Gingerbread house

When December arrives and the first snowball falls, a truly magical time comes. After all, soon Christmas, and then the New Year - the very time to add a little fairy tale to everyday life. You don't know how to do it - but very simple: cook a gingerbread house. Showing a little fantasy and decorating the gingerbread house to your taste, your mood will definitely improve - this activity, similar to an exciting game, really likes children. A great way to spend time as a family is to make a gingerbread house and decorate it with sweets.

If you are not friends with the stove or simply do not like to cook, and the gingerbread house so wants not only to look, touch, but also to taste, specialized confectionery stores will come to your aid. There is simply a huge range of ready-made gingerbread houses and similar products to order. True, the cost of such a treat is quite high, but it is definitely worth it!

In general, a gingerbread house is called a confection, which is made on the basis of a special gingerbread dough. Such dough includes a mixture of rye flour and natural honey, egg yolks and milk. Flavoring additives are often used - as a rule, these are crushed spices rich in essential oils: cinnamon, cardamom, cloves, badyan, allspice, nutmeg, lemon anise zest, vanilla and ginger. It is worth noting that the desired components of gingerbread house dough are white and black pastry molasses or burnt sugar.

The gingerbread house consists of several pre-baked cakes (roof and four walls). Produced raw cakes are lubricated with egg, baked and cooled, after which a gingerbread house is assembled from these parts, which are fastened together with toothpicks or matches. Outside, the joints between gingerbread cakes are covered with chocolate or sugar glaze.

Often, the gingerbread house is decorated with a variety of decorative elements, as which figures of animals, flowers, trees, hearts and much more can be used. In addition, a special painting made of cream can decorate a gingerbread house. By the way, most of the elements of the gingerbread house (including jewelry) are made from gingerbread dough and covered with glaze in all kinds of shades.

It is noteworthy that there are many varieties of gingerbread houses, and these can be both ordinary small and entire palaces or even mansions. Using gingerbread dough, reduced copies of world-famous structures are often made: for example, the Empire State Building in New York and Big Ben in London.