Festive Gingerbread Figures

Name: Festive Gingerbread Figures
Prep time: 105 min
Cook time: 135 min
Total time: 240 min
Yield: 18 Portionen
Ingredients: 125 g soft Butter; 100 g Sugar (e.g. fine brown); 2 tsp Gingerbread spice; 1 pinch Salt; 1 piece Egg (size M); 175 g Beet syrup; 350 g Flour; 1 etwas Flour; 0.5 gestrichene(r) TL Baking powder; 150 g Icing sugar; 2 tbsp Milk; 150 g Bittersweet chocolate coating; 50 g Coating; 15 g Solid vegetable fat; 1 etwas Silver pearls for decoration

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Cook Time

4 h

Servings

Difficulty

Medium

Prep Time

105 Min

This Thermomix® recipe for Festive Gingerbread Figures is ready in 4 h and yields 18 servings. Step-by-step guide with precise Thermomix® settings on MixBuch.

Description

These gingerbread figures are a real eye-catcher on any Christmas table! I make them every year with my family, and it's always great fun to decorate the gingerbread men and reindeer. Thanks to the beet syrup, the dough is nice and spicy and the chocolate coating provides the perfect chocolate coating. The preparation is a bit time-consuming, but the result is worth it. They taste particularly good with a cup of hot chocolate or mulled wine. An absolute must for the Christmas season!

Ingredients (15 ingredients)

125 g soft Butter
100 g Sugar (e.g. fine brown)
2 tsp Gingerbread spice
1 pinch Salt
1 piece Egg (size M)
175 g Beet syrup
350 g Flour
1 etwas Flour
0.5 gestrichene(r) TL Baking powder
150 g Icing sugar
2 tbsp Milk
150 g Bittersweet chocolate coating
50 g Coating
15 g Solid vegetable fat
1 etwas Silver pearls for decoration

Preparation (11 steps)

Prepare dough

Thermomix® Setting

2 min/Speed 3

Put Butter, sugar, gingerbread spice and Salt into the mixing bowl and stir for 2 min./speed 3 until creamy. Add Egg and beet syrup and stir in for 30 sec./speed 3. Mix Flour and baking powder, add to the mixing bowl and stir in for 1 min./speed 4. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for 60 minutes.

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Stir in Egg and syrup

Thermomix® Setting

30 sec/Speed 3

Add Egg and beet syrup to the dough in the mixing bowl and stir in for 30 sec./speed 3.

Stir in Flour and baking powder

Thermomix® Setting

1 min/Speed 4

Mix Flour and baking powder, add to the mixing bowl and stir in for 1 min./speed 4. Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for 60 minutes.

Roll out and cut out the dough

Roll out the chilled dough on a lightly floured work surface to a thickness of 4–5 mm. Use a gingerbread man cutter to cut out approx. 18 biscuits and place on baking trays lined with baking paper. Use a piping nozzle to pierce holes in the biscuits for hanging.

Bake biscuits

Brush the biscuits with a little Water and bake one after the other in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200°C/convection: 175°C/gas: level 3) for approx. 8 minutes. Then let cool.

Prepare icing sugar glaze

Thermomix® Setting

20 sec/Speed 3

Sieve icing sugar into the mixing bowl, add 1 tbsp of hot Water and Milk and stir for 20 sec./speed 3 to create a thick icing. Fill into a piping bag and cut off a small corner.

Decorate gingerbread men

Decorate half of the biscuits with the icing sugar glaze as gingerbread men and leave to dry.

Melt coating

Thermomix® Setting

4 min/122°F/Speed 2 50

Chop bittersweet chocolate coating and coating. Put bittersweet chocolate coating with solid vegetable fat into the mixing bowl and melt for 4 min./50°C/speed 2. Then let cool for 15 minutes. Put white coating in the mixing bowl and melt for 3 min./50°C/speed 2.

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Melt white coating

Thermomix® Setting

3 min/122°F/Speed 2 50

Put white coating in the mixing bowl and melt for 3 min./50°C/speed 2.

180

Fill coating into piping bags

Fill both coatings into a piping bag each and cut off a small corner at the bottom.

Decorate reindeer

Turn the remaining gingerbread man biscuits upside down and paint the head, ears and antlers with dark coating. Inject eyes with white coating and place a black chocolate pearl as a pupil on each. Decorate noses with red sugar strands and ears with silver pearls. Let everything dry.