An edible gift will please those with a sweet tooth and will become an original and unique president. A master class is waiting for you, which will teach you how to make a gingerbread house, a bouquet of sweets, strawberries from these sweets. An edible gift is universal. You can admire it for a while, and then eat it with appetite. A great option for those who do not like to litter their apartment with presents.
How to make a gingerbread house with your own hands?
If you are invited to visit, where they will celebrate some event, then you cannot do without a gift. You can make an edible present that hardly anyone will be indifferent to. If you were invited during the warm season, then the gingerbread house can be summer, and if it is cold, make it in the winter version.
Making such a popular souvenir takes a lot of work. First, come up with a design for the future edible structure. If you are a novice pastry chef, then it is better to use a simpler house decoration.
You will also need the necessary equipment, first of all, a cooking syringe with the necessary attachments or an ordinary medical syringe.
Start making gingerbread cookies in advance, as the finished dough will need to lie in the refrigerator for up to three days, at least one night. Cooks recommend leaving it for up to a crescent, since during this time the dough will become dense and the walls and roofs of the house for such a product will also be more durable.
Ready-made gingerbread can be stored for a month and a half. Here are the products you need:
- flour - 1 kg 300 g;
- sugar - 760 g;
- yolks - 6 pcs.;
- eggs - 3 pcs.;
- water - 360 ml;
- soda - 1 tsp;
- butter - 300 g;
- salt - 1/2 tsp;
- spices: cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves.
The spices will need to be ground, so the cinnamon must be ground in a coffee grinder.
To make an edible gift, you need to mix the prepared spices in a container in the following proportion. Take one teaspoon each of nutmeg, ground cloves and ginger, and two teaspoons of cinnamon.
Measure out the required amount of flour, sift it. Add baking soda, spices and salt here. Wash the eggs and separate the yolks from the whites. You need to act very carefully, because even if a drop of yolk gets into the protein, it will no longer work. But do not throw this product away, it is not suitable for making icing, but it will do for dough.
In total, you will need to separate 6 proteins from 6 yolks. You put each protein in a disposable cup and then put it in the refrigerator.
The remaining 6 yolks and three eggs must be put in a container, mixed with a fork until smooth.
Now you need to prepare the burnt syrup. This part of the process requires special attention, as the hot mass may spray out.
Pour 350 ml of water into a suitable container while removing it, while heating sugar in a large skillet on the divider. For 10 minutes it will not melt, and when it begins to turn into a brown mass along the edges of the pan, then slowly stir it and reduce the heat a little.
Stir with a long-handled wooden spoon. At this time, put the water on the fire. When the sugar dissolves and melts, then start adding boiling water here little by little. Stir the caramel vigorously with a spoon, but be very careful not to burn yourself.
For convenience, it is better to immediately divide the sugar into two parts and pour them into different jars. Now you started cooking by taking the first one. At this stage, you need to pour granulated sugar from the second can into the burnt sugar. At the same time, turn up the heat to make the process more intense.
It is necessary that the sugar from the second portion also completely dissolves, the water boils away. Put 300 g of butter in a cauldron and melt it. Add the caramel mass and stir. Cool the mixture to room temperature and add the egg mass here. Stir well, then add flour, also working hard with a spoon.
You should have a dough of this consistency. Therefore, it may take a little less or a little more flour than it was in the recipe. Since the weight of the eggs is different. Transfer the dough to a plastic bag with a lock, seal the container and refrigerate. Let the dough ripen here.
When you take it out, it will thicken and will already have such a consistency as plasticine.
Now take as much dough as you need, roll it out on a floured surface into a layer 0.5 cm thick. Here's how to make an edible gift next. Cut out the details of the future house and decorations for it using a stencil and templates. In finished form, they should be something like this.
Here's how to cut these figures, and how they will be in the finished form.
You can paint gingerbread using food markers. Like these ones.
There are also gel paints, powder dyes. The latter must be diluted in water and applied with a syringe.
And if you prefer not to use dyes so that the gingerbread cookies are absolutely harmless, then you just need the remaining proteins. They make icing of them together with powdered sugar, and then squeeze them out of a syringe onto gingerbread cookies to get such drawings.
An edible gift made in the form of houses is also made using protein glaze. And you will create a drawing for it using food coloring.
These are the details of the gingerbread house. And if you want to make a winter version, then bake a Christmas tree gingerbread. To do this, you need to cut blanks of different sizes from the prepared dough, similar to snowflakes. A triangle is placed on top. This is the top of the tree.
This is the kind of edible gift you can prepare to give it. If you are invited to Halloween, then you will create an interesting structure out of gingerbread dough.
DIY edible Halloween gift
The gingerbread house looks mysterious and alluring.
You can make one with the recipe above. But this gingerbread dough will be chocolate, so you can use an ingredient such as cocoa.
For the test, take:
- flour - 760 g;
- butter - 460 g;
- cocoa - 140 g;
- brown sugar - 235 g;
- salt - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 400 g;
- eggs - 3 pcs.
Mix dry dough ingredients first. And in a separate bowl, beat the butter softened to room temperature with sugar. Add eggs here and work with a blender to get a homogeneous mass. Now you need to add dry ingredients here and knead the dough first with a spoon, and then with your hands.
This is a recipe for making quick gingerbread dough. You will divide it into several parts, put each in the refrigerator for only 15 minutes.
You can download a stencil for a gingerbread house or draw the details of such a structure yourself. Transfer the pieces of the house to paper and cut them out.
During this time, the gingerbread dough has already settled. Take it out and roll it out on a floured work surface, but it is better to do this on baking paper, then the dough will not stick to the board or to the table.
Roll it into a 4 mm thick layer. Now attach the stencil parts and cut with a sharp knife.
To prevent stencil parts from getting dirty, wrap them in transparent files. Using a wooden and metal spoon, paint a pattern that resembles brickwork onto the outside of the walls. With a wooden spatula, you will make large horizontal strips, and with the back of the metal handle, small vertical strips.
And decorate the details of the roof with semicircular lines that will resemble shingles. To do this, take the handle of a spoon with a semicircular tip and make a drawing like this.
An edible gift will turn out to be very beautiful. To do this, take lollipops. Crumble those to make stained glass. Put them in the openings of the windows. When these candies are melted in the oven, the glasses will be extraordinarily beautiful.
Do not put candy directly into the openings of windows. Do this when the remaining gingerbread parts remain in the oven for 5-7 minutes. Then the color will be beautiful and there will be no bubbles.
A delicious gift will look just wonderful. But for this, it remains to work out small details. After all, it is necessary to make the inhabitants of this mysterious house. Take white and dark chocolate and melt it in a water bath or place it in such cellophane bags and dip it in boiling water.
Here the chocolate will melt and you can start creating. Draw blanks of future ghosts on the parchment and fill them with white chocolate. Make the facial features out of black.
Also, dark chocolate comes in handy when you draw bats.
From white chocolate you will make an edible spider web, and from black chocolate you will make a spider, which you will place inside it.
Also, make a frame for stained glass windows out of dark chocolate. Draw the inside of the masonry using a toothpick.
Complement your masterpiece with a chocolate fence, also squeezing this warm mass onto the parchment.
Cover the door with chocolate and also use a toothpick to carry the brickwork pattern here. To then glue all these details, you need to prepare icing. To do this, you need to beat the egg white, then gradually add the powdered sugar here. Continue whisking until the mixture is thicker and tighter.
Since the house is chocolate, add the chocolate chips to the icing as well. To do this, you need to rub the tile on a fine grater, and then mix the resulting product with protein cream.
First, assemble all the walls of the house to make its frame. To prevent them from falling apart, you can attach banks or some other objects to them. When the walls are dry, these auxiliary things can be removed and the roof of the house can be glued here.
If there is also a small upper floor on the hut, then attach the details of this element to the roof of the building.
Glue on funny ghosts, cobwebs, bats, covering these details from the seamy side with chocolate icing.
When this cream is completely set, the gingerbread house is ready. You can put small pumpkins, apples, autumn leaves next to it to complete the picture. Such a delicious and edible gift is just a real work of art, just like the next one.
DIY sweet edible gift
Agree, it's nice to receive such a strawberry as a gift.
To do it, take:
- floristic sponge;
- round candies;
- red wrapping paper;
- pink paper;
- Scotch;
- floristic wire;
- artificial leaves.
Master class on creating:
- Cut the paper into squares. Place a round candy in the center of the red one, attach a wire here and twist the blank to make a segment of a berry with a stem. Secure your creation with tape.
- Cut off the excess from the floristic sponge by taking a clerical knife. Make the required number of blanks. You will also need those to cover the space between the segments. They need to be twisted from pink and red paper.
- Piercing the floristic circle with wire, secure the circles here. Cover the space between them with auxiliary elements.
- Attach artificial leaves on the back of the strawberry, where the edge is more beveled. Fix them to the floral wire, which will become the ponytail. You can wrap it with green thread.
If you still have a round metal cookie box, turn it into a spectacular basket. An edible bouquet will be located inside.
Here's what you need to do this:
- tin box;
- corrugated paper of pink, blue and other colors;
- wire;
- scissors;
- round candies;
- ribbons.
Crafting workshop:
- Decorate the outside of the tin box with a strip of pink corrugated paper. You can cut several rectangles, roll them up with a tube and already fix everything on the back of the box using an elastic band.
- Cut the blue corrugated paper into strips, stretch out the long edges of each so that when you fold the candy, you get such a beautiful ruffle on top.
- Place a floral sponge, cut to fit the shape of the container, inside the basket. Glue leaves from paper or satin ribbons to the edges.
- Fix a wire on the back of each flower in advance so that you can now stick them into the sponge.
- The last touch remains - to tie up the handles of the basket with a ribbon. You will create the handle itself from wire, wrapping it with a strip of corrugated paper, twisting that one.
Delicious edible present with your own hands
If you want to present an unusual gift, surprise and delight the one to whom it is intended, then check out three more ideas.
Not everyone can boast that they have chocolate utensils.
To make this edible set, take:
- flour - 200 g;
- sugar - 100 g;
- sour cream, 20% fat - 50 g;
- margarine - 50 g;
- bitter chocolate - 50 g;
- soda - a quarter teaspoon.
You will also need:
- foil;
- stencil;
- metal or ceramic tray;
- honey;
- sponge.
Step by step creation:
- To make a beautiful painted tray, mix flour with chopped margarine. Rub the dough with your hands into crumbs and add sugar, sour cream and baking soda. Stir the dough, roll it, put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
- Now you need to get it out and roll it into a thin layer.
- Wrap a tray with foil and cover it with dough. Bake for 20-25 minutes at an oven temperature of 200 ° С. Cool and remove the resulting tray from the dough.
- If you do not have such a container, then you can stick the dough over a small baking sheet.
- Coat the bottom of the stencil with oil and place it on a baked tray of dough, press down lightly.
- Melt the chocolate by dipping a sponge into it, apply this mass to the stencil.
Put it all in the refrigerator for 15 minutes to freeze the chocolate. During this time, you can prepare the ingredients for the chocolate spoon and cup. It:
- sour cream, the fat content of which is 20% - 40 g;
- flour - 150 g;
- sugar - 80 g;
- a pinch of baking soda;
- dark chocolate - 50 g.
To make such an edible gift, you also need:
- coffee spoon;
- small ceramic bowl;
- refined sunflower oil;
- foil.
Step-by-step manufacturing:
- Make the dough in the same way as for the tray. Wrap the bowl in foil and brush a little with vegetable oil.
- Stick this container on the outside with dough, from which you need to mold a handle, which is attached to the side. Also cover the coffee spoon with foil and stick the dough to it.
- Bake these pieces, then cool slightly and, using a brush, cover the inside of the cup with melted chocolate. Decorate the spoon in the same way.
- Let these items lie in the refrigerator for 15 minutes, after which they need to be placed on a chocolate tray, your favorite cream should be put in a cup, and marshmallows on top.
An edible gift will be absolutely extraordinary if you even make a basket for it from an edible product.
Take:
- a couple or three packages of Chechil cheese;
- knitting needles 6-7 cm in size.
Depending on how large your bag will be, cast on as many loops.
We knit either with the front or with the purl loops. Join the edges of the canvas, making it into a rectangular purse, also using a string of cheese.
From two or three strips of this product, you need to weave a pigtail, it will turn into a handbag handle. In such a basket you can put, for example, potato sticks. They go well with cheese. To do this, take:
- mashed potatoes - 200 g;
- flour - 150 g;
- grated cheese - 100 g;
- carrots - 50 g;
- salt to taste;
- eggs - 2 pcs.;
- cornflakes;
- vegetable oil.
Master class on creating:
- Rub the carrots, combine them with mashed potatoes and cheese. Add 1 egg, salt and flour and stir.
- This dough must be cut into pieces, from which you will form potato sticks. Dip them in a fork-loosened egg and roll in minced (but not too fine) cornflakes.
- Fry corn sticks in hot vegetable oil in a skillet.
The next gift is no less original. Bring connoisseurs of homemade food homemade colorful noodles, which you will put in an openwork dough bowl.
Here's how to make homemade noodles. First you need to take:
- flour - 2 cups;
- water - 0.5 cups;
- salt;
- egg - 2 pieces.
You will also need:
- large plate;
- a bowl;
- foil.
Add water, salt and egg to the sifted flour. Knead the dough and roll it out thinly. Place a bowl on top and outline a circle for the bottom using this pattern.
Cut the sides of the dough into strips 2 cm wide. Now take two strips and twist them. Place this piece in a not very hot oven just to dry the dough.
Choose a refractory bowl for the base. If you want the basket to be colored, add food coloring to the dough. Make homemade noodles using the same ingredients as in the bowl. But for tinting, you still need:
- spicy dried herbs;
- kukurma;
- paprika.
Knead a dough of flour, salt and eggs and divide it in half and 2 more parts. Leave one part the same, paint the rest.
To get green noodles, you need to add chopped dried greens to yellow? pour kurma into the dough. Red noodles come out if you add paprika here. Knead the dough well and roll it out thinly. Using the special cooking wheel, you can cut it into fine threads. Take three or four of these threads and roll them into a ball. Place the noodles in an openwork vase and a wonderful edible gift is ready.
If in conclusion you wanted something sweet, then the next master class will perfectly cope with this task.
DIY edible gift - candy machine
Such a sweet gift can be brought to a child if you are invited to visit him, or to an older beloved man. The present will come in handy.
Before making a candy machine, take:
- corrugated cardboard box;
- 7 m of gold braid;
- purple film;
- wire;
- toothpicks;
- Scotch;
- the cloth;
- sweets - 5 chocolate medals, two round ones, 8 packs of Dolci chocolate;
- glue gun.
Based on the pictures below, draw the same pattern and transfer it to the cardboard. Then cut it out.
Paste the interior with lilac corrugated paper, and glue the cardboard parts with tape to make a car blank.
Decorate it with a purple film, glue it on the outside with scotch tape.
Bend the wire with the letter "P" and cut a rectangle of fabric along its length. Attach it to the wire using a glue gun. And the edges of this visor need to be decorated with braid, attaching this part in place.
Stick double-sided tape on the perimeter of the car, on which you will need to attach small chocolates. Between them, you need to glue strips of beautiful braid. To make a wheel, you need to glue three cardboard circles together, attach them to the top chocolate medal, and fasten the blank with tape. The wheels are attached to the bottom with toothpicks.
Attach two round candies that will become the headlights and one that will turn into the steering wheel of a convertible with an opening cover.
You can wrap a candy car in a transparent package by placing the car on a decorated cardboard and hand the gift to the addressee.
See what else you can make with sweets to please your sweet tooth. This pineapple will adorn the festive table and any room.
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