Gingerbread Men Cookies

Please the children for the New Year and Christmas, treat them to these wonderful cookies! I have already written once about how to cook a gingerbread house. I want to offer you a similar cooking option – cookies "Ginger men". Cookies "Ginger men" according to this recipe is perfect as a treat for kids. After all, our cookies are not easy – they are gingerbread men from the cartoon "Shrek".
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 5 % 4 g
Fats 13 % 10 g
Carbohydrates 82 % 65 g
376 kcal
GI: 2 / 0 / 98

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 hours
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    Ingredients

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Mix flour, baking powder, soda, nutmeg, salt, cloves and ginger.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Butter is softened and whipped with sugar until smooth.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Then add honey and egg yolk to the resulting mixture.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Mix both the resulting mixtures – as a result, we get an elastic dense dough.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    The resulting dough must be kept in the refrigerator, wrapped in plastic wrap, for an hour.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Then roll out the dough to a thickness of about half a centimeter. We cut out the gingerbread man figures with molds

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    You can use ready-made molds.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    And spread out on a baking sheet with parchment at some distance from each other.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Bake our cookies for 10 minutes at 180 degrees until the cookies become dense. Then we take it out of the oven and put it on the grill for further drying.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Decorate the resulting cookies with icing sugar. To prepare the glaze, mix a glass of powdered sugar and two tablespoons of milk.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    To get a multi-colored glaze, you can add food coloring.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Fill the envelopes. Decorate.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Have a good New Year's mood!

Calorie content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Honey - 400   kcal/100g
  • Carnation - 323   kcal/100g
  • Ginger - 80   kcal/100g
  • Dry ginger - 347   kcal/100g
  • Pickled ginger - 51   kcal/100g
  • Cinnamon - 247   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79   kcal/100g
  • Powdered sugar - 374   kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0   kcal/100g
  • Nutmeg - 556   kcal/100g

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