Eggless glaze for gingerbread cookies
Description
Ideal for tea and coffee. If you want to cover your pastries with a sugar glaze made without eggs, here is a glaze recipe that is brilliant in its simplicity and qualities. It is easy and quick to make, and the result is simply wonderful. Watch the step‑by‑step recipe and see that it’s fast and simple. It can be served with tea or coffee.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Soak the gelatin in 30 ml of cold water, and let it swell for 5–10 minutes.
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Step 3
If you don’t have powdered sugar but regular sugar, grind it in a coffee grinder until it reaches a powdery consistency.
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Step 4
Pour 30 ml of water into the saucepan, add powdered sugar, and heat to a boil.
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Step 5
Add the bloomed gelatin to the sauté pan.
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Step 6
Add 5 grams of lemon juice to the sauté pan.
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Step 7
Whisk the sugar‑gelatin mixture with a mixer until it turns white.
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Step 8
Gingerbread can simply be dipped in the resulting mixture, or you can transfer the glaze into a pastry bag for applying to the gingerbread.
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Step 9
Applying a design with such icing doesn't work very well, but it does glaze gingerbread perfectly and holds the caramel topping. Moreover, it sets very well and quickly to a glossy finish, without crumbling.