Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)

Category: Confectionery
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)

Ingredients

MShM mastic

Cooking method

  • The whole problem is that I don't like icing. No, many other individuals do not like me, but icing is just the closest to the theme of decorating gingerbread. So a dilemma arose - I want to make beautiful gingerbread cookies, but I don't know icing. There is only one way out - if there is a problem, then it must be solved. How many times have I noticed that, thinking hard about solving a problem, you suddenly discover one or the other clue that suddenly appears out of nowhere. "Ideas are in the air" ... I am talking with a friend on the phone and she gives advice to cover the gingerbread with mastic, which I manage and work with her easily. Yeah, I think to myself, but I'm not getting down to business yet. The next day I go to the bookstore to get acquainted with the novelties of the book world and, oh joy, I buy a wonderful book "Miracle cookies", which describes just the process of covering gingerbread and cookies with mastic. During the night I read the book three times and by the morning, having accepted the advice of a friend, the purchase of the book, as signs of fate, I enthusiastically take up work.
  • I use the following recipe for baking gingerbread. I don't know whether he is good or bad, but for me he is very unusual. I will look for another. Softer. Therefore, I do not focus attention on it, but simply give it a note.
  • Gingerbread cookies:
  • 1, 5 cups of sugar, 200 grams of butter, 5, 5 cups of flour, 3 eggs, 1 teaspoon of soda, 2/3 cups of honey, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1 teaspoon of ginger. Bring the honey with spices to a boil, melt butter in it. Beat eggs with sugar separately. Combine everything, add soda and flour. Knead, refrigerate for at least 6 hours, preferably more. Before baking, remove the desired piece from the refrigerator in 30 minutes, knead well. Cut on a slightly floured parchment. Bake 15 minutes
  • Well, now about those practical nuances that I learned in the course of work.
  • 1. After baking, the gingerbread cookies must be covered for a few seconds, with some kind of press, so that the surface to be coated becomes even (use a large cutting board as a press, but do not overdo it, we just level the surface, and do not roll the asphalt)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 2. Mastic !!! Here she needs to pay special attention. It should be soft and tasty (required) After all, it will be eaten with gingerbread. The mastic is kneaded on the basis of marshmallows. We take 100 gr of mshm and be sure to add 2 tablespoons of lemon juice. I had lime juice, it worked out even better. The aroma was combined with the aroma of gingerbread and the sourness is very good. Melt in the microwave mshm + lime juice + 1 tablespoon of fat (any butter, cooking oil, coconut fat) Stir until smooth and add the sifted icing sugar. There should be enough powder so that the mass is easily kneaded in the hands, without sticking, but remains soft, pliable.
  • 3. Now we cut out the mastic with the same cutting that was used to make gingerbread. The gingerbread cookies will blur a little when baking and become well, just in size for the mastic cut out by the same cutting. By the way, I didn’t even remember what I did the cutting down of the polar bear. But I really like this New Year character.
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 4. We make an adhesive mass. This is, as usual, honey and vodka in a 1: 2 ratio. Now carefully coat the surface of the gingerbread with this glue syrup. And especially carefully coat the edges, because it is this place that will be the main battlefield ... ugh, ugh, place of work.
  • 5.We put the cut out mastic on the gingerbread blank and see .. well, our edges do not match ... there is too much, there is not enough. But then we made a soft pliable mastic to now call it to order, that is, to enter the contour that we want to see.
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 6. The finger, or rather the fingers of our hand, becomes the main tool of labor for us. Carefully, without haste, first we move the mastic in those places where it is clearly superfluous and goes beyond the contour of the gingerbread. Well, the Mastic exactly repeated the contour of the gingerbread, but ... its edges ... roughly cut, not neat fu ...
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 7. Let's deal directly with the process that will help us make mastic an imitation of filling. Beginning to flatten the edges The mastic is trimmed at a 90 degree angle and we try to flatten it down to 40 degrees. And here we must perform two actions - we carefully glue the edge of the gingerbread and mastic - this time, pressing the mastic a little, we move it with our finger from the edge to the center and smooth the mastic so that there is not the slightest hint of a tubercle.
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Smooth the edge of the finger back and forth
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Here you can see what is the difference between an already processed edge and one that has not yet been touched by our tool (finger)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 8. Boldly smoothed a right angle in mastic around the entire perimeter and evaluated their work with a critical eye. We looked and were surprised ... but it turned out very well ...
  • 9. Try to make all overhead details as thin as possible. Apply the adhesive syrup to the overlays. In this case, a scarf. Glued and immediately face down. The scarf will merge in literally 30 seconds with white mastic without sharp transitional steps. Well, then we turned it over and admire it. Yeah, you can also have a snowball, a nose, and eyes (the last with a brush).
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 10. But on overlays for hearts are very appropriate prints, floral, openwork and, as it turned out, even lettering. The mastic was rolled with a rolling pin, carved with a mold and onto a gingerbread.
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 11. Use a brush handle to punch holes in the mastic. The edges will be smooth and neat.
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • 12. Hearts, or rather 80% of the mastic on top, covered with a mixture of honey and vodka, but in a different proportion. A little honey, more vodka. To make it thin, but sticky. Squeeze the brushes a little and open the surface of the mastic. This mixture, as it were, will show the color without giving a mad shine.
  • 13. I didn't have time to buy kulki, but the name of a large roll of cellophane easily got out of a difficult situation. Three times she wrapped the gingerbread in cellophane and bent it at the level of the bottom of the gingerbread. I tied the top and unrolled it. Fast and easy.
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • What can I say summing up the work done? First of all, the fact that the fine delicate work of icing is the pinnacle of skill and, of course, the coating of gingerbread with mastic is not a competitor to icing masterpieces ... But Cookies carefully made in this way bring joy to customers (checked), which means they have a place to be. By the way, it is not at all necessary to make only gingerbread. It seems to me that delicious cookies will be no worse. For testing, I made cookies bought in a store, just as an example of decoration.
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
  • Girls! Icing will never obey me, but having mastered this method, I have already come up with so many ideas for Easter. Maybe in our society of bakers there are still such "handy" people who are not friends with icing, then this MK is just for you.
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Shahzoda
Very festive !!
lungwort
: hi: Great idea and right on time! If I have time to buy MShM in white, then I will decorate the gingerbread that way. Wonderful MK. Thanks and Happy Holidays.
Mom Tanya
Valya! Thank you!!!!!!!!! So everything is clear and accessible !!!!!!!!!!!! Easy!!!!!!!!!! Handsomely!!!!!!! Fast!!!!!!!!!.........

I broke up because I hadn't started doing anything yet. And I can imagine how many questions and difficulties will arise in the practical part !!!! I realized that you, like me, want softer gingerbread cookies? I don't really like the hard ones ... Somehow I am attracted to the tender ... But how can this tender endure such work ?!
MariS
You will admire - it is so beautiful, but for a gift - so in general, superrr !!! !
Thanks for the master class!

Happy New Year!
Vei
Valyusha, thank you for taking the time to post such a wonderful, useful and timely MK during this busy New Year period!
Very beautiful cookies are obtained !!!
MomMaxa
Thank you so much for MK! I am friends with icing, but I also want to try gingerbread mastic! Thank you for interesting and unusual recipes and their embodiment! And happy holidays!
valvery
Mom Tanya Do not worry! It will turn out very well. The first three, four you will do in order to understand the principle, and then, how will you roll down a hill! Yes! Gingerbread would like to be softer, although painted gingerbread is made on a more solid basis. Now I keep the gingerbread cookies in the neighborhood with an apple (half) I'm waiting to be softened. Luda wrote that she had soft ones. Yes, Luda baked waters according to Gerda's recipe. Everyone praises him. I want to try it.
valvery
I am very glad that mk will be useful to you girls. How many children have I made happy this year, without even thinking at first that I can do that. And the joy itself received unspeakable. And if someone has small kids TOGETHER TO MAKE BEAUTY WITH THEM
valvery
Brought the answer. Apples had a miraculous effect on the gingerbread overnight. The gingerbread cookies are soft, soft. Lyudmilin's method has justified itself in full !!!
Husky
Valyusha, I am very glad for your gingerbread cookies, that they have become soft !! But apples are not my idea. I also read this in Gerda's recipe. Here !! So all thanks to her !! And girls in the theme "decorate gingerbread." I read this advice there somewhere !!
Merri
Valentina, thank you very much for the master class !!! Now it's just a small matter - to learn how to work with mastic.
MomMaxa
I carry a report:Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing) there was just the last batch of gingerbread and the remains of mastic and they found each other! The gingerbread was uneven due to the added nuts and candied fruits. The mastic helped to hide the irregularities. It decorates very quickly, much faster than flooding with icing. On top of the mastic I painted with kandurin and icing! I really liked decorating in this way! Thanks again and happy holidays!
valvery
MomMaxa Anya! Beautiful, bright, colorful. In short. Festive !!!!
Merri
Quote: MamaMaxa

I carry a report:Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing) there was just the last batch of gingerbread and the remains of mastic and they found each other! The gingerbread was uneven due to the added nuts and candied fruits. The mastic helped to hide the irregularities. It decorates very quickly, much faster than flooding with icing. On top of the mastic I painted with kandurin and icing! I really liked decorating in this way! Thanks again and happy holidays!

Anya, how beautiful! Real Christmas tree decorations!
MomMaxa
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Anya, how beautiful! Real Christmas tree decorations!
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Thank you Ira! I liked it myself ... I would like, of course, a more subtle drawing, but this year well, I have a LOT of gingerbread and houses.Of the advantages: it is done faster than filling with icing, I liked to paint with canandurin and more opportunities to make it multi-colored, or rather easier.
ZeZe
Thank you very much for such an MK ... just a great idea ... especially for those who are not friends with icing (I'm talking about myself) ... just there were cookies to order, as many as 49 pieces, with zodiac signs, and icing was so afraid knead ... I'm not friends with him, and even time was running out ... and then I came across this wonderful MK !!! and that's what I did ... unfortunately there is no clearer photo, everything that they managed to click before giving it back ...
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Babovka
Valentina thanks for the MK. It's a lifesaver for those who have no friendship with the Icenig yet.
ZeZe
Today I again made cookies ... and covered them with mastic ... since I didn't succumb to icing ... and there was no time to experiment ... and with the inscription it was a bit confusing ... there should have been a print on sugar paper, but where I order the girl left for another city before the 16th, and I needed the 9th ... so I had to make a stencil (my husband cut it out), and then they painted it with a gel dye with a sponge ... it didn't work out very neatly! but this is the best I could already do ...some cookies were redone several times, because for some reason the inscription blurred ... I didn't understand why ... maybe a lot of paint turned out ...
That's just delivered .. now I sit and worry ... like it or not ... still a large company! but I warned them in advance that I would paint by hand through a stencil ...
Cookies: Henkel, order for 30 pcs.
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Olka I
Quote: valvery
wonderful book Miracle Cookies,
And I have this book on the shelf collecting dust ..
Mom Tanya
ZeZe, Lyaila, well, show me at least one sloppy ??? !!! Interesting, beautiful, CAREFULLY !!!
Well done husband !!!)
ZeZe
Quote: Mom Tanya
ZeZe, Lyaila, well, show me at least one sloppy ??? !!! Interesting, beautiful, CAREFULLY !!!
Well done husband !!!)
Tanya, thank you very much ... yes, after your praises, I don't see it myself ... but to be honest, when you need to make a clear logo of the company, it's still better to find where to print on waffle paper ... but live it is still clear that done Hand Made I gave it to my husband ... Thank you!
Mom Tanya
Quote: ZeZe
it's better to find where to print on waffle paper ... but live you can still see that Hand Made has been made
Yes, that's probably why they ordered from you! There is a soul! Home aaaaa !!!!
ZeZe
Quote: Mom Tanya
Yes, that's probably why they ordered from you! There is a soul! Home aaaaa !!!!
bellizs
Quote: ZeZe
where I order the girl left for another city
Layla as a fallback, 77 55 74 8000, Ruslan, prints within two hours and the prices are great
Elya_lug
I have a quick valentine gingerbread. Decorated with mastic using cutting rulers. There were only three gingerbreads, so I just rearranged the elements and took a photo.
Mezeshkalach, mastic
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing) Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing) Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing) Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Noyabrinka
valvery, on the 23rd decorated cookies according to your MK. I really liked decorating in this way, although this is my first experience in decorating cookies in general, but everything worked out the first time! Here is the report. Ice finishing.
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
the biscuits themselves are of 2 types, both recipes from here: "Tender feelings" according to lenkor's recipe and Ginger cookies according to Lakshmi's recipe
Merri
Tatyanawhat cuties!
Noyabrinka
Merri, Thank you :-)
Ludochek86
Girls, tell me, but the mastic is not becoming oak? On the cake, it remains soft from the cream, but here it is dry ... maybe tell me what mastic is better to decorate with so that it is tasty and not very hard, because the gingerbread will not be eaten right away?
Shalashen Tatiana
Thanks for your MK. I tried icing 1 time, and that is not very good, so far I don’t want to contact it. I have been thinking about mastic for a long time, and from accidentally wandered over to you, and the little hands were combed. I will send the report as soon as possible I will do it on dairy biscuits, they are so soft.)))
AlinkaM
my squirrel in a hollow)))
solution 12/12
roe dough, I bake only from it
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
m0use
Oh, but I thought I discovered America! Then here are my wedding bastards))
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
I just glued the mastic on the Amaretto liqueur, it turned out such a pleasant almond note!
AlinkaM
m0use, cool, not knowing and you won't think that this is not icing)))


Added Monday 25 Apr 2016 01:29

Ludochek86, I do both purchased and marmyshkovo.
glue on decorgel
Merri
Quote: m0use

Oh, but I thought I discovered America! Then here are my wedding bastards))
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
I just glued the mastic on the Amaretto liqueur, it turned out such a pleasant almond note!

Ksyusha, well, quick-grubber! Made by themselves?
m0use
Merri, Ir, well, in comparison with jellies, yeah, straight themselves and even smoother, I am not very friendly with icing, only for stripes and dots I have enough
Merri
m0use, Ksyushik, for me this is also fantastic!
OlgaYUB
Girls, who ever made gingerbread to order?
Tyetyort
Olga, I do it all the time.
OlgaYUB
Flax, but they buy it as for decorating a cake or for holidays (Easter, NG, March 8, etc.)? Why I ask, I tried to sell ... I treat - everyone likes it, but they don't order.
Tyetyort
Olga, I make cakes to order, cakes are often asked for gingerbread numbers.

Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)

Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
Decorating gingerbread and cookies with mastic (imitation of icing)
OlgaYUB
And I decorate with numbers and other gingerbread cookies, but they don't order purely gingerbread, once it was just that. So I think, maybe I'm not doing anything like that.

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