Gingerbread with ginger and cinnamon: we bake with our children. Step-by-step recipe with photos.

Gingerbread with ginger and cinnamon: baking with children

There are a great variety of gingerbreads! And roe deer, and Tula gingerbread, and grouse, different in production methods - molded, printed, and carved. You and I have already made a variety of homemade gingerbread cookies and know their recipes:

- elegant patterned Arkhangelsk roe deer (my detailed master class on this family tradition of ours is given in the article),

And today we have - a new recipe for family culinary creativity with children - gingerbread cookies with ginger and cinnamon. It was sent to us by Ksenia Kumirova and her daughter Dunyasha for a competition for readers of the site “Growing with the Native Path”. This cut-out gingerbread cookies, because they are cut out of a layer of dough using stencils and molds.

Such gingerbread cookies can be made not only for a festive family treat, but also as a gift for the New Year, Christmas, birthday, or used as edible Christmas tree decorations.

I give the floor to Ksenia to conduct a master class on making such homemade gingerbread cookies with children. The master class turned out to be very fun and festive, because not only adults, but also kids took part in it! Let's learn from Dunyasha and Leva how to bake such gingerbread cookies!

"Hello! My name is Ksenia. I work as a teacher at a university. So I have quite a lot of teaching experience – more than 13 years. But when my long-awaited beloved daughter Dunyasha was born, I realized that my ideas about working with babies were very vague. Therefore, the site “Native Path” has become my good assistant. I’ve been friends with the site for a long time, but I’ve never taken part in competitions.

So my daughter Dunya (3 years 4 months) and I decided to try our hand at this on the eve of a wonderful holiday. And to make it more fun, they also invited their godson Leva (5 years old) and his mother Olesya. We are creative people, so we decided to bake gingerbread cookies with ginger and cinnamon for the New Year!

Gingerbread recipe with ginger and cinnamon

We took as a basis a recipe that has already become traditional in our family.

Ingredients

• - sugar - 100 gr.,
• - honey - 170 gr.,
• - ground ginger - 2 teaspoons,
• - ground cinnamon - 1.5 teaspoons,
• — initially the recipe also included ground allspice and ground cloves, 1.5 tablespoons each, but we don’t add them,
• - soda - 1.5 teaspoons,
• - butter - 130 gr.,
• – egg – 1 pc.,
• - flour - 550 gr.

Sequence of gingerbread making

Step 1. Mix sugar, honey and all selected spices in a saucepan.

Step 2. Bring to a boil, add soda and immediately remove from heat. Mix everything well. After adding the soda, the mixture should foam very much.

Step 3. Add softened butter and stir. Stirring vigorously, add the egg. The mixture must be constantly stirred with a spoon quite vigorously.

Step 4. Now add flour. Knead the dough for our gingerbread cookies with ginger and cinnamon.

Step 5. Place in cling film and place in the refrigerator for a day.

Step 6. About an hour before starting further work, you need to remove the dough from the refrigerator.

Step 7. Roll out the dough to approximately 5 mm thickness. Cut out the gingerbread cookies. Place them on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 10-15 minutes.

This is how we baked gingerbread cookies :).

Step 8. We waited for our gingerbread preparations to cool completely. And we started the fun part - coloring them in a friendly company! The glaze was the most ordinary - egg white + powdered sugar. The adults prepared the icing, but we all painted together! Small candies were also used as decoration.

Well, this is the result of joint creativity between adults and children - ready-made gingerbread cookies with ginger and cinnamon.

In addition to the usual gingerbread cookies and gingerbread cookies on a stick, we made a couple more gingerbread cookies - mittens, which we plan to hang on the Christmas tree!

It was a wonderful evening! It was decided to carry out similar gingerbread creativity with children every year and a wider circle!

We will be very glad if your family begins the tradition of baking gingerbread cookies with your children! This is a real winter fairy tale!

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Sweets - this word causes a surge of energy in many people, a good mood and abundant salivation, since everyone loves them. Previously, people could only call fruits sweets, but since the twentieth century, many different types of sweet treats have appeared for children and adults. Today on store shelves you can see various cookies, candies, cakes, lollipops and other sweet delicacies. Many people with a sweet tooth also love gingerbread cookies with various fillings. Gingerbread is a great idea to treat your child to something tasty and healthy.

New Year's gingerbread

Gingerbread cookies are an excellent treat for tea, and if you add something unusual to their recipe, a simple treat will turn into an incredible dessert. Most often, gingerbread is prepared for the New Year, because this recipe came to us from America, and there they love gingerbread, ginger tea, New Year's dishes with cinnamon and other spices.

When thousands of snowflakes fly in the sky, and a meter-long snowdrift lies under your feet, you just want to bury yourself under a warm blanket, grab a cup of hot tea, coffee or cocoa, stock up on gingerbread with cheerful icing and read your favorite book.

Any housewife can easily prepare such gingerbread cookies at home.

A little history

The tradition of baking gingerbread appeared in the Middle Ages, when fairs were popular, during which anyone could buy what they liked for a small price or exchange it for something. At the fairs, real works of art were served in the form of gingerbread cookies with icing and various decorations. If there were no decorations on the gingerbread cookies, then they could be sold for almost nothing, but if there were more decorations, the price rose to the skies. Instead of gifts, many preferred sweets in the form of gingerbread, various figures made from them with powdered sugar on top.

Gingerbread for children with honey: recipe

To prepare classic gingerbread cookies with ginger and honey, you need a large set of ingredients: one glass of sugar, two hundred and fifty grams of honey, one chicken egg, 0.5 kg of flour, two hundred grams of butter, one teaspoon of baking powder, two tablespoons of grated ginger, and vanillin, two teaspoons of citrus zest, three tablespoons of cognac, a little cinnamon, cloves, anise and other spices to taste.

First you need to dissolve honey, sugar and butter in a water bath, but do not boil under any circumstances, and then let the mixture cool. Then you need to add one egg to the mixture. Mix all the cognac and ginger well and leave for a while. Now the flour and all dry ingredients need to be mixed well and added to the honey mass.

The dough must be kneaded very well so that there are no lumps, wrapped in cling film and left for four or five hours.

Next, you need to preheat the oven to one hundred and eighty degrees, and at this time cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and work on the gingerbread cookies themselves. You need to roll out the dough five millimeters thick so that the layer is even, and then cut out the shapes you want. Place the gingerbread cookies in the oven for no more than ten minutes, then keep them in the oven for a couple more minutes.

How to decorate gingerbread for children

Decorating gingerbread cookies is no less exciting a process than baking itself. For the glaze on top you need to take one egg white and 0.5 cups of sugar. Beat the egg whites and add sugar until a white mass of homogeneous consistency is formed. If you want variety, you can paint the icing in bright colors, add beads and various food decorations. Children will be interested in making gingerbread cookies in the shape of smiley faces and coloring them appropriately, making dessert in the shape of their favorite cartoon characters, or simply making beautiful and bright figures. Colorful and cute gingerbread cookies are always pleasant and tasty to eat with the whole family, and cooking together is especially fun and healthy.

The recipe for gingerbread cookies with ginger and cinnamon is very simple, but you will need to spend a lot of time preparing them, but the result is definitely worth it. During cooking, you can experiment and add your own ingredients, for example, make gingerbread with citrus zest, special spices, simple ones with jam or chocolate filling. You can please your child and his guests at a holiday with this dessert, or simply prepare it for your family. Bon appetit to you and your kids!

Video on the topic of the article

I never pass by if at some holiday there is an area for a master class on gingerbread painting. The interest, I must admit, is not only professional. Of course, I carefully examine how everything is organized, communicate with the presenter, test the icing, smell the gingerbread, and watch the children work. But! How can you pass by this beauty and deliciousness if the smell of gingerbread is calling you from afar. No way!

Educational or entertaining master class

I have repeatedly written about what the difference is, but customers do not always understand which master class is more suitable for their event, and your task is to quickly and clearly explain the difference.

Here I made a convenient sign:

Entertaining master class

When appropriate: It is carried out at crowded events, city holidays, and festivals. It lasts 7-12 minutes, during which time children paint one gingerbread the way they want. Complete freedom and flight of fancy. They are simply shown how to make an outline and how to sprinkle the gingerbread with ready-made multi-colored sprinkles, and they are helped to pack a sweet souvenir. More often than not, children immediately lick the icing and eat the gingerbread - while you draw, your mouth is watering...

Training master class

When appropriate: Most often, such a master class is ordered for small holidays. For example, if no more than 10 guests are invited to a child’s birthday party. In this case, you can spend 50-60 minutes painting gingerbread and create several fragrant masterpieces. Children fantasize less and carefully repeat every step after the leader. The result is beautiful work that children are happy to show to their parents.

How it goes: A table with 5-10 workstations is placed, headed by a leader. On the table are beautiful plates with gingerbread cookies, icing in bags, sprinkles, disposable gloves, packaging. Children (or children with parents) come up and paint gingerbread cookies, listening to the host’s advice, take the craft and make room for other guests. About 30 people pass through in an hour. An animator works on an hourly basis.

How it goes: All children sit down at the table at the same time, watch examples of finished work, listen to the presenter’s explanation, practice applying contour and filling glaze, come up with an idea and draw a sketch on paper. In an hour, children can paint 3-4 gingerbread cookies using different techniques. For the master class you need to prepare disposable tableware, wet wipes, wooden sticks, and gloves. It is necessary to allocate a separate table for drying the finished gingerbread.

At what holidays are gingerbread cookies painted?

Now on any. The most beautiful, of course, are New Year's ones, in my opinion. Christmas trees, snowmen, Christmas tree toys, stars and houses.

For Valentine's Day, adults even enjoy painting hearts. On the eighth of March - nesting dolls and flowers. For Easter master classes, people order gingerbread cookies in the shape of hares and eggs. At graduation in kindergarten and elementary school, you can paint whole gingerbread pictures with the sun, grass and flowers.

On the first of September we paint ginger bells with icing, and at the autumn festival we paint leaves.

Many different themes are suitable for a birthday - gingerbread men, animal figurines, trains, cars, etc.

What should a presenter look like?

Sometimes customers themselves order the image in which the animator should appear, but not everyone has the imagination to come up with something interesting. It makes sense to offer several options to choose from and purchase the necessary costumes in advance.

Here are some examples:

A baker in an apron and cap (especially popular with children over 10 years old, since it seems to them that this is not a “clown”, but a real cook) will look good at any event (birthdays, graduations, September 1)
Snow Maiden, Grandma Blizzard, white hare, Snowflake - on New Year's holidays
Angel (preferably small wings so as not to hurt the participants of the master class) for Valentine's Day
Fairy and Princess for girls birthday
Pirate and Superhero - for boys

Important point! Costume details should not have falling glitter. It is better to immediately roll up the sleeves or choose clothes without lush frills around the hands, as all this will interfere during the master class.

What should be on the table

• Tablecloth. Most often they use disposable ones, but I would advise ordering tablecloths with logos, phone numbers, and the name of the animator. Why? It’s simple: the table with the children’s work will be photographed, and your advertisement will appear on social networks at no additional cost. And more! These photographs will not be used for self-promotion by other animators. Why should they show their competitor's contact information?

• Beautiful trays with prepared gingerbread cookies. Let it be high-quality plastic or wooden utensils, and not terrible disposable plates.

• Prepared pastry bags with colorful icing(7-10 colors), and at the same time 2-3 bags of the same color, because children do not like to wait, and everyone may need white icing at the same time!

• Plates with food confetti(sweet sprinkles of various shapes: stars, balls, sticks, sparkles, pearls, hearts, etc.), caramel crumbs and marmalade details.

• Disposable gloves. Take the smallest and thinnest ones (size S).

• Toothpicks and wooden skewers. With their help you can make drawings on liquid glaze.

• Ready-made gingerbread cookies for example. Children definitely need to be shown simple and beautiful gingerbread cookies so that they understand what to strive for.

• Packaging for finished works or beautiful disposable plates on which children can pick up their gingerbread to dry.

Where to get gingerbread cookies and icing

For holding master classes, ready-made blanks have long been offered (they are also called blanks or gingerbread for master classes). Look for suppliers in your city who offer similar products. The glaze is also sold ready-made in bags. You need to buy both sprinkles and packaging. All this is quite expensive, so you need to think carefully about the cost of the master class.

If you have the time and desire, you can make the gingerbread cookies and icing yourself. Nothing complicated, and your offer for customers will be much more attractive than the offer of your competitors.

Sample script for a master class on painting gingerbread cookies

1. Meet the baker. You can come up with a special culinary nickname for each child.
2. Why are gingerbread cookies called gingerbread? There are a lot of spices! There is also honey in gingerbread cookies, so they are stored for a long time and do not lose their taste. You can make many, many gifts in advance for your loved ones and friends. Gingerbread cookies are especially tasty and crunchy. The dough does not puff up much during baking, so you can make beautiful figures with small details. The traditional shape is a gingerbread man. He loves when people draw bright buttons for him.
3. A story about what is on the table and how to use it.
4. Let's try to make an outline and fill. At the first stage, you need simple and identical figures. Let it be just round gingerbread cookies, hearts or squares. We make sure that the step-by-step master class is accurately followed by the presenter, we help, encourage, and give advice.
5. While the children are drawing, you can tell Charles Perot's fairy tale "The Gingerbread House." Everything ends well, but the fairy tale itself is quite scary. We suggest coming up with your own “fairy tale in a circle”, when each child says one phrase to continue the fairy tale. The animator must help formulate the idea and insert his own ideas for developing the plot, so that the result is a truly interesting and kind fairy tale, in which the witch is not a witch at all, but just a lonely old woman who had no one to pass on the recipe for gingerbread.
6. The second gingerbread is complete freedom for creativity. Children themselves choose a figurine to paint and paint it according to the model or come up with their own drawing. At this stage, you can turn on the music.
7. Together with the children we look at the finished works and find something unusual and attractive in each gingerbread. Leave to dry and pack.
8. Rewarding. This is not always necessary, but children like to receive a gingerbread medal or a certificate confirming that Malinovskaya Masha completed the master class “Confectioner on festive gingerbread decoration.” Well, it's nice...

I wish everyone bright programs and satisfied customers! I'm always happy to hear additions in the comments.

I can’t say that I love gingerbread very much, but the sight of pictures with gingerbread houses has always fascinated me. I immediately remembered the fairy tale “The Gingerbread House,” which once seemed magical and creepy to me. How cool it would be to find a house made of real gingerbread in the forest and try to bite off a piece of it!

The dream of someday making a real gingerbread house loomed somewhere on the horizon. Three circumstances actively pushed me towards its implementation - the pre-New Year mood, the presence of a recipe with recommendations from a pedantic friend and the desire of my eldest son Slava, seven years old. He once saw that I was looking at houses on the Internet, and immediately got the idea to make them. I frivolously promised that we would do it, and he did not forget about it until the very implementation, regularly reminding me about the houses. However, I immediately puzzled him by compiling a list of necessary products.

Purchase of products and tools

Taking Slavin’s list, I went to Auchan. I quickly found parchment-type paper - it was needed for making a cornet instead of a syringe. I went to look for molds, since in addition to the house, the plans included just gingerbread cookies. At first I thought of simply cutting out the figures with a knife, but remembering how we cut out the baskets for the fair, I finally decided that molds were needed - the baskets came out crooked. There wasn't much choice: hearts, stars and gingerbread people from Shrek. I took everything, on the hearts, however, it was written that this was a form for salad, but this did not bother me. Next - spices and decorations. This is where I got stuck. And not at all because of the abundance of choice, no, on the contrary, the shelves were unusually empty. It's the season to buy everything for baking, or what?? There was no cinnamon and powdered sugar separately, only together. Realizing that I can’t separate them, I still take the bag to clear my conscience (well, it’s useful for buns, but definitely not for gingerbread). There’s a problem with the decorations in general, there’s not even regular coconut crumbs, there’s only some kind of stunted colored one. I look at it for a long time, trying to imagine it on the product. The picture drawn by imagination is absolutely not impressive. I decide that what the hell. I go further - into spices. And I hang there again, even more. In the end, I decide to take mint, based on the fact that I buy mint gingerbreads; I didn’t find anything else on the topic. What I was going to do with this mint at that moment is still a mystery to me. I also take chocolate for decorations and gluing and marmalade for windows, although I’m not at all sure that these ingredients will be useful to us at all.

First try

In the evening I pick up Slava from school, his first question is: “Mom, have you bought everything for gingerbread?” "Yes!" - I answer cheerfully and only then realize that I didn’t remember at all about honey and butter. The situation with honey is clear - literally last week I was offered their own honey from an apiary in two places, but it hasn’t worked out yet to buy it. I didn’t even look at Auchan, and in fact, I didn’t even remember about it, because... There was a mark in my brain: “the honey will be bought elsewhere.” We can only hope that by the time the dough is kneaded, we will find honey, but for now I will try to delay this moment. But, having arrived home, Slava did not forget about the gingerbread cookies, but wanted to immediately see all the products that I bought for them. Of course, I didn’t demonstrate the products, but showed the molds with the words that until all the homework was done, no gingerbread. And Slava cheerfully went to do his homework, which, of course, took him the whole evening, and in the morning there is still some left, fortunately he studies on the second shift.

The next morning, Slava very cheerfully finished his homework, there was really still enough time left, he was in a decisive mood, and I realized that there was nowhere to retreat, we would make the dough from what we had. Armed with a recipe from the Internet - “gingerbread without honey”, combining it with the recipe that a friend gave, in some intuitive way, I came up with a sequence that seemed simple and logical to me. By the way, I had butter at home, thank God. However, no matter what I cook, I almost never follow the recipe strictly; I always make my own changes, and sometimes significant ones. The dough was made quickly; of course, there was no question of waiting a month (this was exactly what my friend recommended) and then making gingerbread cookies (I was absolutely ready for this). The maximum that Slava was willing to wait was 10 minutes. After that, we began to cut out parts of the house according to a paper template, there were no difficulties. We cut out two houses, baked them and went to school. The remaining dough was put in the refrigerator to wait for better times.

Take two

Better times were not long in coming. In the evening, a cheerful trio of children (Slava was joined by Seva, five years old, and Iskra, two and a half years old) wanted to make hearts, stars and little people. Slava insisted that these would be decorations for the Christmas tree, and Seva hoped that the gingerbread cookies would be for food. The thought of decorations could not even enter Iskra’s head; she knew that she would have to eat everything immediately. I remember that Olya advised sticking matches to make holes for ribbons, I decided to take toothpicks broken in half. Seva really liked the idea, especially for the little men - he stuck toothpicks in their hands, and was glad that they were two swords. We cut quite a lot of figures, and cut more diamonds from small pieces. I turned on the stove and sent the children to bed. But the particularly persistent Seva waited until everything was baked and finally stole one diamond, and of course ate it, assuring that this diamond was for food, and not for the Christmas tree. Only after that did he go to bed, agreeing to continue the gingerbread entertainment tomorrow.

Decorate, collect, play

In the morning Seva was the first to get up, he remembered very well that yesterday we baked gingerbread, and the first thing he did was steal another diamond to eat. Fame caught up with him while doing this and he became worried that he needed to decorate quickly before everything was eaten.

Slava whipped the protein without my help (hurray!). Then we were puzzled by creating a cornet from paper, I don’t know what deep meaning there is in this, in our case, probably none. I looked at the syringes in the store, but didn’t buy them. They decided to glue the cornet with paste so that it would not come apart.

The children allowed me to paint only for the first minute; I decided to make eyes for the little man, but I only got one big eye for half his head, and the children joyfully shouted that this was One-Eyed Kuntkh. Then Slava took the tool, and I almost didn’t participate in further drawing.

Then we decided to try to glue one house together. Parts of it, as it turned out, turned out to be quite heavy, so after suffering, we secured them with toothpicks. Then Slava painted it. After looking at all this for a long time, Seva and Iskra’s patience was no longer enough; they ate almost everything. Only the little men remained. Family - Mom, Dad, Slava, Seva and Iskra - and a house. They played with them for about an hour, and then Slava said: “The house needs to be eaten, it’s falling apart.” I agreed, and the children chewed the house very joyfully, and Iskra, unable to resist, took a bite from her little man. Slava was outraged by this, but he couldn’t keep track of it, and soon Iskra ate both himself and me. Only one person survived until the next morning, it seems it was Seva. I didn’t see who ate it today.

Today the children are making a new batch of gingerbread. In short, gingerbread is great fun for children!

Original gingerbread recipe

Ingredients:

1. Sugar 100 grams
2. Honey 170 grams
3. Ground ginger 2 teaspoons
4. Ground allspice 1.5 teaspoons
5. Ground cinnamon 1.5 teaspoons
6. Grinding cloves 1.5 teaspoons
7. Soda 2 teaspoons
8. Butter 130 grams
9. Egg 1 piece
10. Flour 550 grams
11. Powdered sugar 150 grams
12. Protein 1 piece (this is together with glaze)

Preparation:

Step 1: Mix sugar, honey and all spices in a saucepan.
Step 2: Bring to a boil, remove from heat. Add soda and stir well. The mixture should foam strongly.
Step 3: Add softened butter, egg and flour and knead the dough.
Step 4: The dough turns out fragrant, warm and releases well from your hands and pan. Sprinkle the table with flour and roll out the dough into a layer 4-5 mm thick. Use cookie cutters to cut out cookies.
Step 5: Stick in matches for the thread. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper and lay out the cookies. Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes. The cookies will rise and smell delicious.
Step 6 (glaze): Beat one chilled egg white until thick foam and add 150 grams of powdered sugar, beat (stir) longer until elastic (5-6 minutes).