TOP 11 best recipes for New Year's gingerbread cookies at home with your own hands

The culinary arts are well acquainted with all kinds of traditional dishes, which housewives save for special occasions. Ginger cookies are one of the dishes that no New Year's holiday can do without. What’s especially nice is that you can prepare it much earlier, a month before the holiday. It will be perfectly preserved, will not lose any of its taste, will serve as a decoration for the New Year's table, as a surprisingly cozy Christmas tree decoration, and as an excellent gift for a loved one.

General cooking rules

This sweetness was enjoyed at feasts during the First Crusade. She is the most popular in England. In a very short period of time, gingerbread cookies have conquered the whole world. They say that when ginger was brought from India to Europe, it was so expensive that only in rich houses were products made from ginger dough served on the festive table.

Today it is the most affordable holiday dessert, which is also easy to prepare and delicious. Its classic version should have a pronounced ginger aroma that is not interrupted by anything. A scent that cannot be confused with anything else. The spicy version has a richer aroma, since its recipe contains other spices.

Whatever recipe you prefer, when kneading the dough and baking the figures, you will begin to build on the basic diagram and a certain order of operations.

The dough should be rolled out into a thin layer. The figures are cut out of it and then laid out on a baking sheet, on top of baking paper. The oven should be heated to 180˚C. The baking process takes 10-15 minutes. The final touch is to coat the cookies with glaze.

There is only one order. But by experimenting, adding or removing different spices, decorating cookies to your taste, you can create an unusually tasty ginger treat that will not be on any other holiday table.

Requirements and preparation of main ingredients

Some advice from experts:

1. By adding spices to the dough you can achieve a variety of flavors.Season one part with cinnamon, the other with cardamom, cloves, and maybe nutmeg.
2. You should not replace fresh ginger with dried one.
3. When planning to decorate cookies with icing, you can add less sugar to the dough.
4. Make holes in the cookie blanks that are destined to become Christmas tree decorations; All that remains is to insert the ribbon into the finished product.
5. The dough will roll out better when it sits in the cold for half an hour, wrapped in a towel or cling film.
6. To prevent cookies from drying out ahead of time, it is better to store them in a tightly closed container - cardboard or tin.

The best recipes for the New Year's table

Even if you have never done this before, using any of the proposed recipes, you will easily bake a delicious delicacy that will delight your family.

Classic, with glaze

Required:

• wheat flour – 200 grams;
• granulated sugar, butter - 150 grams each;
• egg;
• baking powder - teaspoon;
• ginger – 3 teaspoons;
• a pinch of salt.

For glaze: powdered sugar (200 grams), egg white, cocoa powder (two tablespoons). It is better to divide the butter in half, rub one half with granulated sugar, and melt the other half before adding it. The remaining components are added to the resulting mixture. And if desired, other spices can be used.

The dough, chilled in the refrigerator, is rolled out into a layer. Good housewives prefer to do this with their palms. And then, using molds, and sometimes an ordinary glass, and also a knife, different figures are cut out of the dough.

All that remains is to spread it on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 220 ℃ for only 5-7 minutes. Another little secret is to prick the cookies with a fork before putting them in the oven.To make the glaze, egg whites and powder are whipped into a foam. If you want to get a multi-colored decoration, divide the mixture into parts and paint each one a different color.

Gingerbread

Required:

• flour - two glasses;
• butter – 100 grams;
• brown sugar – 180 grams;
• egg;
• ground ginger, baking powder - two teaspoons each;
• honey - three tablespoons;
• spices - to taste.

For glaze: dark chocolate, cocoa powder (3 tablespoons), low-fat cream (100 milliliters). The cooking process is the same.

With sour cream

Required:

• flour – 600 grams;
• sour cream – 300 grams;
• butter – 100 grams;
• honey - two tablespoons;
• vanillin - to taste.

Cook as described above. Bake in a preheated oven at 180℃ for just over 10 minutes.

With chocolate and raisins

Required:

• flour – 250 grams;
• butter – 150 grams;
• granulated sugar – 180 grams;
• ground ginger – 80 grams;
• dark chocolate – 400 grams;
• raisins – 200 grams;
• egg - 4 pieces;
• baking powder - two teaspoons;
• a pinch of vanillin.

Preparation:

1. Grate the chocolate (can be cut into pieces).
2. Soak raisins in hot water.
3. Knead the dough.
4. Roll out the cake.
5. It is baked for half an hour at 180 ℃.
6. Covered with chocolate glaze (it is better to cool first), cut into pieces.
7. Decorate as desired.

Crispy Australian gingerbread cookies Ginger Crunch

Required:

• flour - one and a half glasses;
• butter – 125 grams;
• brown sugar - half a glass;
• ground ginger and baking powder - one teaspoon each.

For the glaze: butter (75 grams), powdered sugar (¾ cup), 2 tablespoons of honey and one tablespoon of ground ginger.

The preparation is practically no different from the previous version.The baked cake is covered with glaze in the same way and cut into diamonds or squares.

gingerbread house

You'll have to be an architect for a little while. First, it is better to draw all the parts of the future house on cardboard. This will be a real stencil. All you have to do is cut out the walls and roof from the dough, make slits for the windows and place the pieces on a baking sheet. You can pierce them with a fork so that they do not change shape.

The parts will be baked for almost 10 minutes at 180℃. When parts of the house have cooled, you can begin to build the structure. Protein glaze is used to glue them together. Soak the parts of the house with glaze and glue them together.

The most exciting part remains - decorating the house. No one limits your imagination.

Recipe by Tatyana Litvinova

Required:

• flour – 300 grams;
• sour cream - one tablespoon;
• butter – 150 grams;
• granulated sugar – 75 grams;
• egg;
• ginger - one dessert spoon;
• baking powder - one packet.

Making dough is nothing new. Cookies should be baked in a hot oven (200 ℃) for about half an hour. As a decoration, a chocolate bar is quite suitable, which should be melted and sprinkled with nut crumbs on top.

In the microwave

Required:

• flour – 300 grams;
• granulated sugar – 125 grams;
• margarine – 80 grams;
• ginger, black pepper, nutmeg - one gram each;
• cardamom and cinnamon - half a teaspoon each;
• soda - a quarter of a teaspoon;

For the glaze: egg white with powdered sugar. Preparation: the peculiarity of this method is that the dough is kneaded in 100 milliliters of slightly warmed water, and the cookies will have to be sent to the oven twice. After a three-minute stay in the microwave, the product is cooled, glazed and placed back in the oven for a couple of minutes.

Recipe from Yulia Vysotskaya

Required:

• flour – 300 grams;
• granulated sugar – 140 grams;
• butter – 100 grams;
• chopped ginger root - two teaspoons;
• cinnamon, baking powder - one teaspoon each;
• chopped cloves - half a teaspoon;
• egg.

Preparation: mix flour with baking powder and spices and divide into three parts.

1. The softened butter is whipped with sugar.
2. A beaten egg is added to the mixture.
3. Add two parts of flour alternately, stirring gently with a spoon.
4. With a third of the flour, the dough is kneaded with your hands and rolled out into a thin layer with your palms.
5. The figures are baked for about half an hour at 180˚C.

In a frying pan

Required:

• flour - two to three tablespoons;
• butter – 70 grams;
• granulated sugar - four tablespoons;
• cocoa powder - one teaspoon;
• egg;
• soda - half a teaspoon;
• a sliver of ginger root.

Cooking: Another unique way to bake delicious cookies. Prepare the dough in the same way as suggested earlier, only melt the butter first. And do not put the figures in the oven, but fry them in a frying pan on both sides. Decorate to your taste.

With sunflower oil and banana

Required:

• flour - two glasses;
• sugar - half a glass;
• banana;
• Sunflower oil – 200 milliliters;
• soda and ginger - 2 teaspoons each;
• cinnamon - one teaspoon;
• zest of half an orange;
• a pinch of salt and cloves.

Preparation: add a banana and the remaining ingredients to the butter, whipped with sand.

1. It is better to knead the dough by hand.
2. Break it into small pieces and flatten them directly on a baking sheet.
3. Bake for 10 minutes.
4. As a decoration – powdered sugar melted in white chocolate.

How to prepare a treat without using a mold?

Usually, when baking ginger cookies, housewives use special molds. As a rule, they are all like Christmas decorations: angels, New Year's boots, bells, Christmas trees and others. But if there are none in the house, there is no need to worry.

Make them yourself - it's easy. The figures can be found on our portal. Choose the ones you like, print them out (try to stick to certain sizes), and cut them out of thick cardboard. All is ready.

Believe me, you won’t find such variety in the store. But you can easily surprise your family and guests with unusual pastries.

For the peoples of the world, ginger cookies have long become a symbol of New Year and Christmas festivities. Among the traditional, purely New Year's dishes, the Olivier salad and the herring "Under a Fur Coat", it confidently took its place on the Russian holiday table and also claims to be considered traditional. In addition, it fights excess weight. Why don't you support this wonderful tradition?

There is no need to strictly adhere to the requirements of the above recipes. Put something of your own into it. Gather the whole family to decorate these cookies. Please your family. A lot of great emotions are guaranteed. And for a few more days, the delicious smells of ginger, cinnamon and honey will spread throughout the house, giving the household a festive mood.