Gingerbread House

Name: Gingerbread House
Total time: 5400 s
Yield: 2 medium houses
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour (maida); 1/2 Cup softened butter; 1/2 cup brown sugar; 1/2 cup honey; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1 teaspoon baking soda; 2 teaspoon ginger powder; 2 teaspoon cinnamon powder; 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg powder; 1/2 teaspoon cloves powder; Plain flour for rolling; 100 gms icing sugar; 2 tbsp chickpeas brine (water drained from canned chickpeas)

Priyanka Shah Sanghvi @cookwithpriyanka

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Ingredients

1 hour 30 mins

2 medium houses

For gingerbread house
2 cupsall-purpose flour (maida)
1/2 Cupsoftened butter
1/2 cupbrown sugar
1/2 cuphoney
1 teaspoonbaking powder
1 teaspoonbaking soda
2 teaspoonginger powder
2 teaspooncinnamon powder
1/2 teaspoonnutmeg powder
1/2 teaspooncloves powder
Plain flour for rolling
For icing
100 gmsicing sugar
2 tbspchickpeas brine (water drained from canned chickpeas)

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Steps

1 hour 30 mins

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FOR GINGERBREAD HOUSE:
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Combine the butter, brown sugar and honey in a deep bowl and mix well using a whisk for 1 or 2 minutes till fluffy.
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Add the baking powder, baking soda, dried ginger powder, cinnamon powder, cloves powder and nutmeg powder and mix well using a whisk
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Add the plain flour, mix well and knead it into a dough. Do not add any water.
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Cover it with a lid and refrigerate it for 30 minutes
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Cut out the following paper patterns for the gingerbread house template: Two rectangles, Two squares and Two house shapes as shown in the picture
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Place the dough on a flat, dry surface dusted with plain flour and roll it flat not too thin. Place paper patterns onto the rolled out dough and with the help of pizza cutter cut the shapes. Preferable roll on cookie sheet.
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Place the shapes in a baking tray on a butter paper. Bake it in a preheated oven at 180 degrees for 12 mins
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Let it cool on a cooling rack.
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FOR ROYAL ICING:
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Beat the chickpeas brine with electric beater until frothy add the icing sugar and again beat it again till it becomes thick and peaks up.
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Pour it in a small piping bag.
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First decorate the baked house shapes with M&Ms or sprinklers or just icing. Slowly and carefully now assemble the house. Join it with the help of the icing. Let it cool part by part while fixing. Finally refrigerate the gingerbread house.
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Its ready.....