Pour egg white into a mixer bowl (combine, blender or just a saucepan), add water, but not all - about 50 ml. Just mix with a spoon and leave for 5-8 minutes. Then add a teaspoon of lemon juice and beat. It is better, of course, to regret yourself and use a blender, mixer, combine. Beat until the bubbles become small and the mixture does not increase slightly in volume. I use a mixer, whisk about 3-5 minutes.
Now pour out the icing sugar (everything measured) and begin to mix (again in the mixer, at low speeds).
If I see that the powder does not mix, it remains dry, I can add quite a bit of water (out of the remaining 60 ml). In this case, I added 2 teaspoons (I add one at a time, mix and look each time).
Ice should get thick. In America, his name is stiff peak, i.e. solid peaks. If you take out a spoon, then the mass stretches, and then does not settle. This texture is suitable for storage. If you are not going to use icing right now, put it in a jar and put it in the fridge.
And if you want to start decorating gingerbread right now, then go ahead.
We need food dyes. I like American gel, we can also buy from us, for example, Americolor or Chefmaster (in any online store a la “everything for the pastry chef”).
Also need packages. You can use regular plastic bags (for breakfast, for freezing, for storage) or order special cooking bags on Aliexpress, they are a bit more comfortable, but it doesn’t matter. Do not forget the clamps (I haven't found any better ones yet).
Another tool that is simply vital is ... a regular toothpick! It will help and color to give the glaze, and pouring spread, and fix the oblique contour, and remove all unnecessary.
Before starting to draw, I make for myself simple sketches in a notebook.
In the New Year's decor, I like the white and blue gamma. Put a piece of our thick glaze in a separate small bowl, take a blue dye (at the very tip of the toothpick) and mix. If you get too dark color, you will have to add more white glaze. Having achieved the desired shade, "liquefy" the icing.
Add a little water (just a few drops). It is important not to miss the desired consistency.
We need two options for each shade: one for the contour so that it does not spread, the second for the fill. The contour consistency of the contour is similar to toothpaste (it is a paste, not a gel). For filling - as sour cream 10-15% - spreads, but not very quickly.
Many people remember for themselves how the surface of the glaze is smoothed completely after mixing. It is convenient for me to do just by eye.
First, prepare the icing for the contour, we shift about a third to the bag, we tie it. In the remaining icing, add a little more water, bring sour cream to the consistency, we also shift it into a separate bag and set it up. Now an important point. Need to cut a corner. For the contour, it is very thin - 1-1.5 mm wide, for filling it can be 2-3 mm thicker.
Similar procedures are carried out for each shade of glaze, which will be involved in the decor.
Now you can decorate our gingerbread. For example, just put a contour of snowflakes on the "bare" cookies. Here it is necessary that the hand was "firm" and not tremble.
Another option is to first make a background fill (but before that, draw a path anyway so that the fill does not spread out over the edges). In this case, it will be necessary to allow the background to dry completely, usually 2-3 hours.
Here are some Christmas snowflakes and Christmas balls I have turned out.
In general, "practice bakes perfect"! So go ahead!
Simplified version of the preparation of the egg white glaze in the video version of this recipe from chef Elena Stradze in the culinary program “In My Plate”.
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Calorie: Not specified
Time for preparing: 120 min
Snow dough snowman painted with sugar protein coating. In the recipe there is a picture with an outline, according to which you need to cut a snowman from shortbread dough, a detailed description of the coloring steps.
To make shortbread cookies with “Snowman” icing, we will need 120 minutes, and from the ingredients listed in the recipe, 6 servings are obtained.
Ingredients:
for the test:
- wheat flour - 210 g;
- baking powder - 3 g;
- butter - 100 g;
- icing sugar - 50 g;
- sour cream - 30 g;
- chicken egg (yolk) - 1 pc .;
- salt - 2 g;
for decoration:
- powdered sugar - 210 g;
- chicken egg (protein) - 1 pc .;
- lemon juice - 5 g;
- food red dye;
- food green dye;
- food marker black.
Recipe with photos step by step:
We make shortbread dough for Christmas cookies with a glaze in the form of a snowman: mix icing sugar and butter, add yolk, sour cream, and salt to them. Pour the sifted flour and baking powder. Knead the dough, roll into a ball and remove to the cold. 
Roll out the dough with a thickness of 4 millimeters. Cut out the big snowmen: we apply the pattern to the test, we circle it with something sharp. Cut a knife biscuits. 
Preheat oven to 190 degrees Celsius, spread cookies on a dry baking sheet, bake for 10 minutes. 
Prepare a sugar protein glaze for snowman cookies: mix the protein, sifted icing sugar and a drop of lemon juice. Pound until mixture turns bright white. In a small kornetik with a narrow nozzle we put a little glaze, put a white icing on the cookies, as shown in the photo. 
Dry the glaze at room temperature for 40 minutes. How to decorate? Apply volume "belly". Dry the glaze again. 
Add a red food coloring to a small part of the white glaze to get the pink color for the cap. We draw a hat and boots as shown in the photo. We dry. 
We mix a little green dye and a part of white glaze, we put a detail of a light green scarf. 
Add the red dye to the pink glaze, draw the nose, the lapel of the cap, the details of the shoes. 
Add green dye to light green glaze to make dark green scarf details. Dry it. 
When the glaze is completely dry, draw the mouth, eyes and branches with a food marker.
Such cookies can be packed in a beautiful box and presented as a gift for the New Year. After all, hand-made gifts are very nice, agree. 
The pattern on which you can cut shortbread cookies "Snowman". We print a snowman with a height of 12 centimeters, cut out of paper and apply to the dough.
We also offer you to make
Prepare christmas cookies with icing sugar for the Christmas holidays. The recipe suggests a Snowman with a whisk cookie pattern, using which you will cut out the complex shape of a cookie from the dough. Also in the recipe is a detailed description of how to properly apply the icing. For colored glaze, food dyes are needed: red and green, as well as a black food marker and pastry nozzles for cream with a hole of 1 and 2 millimeters.
It will take 120 minutes to prepare, and from the ingredients listed in the recipe there are 6 servings.
Ingredients for the dough:
- wheat flour - 200 g
- soda - 3 g
- butter - 90 g
- sugar - 100 g
- cream - 30 g
- chicken egg (yolk) - 1 pc.
- salt - 2 g
To decorate:
- icing sugar - 300 g
- chicken egg (protein) - 2 pcs.
- food dye red
- food dye green
- food marker black
Christmas cookies "Snowman with a whisk" - a recipe
Figure print out so that its height was 10 centimeters. This cookie size is optimal for glazing.
Making the dough for “Snowman with a whisk”: mix the soft butter with sugar. Add yolk and cream, add wheat flour with soda in portions. Knead soft dough. We remove it in the refrigerator.
After 15 minutes, roll out the dough to a thickness of 6 millimeters, apply a drawing, cut out blanks for cookies "Snowman with a whisk" knife.
Carefully transfer the billet blanks to a dry baking tray. Do not immediately do a lot of blanks, as the process of drawing sugar icing is quite time consuming.
Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius, bake for 10 minutes. We take out and completely cool the cookies at room temperature.
Cooking white glaze: mix the protein and 150 grams of sifted icing sugar. We shift the icing in the pastry bag with a nozzle 2 millimeters. We outline the contours of flowers on each piece of cookies, as shown in the photo. Apply white glaze on all blanks. Leave them to dry at room temperature for 30 minutes.
To the remaining white glaze add a little red food coloring. Get a gently pink color. Stir the glaze with a spoon until the dye grains are completely dissolved.
Mix the glaze: one protein, the remaining icing sugar and green dye on the tip of a knife.
Apply in turn to the preparation of cookies "Snowman with a whisk" pink and light green glaze with the help of pastry packages with nozzles 2 millimeters. Dry each color at room temperature.
We make a teaspoon of red glaze from white glaze and red dye for a nose-carrot and buttons.
White glaze draw snowflakes on the jacket. For delicate work need nozzle 1 millimeter.
Cooking brown color for the panicle. To do this, mix the remnants of pink and green glaze, add a little red and green dye to enhance the color. Brown can always be obtained from green and red paint.
Lettuce glaze draw volumetric details of a scarf, a pompon on a cap, lapels on a snowman's jacket. Brown glaze make a whisk. For these actions need a thin nozzle on the pastry bag. If the colors of the glaze do not overlap one another, they can be applied simultaneously.
The joy of celebrating the New Year in children has no limits. Everyone wants to get a gift from Santa for a holiday. Mom tries to cook for the child a lot of different Christmas dishes. Including sweets. You can just bake your signature cookies and not surprise the child at all, but simply feed you deliciously. And you can show your imagination and make a real white snow snowman out of the usual simple shortbread cookies, and even with a broom! Let's try, do not be lazy, hostess!
Ingredients:
150 gr. sugar,
200 gr. butter or margarine,
2 eggs,
salt,
200 gr. cream or curd cream,
1/2 tsp soda,
200-300 gr. flour,
1 tbsp. condensed milk with sugar,
colorful pastry for baking,
round bright candy.
Cooking:
Beat eggs with 100 grams of granulated sugar, add melted butter or margarine, salt, sour cream or curd cream. Stir sifted flour and soda and gradually add to the dough. Stir until smooth, wrap in a bag and refrigerate. After two hours you can get the dough.
Roll it into a layer 0.5-0.7 cm thick.
A large glass and a glass to chart the circles of a snowman, but not push through. To finish decorating the head, legs and pens, do not forget about the bucket instead of the cap. Cut with a knife along the contour to get a solid figure of a snowman.
Roll out a narrow strip of dough separately.
Cut a broom out of it for a snowman and divide the dough into pieces to make a broom at the end.
Put a snowman on a baking sheet.
Bake in the oven at 180 degrees. Thin shortbread biscuits are baked fairly quickly (about 10-15 minutes), so do not miss the moment when it will be ready.
Condensed milk to lubricate the snowman completely, as well as the tail of the broom. From 50 grams of sugar to make powdered sugar.
Sprinkle it with a snowman. Only a hat-bucket instead of powdered sugar to decorate with confectionary dressing. Eyes, nose and mouth can also be made from confectionary decoration - in aktikika they are found in different shapes and sizes - something will definitely work. Put candies instead of buttons.
Holidays are rapidly approaching, snow adorns the streets, garlands are lit in the houses. In the evenings, the unique aroma of fresh baking comes from the kitchen ...
We bring to your attention 5 favorite recipes and 30 ideas of New Year's cookies, choose to take a note, fantasize and be sure to attract all family members to this exciting lesson!
Happy viewing and December evenings that are cozy for you!
1. Simple Christmas Cookie Recipe from M & M’s 
You will need:
1 cup M & M’s
2 cups of flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ tsp salt
½ cup of softened butter
½ cup vegetable oil
½ cup of sugar
¾ cup cane sugar
2 teaspoons of vanilla
2 eggs
Cooking method:
Baking tray with parchment paper.
Mix butter and vegetable oil, sugar and cane sugar.
Add vanilla and eggs.
Mix flour, baking powder and salt.
Connect everything and mix.
Gently add M & M’s.
Spoon the mixture on a baking tray - one spoon = one cookie
Bake for about 10 minutes until the edges are browned.
Cool on a wire rack.
2. Another simple cookie recipe with filling 
You will need
1 cup of softened butter
½ cup of sugar
2 cups of flour
stuffing like cherry jam
1 cup of powdered sugar
1-2 teaspoons milk
½ tsp vanilla
Cooking method:
Preheat oven to 180.
Mix butter and sugar.
Mix flour (the dough should be crumbly).
Roll out the dough into round balls and place on a baking sheet (no need to lubricate it).
Make prints in each ball of dough and fill it with stuffing.
Bake for 15 minutes until the edges of the cookies are browned and hardened.
Let the cookies cool on the sheet for 15 minutes.
Making the icing: mix powdered sugar with milk and vanilla.
Decorate cookies with icing.
3. Christmas Gingerbread 
You will need:
175 gr flour
1/4 tsp soda
a pinch of salt
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp ginger
65 gr. butter
75 gr. powdered sugar
2 tbsp. honey
1 yolk
Cooking method:
Sift and mix all dry ingredients (except powder).
Finely and quickly chop ice oil into cubes of 5 mm and pour it into a dry mixture.
Stir the dough with your hands and add the powder, honey, and yolk.
Stir again. It should make a very cool smooth dough. If it crumbles, add honey.
Roll the dough into a ball and wrap a film in the refrigerator for an hour.
Roll out a layer 3-6 mm thick and cut the molds.
Preheat oven to 170 degrees.
Bake 8-10 minutes.
4. Vanilla Crescents 
You will need
400 g wheat flour
300 g butter
100 g sugar
150 g almond flour
1 egg
2 tsp vanilla (can be replaced with 3 bags of vanilla sugar)
1/2 lemon peel
3 tablespoons of powdered sugar and 1 tsp. vanilla for decoration
Cooking method:
Mix wheat flour with almond flour and add vanilla.
Oil cut into pieces, mix in a combine with sugar and lemon zest.
Add the egg, then stir in the flour, stir and bring the dough until smooth by hand.
Wrap the dough in film and leave in the refrigerator for 2 hours.
Preheat oven to 175 degrees.
Roll sausages out of dough and make crescents out of them.
On a baking sheet covered with baking paper, spread out the crescents.
Bake for 20 minutes.
Hot cookies sprinkle with a mixture of powder and vanilla.
5. Cookies "Christmas deer" 
You will need:
1 cup flour
1/4 cup icing sugar
100 g butter
1 egg yolk
a pinch of salt
soda - on the tip of a knife
50 g of mastic
50 g chocolate
2 tbsp. l cream
M & M’s - 50 g.
Cooking method:
Whisk the egg yolk, add the sifted flour, salt, powdered sugar, soda and mix everything thoroughly.
On a large grater, rub the butter and add it to the flour mixture.
Knead the dough.
Roll out the cake with a thickness of 7 mm, make a circle with a mold and spread them on a baking sheet.
Preheat oven to 200 degrees
Bake cookies for 15-20 minutes.
Bring the cream to a boil, remove from heat, add chocolate and stir until a homogeneous mixture is formed.
Pour hot chocolate into the pastry syringe and decorate the cookies.
Make noses out of mastic and M & M’s.
And a few more ideas for inspiration!
1. Thawed snowman cookies 
2. New Year's Chocolate Chip Cookies 
3. Christmas Christmas Shortbread Cookies 
4. Figured gingerbread with lemon icing 
5. Fragrant Cocoa and Nutella Cookies 
6. Christmas Surprise Cookies 
7. Christmas sugar cookies in the form of candy 
8. Classic sugar mitten Christmas cookies 
9. Simple Mint Candy Cookies 
10. Santa's Tummy Christmas Cookies 
11. Fir-trees from strawberry covered with chocolate glaze 
12. Christmas tree made from different size sugar stars 
13. Christmas cookies with chocolate and mint candy 
14. Beautiful round Christmas cookies 
15. Chocolate balls with chopped mint candies 
16. Chocolate mini cookies with filling 
17. Appetizing Christmas cookies "Kisses" 
18. Cookies with Christmas decorations made of sweets 
19. Cookies "Christmas Wreath" 
20. Cookies snowmen 
21. Simple Snowmen from Round Sugar Cookies 
22. Fancy Shaped Christmas Cookies 
23. Christmas Santa Gingerbread 
24. Triangular Christmas trees 
25. Rudolf Cookies with Pretzel Horns 
26. Winter Cookies Covered with Chocolate 
27. Chocolate dough snowmen with ORIO pastry cap 
28. Chocolate oatmeal cookies that do not need to bake 
29. Coconut Christmas Wreaths 
30. Gentle Chocolate Mint Cookies 
Create and enjoy the magical pre-holiday evenings!