New Year is a magical joyful time not only for children, but also for adults. Making a Christmas tree from gingerbread will help create a holiday atmosphere, spend time with your family and with children, and at the same time develop their imagination and creativity.
- First, prepare the dough. You can find his recipe here.
- Now you need heavy paper to create your stencil. If you have a herringbone baking dish, just circle it on the paper. If not, draw it yourself.
- Creating a template:
Draw a long vertical line in the center of the tree. Draw another parallel line at a distance of 1 cm on each side. You will need three of these stencils. Now make a template as shown in the picture. After cutting, you can try to assemble the Christmas tree out of paper, and, if necessary, correct the pattern.
- Roll out the dough 5-6 mm wide, using the stencils prepared earlier, bring and cut out the details of the future Christmas tree from the dough.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 25 minutes. Once the gingerbread cookies are hard enough, remove and let cool.
- Fasten the parts together. You can decorate such a tree with icing or confectionery powders.
But a sweet Christmas tree can be made in another way. Delight your children and present them with a Christmas tree made of sweets. Take any suitable bottle for the base. Use scotch tape to secure the candies in a circle, layer by layer. Such a Christmas tree is made very quickly and easily, and the pleasure that children will get from it will be great.
Here are some more ideas for creating a sweet Christmas tree:
- Present pancakes to your loved ones as a New Year's breakfast. Perform them in different sizes, so that, when placed on top of each other, they form a pyramid. Decorate the top with a pastry star.
- If there are not too many candies for creating a Christmas tree, alternate layers. Sweets, tinsel, sweets.
And here is the idea of u200b u200bcreating a Christmas tree from cookies. The dough recipe can be used the same, or any other of your choice. You can use icing to hold the cookies together (egg white + sugar + lemon juice).
