In the West, there is a wonderful Christmas tradition - baking gingerbread, often they also serve as a decoration for the Christmas tree. And we will try gingerbread on the Christmas tree .... sew! Such gingerbread will never get stale and will not deteriorate. With them you can decorate the green beauty for more than one year. In addition, (which is obvious) they do not fight and are not afraid of even hyperactive space explorers: small children and pets.
Ingredients for textile gingerbread can be found in any home
1) Fabric (white calico). It is not necessary to run to the store for fabric, you can use a white sheet.
2) White sewing thread
3) Filler: synthetic winterizer or synthetic winterizer. Quite suitable cotton wool or scraps of fabric
4) PVA glue
5) Instant coffee
6) Ground cinnamon
7) Acrylic paints (I use glossy Decola, but any other acrylic is fine): white, red, green or any of your favorite colors
8) Strong thick thread (for example, "Iris" for crochet).
9) Brushes (thin and thick)
Print the pattern and enlarge it to A4 sheet size:
As you can see, we have here not only gingerbread men, but a Christmas tree, a house and a heart. You can dream up and come up with something of your own, but you can also learn from the example of ready-made forms: a gingerbread boy and a girl.
We transfer the contours of the figures to the fabric, not forgetting that you need to leave allowances for the seams. 3-5 mm. from all sides.
Then we pick up a needle with a thread and basting stitches, we sew our little men along the contour:
After that, they can be cut out, it will turn out neatly, and the parts will not move.
Next, you need to sew the parts together finally. If you have a sewing machine, you can use it. If not, this is not a reason to abandon the idea. The height of the figurines is only 10 cm, sewing them by hand is not difficult. Don't forget to leave a small hole in the side for stuffing.
After the little men are stitched, they must be carefully turned to the front side. To make the seams look neat, let's do the following: in those places where the angle of curvature of the contour is 90 degrees or less, we will make small cuts, a little short of the seam.
Now you can turn out.
We stuff future gingerbread cookies through the left hole in the side. You need to fill it quite tightly so that during subsequent painting the fabric does not deform.
Sew up the hole with small stitches. We remember the toy a little in our hands so that the stuffing is evenly distributed.
These are the beauties we have.
It's time to make ruddy gingerbread cookies out of this pale dough. Prepare the mixture for painting. Mix until a homogeneous mass two teaspoons of coffee, one teaspoon of cinnamon, a third of a glass of water and a tablespoon of PVA glue.
With a brush, apply the mixture to one side of the figures.
We put them in a heat-resistant dish and send them to the microwave or oven. Gingerbread cookies need to be baked, what do you think? In the microwave, the figures dry out in 6 minutes at a power of 500W. You should not set a higher temperature, as the filler may start to burn and nothing remains of the pleasant gingerbread smell. When drying in the oven, it is worth adhering to the same principle: drying a toy a little longer at a medium temperature is preferable than burning it for three minutes at the highest.
After one side is dry, you can paint the other side as well.
And here they are, our ruddy and very fragrant gingerbread cookies!
Festive gingerbread is usually decorated with white or multi-colored icing. Well, we will not break the tradition. Pick up a thin brush and turn on the fantasy!
White jewelry is, of course, good ... But something is missing. Colors!
The little red and green dots are very lively and create a festive feeling.
Well, the gingerbread cookies are completely ready, but we seem to have already forgotten that we were going to decorate the Christmas tree with them! Let's make loops. They are made very simply: a thick thread is threaded, no matter how terrible it may sound, through the head of a little man, its ends are tied in a knot.
So our gingerbread family is ready, along with real estate! Here is a retired mustachioed general, and his fashionable wife in bows, and their grown children, and a house, and a decorated Christmas tree, and, of course, a heart as a symbol of home comfort and love. All of them will undoubtedly bring a little more warmth and a sense of celebration to your home.
The symbol of the New Year holidays is the gingerbread man. It is very interesting to bake and paint with icing for the whole family. Recipes for delicious and fragrant gingerbread are presented in this article.
The famous gingerbread man is cake in the shape of a man, which received its first popularity and wide distribution in the USA and Europe. Such a funny gingerbread can be with any aromatic additives: honey, ginger, mint, cinnamon. Together with , he is an integral symbol of Christmas and New Year in many countries.
The finished product must be necessarily painted and decorated with chocolate and white icing. Often the gingerbread is also decorated colored sweet powder, candied fruit and even M&M's. You can draw anything on a little man: facial features, eyes, mouth, nose, buttons, clothes, vest, scarf, mittens and much more.
INTERESTING: The production and home baking of such gingerbread originated even in the 16th century. It happened in England, in the court of the Queen Elizabeth the First. At the whims of the royal person, the bakers made sweets that looked like close people and guests of the lady.
Since then sweet figurines have become very popular and in demand all over the world. Until now, people are trying to cheer up others with the help of this simple baking. For example, make huge cakes. The biggest man was baked in Texas in 2006 and weighed 600 kilograms. Such a gingerbread man could not go unnoticed and was even listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
Also, at New Year's time, some countries, such as England, arrange Run around dressed as gingerbread men. The image of sweetness acts as a cartoon character, and in 2008 in Smithville he even erected a monument.
The story of the gingerbread manINTERESTING: Every Russian-speaking person knows the fairy tale about the kolobok. But, it is unlikely that everyone knows that an earlier version of this story was still popular. in the 18th century and she talked about how the gingerbread man ran away from home and was eventually eaten in the forest.
Each baked gingerbread man is handmade by the master. Therefore, all gingerbread cookies are different and unique, even if they are a little similar to each other. This kind of baking is a must. will appeal to adults and children on New Year's Eve and during Christmas celebrations.
Finished products, gingerbread men:
Gingerbread men: boy and girl 
Gingerbread men decorated with icing and chocolate 
Gingerbread men decorated with icing and M&M's 
Gingerbread men in iced sweaters and hats 
Gingerbread man with colored buttons 
A modern and classic way to decorate a gingerbread man with icing 
Christmas gingerbread men 
Family of gingerbread men, colored icing for decorating gingerbread Gingerbread dough honey, ginger, custard for a little man: recipes
Each hostess has her own recipe for gingerbread men. To do this, you need to make a delicious dough: simple or with aromatic additives. This pastry is original in that has a long shelf life(up to a month).
What's interesting is that the longer the gingerbread is stored, the tastier it is, because it "ripens". Adding raisins, candied fruits or M&M's to the dough is not worth it - this will spoil its structure and taste. Glaze prepared separately from egg white and powdered sugar. If desired, colored food coloring is added to it.
Gingerbread icing decoration Honey dough for gingerbread: recipe
You will need:
- Flour- 3 cups (this is about 700 g, be sure to sift and use premium flour).
- Sugar- 70 g (white or brown)
- Honey- 200 g (you can use any, but acacia honey is more fragrant).
- Egg— 1 piece + 3 yolks(without proteins!)
- Baking soda- 10 g
- Water- 1 glass
Optionally, you can add a pinch of vanillin or vanilla extract to the dough.
Cooking:
- Honey must be poured into a glass of hot water but not boiling water. This is very important, since all the useful and gustatory qualities of honey disappear under the influence of too high temperatures. Cool the diluted liquid.
- In another dish you need beat egg white with a small pinch of salt until foamy. After the formation of the first foam add sugar and keep beating. After the formation of a dense stable mass, add yolks and continue beating for another five minutes. At this stage, you can add the desired spices or vanillin to the dough.
- In the whipped mass should add diluted honey. Gradually add flour and do not stop beating until the flour runs out. The finished dough should not be too hard. Leave it to "rest" for at least 5 hours before baking.
- Thereafter the dough is again kneaded and rolled out. A man should be cut out of it with a mold. Gingerbread cookies are laid out on parchment paper and baked in the oven for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of no more than 180 degrees.
How to cook honey gingerbread? Mint Gingerbread Dough: Recipe
You will need:
- Flour- 1.5 cups (this is about 350 g of sifted premium flour).
- Sugar- 150 g (adjust the sweetness of the gingerbread to taste yourself, add more or less sugar).
- Water- 100 ml (this is about 0.5 cups)
- Vegetable oil- 3 tablespoons (preferably use olive).
- mint essence- 1.5 tsp (can be bought at a pharmacy, if desired, replace with mint tincture).
- soda food I - 1 tsp
Cooking:
- Flour is a must sifted with soda
- In the saucepan should heat water and dissolve sugar in it. The resulting syrup should be boiled for a few more minutes and allowed to cool.
- In the cooled syrup add mint tincture or essence and mix thoroughly.
- Pour flour into a slide, pour oil into it and gradually adding mint syrup, knead the dough. You can add more oil to make the dough more elastic.
- The kneaded dough is wrapped in foil. He should “rest” for half an hour in the refrigerator.
- 15-20 minutes at a temperature of no more than 180 degrees. The cooled gingerbread is decorated with icing.
How to cook delicious mint gingerbread? Gingerbread dough for gingerbread: recipe
You will need:
- Flour- 2 cups with a slide (this is about 600 g of sifted premium flour).
- Egg- 1 PC.
- Sugar- 1 cup (adjust the sweetness of the gingerbread to taste yourself: add more or less sugar).
- Honey- 10 tablespoons (There are about 20 g of honey in a tablespoon, therefore, you need 200 g of honey in the dough).
- Butter 73% fat- 150 g (can not be replaced with margarine!).
- Ginger, grated or dry powder- 1 tsp
- baking powder- 1 sachet or 1 tsp.
- Cognac- 3 tablespoons
Spices to taste: vanillin, cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon, citrus zest and so on.
Cooking:
- in the microwave melt honey and butter, add sugar and mix thoroughly these ingredients. Instead of a microwave, you can use a steam bath. Let the mixture cool down.
- into the cooled mixture. add egg, cognac and ginger. Mix thoroughly.
- Flour follows sift and gradually add to the honey mass. When the flour runs out, knead the dough again and wrap it with cling film. In the refrigerator, the dough should rest for at least 4 hours.
- The dough is rolled out. Little men are cut out of it with a mold and laid out on parchment paper. Gingerbread baked in the oven 10-15 minutes at a temperature of no more than 180 degrees. The cooled gingerbread is decorated with icing.
How to cook delicious gingerbread? Choux pastry for cinnamon gingerbread: recipe
You will need:
- Milk- 1 cup (a full glass is 250 ml of milk)
- Flour- 2.5 cups (this is 600 grams of sifted flour + 50 g for sprinkling).
- Sugar- 1 cup (you can adjust the sweetness of the gingerbread by yourself: add more or less sugar).
- Egg- 2 pcs + 2 yolks (without proteins, you can use proteins for making glaze.
- Cinnamon- to taste (the spice is quite sharp, do not use it too much, in any amount it will give flavor).
- Vegetable oil- 50 ml.
- Vanillin- 1 package
- baking powder- 1 package
Cooking:
- In a saucepan or cooking ladle, you should pour milk and put it on fire.
- Bring milk to a boil. At this time carefully sift a glass of flour and mix it with sugar.
- In hot milk (not boiling water!) Should gradually add flour and sugar mixture. This should be done gradually and quickly so that the dough does not take lumps.
- Choux pastry should be enough for you liquid. Add vegetable oil to the still hot dough, mix the mass thoroughly and let it cool.
- In the cooled custard mass sift the second glass of flour and once again everything is well mixed.
- Next stage - adding eggs and cinnamon. Knead the dough actively and do it long enough, each time adding flour.
- The dough should come out soft. It should not stick to your hands.
- We roll out the dough and cut out little men with a special mold. Spread the gingerbread on parchment and bake 25 minutes at a temperature of 160-170 degrees.
How to make gingerbread from choux pastry with cinnamon? Gingerbread man: pattern, baking dish
It is impossible to bake a gingerbread man without special mold. As a rule, this silicone or metal figurine with an empty center. You can buy such a mold in a hardware store or order it on the website.
If you do not have the opportunity to purchase a ready-made mold, you will need to cut out a pattern from cardboard and apply it to the dough circle the figure with the tip of the knife each time.
Figures and pattern of a gingerbread man:
Pattern for the gingerbread man 
Culinary molds for cutting gingerbread men from dough How to buy a gingerbread man baking dish on Aliexpress?
Convenient to buy what you need mold for baking gingerbread you can on the website Aliexpress store. There is a large catalog here. dough products: brushes, silicone and metal molds, potholders, dishes and much more.
IMPORTANT: All that is required of you is to fill out a special form, where you indicate only your name, address and contacts. You can get acquainted with the work of the resource in detail in the video instructions.
Finding molds for baking is very easy. To do this, you need to select on the left side of the screen item "Home and Garden" and find in it folder "Forms for baking". Your eyes will open a catalog of various silicone and metal molds.
How to find the right category of goods on Aliexpress: baking dishes 
Gingerbread man baking molds on Aliexpress New Year and Christmas gingerbread man at home step by step?
Gingerbread man - pastries are delicious, and most importantly - beautiful. But even such sweetness can be made at home. For this, a step-by-step recipe with a photo is useful.
You will need:
- Flour- 2 cups (full, approximately 400 g)
- Sugar- 0.5 cup (sweetness can be adjusted independently).
- Egg- 1 piece (preferably homemade)
- Cocoa- 1/3 cup
- Butter- 100 g (not less than 73% fat).
- Honey - 1 cup (liquid)
- baking powder- 1 sachet
- Cinnamon- taste
- Nutmeg- taste
- vanilla n - to taste
Step by step preparation:
- Butter is melted and mixed with sugar, cocoa and honey.
- Gradually add the egg and pour the flour in portions, mix thoroughly and knead the dough.
- The finished dough should be firm and elastic. Roll it into a ball and refrigerate for an hour.
- After that, roll out the dough to a thickness of 5 millimeters and cut out the gingerbread men with a cookie cutter.
- Bake the gingerbread cookies for 20 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees.
- Let the gingerbread cool down. After that, prepare the icing and start decorating.
- Measure frosting into a plastic bag. Squeeze out the icing in a thin stream, drawing out small details. Allow the glaze to harden (several hours).
How to knead the dough for the gingerbread man? 
How to make a gingerbread man step by step Gingerbread Man Icing: Recipe
White glaze:
- Pour 1 tbsp into a saucepan. freshly squeezed lemon juice and 1 tbsp. water.
- Without waiting for boiling, pour in a little powdered sugar and mix thoroughly with a spoon.
- In total, you need 100 g of powdered sugar.
- Glaze should be applied hot, as cold hardens quickly.
- You can apply the glaze through a pastry bag, brush or through a medical syringe.
Chocolate glaze:
- Melt 100 g dark chocolate in a saucepan
- Mixing the mass thoroughly, add 100 g of butter to the chocolate.
- After the butter has melted, add 100 g of powdered sugar. The icing is ready to be applied to the gingerbread.
How to make icing for the gingerbread man? 
You can quickly dry the icing on the gingerbread in the oven in a few minutes Decoration of a gingerbread man for the New Year
Gingerbread decorations with icing can be very diverse: classic, modern, detailed, colored, black and white, with the addition of powder, candied fruit, raisins, sweets.
Ideas for decorating gingerbread men with icing:
Simple painting of gingerbread, colored glaze 
Colorful detailed coloring of gingerbread with colored icing 
Unusual coloring gingerbread men 
Simple painting of gingerbread and decoration with ribbons 
Gingerbread man garnished with confectionery powder Video: "Gingerbread man, glaze painting"
The gingerbread man is one of the symbols of Christmas in Europe and America. Cookies in the form of a funny man are baked for the holiday and painted with colored icing or chocolate. In recent years, such little men have appeared in our country. And I propose to sew a Christmas tree toy in the form of an elegant gingerbread man.
To make a toy "Gingerbread Man" we need:
- - beige or light brown felt;
- - red felt;
- - synthetic winterizer;
- - white braid "bindweed";
- - Red ribbon;
- - golden braid;
- - red braid with snowflakes or just red;
- - white braid, consisting of flowers or snowflakes;
- - threads of red, black, beige and white colors;
- - scissors;
- - black beads;
- - a needle.
Operating procedure
1. Let's draw a figure of a gingerbread man on paper. We cut out the figure and draw panties for the little man on it. We'll cut them out too. A pattern for a toy, consisting of two parts, is ready.
2. Put the figure of a man on a beige felt, circle it and cut it out. In total, we need two such figures.
3. Now we will transfer the panty pattern to red felt. You will need two of these pieces.
4. Take one beige detail of the little man figure and sew bead eyes to it.
5. Embroider the mouth with red threads.
6. With beige threads we sew a figure of a little man from two parts. We will sew them with small neat stitches of a buttonhole seam. It is not necessary to sew to the end, on the side it is necessary to leave an unsewn area through which we can fill the figure.
7. Fill the figure with padding polyester, pushing the padding polyester with a pencil or stick, first into the head of the little man, then into the arms and legs, and only then into the body.
8. With beige threads, we sew an unfinished area on the figure.
9. Take the pieces of panties cut out of red felt, attach one piece in front to the figure, and attach the second to the back. Sew side and inner seams on the panties. For stitching, we need red threads.
10. Take a red braid with snowflakes and cut off two pieces about 9 cm long each. We need these segments in order to make straps on the pants.
11. Sew straps to panties.
12. Cut off two flowers from the white braid and sew them in front of the pants. If there is no such braid, you can sew on two small buttons in white or any other color.
13. Take four small pieces of braid "bindweed", wrap each piece of the legs and arms of a little man and sew them with white thread. This braid will create the effect of painted icing.
14. Fold a piece of red ribbon with the edges to the middle and sew, pulling the middle with a red thread - we will get a festive bow tie for a little man.
15. Sew a butterfly to the figure. Now our little man looks even more elegant.
16. Each Christmas tree toy should have a loop. We will make a loop for our toy from a piece of golden braid about 21 cm long.
17. Fold the prepared piece of braid in half and sew to the back of the figure. From above we sew a flower cut off from a white braid, then the toy will look neater.
18. This is how the toy gingerbread man looks from the front.
Christmas toy "Gingerbread Man" is ready, it will look good on the Christmas tree. A gingerbread man can also be made a girl - for this, not panties, but a sundress or skirt need to be sewn to the figure. A toy gingerbread man will also be a good unusual addition to a Christmas present.
November 13th, 2014 
ale4ka
I want to inspire you, great a selection of sewn gingerbread men. Excellent New Year's Eve decorations which you can do it yourself. Below, attached gingerbread man patterns which you can use.
Gingerbread men are usually sewn from brown fabric, more often from felt, with the addition of elements from white ruffles or canvas. This is a great material for various crafts. There are the following types of felt - natural (felt), viscose, polyester. The quality of felt directly depends on the composition. Any felt, regardless of composition, also has the following qualities:
- strength and wear resistance
- ease
- no need for edge processing
- variety of shades
- wide choice of density and thickness of felt
Maybe someone remembers the cartoon Shrek, where the chef baked a gingerbread man with icing buttons, a cowboy hat and boots. A very vivid example of how you can show your imagination and make a similar souvenir for the New Year. On the site https://www.dombusin.com/catalog/cat-591-fetr, the needlewoman will find the necessary material for her work at the best prices in Ukraine. This convenient and beautiful material is used not only by needlewomen who sew toys with their own hands, interior items, and jewelry. Felt is also used in the automotive industry, the furniture industry, and the production of children's goods.
Any felt products can only be washed by hand at a temperature of 30 degrees. Before washing, the craft must be cleaned of dust with a dry brush. You need to wash the felt with laundry or baby soap. The material is not twisted, but dried in natural conditions.
To work with sheets, you need stationery:
- scissors
- marker
- threads
- bar of soap
- needles
- filler
- beads and beads
For small details, you will need scissors with straight tips, and for thick felt, a roller knife. If you need to cut a round part, you can use a punch to install the eyelets. Also, to work with felt, you should use floss threads. With their help, you can create a pattern on the fabric itself.
I wish you good inspiration!
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