If you have the opportunity to work all day in the kitchen, do not be too lazy to make a gingerbread house with your own hands! This is an ideal decoration for the New Year holiday and a great joy for little kids, who, by the way, can be safely connected to the process.

Making a gingerbread house is a creative and exciting task! Having gathered with the whole family, you can develop a design, come up with an interesting design, and just have fun. So, let's get down to the process and prepare a gingerbread house, following a step-by-step recipe with a photo!

Ingredients:

For test:

• butter - 120 g;
• honey - 200 g;
• ground ginger - 4 teaspoons;
• cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
• sugar - 100 g;
• baking soda - a small pinch;
• flour - about 300 g (how much dough will take).

For caramel (gluing):

• sugar - 100 g;
• water - 40 ml.

For glaze:

• lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• egg white- 1 PC.;
• powdered sugar - about 150-200 g.

For decor:

• colored caramel - 2-3 sweets;
• chocolate pads - about 100 g;
• any confectionery toppings - optional.

New Year's gingerbread house recipe with photo step by step

1. First of all, you need to cut blanks for a gingerbread house from cardboard. You can find ready-made templates on the Internet or come up with a model yourself. In our example, we made blanks of the following sizes:
   • side walls - 2 pcs. (107x120 mm);
   • roof - 2 pcs. (90x140 mm);
   • facade - 2 pcs. (105x160 mm, while the wall height is 107 mm);
   • the base of the house - 1 pc. (150x210 mm).
2. Also do not forget to cut windows and a door on the facade and side walls. If you want to make a large house, you need to prepare 1.5-2 times more dough than indicated in the recipe.
   
3. When the templates are prepared, we begin to knead the test. Mix softened butter with sugar and beat with a mixer until soft and fluffy. We introduce liquid honey and beat again.
   
4. In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients: ginger, cinnamon, cocoa powder, baking soda and 100 g of sifted flour.
   
5. Pour the dry mass into the oil in portions, stirring. Gradually add flour, knead the dough.
   
6. The dosage of flour is adjustable during kneading: it may require a little more or less than indicated in the recipe. The dough should turn out not sticky to the hands, soft and slightly crumbling. We roll it into a ball and send it to the refrigerator shelf for 20-30 minutes - after cooling, the dough will become more elastic.
   
   
7. We roll out a thin layer on parchment paper, cut out parts of the future house according to the templates. We make sure that the thickness of the layer does not exceed 3 mm! If you make the layer thicker, the dough may remain loose inside, and the blanks will not be strong enough. In addition, the finished house can simply collapse under its own weight.
   
8. Carefully transfer the parchment with the details to a baking sheet. We decorate the windows of the house with caramel. To do this, grind it into small crumbs, for example, by placing it in plastic bag and tapping with a hammer for chops. We spread the caramel crumbs in the "windows". When exposed to temperature, the caramel will quickly melt, and the windows will become colored, as if a light had been turned on in the house.
   
9. We bake the components of the house for about 8-10 minutes at 180 degrees - do not overdo it! Freshly baked blanks will be soft at first, but then harden very quickly.
   
10. We collect dough scraps and bake cookies using molds in the form of Christmas trees, deer, men, etc. By the way, ready-made cookies can also be used in the design of the house.
    
11. When all the component parts are completely ready, we proceed to the "assembly" of the gingerbread house.
    
    
12. We will glue the parts of the house with caramel. To prepare it, pour sugar into a refractory dish with a thick bottom and add drinking water. Stirring, bring to a boil over medium heat.
    
13. Continuing to stir, cook the sweet mixture until golden brown. To check readiness, take a small amount of syrup and lower it into a container of cold water. If a hard caramel forms after a couple of seconds, the syrup is ready!
    
14. Now we proceed to the most important stage. Carefully, so as not to burn yourself, we dip the parts of the house upside down in hot caramel and quickly fasten them together. First, we glue the side wall and the facade, attach it to the base.
    
15. Then we attach the second side and the back wall of the house. You need to work quickly, as the caramel hardens very quickly. At this stage, it is better to get an assistant, since it will be difficult to fasten the house alone. So that the still unused caramel in the dishes does not freeze, it is better to cover it with a lid and periodically warm it up over minimal heat.
    
16. The last thing we do is fix the roof. We leave the formed house for about an hour.
    

    How to make icing for a gingerbread house

17. Mix chilled raw protein with lemon juice. Beat until a white foam is obtained.
    
18. Pour the sweet powder in portions, without ceasing to work with a mixer. As a result, the proteins need to be whipped into a steep mass, otherwise the icing on the house will not harden. If necessary, increase the dosage of the powder.
    
    
19. Transfer the icing to a plastic bag and cut off the tip. We carefully process the gluing points to hide traces of caramel. We apply glaze to the roof, and then we attach chocolate pads to imitate tiles. Optionally, we supplement the house with any confectionery toppings. You can also form "icicles" with glaze. If the consistency of the glaze is right, they will hold their shape well and harden quickly.
    

Congratulations! You made your own gingerbread house! Unfortunately, gingerbread dough quickly becomes stale and hard. Therefore, if you want to have a tea party, it is better to do it immediately after cooking, or just leave the house as a decoration. We wish you pleasant and happy Holidays!

Traditional crafts for New Year give us a great opportunity to show our imagination, expand the boundaries of fantasy and, of course, use all those cute and cute things that have accumulated in needlework boxes for their intended purpose.

A great New Year's option is a small gingerbread one. Any unlucky master will surely cope with its construction.

So, before we make a gingerbread house, we cut out separate blocks from cardboard - blanks for the roof, floor and walls. We make two walls pentagonal, two - rectangular. The roof is made in the form of a long rectangle folded in half. You can pre-cut the windows and the door. We use not the usual, but corrugated cardboard. It can be easily replaced by boxes disassembled into separate layers, for example, pizza boxes.

We assemble a solid structure from cardboard blocks, fix it with clerical glue or PVA. The main part of the work is done, you can proceed to decorating.

We take out our cherished box with the remains of braid, bows, ribbons, decorative sprinkles, buttons and other elegant little things. Be sure to look for scraps of synthetic winterizer, batting or pieces of white cotton wool - we will need them.

With a brush, apply a layer of glue to the cardboard roof.

From above we lay a synthetic winterizer or any similar material that at that moment was at your fingertips. The house is covered in snow!

It remains only to decorate the rest of the house with various decorative sprinkles. You can use pieces of small serpentine, confetti, paper figures made with a figured hole punch. All this will look appropriate and very festive. Do not forget to stick a small door and windows, because the gingerbread house also has its own fabulous inhabitants.

Ready! The house can be hung as Christmas toys or use like

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GINGERBREAD HOUSE. Part 1 - all the secrets of mastery.

Hello dear hostesses. Today we will bake a gingerbread house. From the very beginning to the victorious end. The article is big. But this is because I told all the secrets and nuances. I laid straws wherever a novice cook could fall.

I set myself a goal warn you against all possible mistakes in advance so that you get a wonderful gingerbread house the first time.

You will know all the tricks and all the tricks. I will offer you a choice several ways to glue a gingerbread house and you will choose the one that seems most convenient for you.

And if you still have any questions, then ask them in the comments to this article.

I'll give you time right away., so that you know , how many hours will the whole process of making a gingerbread house take.

1. Dough kneading 20 min + time to keep it in the fridge for 1 hour
2. house drawing on cardboard 20 minutes (can also be done ahead of time)
3. Rolling out dough and cutting details gingerbread house 10 min
4. Baking 15 minutes
5. Preparation of glaze for gluing and decorating(while the house is baking the same 15 minutes)
6. decoration details cream and cooking tinsel 10-30 min (depends on you)
7. Building a gingerbread house(20-30 min), with assistants faster (or slower).
8. Drying the house(10 min if my way)
9. Roof installation(20-40 minutes, if you also use toothpicks, you will quickly fix it)
10. Decorating a gingerbread house sweets, cream, laying edible tiles on the house (from 30 minutes to infinity, because there is no limit to perfection).

The minimum is 3 hours. without breaks for rest and on the condition that the dough has already lain in the refrigerator for the time allotted to it.

Many hostesses make a gingerbread house not in one day, but in stages:

• 1 day - dough and baking walls for gingerbread house
• 2 day - gingerbread house glue
• Day 3 - decoration, decorating a gingerbread house

If you want the process to be a little faster, you can make a simplified version of the gingerbread house in the form of a gingerbread hut.

Or make a house from ready-made purchased cakes (by the way, there are cakes specifically for gingerbread houses with windows already cut out), or from chocolate bars, or from large biscuits(photo below).

Step 1. Cooking the dough

200 g butter(mash with a fork or chop with a knife)

5 spoons of liquid honey(if honey is candied, heat in a water bath, or on very low heat, stirring constantly)

200 g sugar

1 sachet of baking powder

4 egg yolks(!!! before separating the yolks from the whites, read the instructions below)

4 cups flour(this is approximate, depending on the size of the eggs)

Salt and Spices to choose from, 1 tsp each.: ground ginger, cinnamon, zest of 1 lemon, cardamom, anise

ATTENTION!!! Instructions for the correct separation of proteins from yolks

We will need the proteins from these eggs for gluing and decorating the house. We will beat them with powdered sugar. In order for the protein cream to turn out as it should, follow the following rules:

1. We break the eggs with clean and DRY hands, and the proteins should also flop into the DRY dishes. One drop of water - and everything is in the dark.

2. Not a single particle of the yolk should get into the whites - otherwise the cream will not foam (separate the protein from each egg over a separate dry bowl and, if it is separated without an admixture of yolk, pour from the bowl into a bowl with other proteins).

3. Since we will beat the cream later, when we put the walls of the house to bake, put the dishes with proteins much higher so as not to accidentally splash water into it.

So, from the above ingredients, knead the dough, wrap it in a film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour or two. Let it lie there, and we go to cut out the template of our future house from paper.

Step 2. Cut out the template from cardboard

If you are not confident in your own architectural or culinary skills, then you can make a simplified design of a gingerbread house - a kind of gingerbread hut (see photo above). As you can see in the photo, such a gingerbread house has no side walls, only triangular facades and a roof. A very convenient option for those who prefer a simpler design.

You choose the dimensions of the gingerbread house yourself - for the above amount of test the height of the facade of your house should be equal in size to your palm. The main thing is that the parts fit together in size with each other. How this will be achieved, I depicted in the diagram below using the example of a drawing of a simple gingerbread house.

As you can see, the parts match in size as follows:

The side wall must be the same height as the side of the front (value b)

And the slope of the roof is the same length as the side (value b) and the same height as the upper line of the slope at the front part (value a), the height of the slope can be made larger so that the roof hangs in the form of a canopy.

Step 3. Roll out the dough and cut out the details

chilled dough lay out on parchment or paper and roll out with a rolling pin. Be sure to lay the parchment, it is needed in order to transfer our cut-out details of the house to the baking sheet on it. If you carry parts in your hands, they can stretch, deform, and then, when assembling the house, they will not match each other in size.

The thickness of the dough layer should be at least 0.5 cm.

The figure below shows one trick to roll out the dough to an even thickness. On the sides of the dough, before rolling out, we put 2 slats with a height of 0.5 cm we need and roll out the dough, rolling our rolling pin along these slats (a foam profile from a hardware store is ideal as a slat, a 2-meter profile costs half a dollar).

For rolled out dough put a cardboard template and cut it out with a knife,very convenient to cut with the pizza wheel. You can immediately cut out windows on the raw dough, or later on the baked parts (see photo below). From the remnants of the dough, we cut out figurines of Christmas trees, animals, a pipe, a porch, a fence - what the fantasy tells, and what the dough is enough for.

Right on the parchment where we rolled out, and transfer the figures to a baking sheet, cutting off a piece of parchment with a detail with scissors (photo below, on the left).

The baking tray must be level, otherwise the house can also turn out with curved walls (and try to dock them later).

We bake the details of the gingerbread house at a temperature of about 200-220 gr. WITH(on medium heat) about 10-12 minutes. We take it out of the oven as soon as the cakes are already yellow, but not yet brown (photo above, on the right). While the cakes are hot, it is easy to cut windows out of them if you want.

But it’s better not to overdo it for the first time, because you can simply draw windows on the walls of the house with protein cream, as here:

And when you bake your next gingerbread house, you can not only cut out windows, but also “Glaze” with marmalade or caramel.

Step 4. Making frosting for decoration and gluing

Ingredients : for 1 protein, 200 gr. powdered sugar + 1 tsp. lemon juice(or a little bit of vinegar, or dry lemon acid). Acid is needed not only for taste, thanks to it, the glaze is more elastic, tight, sticky.

If you don't have powdered sugar , don't worry, I'll tell you a secret, I personally always make the same icing with regular sugar. The main thing here is that sugar should be fine-crystalline, so to speak, finely ground (this is often found on sale), such sugar has time to melt in the protein during whipping. And in order for it to melt for sure (even coarse-grained), even before whipping, you can simply let it lie down in a slightly whipped protein, it will melt during this time, and the cream after whipping with sugar will also turn out as it should. Beat the protein gradually adding sugar with a tablespoon until the foam becomes stiff and stagnant, as in the photo below. And you can make your own powdered sugar, tar sugar on a coffee grinder.

In the photo below, I made and photographed 2 types of glaze in the first bowl of sugar, in the second bowl of powdered sugar - there is no difference in stickiness, moreover, sugar is much more palatable, and even cheaper. Therefore, I personally choose icing sugar - and you can try both and decide for yourself which one you prefer.

Process:

Beat the whites first without anything into the foam, then gradually add the powder by a tablespoon, without stopping whipping. As soon as the cream becomes tight and holds its shape, it is ready, even if you have not poured out all the powder. Eggs also come in different sizes. For small eggs, as much powder as in the recipe is not necessary.

If desired frosting can be tinted by adding cocoa, or food coloring.

ATTENTION, dyes for Easter eggs, are suitable only if they do not contain salt, or the package has the inscription "Can be used for confectionery". You don't need salty frosting.

Because glaze has the ability to harden quickly, then it is better to cover it after cooking with a damp (not wet) towel. And while you are messing with the cakes, the icing will harden, but if you work quickly (in the spirit of Yulia Vysotskaya), then you don’t need a towel, the icing will not harden in half an hour.

Better yet, cook first one serving of glaze from 2 egg whites(for decorating the walls of the house), and then a second batch of frosting(for gluing parts of the house). That will make more sense.

Step 5 Decorate the Walls

Even before gluing the gingerbread house, we paint the walls and roof.

Schedule conveniently with pastry syringe or pastry bag. But if you don't have either, then read the following note:

How to make your own pastry bag in 1 minute.

We take a regular stationery file (or a clean, dense plastic bag), cut off (straight or obliquely) the bottom corner to make a tiny hole, load a portion of the cream into the file and twist the top of the file with a roller (like a carpet) and fix it with a stapler in several places (if not in stapler house, paper clips will do or you can sew with a needle and thread). Done - you can extrude patterns.

We draw windows, decorate with small sweets, multi-colored confectionery topping, almonds, glue patterns cut from ordinary marmalade.

On one of the walls you can depict a Christmas tree. Draw with white cream and stick with sweets, like toys, or lay out a Christmas tree using the mosaic technique of triangular marmalades.

The roof can also be decorated before assembly, but it is more convenient for me to decorate the roof already on the gingerbread house itself. I posted a lot of ideas for decorating the house in a special article , there you will also find many photos of different gingerbread houses.

Step 6. Choose a base

Immediately decide what your gingerbread house will stand on. It can be another dough cake, an elegant dish, a tray, a cutting board, a box of sweets. Once you glue the house, you will not be able to transfer it to other dishes. You will only move it along with the base on which you will glue it.

It is undesirable to choose dishes made of plastic. Because when you want your house, glued with a protein cream, to harden in 10 minutes in a warm oven (and not in 3-4 hours in a room), you cannot do this, since plastic releases toxins when heated, and this is of course not necessary.

Take the cakes and, without gluing them, join them on this base, see if the house fits on the dish, if the details fit together. If there are uneven, lopsided walls somewhere, now it's time to trim them with a knife.

Step 7. Choose how to glue the house

1. Protein glaze

See the egg white frosting recipe above. Glaze for gluing parts is conveniently applied using a pastry bag or a bag (how to make a bag yourself in 1 minute, read a little higher), or just with a spoon.

If the icing does not stick well to the cake lightly dampen the bonding area with water using a brush. Glaze can be applied simultaneously to both parts in the places of their gluing, and then pressed against each other. Hold for a while with your hands, and then just support the walls with improvised jars. And so, together with jars, and send to dry.

To make the gingerbread house glue set faster, I do this: I heat the empty oven to a hot, but not hot, state. I TURN OFF THE OVEN (that is, the fire does not burn in the oven !!!) and in this heated environment I place my gingerbread house for 2-10 minutes. The time depends on the "degree of heat" of the oven. Periodically I open and check with my finger. When our protein cream begins to turn into marshmallows (you will feel this by touch, or the cream may look slightly browned around the edges) - carefully remove it. Your gingerbread house is held together with a strong zifred cream.

2. Melted chocolate

MELTING CHOCOLATE (melt the tiles in a steam bath, such chocolate glue hardens quickly, and the house does not need to be additionally held after gluing.

3. Caramel glue

CARAMEL GLUE : 100 gr. sugar + 2 tbsp. water + a little bit of citric acid.

Acid is needed in order to prevent the "saccharification" of caramel. Those who have cooked caramel know that sometimes it does not crystallize into a candy, but is all candied into a fragile crumb. But citric acid will not allow this.

You cook sugar with water in the stage of light bubbling, stirring constantly, until a drop of such a syrup begins to crystallize on a cold saucer, that is, harden into caramel.

4. Toffee glue

WITH TOFFEE GLUE: 100 gr. sugar and 2 tbsp. boil sour cream in the boiling stage, stirring continuously, until a drop of such syrup, dropped into a glass of cold water, will land on the bottom of this glass in the form of soft and stretching toffee to the touch.

You can also add a spoonful of cocoa to such toffee glue during cooking - you get chocolate toffee.

You need to glue the details of the house with hot glues, until the glue is cold. That is, either act very quickly, or keep the saucepan with syrup in a hot water bath (that is, we dip a small saucepan with hot sweet glue into the saucepan bigger size with boiling water).

Gluing with caramel, toffee or chocolate looks something like this.

Keep the remaining caramel in a boiling water bath so that it does not freeze. It will come in handy as an excellent glue for laying tiles on the roof of a gingerbread house. And if you want to glaze windows with such caramel, read this article.

Step 8. Making the tiles

Now glue the roof in the same way. This connection must be as strong as possible so that the halves of the roof do not move out of the house.

Some fasten the roof by sticking skewers or toothpicks in the place where the roof joins the front facade of the house.

I simply generously apply protein glaze to the upper edges of the walls of the gingerbread house and as soon as the 2 halves of the roof are fitted, I immediately apply a thick layer of sticky cream along the entire roof ridge (top of the roof). The glued roof can be supported on both sides with suitable size jars until the glue is completely cured. .

When the roof is glued, you can lay tiles:

Tiles can simply be painted with protein glaze, laid out with almonds, chocolate bars, crispy pads, gummies, or whatever. Tiles can be glued for white frosting or caramel glue. You will read more about the types of sweet tiles and how to lay them in our next article - there you will also learn many more tricks for decorating a gingerbread house.

I will be glad to see questions, wishes and photos of baked gingerbread houses in the comments to this article.

New Year holidays are a magical time, not only for children, but also for adults. On the eve of the New Year, you can make a lot of wonderful things with your own hands: home decorations, Christmas tree toys and other wonderful crafts.

This time is perfect for creative pursuits together with children, joint needlework brings parents and children together.

The New Year is probably the most anticipated holiday, so the preparation for it is always thorough. At this time, I want to come up with something original, decorate the house in a special way, create a unique decor.

Children and older children who have recently learned to walk with great joy decorate the New Year tree, decorate the Christmas tree with toys and snowflakes made by their own hands. Together with the kids, you can make cute Christmas trees, presents for relatives and friends, a variety of handmade decorative items for decorating and festive decoration of your home.

Of course, you can buy almost any jewelry in stores, but it's much more interesting to make them yourself. And we offer you one great idea, with which you can stylishly and originally decorate your home for the holiday, it is interesting and useful to organize leisure.

Make a homemade New Year's house: such a thing will become a magnificent element of the decor of your home. Such a craft will help create a fabulous atmosphere, give a sense of celebration even before it arrives.

Guided by the instructions for creating such a masterpiece, you can design several miniature houses decorated in the New Year theme and present them as a gift to loved ones. And if you install a garland or a small lantern inside such a fabulous house, it will become even more beautiful, attract the eye with its radiance and bestow a festive mood.

Creating a New Year's atmosphere with the help of such crafts is as easy as shelling pears.

Do not forget that a homemade New Year's house is an excellent present. Such a gift will demonstrate your creative skills and certainly will not seem banal. Similar things are also sold in stores, but a factory product, which not everyone can afford, can always be distinguished from handicrafts made by hand.

House decorated according to New Year theme, created with your own hands, will become a budget and at the same time an original gift.
New Year's house can be made from various materials and it won't take long.

How to make a souvenir New Year's house with your own hands - let's look at the most popular options in the photo and pictures.

Cardboard

To create such a miracle, you will need the following materials and tools:

• cardboard white color;
• stationery knife;
• sheets of paper;
• glue in the form of a pencil;
• scissors;
• paints;
• decor elements;
• ruler.

If possible, buy a latex primer, but this is not necessary.

As decorations, you can use miniature toys, tinsel, sparkles, artificial snow or cotton wool.

Below is a master class on making a winter house in the photo in steps:

Having prepared the materials, you can begin the process of creating a winter house.

You can also make a house for the New Year out of paper, using ready-made patterns and cutting templates for this. To do this, download the pattern you like and print it out on the printer, then cut out the details, glue them and decorate at your discretion.

From twisted paper tubes

A winter house made of tubes folded out of paper looks very interesting. White walls evoke associations with winter.

To implement this idea, you will need the following things:

• loose paper;
• cardboard sheet;
• glue;
• scissors;
• paints (can be replaced with felt-tip pens);
• simple pencil;
• decor elements.

From each leaf you need to form a tube. To make it more convenient, use a pencil - wind the paper around it.

On a note! Sheets can be divided into equal parts and then tubes can be made, in which case their size will be smaller.

From the created tubes, make walls (there should be four of them) and two roof blanks. The resulting parts of the house need to be glued.

On a paper or cardboard base, draw windows and a door, cut them out with scissors and glue them to the walls of your house.

Decorate New Year's crafts and place it on a shelf so that it is clearly visible, or give it to someone close to you.

Model of the New Year's house No. 2 made of paper and cardboard

To implement another idea, you will need the following list of consumables:

• cardboard sheet (designer cardboard is needed) in size corresponding to the parameters of the house. If desired, you can use two cardboard different colors: one shade is for walls, and the second is for roofing and decorating windows and doors. A sheet of cardboard will also be needed for the base on which the house will be located;
• a small piece of translucent film to simulate glass in the windows;
• glue;
• diagram of a cardboard winter house (draw it yourself or use ready template with blank);
• sequins (preferably small ones);
• scissors;
• artificial snow;
• flat brush with a rounded brush at the end.

Many are interested in: how long will it take to create a New Year's house. It will take about 4 hours to make this option. As for the complexity, you can put 7 points out of 10. Do not be afraid that you will not cope - if you wish, you can make the most complex crafts: work carefully and slowly, and you will definitely succeed.

Engage in the creative process on the weekend so you don't rush anywhere.

Step-by-step master class with detailed instructions

Our magical house is almost ready. It remains only to decorate the windows and doors and glue the house on a cardboard base.

The craft does not have to be glued: you can simply place it on top of the base, having previously decorated the New Year's house with homemade doors. Decorating the space around the craft Christmas balls, sprigs of spruce, rain and cones, you will get an original festive composition that can be used to decorate a windowsill, table, interior or as an exhibit for a kindergarten.

In the evening, you can light a candle on LEDs inside the house. Such a luminous decor will create fabulous atmosphere in your house.

Gingerbread

To create a gingerbread masterpiece, prepare the dough and glaze.

To prepare the dough according to the recipe, you need the following ingredients:

• three glasses of flour;
• 50 gr. honey;
• 100 ml sour cream of medium density;
• 100 gr. oils 80% fat;
• testicle;
• 3 large spoons of cognac (can be replaced with another alcoholic drink);
• 50 ml of water;
• a large spoonful of cocoa powder.

You can add spices if you like.

To make icing (icing), mix egg white with a glass (maybe a little less) of powdered sugar.

In addition to dough and glaze, you will need paper and a pencil with a ruler.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Draw a sketch on a piece of paper.
2. Cut out the details with scissors.
3. To make the dough, sift the flour through a sieve.
4. Dissolve honey in warm water. Let the mixture cool slightly (to a maximum of 39-degree temperature) and pour 1/2 of the sifted flour, mix all the ingredients well with a wooden spatula so that there are no lumps.
5. Leave the dough to cool, but always in the room.
6. Whisk an egg in a bowl. Then pour it into the dough and knead again.
7. Put other ingredients into the dough (sour cream with butter, alcohol and spices).
8. Pour in the rest of the flour and add 1 large tablespoon of cocoa powder to color the dough.
9. Knead the dough so that it does not stick to your hands and the table, roll it out to a maximum thickness of 1 cm, apply a pattern and form the elements of the house.
10. In an oven heated to 220 degrees, bake all the elements for 10-12 minutes.

Cooking icing

The recipe lists the ingredients per serving. And for the New Year's house you will need three servings (the testicle should be large).

Separate the whites and mix them with a fork (do not beat!).

Slowly, two small spoonfuls, add powdered sugar and mix again.

It is important that the cooked icing is not very thick, dilute it if necessary. a small amount chilled water (a small spoon will suffice).

Glaze decorate the cooled details of the roof. If you want, you can first make a template on a checkered paper sheet, and then a cornet (food paper is used to form it). The cornet is filled with glaze (a grid is applied, and after cooling - a pattern).

Decorate with icing all the components of the gingerbread house, using a thin stick. commit circular motions to better spread the frosting.

Advice: It is advisable to leave the icing on the walls and roof for several hours (preferably overnight) until it is completely dry. The next day, apply drawings in the form of snowflakes, beads.

For other gingerbread products, apply icing with the addition of food coloring pigments.

Assembly

Trim the sides a little at a 45-degree angle to make them easier to connect.

Cover the joints of the walls with icing and connect the structure. Use containers filled with water to support the walls until the icing hardens.

After the wall seams have hardened, attach the roof in the same way, substituting supports so that it does not move out.

For greater credibility, form icicles from the glaze. Squeeze large drops on the edges, and then stretch along the roof. Snowflakes are also created with glaze, they are first drawn on film.

Such a house can be decorated and New Year's table, guests will definitely appreciate the delicious decoration that you have prepared yourself. By the way, you can make such a New Year's house from salt dough. Having covered such a craft with a colorless varnish, you will save it until the next New Year without any problems.

If you're worried that you won't find the materials you need to make your Christmas home at home, buy a pre-made kit. But it’s much more interesting to do everything with your own hands, involving children in the creative process - they will be delighted with such work.

A New Year's house with or without light, a winter yard is a full-fledged festive composition that will decorate a window if it is placed on a windowsill. Such a craft will decorate any New Year's Eve exhibition of homemade compositions for the New Year:

As you can see, the materials from which you can make a miniature house to decorate a room for new year holidays, lots of. You can use cardboard, paper and other available materials that are available in every home. This work is not so difficult, and most importantly, extremely interesting, both for children and adults.

Create a small masterpiece with your own hands, connecting the kids to the cause. During the creative process, you are guaranteed to get a lot of positive emotions. Well, the result in the form of a beautiful New Year's house will delight not only you, but also those around you.

Detailed instructions and tutorial videos will guide you through the creative process.

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One more beautiful model you can make a winter house by watching this video: