There are already cookies on the way, and buns are asked from the oven, but still something is missing. We need the final, finishing touch. And if you are not just a cook, but also an artist in the shower, our master class "how to cook sugar icing" will be very useful. And when under your hands gingerbread will be covered with sweet sugar divorce, and cakes will be decorated with snow-white glossy "caps" glaze, you will feel yourself a little wizards.
Chilled sugar frosting
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 item;
- egg whites - 4 pcs.
Preparation
Whisk together the sugar in a water bath for about 5 minutes. Then we'll work as much with a whisk, but without heating. Fill glaze with cooled pastries. It dries quickly, becomes smooth and shiny.
How to make caramelized sugar icing?
Ingredients:
- powdered sugar - 1 item;
- brown sugar - 0,5 table;
- Butter - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- milk - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- vanilla - 1 pinch.
Preparation
Melted butter in a small saucepan, add milk and dissolve sugar. Let the mixture boil and stand it on the fire for 1 minute. Remove from the plate, add half of the powdered sugar and whisk until it cools. Then add the vanilla, the remaining powder, once again, all the whisk and apply on gingerbread or biscuits. To taste, the finished glaze is very similar to caramel.
Recipe for sugar croutons for gingerbreads
Ingredients:
- sugar - 1 item;
- water - 0.5 tbsp.
Preparation
Sugar is dissolved in water and bring the syrup to a boil. We are waiting for when large transparent bubbles begin to appear on the surface (the temperature will reach 110 degrees). Remove the syrup from the fire and let it cool down a little. Grease the carrots with glaze using a brush. Small ones can be completely immersed in a syrup, and after spreading on a grill - excess stems, and gingerbread will be covered with mouth-watering translucent sugar divorces.
Sugar glaze for a gingerbread house
Ingredients:
- egg white - 2 pcs .;
- powdered sugar - 80 g.
Preparation
Whisk egg whites until strong peaks, then gradually introduce powdered sugar. This glaze can both glue together parts of the gingerbread house , and decorate it. And that the glaze does not freeze too fast, we will add a drop of lemon juice.
Glaze for buns from powdered sugar
Ingredients:
- powdered sugar - 100 g;
- starch - 1 teaspoon;
- cream (10% fat content) - 4 tbsp. spoons;
- vanillin - 1 pinch.
Preparation
Mix sugar powder with starch and vanillin. Cream bring to a boil (you can replace milk) and pour into the powder. Well we mix and immediately cover fresh biscuits - the cooled glaze quickly thickens.
Recipe for colored sugar glaze for cookies
Ingredients:
- powdered sugar - 1 item;
- milk - 2 teaspoons;
- sugar syrup - 2 teaspoons;
- extract of almond - 0,25 tsp.
- food colors.
Preparation
This glaze is used by professional confectioners, however, to cook it at home is not difficult. Milk pour into the sugar powder and knead to the consistency of the paste. Add the syrup and almond extract. We spread the icing on the jars, each tinting with its own color. Everything, you can create. Feel yourself in the kitchen as a real artist, feel free to take a brush and ...
Sugar glaze for ginger biscuits
Ingredients:
- powdered sugar - 0,5 table;
- milk - 1 teaspoon;
- butter - 1 teaspoon;
- vanilla - 1 pinch;
- salt - 1 pinch.
Preparation
In the melted butter, pour in the milk, add salt and powdered sugar. We knead to the state of sour cream. If you get too thick - we pour a little more milk or water into the liquid glaze you can add the powdered sugar. At the end, throw a pinch of vanilla and mix everything again. We put the finished glaze on the biscuit with a brush or a pastry syringe.
Recipe for white sugar glaze
Ingredients:
- powdered sugar - 2 items;
- cream (fat content not less than 20%) - 0,5 items;
- butter - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- vanilla - 1 pinch.
Preparation
Heat the cream, add the oil and stand the saucepan on fire until it melts. Then add the powdered sugar and vanillin, beat the mixer to homogeneity. Such a snow-white frosting is just perfect for Easter cakes!