Gingerbread hares

What to give friends for the New Year? Here's a good tip: instead of banal candles and plush toys, cook gingerbread bunnies. They are perfect for decorating a festive table and will look great on a Christmas tree.

Ingredients

• light honey - 3 tbsp. l.
• brown sugar - 180 g
• egg - 1 pc.
• powdered sugar
• 3 tbsp. l. cocoa powder
• For glaze:
• 1 tbsp. l. lemon juice
• butter - 100 g
• 100 ml cream, 10% fat
• flour - 1 glass
• 2 tsp baking powder

Directions

1. Heat the cream, add cocoa powder and mix thoroughly. Sift flour with baking powder, add butter, cut into small pieces, sugar, honey and an egg. Pour in cocoa.
2. Knead smooth dough. Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
3. Roll the dough into a thick roller on a floured surface. Cut it into pieces 1.5 cm thick.
4. Preheat the oven to 200 ° C. Cover the baking sheet with a sheet of parchment
5. and sprinkle with water. Roll each piece into an
6. oblong flat cake. Give the cakes the shape of "bunnies". Place the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet, place in the oven and bake for 15 minutes. Remove from the oven, transfer to a wire rack and allow to cool.
7. Mix the icing sugar with the lemon juice, transfer the mixture to a piping bag with a narrow nozzle.
8. Circle the contours of the gingerbread with glaze, make "eyes", "noses" and "mustaches".