Ingredients:
Dough:
210 g flour;
25 g of rye flour;
15 g of cocoa;
1 tsp baking powder to the test;
1 tablespoon a mixture of spices (cinnamon, ground ginger, nutmeg, cloves, cardamom)
95g cold butter;
30 g of egg yolks (about 2 or 3 small large)
95 g of honey;
110 g of powdered sugar.
Icing:
150-200 g of powdered sugar;
~ 1/2 of the protein;
a couple of drops of lemon juice.
Method of preparation:
1. In a bowl sift the flour, cocoa, baking powder and spices. Stir in cold butter, cut into cubes. The mixture fill up in the bowl with the blender knife and chop into crumbs.
2. The crumb of oil and pour the flour into a large bowl, add the icing sugar and stir whisk until smooth. Add egg yolks, honey, little spoon stir to wet and dry ingredients are united. Next, the dough thoroughly wrinkled hands, as long as it does not gather into a ball. Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for at least 1.5 hours. Optionally, the dough can be frozen and stored up to 3 months in a freezer.
3. Oven to heat up to 180 * C. ? Cover the surface with a little flour, and roll out the cooled dough thickness ~ 5 mm. Cut out the cookies into small rolls and gently transfer them to the baking sheet covered with parchment for baking, placing the gingerbread from each other and the distance in a couple of cm. Also, if you cut the little people, you can put a nut (pecan, cashmere, almonds) in the middle of each cookie and gently cover the nut »Handles» of a gingerbread man.
4. Oven cookies in a preheated 180 * C oven for 10-12 minutes (depending on the oven and the size of future gingerbread). After removing from the oven let it cool slightly on the baking sheet and then carefully move on the grate until it is completely cooled.
5. Icing: icing sugar with protein grind to a thick paste (white is better to add not all at once but little by little), then add a drop of lemon juice, mixing thoroughly each time. Glaze is very slow to spread, but not be liquid. Put the frosting in a pastry bag with a one-time cut ending, and paint the cookies as desired.
