New Year is not only a cheerful noisy holiday, it is also wonderful time for children and their parents. This is the time for joint creativity with your child, this is the time for all kinds of crafts on the New Year theme and, most importantly, this is a wonderful time to decorate the house for the most long-awaited holiday.

Toddlers and grown-up children with pleasure with their own hands: hand-carved snowflakes and home-made toys. In the company of a child, you can make beautiful Christmas trees, gifts for family and friends, and a variety of elements of festive home decor. And we will give you one interesting idea how you can stylishly and tastefully decorate your home for the New Year, as well as have fun and usefully spend time.

DIY New Year's house- this is a truly magnificent home interior decoration for the New Year 2019. Inspired by the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcreating such a home miracle, you can create several New Year's houses and give them to family or friends. If you arrange a flashlight or a garland inside the house, it will literally shine and bestow New Year's mood everyone around!

To make a New Year's house you will need:

• cardboard white color;
• paper;
• stationery knife;
• glue and glue stick;
• ruler;
• scissors;
• latex primer (you can do without it);
• sequins;
• dye;
• decorations, small decor (balls, bells, tinsel, artificial snow, etc.).

Step 1. Print out a house diagram or draw a New Year's house of similar sizes on paper.

Step 2 You need to cut out all the details and glue them onto cardboard.

Step 3 From cardboard, also cut out all the details of the house, and with the help of stationery knife process all windows, doors and other details that require painstaking work.

Step 4 Fold all the details along the fold lines and glue.

Step 5 A latex primer can be applied to the house so that the house does not deform over time.

Step 6 Now paint your New Year's house.

Step 7 When the paint is completely dry, decorate the house to your taste. The house is ready!

We bring to your attention several schemes beautiful houses for the New Year 2017. All you need is just to download your favorite pattern of the New Year's house and print it. And then you can cut, glue and decorate to your liking.

New Year's house with walls made of paper tubes

To make a paper Christmas house you will need:

• thin paper;
• glue;
• cardboard;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• paints or markers;
• all kinds of decorations.

Step 1. Each sheet or, equal in size to the others, a piece of the sheet you need to twist into a tube. For convenience, use a pencil (you need to wind paper on it).

Step 2 From the tubes, make four walls and two parts of the roof. Glue them together.

Step 3 Draw doors and windows on paper or cardboard, cut them out and glue them to the walls of the "pipe" New Year's house.

Step 4 It remains only to decorate the house and you can put it on a shelf or give it for the New Year!

To make a gingerbread house you will need:

Dough

• wheat flour - 3 tbsp.;
• natural honey - ¾ st.;
• butter 72-82% - 100 g;
• sour cream 26% - 100 g;
• chicken egg - 1 pc.;
• vodka, rum or cognac - 3 tbsp. spoons;
• spices for gingerbread dough (optional) - ¾ tablespoons;
• drinking water - ¼ st.;
• cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon.

Aising (glaze)

• chicken egg protein - 1 pc.;
• powdered sugar - 150-200 g.

You will also need paper, a pen and a ruler (for drawing and designing a house).

Scheme for the house

Step 1. Draw a template for a gingerbread house on a piece of paper (see photo).

Step 2 Cut out the pieces of the house.

Dough preparation

Step 1. Sift the flour through a sieve.

Step 2 Melt honey in water that has just been brought to a boil. Cool the mixture to a temperature of 40 degrees (not lower than 39 degrees) and add half of the sifted flour, mix everything thoroughly with a wooden spatula, avoid lumps.

Step 3 While the dough is cooling to room temperature, break the egg into a clean bowl and lightly mix it with a fork. When the dough has cooled, add the egg to it and mix.

Step 4 Add sour cream, alcohol, butter and gingerbread mixture to the dough.

Step 5 Knead the dough with the remaining flour and add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of cocoa for mowing the dough.

Step 6 Mix thoroughly. Ready dough does not stick to the hands (only slightly sticks to them) and the work surface.

Step 7 Roll out the dough no more than 1 cm thick, apply a pattern and cut out the details of the New Year's house.

Step 8 In an oven preheated to 220 degrees, you need to bake all parts of the house for 10-12 minutes.

Cooking icing

Only 1 serving is listed in the ingredients. This house will require 3 servings (provided that the chicken egg is large).

Step 1. Proteins need to mix with a fork, but do not beat.

Step 2 Gradually add powdered sugar (2 teaspoons each) and mix with a fork.

Step 3 Ready glaze should drain from the fork (if the icing is too thick, add a little cold water, about 1 teaspoon).

Step 4 Decorate the already cooled roof cakes with icing. If you wish, you can first make a stencil on a piece of checkered paper, then make a cornet from food paper and fill it with icing (apply a mesh, wait until it cools down and apply a drawing).

Step 5 Cover all the details of the house with icing, helping yourself with a toothpick or stick, making circular movements for better distribution of icing. Glaze on the roof and walls is best left overnight until completely dry. In the morning, you can apply patterns of snowflakes or bead dots.

Step 6 On Christmas trees and other gingerbread figures, apply icing diluted with food coloring.

Building a Christmas gingerbread house

Step 1. Cut the edges of the walls slightly at an angle of 45 degrees to better connect them to each other.

Step 2 After applying the glaze to the seams of the walls, connect the house. Use cups of water to support the walls until the frosting sets.

Step 3 When the seams of the walls have hardened, attach the roof in the same way, substituting props so that it does not “leave”. After 4 hours, you can complete the decoration of the house at your discretion.

Step 4 It would be nice to make icicles with glaze by squeezing a thick drop onto the edge, and then stretching it along the length of the roof. Snowflakes can be made by first drawing them with icing on the film.

The gingerbread house is ready! It can be placed on festive table as the most delicious decoration of the New Year 2017.

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GINGERBREAD HOUSE. Part 1 - all the secrets of mastery.

Hello dear hostesses. Today we will bake a gingerbread house. From the very beginning to the victorious end. The article is big. But this is because I told all the secrets and nuances. I laid straws wherever a novice cook could fall.

I set myself a goal warn you against all possible mistakes in advance so that you get a wonderful gingerbread house the first time.

You will know all the tricks and all the tricks. I will offer you a choice several ways to glue a gingerbread house and you will choose the one that seems most convenient for you.

And if you still have any questions, then ask them in the comments to this article.

I'll give you time right away., so that you know , how many hours will the whole process of making a gingerbread house take.

1. Dough kneading 20 min + time to keep it in the fridge for 1 hour
2. house drawing on cardboard 20 minutes (can also be done ahead of time)
3. Rolling out dough and cutting details gingerbread house 10 min
4. Baking 15 minutes
5. Preparation of glaze for gluing and decorating(while the house is baking the same 15 minutes)
6. decoration details cream and cooking tinsel 10-30 min (depends on you)
7. Building a gingerbread house(20-30 min), with assistants faster (or slower).
8. Drying the house(10 min if my way)
9. Roof installation(20-40 minutes, if you also use toothpicks, you will quickly fix it)
10. Decorating a gingerbread house sweets, cream, laying edible tiles on the house (from 30 minutes to infinity, because there is no limit to perfection).

The minimum is 3 hours. without breaks for rest and on the condition that the dough has already lain in the refrigerator for the time allotted to it.

Many hostesses make a gingerbread house not in one day, but in stages:

• 1 day - dough and baking walls for gingerbread house
• 2 day - gingerbread house glue
• Day 3 - decoration, decorating a gingerbread house

If you want the process to be a little faster, you can make a simplified version of the gingerbread house in the form of a gingerbread hut.

Or make a house from ready-made purchased cakes (by the way, there are cakes specifically for gingerbread houses with windows already cut out), or from chocolate bars, or from large biscuits(photo below).

Step 1. Cooking the dough

200 g butter(mash with a fork or chop with a knife)

5 spoons of liquid honey(if honey is candied, heat in a water bath, or on very low heat, stirring constantly)

200 g sugar

1 sachet of baking powder

4 egg yolks (!!! before separating the yolks from the whites, read the instructions below)

4 cups flour(this is approximate, depending on the size of the eggs)

Salt and Spices to choose from, 1 tsp each.: ground ginger, cinnamon, zest of 1 lemon, cardamom, anise

ATTENTION!!! Instructions for the correct separation of proteins from yolks

We will need the proteins from these eggs for gluing and decorating the house. We will beat them with powdered sugar. In order for the protein cream to turn out as it should, follow the following rules:

1. We break the eggs with clean and DRY hands, and the proteins should also flop into the DRY dishes. One drop of water - and everything is in the dark.

2. Not a single particle of the yolk should get into the whites - otherwise the cream will not foam (separate the protein from each egg over a separate dry bowl and, if it is separated without an admixture of yolk, pour from the bowl into a bowl with other proteins).

3. Since we will beat the cream later, when we put the walls of the house to bake, put the dishes with proteins much higher so as not to accidentally splash water into it.

So, from the above ingredients, knead the dough, wrap it in a film and put it in the refrigerator for an hour or two. Let it lie there, and we go to cut out the template of our future house from paper.

Step 2. Cut out the template from cardboard

If you are not confident in your own architectural or culinary skills, then you can make a simplified design of a gingerbread house - a kind of gingerbread hut (see photo above). As you can see in the photo, such a gingerbread house has no side walls, only triangular facades and a roof. A very convenient option for those who prefer a simpler design.

You choose the dimensions of the gingerbread house yourself - for the above amount of test the height of the facade of your house should be equal in size to your palm. The main thing is that the parts fit together in size with each other. How this will be achieved, I depicted in the diagram below using the example of a drawing of a simple gingerbread house.

As you can see, the parts match in size as follows:

The side wall must be the same height as the side of the front (value b)

And the slope of the roof is the same length as the side (value b) and the same height as the upper line of the slope at the front part (value a), the height of the slope can be made larger so that the roof hangs in the form of a canopy.

Step 3. Roll out the dough and cut out the details

chilled dough lay out on parchment or paper and roll out with a rolling pin. Be sure to lay the parchment, it is needed in order to transfer our cut-out details of the house to the baking sheet on it. If you carry parts in your hands, they can stretch, deform, and then, when assembling the house, they will not match each other in size.

The thickness of the dough layer should be at least 0.5 cm.

The figure below shows one trick to roll out the dough to an even thickness. On the sides of the dough, before rolling out, we put 2 slats with a height of 0.5 cm we need and roll out the dough, rolling our rolling pin along these slats (a foam profile from a hardware store is ideal as a slat, a 2-meter profile costs half a dollar).

For rolled out dough put a cardboard template and cut it out with a knife,very convenient to cut with the pizza wheel. You can immediately cut out windows on the raw dough, or later on the baked parts (see photo below). From the remnants of the dough, we cut out figurines of Christmas trees, animals, a pipe, a porch, a fence - what the fantasy tells, and what the dough is enough for.

Right on the parchment where we rolled out, and transfer the figures to a baking sheet, cutting off a piece of parchment with a detail with scissors (photo below, on the left).

The baking tray must be level, otherwise the house can also turn out with curved walls (and try to dock them later).

We bake the details of the gingerbread house at a temperature of about 200-220 gr. FROM(on medium heat) about 10-12 minutes. We take it out of the oven as soon as the cakes are already yellow, but not yet brown (photo above, on the right). While the cakes are hot, it is easy to cut windows out of them if you want.

But it’s better not to overdo it for the first time, because you can simply draw windows on the walls of the house with protein cream, as here:

And when you bake your next gingerbread house, you can not only cut out windows, but also “Glaze” with marmalade or caramel.

Step 4. Making frosting for decoration and gluing

Ingredients : for 1 protein, 200 gr. powdered sugar + 1 tsp. lemon juice (or a little bit of vinegar, or dry lemon acid). Acid is needed not only for taste, thanks to it, the glaze is more elastic, tight, sticky.

If you don't have powdered sugar , don't worry, I'll tell you a secret, I personally always make the same icing with regular sugar. The main thing here is that sugar should be fine-crystalline, so to speak, finely ground (this is often found on sale), such sugar has time to melt in the protein during whipping. And in order for it to melt for sure (even coarse-grained), even before whipping, you can simply let it lie down in a slightly whipped protein, it will melt during this time, and the cream after whipping with sugar will also turn out as it should. Beat the protein gradually adding sugar with a tablespoon until the foam becomes stiff and stagnant, as in the photo below. And you can make your own powdered sugar, tar sugar on a coffee grinder.

In the photo below, I made and photographed 2 types of glaze in the first bowl of sugar, in the second bowl of powdered sugar - there is no difference in stickiness, moreover, sugar is much more palatable, and even cheaper. Therefore, I personally choose icing sugar - and you can try both and decide for yourself which one you prefer.

Process:

Beat the whites first without anything into the foam, then gradually add the powder by a tablespoon, without stopping whipping. As soon as the cream becomes tight and holds its shape, it is ready, even if you have not poured out all the powder. Eggs also come in different sizes. For small eggs, as much powder as in the recipe is not necessary.

If desired frosting can be tinted by adding cocoa, or food coloring.

ATTENTION, dyes for Easter eggs, are suitable only if they do not contain salt, or the package has the inscription "Can be used for confectionery". You don't need salty frosting.

Because glaze has the ability to harden quickly, then it is better to cover it after cooking with a damp (not wet) towel. And while you are messing with the cakes, the icing will harden, but if you work quickly (in the spirit of Yulia Vysotskaya), then you don’t need a towel, the icing will not harden in half an hour.

Better yet, cook first one serving of glaze from 2 egg whites(for decorating the walls of the house), and then a second batch of frosting(for gluing parts of the house). That will make more sense.

Step 5 Decorate the Walls

Even before gluing the gingerbread house, we paint the walls and roof.

Easy to write with pastry syringe or pastry bag. But if you don't have either, then read the following note:

How to make your own pastry bag in 1 minute.

We take a regular stationery file (or a clean, dense plastic bag), cut off (straight or obliquely) the bottom corner to make a tiny hole, load a portion of the cream into the file and twist the top of the file with a roller (like a carpet) and fix it with a stapler in several places (if not in stapler house, paper clips will do or you can sew with a needle and thread). Done - you can extrude patterns.

We draw windows, decorate with small sweets, multi-colored confectionery topping, almonds, glue patterns cut from ordinary marmalade.

On one of the walls you can depict a Christmas tree. Draw with white cream and stick with sweets, like toys, or lay out a Christmas tree using the mosaic technique of triangular marmalades.

The roof can also be decorated before assembly, but it is more convenient for me to decorate the roof already on the gingerbread house itself. I posted a lot of ideas for decorating the house in a special article , there you will also find many photos of different gingerbread houses.

Step 6. Choose a base

Immediately decide what your gingerbread house will stand on. It can be another dough cake, an elegant dish, a tray, a cutting board, a box of sweets. Once you glue the house, you will not be able to transfer it to other dishes. You will only move it along with the base on which you will glue it.

It is undesirable to choose dishes made of plastic. Because when you want your house, glued with a protein cream, to harden in 10 minutes in a warm oven (and not in 3-4 hours in a room), you cannot do this, since plastic releases toxins when heated, and this is of course not necessary.

Take the cakes and, without gluing, join them on this base, see if the house fits on a dish, if the details fit together. If there are uneven, lopsided walls somewhere, now it's time to trim them with a knife.

Step 7. Choose how to glue the house

1. Protein glaze

See the egg white frosting recipe above. Glaze for gluing parts is conveniently applied using a pastry bag or a bag (how to make a bag yourself in 1 minute, read a little higher), or just with a spoon.

If the icing does not stick well to the cake lightly dampen the bonding area with water using a brush. Glaze can be applied simultaneously to both parts in the places of their gluing, and then pressed against each other. Hold for a while with your hands, and then just support the walls with improvised jars. And so, together with jars, and send to dry.

To make the gingerbread house glue set faster, I do this: I heat the empty oven to a hot, but not hot, state. I TURN OFF THE OVEN (that is, the fire does not burn in the oven !!!) and in this heated environment I place my gingerbread house for 2-10 minutes. The time depends on the "degree of heat" of the oven. Periodically I open and check with my finger. When our protein cream begins to turn into marshmallows (you will feel this by touch, or the cream may look slightly browned around the edges) - carefully remove it. Your gingerbread house is held together with a strong zifred cream.

2. Melted chocolate

MELTING CHOCOLATE (melt the tiles in a steam bath, such chocolate glue hardens quickly, and the house does not need to be additionally held after gluing.

3. Caramel glue

CARAMEL GLUE : 100 gr. sugar + 2 tbsp. water + a little bit of citric acid.

Acid is needed in order to prevent the "saccharification" of caramel. Those who have cooked caramel know that sometimes it does not crystallize into a candy, but is all candied into a fragile crumb. But citric acid will not allow this.

You cook sugar with water in the stage of light bubbling, stirring constantly, until a drop of such a syrup begins to crystallize on a cold saucer, that is, harden into caramel.

4. Toffee glue

WITH TOFFEE GLUE: 100 gr. sugar and 2 tbsp. boil sour cream in the boiling stage, stirring continuously, until a drop of such syrup, dropped into a glass of cold water, will land on the bottom of this glass in the form of soft and stretching toffee to the touch.

You can also add a spoonful of cocoa to such toffee glue during cooking - you get chocolate toffee.

You need to glue the details of the house with hot glues, until the glue is cold. That is, either act very quickly, or keep the saucepan with syrup in a hot water bath (that is, we dip a small saucepan with hot sweet glue into the saucepan bigger size with boiling water).

Gluing with caramel, toffee or chocolate looks something like this.

Keep the remaining caramel in a boiling water bath so that it does not freeze. It will come in handy as an excellent glue for laying tiles on the roof of a gingerbread house. And if you want to glaze windows with such caramel, read this article.

Step 8. Making the tiles

Now glue the roof in the same way. This connection must be as strong as possible so that the halves of the roof do not move out of the house.

Some fasten the roof by sticking skewers or toothpicks in the place where the roof joins the front facade of the house.

I simply generously apply protein glaze to the upper edges of the walls of the gingerbread house and as soon as the 2 halves of the roof are fitted, I immediately apply a thick layer of sticky cream along the entire roof ridge (top of the roof). The glued roof can be supported on both sides with suitable size jars until the glue is completely cured. .

When the roof is glued, you can lay tiles:

Tiles can simply be painted with protein glaze, laid out with almonds, chocolate bars, crispy pads, gummies, or whatever. Tiles can be glued for white frosting or caramel glue. You will read more about the types of sweet tiles and how to lay them in our next article - there you will also learn many more tricks for decorating a gingerbread house.

I will be glad to see questions, wishes and photos of baked gingerbread houses in the comments to this article.

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The end of December brings with it a lot of holiday fuss. Namely, the choice of gifts, preparation for the holiday, the design of the office and apartment, for some even cars, and of course all sorts of contests, including contests of children's crafts.

Usually they are like this at work, employees tell their children to prepare crafts for new year's competition, they try, and then in the offices there is an exhibition, "Yolka" and the presentation of prizes. In this article I want to tell you how to make crafts for a contest or a souvenir for the new year with your own hands. It will be a gingerbread house made of cardboard, polymer clay, beads, sequins and other shiny nonsense.

The advantage of such a house is, firstly, it is bright and beautiful, secondly, in the process of its manufacture, you really get into the spirit of the new year and your mood rises, and thirdly, you don’t need to buy any complex and expensive elements specially for it, just walk around home and collect what is “badly lying”, in the sense of not needed :)

I warn you, the work is not fast and even painstaking, so children need help.
To make crafts for the New Year's competition, you will need
1 box or cardboard (for gingerbread house)
2 cotton wool and / or polystyrene - for snow
3 scissors, glue (pencil, glue second), tape
4 colored paper, colored cardboard, paints, brushes
5 Sequins, beads, sequins, confetti, etc.
6 Polymer clay - we will make windows, candy canes, donuts and other attributes of a gingerbread house from it. Suitable and salty dough. In the absence of clay and dough, you can take plasticine

Step 1
We make the shape of the future gingerbread house out of the box. No need to be smart - the box itself is the walls. We cut the roof out of cardboard, glue it with adhesive tape / glue gun / glue second.
Coloring the gingerbread house with brown paint. Let dry

Step 2
While the cardboard house dries, we cut out circles of small diameter from colored paper (in my case, pink, yellow, silver and gold) (about 3-4 cm, depending on the size of the house). We glue the walls randomly with them. They come out like candy. This step can be easily done by children and contribute to the manufacture of New Year's crafts.

Step 3
We decorate the roof. We break / three foam plastic for large snowflakes, we tear cotton wool. Pour the roof with glue and sprinkle. You can add glitter or sequins.

Step 4
We make a window, a door, a Christmas wreath on the door, bells, candy canes, donuts, marmalade from polymer clay, dough or plasticine.

Marmalade is made simply - the dough / clay needs to be rolled into a sausage, cut into rounds, glued to the house and covered with shiny powder or glitter varnish on top.

For parts made of polymer clay, you need to preheat the oven, put the parts there, wait 10 minutes at a temperature of 120 degrees. Pull out and let cool

Step 5
We glue all this beauty from the fourth step to the house. Arbitrarily!

Step 6
We make or take a ready-made basis for placing a composition on it. It could be a shoebox lid. We glue the house, spread snow-wool around, sprinkle with sparkles.

Step 7
draw a Christmas tree on cardboard. 2 blanks. Cut out. Next, we make cuts in each blank - in the first from above, in the second from below. We put the templates on top of each other through the cuts. The Christmas tree is ready! We glue on it a little cotton wool and polystyrene foam, sequins. We place the Christmas tree near the gingerbread house made of cardboard.

Step 8
We bring to mind - we fix cotton wool, cover some elements with duck, add sparkles and other things

Gingerbread house made of cardboard and polymer clay is ready!

Usually, the work for the competition needs to be drawn up - write the name, surname, age. Let's make it original and beautiful. Let's make an arrow pointer out of clay (these are usually set to show the direction of the streets). On it we will write the name and surname of your child and place it near the house. As if your children live in this house :)

It will be a good job for the children's competition New Year's crafts and handmade

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Thank you to everyone who commented on our home. We are really pleased with it. I would like to add that December and the New Year passed and we were told about the results of the competition for which this house was exhibited. We have FIRST PLACE!!! Hooray! We received many gifts and a diploma - the collection is replenished.

If you have the opportunity to work all day in the kitchen, do not be too lazy to make a gingerbread house with your own hands! It's the perfect decoration new year holiday and great joy for little kids, who, by the way, can be safely connected to the process.

Making a gingerbread house is a creative and exciting task! Having gathered with the whole family, you can develop a design, come up with interesting design and just have fun. So, let's get down to the process and prepare a gingerbread house, following step by step recipe with photo!

Ingredients:

For test:

• butter - 120 g;
• honey - 200 g;
• ground ginger - 4 teaspoons;
• cocoa powder - 2 tbsp. spoons;
• ground cinnamon - 1 teaspoon;
• sugar - 100 g;
• baking soda - a small pinch;
• flour - about 300 g (how much dough will take).

For caramel (gluing):

• sugar - 100 g;
• water - 40 ml.

For glaze:

• lemon juice - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
• egg white - 1 pc.;
• powdered sugar - about 150-200 g.

For decor:

• colored caramel - 2-3 sweets;
• chocolate pads - about 100 g;
• any confectionery toppings - optional.

New Year's gingerbread house recipe with photo step by step

1. First of all, you need to cut blanks for a gingerbread house from cardboard. Can be found on the Internet ready-made templates Or design your own model. In our example, we made blanks of the following sizes:
   • side walls - 2 pcs. (107x120 mm);
   • roof - 2 pcs. (90x140 mm);
   • facade - 2 pcs. (105x160 mm, while the wall height is 107 mm);
   • the base of the house - 1 pc. (150x210 mm).
2. Also do not forget to cut windows and a door on the facade and side walls. If you want to make a large house, you need to prepare 1.5-2 times more dough than indicated in the recipe.
   
3. When the templates are prepared, we begin to knead the test. Mix softened butter with sugar and beat with a mixer until soft and fluffy. We introduce liquid honey and beat again.
   
4. In a separate bowl, mix dry ingredients: ginger, cinnamon, cocoa powder, baking soda and 100 g of sifted flour.
   
5. Pour the dry mass into the oil in portions, stirring. Gradually add flour, knead the dough.
   
6. The dosage of flour is adjustable during kneading: it may require a little more or less than indicated in the recipe. The dough should turn out not sticky to the hands, soft and slightly crumbling. We roll it into a ball and send it to the refrigerator shelf for 20-30 minutes - after cooling, the dough will become more elastic.
   
   
7. We roll out a thin layer on parchment paper, cut out parts of the future house according to the templates. We make sure that the thickness of the layer does not exceed 3 mm! If you make the layer thicker, the dough may remain loose inside, and the blanks will not be strong enough. In addition, the finished house can simply collapse under its own weight.
   
8. Carefully transfer the parchment with the details to a baking sheet. We decorate the windows of the house with caramel. To do this, grind it into small crumbs, for example, by placing it in plastic bag and tapping with a hammer for chops. We spread the caramel crumbs in the "windows". When exposed to temperature, the caramel will quickly melt, and the windows will become colored, as if a light was turned on in the house.
   
9. We bake the components of the house for about 8-10 minutes at 180 degrees - do not overdo it! Freshly baked blanks will be soft at first, but then harden very quickly.
   
10. We collect dough scraps and bake cookies using molds in the form of Christmas trees, deer, men, etc. By the way, ready-made cookies can also be used in the design of the house.
    
11. When all the component parts are completely ready, we proceed to the "assembly" of the gingerbread house.
    
    
12. We will glue the parts of the house with caramel. To prepare it, pour sugar into a refractory dish with a thick bottom and add drinking water. Stirring, bring to a boil over medium heat.
    
13. Continuing to stir, cook the sweet mixture until golden brown. To check readiness, take a small amount of syrup and put into a bowl of cold water. If a hard caramel forms after a couple of seconds, the syrup is ready!
    
14. Now we proceed to the most important stage. Carefully, so as not to burn yourself, we dip the parts of the house upside down in hot caramel and quickly fasten them together. First, we glue the side wall and the facade, attach it to the base.
    
15. Then we attach the second side and the back wall of the house. You need to work quickly, as the caramel hardens very quickly. At this stage, it is better to get an assistant, since it will be difficult to fasten the house alone. So that the still unused caramel in the dishes does not freeze, it is better to cover it with a lid and periodically warm it up over minimal heat.
    
16. The last thing we do is fix the roof. We leave the formed house for about an hour.
    

    How to make icing for a gingerbread house

17. Mix chilled raw protein with lemon juice. Beat until a white foam is obtained.
    
18. Pour the sweet powder in portions, without ceasing to work with a mixer. As a result, the proteins need to be whipped into a steep mass, otherwise the icing on the house will not harden. If necessary, increase the dosage of the powder.
    
    
19. Transfer the icing to a plastic bag and cut off the tip. We carefully process the gluing points to hide traces of caramel. We apply glaze to the roof, and then we attach chocolate pads to imitate tiles. Optionally, we supplement the house with any confectionery toppings. You can also form "icicles" with glaze. If the consistency of the glaze is right, they will hold their shape well and harden quickly.
    

Congratulations! You made your own gingerbread house! Unfortunately, gingerbread dough quickly becomes stale and hard. Therefore, if you want to have a tea party, it is better to do it immediately after cooking, or just leave the house as a decoration. We wish you pleasant and happy Holidays!