Gingerbread house

Yui Miles
Yui Miles @cookingwithyui
UK

My gingerbread house creation 🏡 YES! My first ever gingerbread house I made with Cookpad family on festive zoom cooking this year 2020!!!

I adapted gingerbread recipe from @Jenifer_Su as we used her recipe to make this gingerbread house and I adapted the recipe to suit my own taste.

It’s easier than you think!! You only need time and love... Let’s make gingerbread house and Feeling festive together this Christmas 🎄

#baking
#christmas
#festive
#gingerbreadhouse

Gingerbread house

My gingerbread house creation 🏡 YES! My first ever gingerbread house I made with Cookpad family on festive zoom cooking this year 2020!!!

I adapted gingerbread recipe from @Jenifer_Su as we used her recipe to make this gingerbread house and I adapted the recipe to suit my own taste.

It’s easier than you think!! You only need time and love... Let’s make gingerbread house and Feeling festive together this Christmas 🎄

#baking
#christmas
#festive
#gingerbreadhouse

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Ingredients

1 hour plus decoration time
Whole gingerbread house and decorations
  1. 500 ggolden syrup (you can use treacle or honey or coconut sugar)
  2. 150 gbutter
  3. 70 glight brown sugar
  4. 30 gdark brown sugar
  5. Pinchsalt
  6. 500 gplain flour
  7. 1 tspbaking powder
  8. 3 tbspGround ginger
  9. 1 tspGround cinnamon
  10. 1/2 tspcloves Ground
  11. Decorations
  12. 500 gicing sugar (might need more)
  13. 1egg white or water
  14. Some ready made fondant icing
  15. Edible Christmas decorations
  16. Some baking paper (for rolling your gingerbread house)

Cooking Instructions

1 hour plus decoration time
  1. 1

    Melt both sugar, syrup, salt and butter together on low heat in a big saucepan. Once all melted turn the heat off.

  2. 2

    Add dry ingredients together in a big mixing bowl (flour, spices power)

  3. 3

    Pour the wet ingredients into the mixing bowl with dry ingredients.

  4. 4

    Mix well until all the ingredients combine and start to form to a soft ball.

  5. 5

    Rest your dough in the fridge for 15-20 min. While waiting for dough to rest you can cut up your gingerbread house template.

  6. 6

    Once your dough rested, use 2 big pieces of baking paper just enough to cover your dough. Place your dough on one baking paper and place another one over. Use your rolling pin start to roll them out from the middle of your dough until you get about half of centimetres thick.

  7. 7

    Cut out the required shapes. You can also cut up some Christmassy shapes like tree, snowman any other character you prefer.

  8. 8

    Id you have some leftover dough you can roll them out thinly into a big shape and cut to make an edible base. I cut out into big circle to make a base.

  9. 9

    Bake them in the oven on 130’c - 150’c for 12-15 min (you need to keep an eye on them as they cook quite quickly) I normally know when my gingerbread cooked is when your house smell of gingerbread 🥰.

  10. 10

    Time to decorate, mixing icing sugar and white egg together (you can use water) and use it to combine your house together. Put your creative hat one and make your gingerbread house looks gorgeous.

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