one contains a bear and chickens, and a Christmas tree. And the other room has no windows, there are candies all the way to the roof. Here is the back of the house. These three gingerbread flowers are like stubs.if you take it out, then you can pull sweets from there.
In the roof of the house there is a hole in place of the pipe. I put the trinket in the pipe flashlight when I need to shine in the house. and a ring on the keychain. On the pipe I have a spare part from a crnditer sack turning red. She does not let the keychain fall into the house.
More details below

Mona1, Tanya, what a cool house !!! A very cool idea with flowers that can be taken out! How did you make the roof? Well, just tiled!

Yes, Natasha, it was an idea with a tiled roof. In one video, I saw how to do it. It is necessary to roll out the dough thinly, literally 1 mm, and roll it out, sprinkling with flour, then when baking the dough will be swollen, this is what I needed the effect for the tiles. While for the walls, for example, the dough and the table, it is advisable not to add flour, I roll it out on a silicone mat with a silicone rolling pin. After rolling out the dough for the tiles with a toothed wheel for cutting mastic, I walked through it, made rectangles. It bakes sooo quickly, because it is thin, one batch was slightly tanned, but it even turned out cool, I mixed light with darker ones. I glued the tiles onto the droplets of melted chocolate glaze, starting from the bottom of the roof up.

Tanya, so I just did not understand how you glued them, is there still a layer of gingerbread below, or are the tiles just holding each other?

No, not one for the other. Below is the main roof.

Oh, got it, thanks!

Then she glued the upper rows onto the lower ones with an overlap. (And the side does not overlap, there is a butt-end, sometimes the cracks are bigger, smaller, because the tiles are not all the same. especially for those who are just starting to make houses

Mona1, Tanya, cool surprise houses !!! What about the windows?

For the windows, I donated one pastry disposable bag made of very dense polyethylene. I cut out the "glass" by 0.5 cm larger than the openings of windows and doors and pasted it on the glaze. Then I passed the glaze on top so that there were no joints, and I made stripes on the glass with icing. So the glass and the flashlight are inedible. )))

Mona1, Tanya, fantastic! So many things have been invented! Flashlight in the chimney, windows closed with gingerbread: yahoo: Did you come up with or spied on an idea somewhere? Eh, it's a pity the curtains are not edible: girl_haha: If we use a spoon for honey, we need to gobble up everything and the curtains too

Mona1, Tanya, no words! Such splendor, golden hands!

[Vei]

and today I finally gave an order for 20 houses, which I received 2 weeks ago, but in fact I could only make it this week mixed with gingerbread.
Honestly, I thought I couldn't do it, but I did it. True, there are very few photos, there is no energy left for the photo shoot at all. There are only 5 houses here, which I baked last night and assembled and decorated during the night. It was a corporate order and the houses had to be with the company logo, which eventually had to be printed on sugar paper, but the logo itself is not so elegant, it was difficult to make friends with the house in principle. Therefore, on the other slope of the roof, I decided to stick a plate made of sugar paper with the inscription "Happy New Year!" To balance this geometry with the logo.



Photos of the process:

Vei, Liza, what a fine fellow you are! You can be proud of yourself by right, it is incomprehensible to my mind how many of them you made and how beautiful it is !!!

Vei, Liza, what a beauty! The painting is so delicate, delicate! Very very beautiful!

Vei, Liza, smart girl !!!!! WITHDRAWAL, YOU MADE them !!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful !!!)))

Vei, Liza, you have great work, just wonderful!
it just happens that you look at something and understand that: but I can, I can! I take and do, and it turns out, not an ideal picture, of course, in my head it seems a little different, but also good!
Last year I did not skillfully embroider a picture.in this I planned to add a mosaic on long winter evenings, but no - the gingerbreads changed all plans)))))))) but I also liked it, very addictive. fortunately, I do not eat them, but only draw, and the family eats them with pleasure)))))

Vei, Liza, you are a hard worker! How did you cope with such a volume ?! And the houses are so cool! Liked the fact that there are no windows and doors. no need to cut wasting time on it. And the walls are less deformed. And painted so that everything is present!

Lisa, bravo!

[diveroni]

hello girls!
our house

this is the second, there was also the first smaller one, but there is no photo at hand. in general, these are the first houses in life, like the first New Year's gingerbread
now, we have prepared gifts for loved ones

\ (if not for my son, I would never have dared)))))) and so stuck, the children helped as best they could)))) mostly ate gingerbread and finished icing))))

diveroni, and the house, and the gingerbread cookies are very beautiful! New Year and New Year!

I'm looking at the masterpieces of girls who make houses and gingerbread for the first time, I'm surprised and think that if I had done just as well the first time a year ago, then perhaps I would not have moved on, and I would not have now favorite business, new skills and abilities, and much more ...
Happy New Year, everyone! May he be better than this!

Nansy, Thank you !

Tatyana, you have not a gingerbread house, but a modern residential cottage with supplies for the winter!
Liza, a hard worker! You rivet them like seeds with a mind blowing speed!
Veronica, I thought like Lisa: "If this is the first time ..."
Happy New Year to everybody!!!

diveroniAnd did you embroidery for the first time? : swoon: A very fabulous house!

at first
there are gingerbread cakes, I painted a few gingerbread cookies, then the roof of the house, then again gingerbread ...
thank you!
my husband's brother came, sat, at first he lost his speech, and then said that it was urgent to send to the exhibition, that we had something similar on New Year's theme going on in the museum right now)))))
but the house decorates our holidays, I am so warm from it, so fabulously cozy in winter.

[Happy New Year, dear girls !! happiness and health to you all this year!]

Happy New Year, dear girls !! happiness and health to you all this year!

[ledi]

Girls, dear, I really missed you and the forum. Happy New Year to you and your families! Health, peace, love and may everything conceived on New Year's Eve come true! I didn’t have the Internet, just turned it on yesterday.
I'll show you my house. I don't have a lot this year, only two. I used to show one blue, and the second red.

ledi, Vera, what a wonderful house! The roof is so beautiful! Moreover, there are animals in the house and a curly box with sweets! I liked it very much!

Vera, not a house, but just a wonderful miracle! I really liked the bear. Either inside the house looks out the window, or it is outside, but the effect is as if it were inside. And the box with gifts is great! And the embroidery is good, I have not tried to embroider yet. Maybe I'll just try today.
Everything turned out very fabulous for you!
Girls, all a Happy New Year and the approaching Christmas!

Vera, a very fabulous house! highly! I liked the candy bowl and the animals in the windows so much)))))))))

ledi, Vera, incredible beauty !!! I liked the roof very much, and even all in embroidery, and the bear in the window, well, just super!

ledi, what a beauty! the little animal in the window touches and a box of gifts !!

I have no luck with bears: girl_haha: This is a sheep and a goat. An artist that is useless to me

Oh

Girls, thanks for the compliments. Although the house turned out to be unlike the cake.

Vera, I immediately recognized the sheep in the window, but the goat is simply hard to see in the photo. In any case, the idea is great!

what's wrong with the cake?

ledi, Just a masterpiece!

[Milaslava]

Girls, hello!
Happy New Year to everybody)))!!!
And here is my house in the snow of marshmallows)

Milaslava, such a mysterious house! Is it all marshmallows?

Merri, yes it's marshmallow. They need to work very quickly, as we crush the shape before our eyes, still warm so far.So she decorated the house at the speed of light))
I wanted to make a house with snow, without any patterns, etc.) Marshmallow is very airy. Over time, it dries up and becomes something like a meringue.

marshmallow house - miracle-miraculous :-)!
and I somehow did not make friends with marshmallows. I tried to do it a couple of times, it’s not like that. edible, but not that purchased ...

Milaslava, a beautiful snow house! and how to decorate it with marshmallows? or rather, how to prepare it for decoration? just melt?

DaNiSa, no, I made marshmallows according to the recipe of Chadeyka Irina, look in the internet, her recipe is available! Very tasty)

thanks for the answer!
and to me on "you"

[Milaslava ledi]

Milaslava ledi Girls, what wonderful houses you have. I was also going to bake myself as a gift. But grief happened and I called my sister to help and at the same time distracted her. She never really liked to cook with me, but agreed to help. Here are our houses. The little sister worked with a brush and was very pleased

And this is my miracle. How my daughter was having fun that I had no door between the rooms, and there was a hole under the ceiling (I confused the detail with a gingerbread). And the flashlight will not go all the way through the door, it was necessary to cut the opening more.

And this with the nephew decorated the remains-

Merry Christmas, my dears!

Larissa, don't let yourself be offended! Hold the dough and let it amuse you! Mom made wonderful gingerbread cookies!

Larissa, nice houses, but I like the little sister. I understand that this is the one that is closer to us in the first photo. Here is a very artistically snow-covered roof turned out and all of it is such a straight natural winter snow-covered house. Praise your sister, tell her - people like it. Well, of course, your house is also good. I do not know what is mixed up there, but everything seems to be in place. Both the door and the window.

what a fine fellow! the most important thing in this matter. that you can use all your surroundings!

[Ilona]

Dachshunds ... I’ll bring something, and I’ll boast well, and for luli for mistakes too (but what about without jambs)
So the houses (I mastered the current 2 pieces, they didn't give me time for something that year that year.

Ilona, the houses are very beautiful, I especially liked the two-room one))) This is unusual and probably very difficult to assemble, it turned out very, very cool.

It is worth while ... since I put all this on the Internet late, then there were no orders for the house. So my youngest became the happy owner, as you say, of a 2-room house. There is a house on his shelf in a transparent box! Tomorrow his friends will come to him on the DR, so I'm thinking of feeding something? They will have fun. But here's the question ... The house is solid, so you need to spread the apples around, but ... but then the children will come, and the house will not be beautiful anymore, or maybe it will completely collapse? How to be? Baby teeth, what would have broken, too, not good! ahhh ....

Ilona, The houses are gorgeous !!! I especially liked the first house, it looks very cool !!! And on the second I wanted to see the painting on the roof. I envy those who can draw)))

Ilona, but don't touch the house yet, let the guys please the eye, and when they get home, disassemble it all together and give each of them a piece (although it's a pity to disassemble such beauty of course), let them put aside at home with an apple for the night - there will be a present for tea and memories with DR are pleasant)))

I plan to give them a gingerbread with me, which they will make themselves. I'll arrange a children's MK! I don’t know what to do with 9-year-old cubs at the holiday in the apartment! ))

two-room house - super! I especially liked the pipe, sooooo brutal)))
Do not break your children with you, they are already destructive over the edge, and you will not get the same structurally pieces.
you are right, better - the creation of your own hands, and they will be pretty busy.
strength and optimism when noting)))
Merry Christmas!

Don't ... We won't break, we are not destroyers !!! However, how would you eat it then? Otherwise, it will remain standing for years, but you will want to build something new :)))) This house is not my idea. If I'm not mistaken, I stole the drawings from Gerda.But maybe I’m mistaken, because it was that year, it was just that I was not honored that year!

Ilona, what cool houses! Especially two-room! The beauty!

Ilonchik, take your time: figure out how these houses can be corrected in Epiphany or Valentines and put them up in advance.
Perhaps there is a customer for them.

How great everyone is doing! Masterpieces! All craftswomen, inventors! I come here constantly as an excursion.
Merry Christmas !

[Karry79]

For beginners from beginner. I have done a lot of icing experiments over the past week. 1) If you knead at high speeds and for a long time (10 minutes), then the icing is strongly picked up by air. At first, the icing is very dense, but after rest it seems to be deflated. It still needs to be kneaded well. 2) If you knead by hand - icing of a pleasant structure, but the hand falls off. 3) Kneaded in a Bosch Combine. speed No. 3, whisk for cream, 15 min. The structure is perfect! Creamy, silk! The thread is even, uniform, easy to stretch. And finally, I figured out the icing balls: it turns out that basic icing needs to be diluted with water. Dense icing will never make a perfect ball without a tail! Julia M Hasher's master class turned out to be very useful:

Karry79, your house is so beautifully photographed! and a tree and a toy over it, and immediately the picture began to play, I really liked the windows, beautifully designed!

Yes, I like the house too Karry79... Tell me, your window consists of several cut-out squares. And I seem to see that these segments were cut out after baking, until it cooled down. And what did you cut out? I, too, wanted to muddle up such windows in my house, but it was only stopped by the fact that I could not figure out how to cut out such small squares.

I cut it out with a knife before baking. Each window is separate. And ground caramel was poured into the openings. Thank you! Since the house is the first, I wanted to try different techniques. And the drawings are different, and the application is different, and I tried jellied icing. I am sure that without the advice of the girls on the forum, I definitely would not have done it!

[Valentine]

This is my first experimental house ...

And this I did for Christmas ...
My two houses ... But from the usual test:
2 chicken eggs, 1 glass of sugar, 0.5 bags of vanilla sugar, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, beat until frothy and doubled.
Then add 100 g of melted butter!
And 1 tablespoon with a slide of fat (I have homemade) sour cream.
Mix.
Pour in 1.5 (250 ml) cups of sifted wheat flour mixed with 0.5 dessert spoon of baking soda, mix well.
Put the dough on the table, sprinkled with flour from the total amount, add 1 cup of wheat flour on top and knead into a soft dough. No more flour! The total amount of flour is 2.5 cups (250 ml) of wheat flour!
Put the dough in a bag and set in the cold for 1 hour.
Then divide the dough into parts, roll each part on parchment sprinkled with flour until fine, the thinner the better.
Using templates, cut out the components of the house or just cookies ... Remove excess dough.
Transfer to a baking sheet with parchment and bake in a preheated oven at 220 degrees for 10 minutes.
For drawing, I beat 1 cold protein with 200 g of powdered sugar with a mixer.
For gluing - 1 cold protein whipped with 16 tablespoons of homemade icing sugar ...
Everything worked out perfect. On one house, the roof went off through my fault, my arm ached and I did not hold it, but went about other things ...

And this is a cookie made from the remains of dough ...

Valentine, such cute cookies and houses!

Valentina I liked the house with butterflies. Itself would have lived in this: ozhidanie: He is so kind, fabulous. The second one is also pretty.
And I just tasted gingerbread today. At first I was a little upset that they were tough. And then they lay down for 3-4 days with apple pieces, peeled and softened

[Olga_Z]

I'm new here and want to share my first gingerbread house and gingerbread. Of course, a lot of things still didn't work out as I wanted, but I would venture to show

Ol, the house is wonderful.The windows glow so comfortably. And the gingerbreads are pretty.

Olga_Z, nice house! the windows are so welcoming! but bring the gingerbread to the gingerbread temka right here

Thanks for the kind words I will rearrange the gingerbread

[lychikl]

and tse my first budinochok

lychikl, very nice!!! And the walls and the roof

the embroidery is amazing!

[Irina]

girls good afternoon, here is my beauty-krivotulya kids in kindergarten liked. inside there were battery-powered candles and the house glowed beautifully in the dark.

Irina, cool. and what kind of dough is so dark and smooth?

Natkamor, I took it from a foreign site, I liked the stencils there and the aunt seems to be a direct specialist in gingerbread houses. She wrote that it seems like this dough was made by some chef in the White House. The dough is certainly not as rich as our gingerbread, but you don't need to stand it either.
2 cups sugar
1 cup + 2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 cup solid vegetable shortening (typically vegetable fat) multitran translated: vegetable kombat or shortening based on vegetable oil
4 eggs
3 tablespoons of molasses
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons of baking soda
1 tablespoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1/2 cup cocoa
5 cups flour
To be honest, delicious. but our gingerbread dough is much more refined

I can imagine how beautiful it was! nice house!

and here are my houses, dough from Gerda

well, the second. dough from Gerda

[DaNiSa]

third, dough from Gerda

DaNiSa, Colorful houses! Although I liked the first two more, the third looks somehow easier. It's just that you have already demonstrated such palaces from icing that the third option is no longer your kind of level
However, in the gingerbread houses the most important thing is their deliciousness and magic for children, but here it is all there!

Vei, Thank you!! agree! here the third house was whipped up. very, very quickly, because they asked very, very much and it was just a gift, we took him away even not dried up, oh, he didn't even want to pack, everything got off him, but they asked so, so they asked that we were glad to anyone ..
I still have 1, this is a big one, I still made it. but when loading on HB I saw that there were absolutely problems with the background, and after your photos, especially how Larissa makes out, it became completely ashamed to exhibit this, I will take a picture of it in the New Year's decoration and exhibit
and I forgot to take another 2 houses! only when I gave them away and now I was looking at the photo, I saw that they were not there!

No, the third house is just the most cheerful and cheerful, for the kids the class! How many colorful and probably tasty things are there! Children need this and not embroidery there all sorts and smooth.

Mona1, Thank you! I still made it out on January 1, asleep

Alena, great houses !!! I also packed it like that, and at the third house there are multi-colored stars - it's that ... bezeshki or sweets ... very bright, festive! Well done!

Layla, Thank you! these are such sweets! cool, children gnaw them))

Oh, girls !!! Something I missed so many pictures! All your houses are awesome! Each is interesting in its own way! I liked everything with embroidery and backlit and sweets !!! Some did it for the first time and you can't say that for the first time !!! I'll show you mine! Oh, I fiddled with him of course! there were a lot of errors, especially during the assembly. Liza's recipe baked https://mcooker-enm.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=401161.0 ... The client is regular and her children love soft gingerbread. I have baked the house for the second time according to this recipe. The first time I collected it without any problems. but this time, I forgot to pin down the details after baking. I crushed only the base and because I baked it on the second day (I forgot to bake it right away) So, as I didn’t level it with a grater, I didn’t manage to level it much. Especially with the roof worn out, it can be said to adjoin only in two places. I had to fill the holes with chocolate in order to somehow fix it. The decorated house was stained with chocolate: sorry1: I had to change something. Well, nothing, today my husband took it, listened to the praise, and then they called me with admiration too: oops: Nice so !! Yesterday I took a photo late at night (in the morning it would have been dark too, it was necessary to deliver it early), the lighting is not very good. Girls, don't scold the gnome too much! Yesterday, the computer was also under repair, I drew from myself, so to speak. I changed my eyes several times. They didn't work out anyway

Verun, what a gorgeous house !!! So colorful, spring, festive! So many things, trees with fruits, flowers, a Christmas tree, a man - everything is so beautiful! And the flowers on the house from the mastic?
Tell me the truth - you can't see any mistakes, right? Only you know about the jambs, and then very skillfully corrected them, of course, customers will be delighted with such beauty!

wow! gorgeous house !! just no words, gorgeous !! how you liked the daisies on the roof !! just a fairy tale!

Today I ask my daughter whether I liked the house or not? and she told me: that the daisies on the roof have nothing to do with it. But the idea is from the Internet, not mine. There were roses and some other flowers. It's just that when they order and don't say what they want, it's hard to come up with something
Thank you!!!!!!! Yes, flowers from mastic