The magic atmosphere of the Christmas-New Year holidays is most clearly felt in Europe. And this is not surprising, because the inhabitants of European countries are approaching the process of pre-holiday preparation with all responsibility. Already from the first days of December, you can see how the streets of the Old World are changing, acquiring a lot of shining garlands and hundreds of Christmas decorations.
One of such original European New Year's decorations can be attributed gingerbread house. And although this holiday attribute is more a category of delicacies, its beauty allows you to use the carrot and as a Christmas and New Year decor. Fortunately, you can enjoy the beauty of gingerbread houses not only in Europe, because making this attribute is not as difficult as it seems at first glance."House of Dreams" today will tell about it.
Gingerbread house
House in which the Gods live
The history of gingerbread houses began back in the days of Ancient Rome. Residents of this state baked for the New Year's holidays buns in the form of a kind of huts, and then installed them near the altars. The ancient Romans believed that on New Year's Eve, deities settle in such treats. Interestingly, the next morning buns-huts were eaten by the owners of the house as a sign of unity with the Gods.
The European history of gingerbread houses dates back to 1812.It was at this time in Germany was published a fairy tale Brothers Grimm "Grenzel and Gretel."The plot of this tale was built around a magical gingerbread house, in the walls of which lived an evil sorceress.
The idea of a gingerbread house was so popular with European residents that they decided to implement this delicacy in reality. Local chefs and cooks have developed a variety of recipes for making dough for houses, thanks to which the treats are not stale and not spoiled for many days.
Ever since the gingerbread house, decorated with icing, marmalade, honey syrup, chocolate and other sweets, has become an indispensable attribute of Christmas and New Year holidays. In honor of it, there are organized fairs and competitions, exhibits of which sometimes resemble decorative culinary masterpieces.
Gingerbread house photo
Gingerbread house
Gingerbread house from sweet tubules
How to make a gingerbread house with your own hands
Interesting ideas: how to make a delicious gingerbread house with your own hands
A gingerbread house is really like a small masterpiece, but you can make it without even having outstanding culinaryskills. In the process of preparation of this delicacy it is important to adhere to this recipe, tk.changing even the most insignificant ingredient, you can break the strength of the test. Each detail of the house is baked in pre-prepared forms or templates, and then combined together with hot caramel or honey treacle.
Gingerbread house - this is not an ordinary dessert, because it also plays the role of an important decorative element. In Europe, on Christmas Eve, the house is usually set on the windowsill, highlighting it from the inside with a small flashlight. Often this dessert is supplemented with figurines of ginger males or cakes made in the form of animals, thereby turning it into a kind of nativity scene. That is why the decoration of the gingerbread house has become almost a separate kind of culinary art.
How to decorate the gingerbread house
Gingerbread house for the New Year
Gingerbread house for Christmas Photo
There are absolutely no canons in the process of decorating the gingerbread house. The most important thing is that the sweet composition should please you with its beauty and originality. For example, the roof of a gingerbread house can be supplemented with edible tiles laid out from air cushions, M & M's multi-colored pellets, glazed peanuts, jelly sweets, marmalade, etc. If you want a gingerbread house buried in the snow, decorate it with whipped cream, snow-white frosting, sugar powder, mastic and marshmallow.
How to make gingerbread house on New Year's Eve
Roof of gingerbread house from airy sweet pillows
Decorating a gingerbread house with drops and marmalade
Beautiful gingerbread houses photo
How to make a beautiful and delicious gingerbread house with your own hands
Gingerbread house as a New Year's decor
In the original, a luminous flashlight is installed inside the composition. But if you make a small gingerbread house, you can hardly put in it even the smallest light source. However, to achieve the effect of internal radiance it is possible with the help of yellow mastic or marzipan glaze applied to the areas of window openings.
New gingerbread house with own hands
Beautiful gingerbread house photo
How can you make a gingerbread house
If the process of baking a gingerbread house seems to be very difficult for you, do not worry, because the Swedish brand IKEA produces gingerbread sets to create a Christmas treat. It is enough just to fasten the cookies with caramel, molasses or glaze, and decorate the house to your liking. For sure, there are such sets for gingerbread houses in many supermarkets today.
Set for a gingerbread house
In addition, you can make a New Year's house with your own hands and from the usual large and dry biscuits. But to make the house strong and stable, build it out of the "double" walls, fastening the cookies with a suitable culinary mass.
How to make a bright and beautiful gingerbread house
Gingerbread house from a biscuit
Beautiful Christmas gingerbread house
Simple Christmas gingerbread house from a biscuit Photo
New Year's houses from alternative materials: original decor for the holiday
Already by the name it is clear that the gingerbread house is beforeall, good. However, if you want to use it exclusively as a New Year's decor, you do not need to bake a house, because it can be made from a salted dough, which is distinguished by its high durability and strength. In addition, the salty dough can be painted with ordinary paints, thus adding to the decor of the composition a note of originality and expressiveness.
Interesting ideas of gingerbread houses
Gingerbread houses photo
In addition, the New Year's house can be made literally from any improvised materials - cardboard, packages from under milk or juice, felt, dense fabric, etc. In this case, the choice of decorative elements for the house will depend on the materials you use.
For example, a cardboard gingerbread house can be decorated with paper applications, gift ribbons, Christmas bows, etc. On the house made of felt, the decor will look harmoniously in the form of embroidery, buttons, rhinestone, beads, fluffy decorative wire and other similar materials. If you like products made of polymer clay and want to make a gingerbread house from this material, use a multi-colored modeling and thematic accessories that will turn your house into an original and bright Christmas decoration.
Original gingerbread house from felt
Gingerbread house made of felt photo
Gingerbread house made of cardboard, felt, laces and buttons
Gingerbread house will bring your New Year's magic and festive cosiness to your interior. In addition, this product will give you a lot of pleasant emotions already at the stage of its creation, because making a house is an incredibly creative and fascinating process.
