Painting easter gingerbread with colored glaze

12 servings
2 hours

We make topers or just carrots for Easter cakes. My dough is ready. You can take your favorite recipe. I have my own recipe, a link to it at the bottom. So, we take the dough out of the refrigerator. Let him lie on the table for half an hour. Because we have it solid first.

Let's prepare molds for gingerbread cutting. I had those.

We cut off a piece of dough. We warm it up in our hands. And we roll out 6 mm thick. My rolling pin is already set at a height of 6 mm.

We squeeze out our figures with molds.

We remove the excess dough.

You can leave it like that on the mat. In general, it is recommended to do so. That is, roll out a large layer of dough and squeeze out all the figures at once. But you have to keep the distance between them.

It is undesirable to transfer gingerbread. But this is not the first time I have done it, I have got enough. And that's what they're going to look like. Our oven is heated to 200 degrees. We put gingerbread to bake. It takes me exactly 10 minutes.

This is how they turn out. If they are overexposed, then the gingerbread will be dry, if not finished - raw. So try to find the middle. Maybe 8 minutes is enough for you. Maybe it will take 15. Always focus on your oven, they are different for everyone.

I immediately pinch them with a slightly veneer. So that they are even. But you can not do that. You can paint them on the other side, where they are even.

Immediately, when they are still hot, we take toothpicks or wooden skewers and screw them neatly into carrots. And so we leave them to cool down further. Some stick toothpicks right in front of the oven. You can do so.

For glaze, weigh proteins and powdered sugar. If you need some glaze, how to calculate? We take, for example, 1 protein, weigh it and multiply this figure by 5. 5. The resulting number is the weight of your icing sugar. My dough always lies in the refrigerator, wrapped in cellophane. If I need a carrot for cake, then I cut off a piece and bake. And then I make glaze, sometimes even with half the protein.

Sieve powdered sugar into proteins. And we stir everything with a shoulder blade.

Next, beat with a mixer at medium speed for 5 minutes. You do not need to beat strongly. In the middle of the process, add our lemon juice. This is for the whiteness of the glaze, well, for taste. Someone doesn't add. This is how the glaze will look.

Now cover our mixer bowl with a damp towel. Let's leave it that way for half an hour. We need this to get extra air bubbles out. We do it without fail!

While our glaze is resting, we will prepare what we need next. These are small cups, teaspoons, disposable bags, very cold water, a needle or toothpick.

Now we stain our glaze. I have gel dyes. We put a little glaze in the cup. First, add a drop of dye or dip a toothpick into the dye. That is sometimes enough. Let's stir it. Then we add water dropwise. Here you need to see what you will do.

To pour gingerbread, we need such a consistency that if we spoon on the glaze, there will be such a groove. Now we count how much it will part. Slightly shake the cup or knock. To fill, we need to count to 5. If the glaze has spread, then there is enough water. For a more rigid circuit, we count up to 10. Of course, the video is much clearer, but I will try to explain in words.

Thus, we will prepare different colors. Note that all this time, the glaze in the cup is covered with a damp towel. Because she dries quickly.

I do the contour first. To do this, take nozzle 0. Everything that we have next, in white, the outline is also white.

Now the main stage. Fill. We do it in a circle. We help with a needle around the edges.

Now we make a tap or shock from side to side. The glaze will disperse. If somewhere there is not enough glaze, then add a drop. And I immediately make a drawing in a different color. Also, when you work with bags of glaze, each time you have to cover them with a damp towel. So that they do not dry out.

To keep the glaze smooth and dry quickly, put the sheet in the oven for 10 minutes at 50 degrees. With the door open, you can with a fan.

And these are the carrots. Well, for all your fantasy.

Let our topsters dry completely. I leave them on the table for 8 hours at least. Then you need to remove it into bags or some kind of container with a lid. I made these painted gingerbread cakes for Easter.

Have a good Easter! Take care of yourself!