Haunted Gingerbread House

Name: Haunted Gingerbread House
Prep time: 2 h 25 min
Cook time: 2 h 25 min
Total time: 2 h 25 min
Yield: 30
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon baking soda; 118 milliliters packed brown sugar; 79 milliliters butter or margarine, softened; 30 servings Assorted candies and cookies; 828 milliliters Gold all-purpose flour; 1 teaspoons ground allspice; 1 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 1 teaspoons ground cloves; 1 teaspoon ground ginger; 1 Tbsp milk; 177 milliliters full-flavor molasses; 1 Tbsp full-flavor molasses; 355 milliliters powdered sugar; 1 teaspoons salt; 59 milliliters shortening; 0 teaspoons vanilla; 79 milliliters cold water

You can never have too many dessert recipes, so give Haunted Gingerbread House a try. This recipe makes 30 servings with 291 calories, 3g of protein, and 11g of fat each. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It will be a hit at your Christmas event. Head to the store and pick up baking soda, vanilla, shortening, and a few other things to make it today. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 2 hours and 25 minutes.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350F. Grease 9-inch square pan and 15x10x1-inch rectangular pan. In large bowl, mix brown sugar, shortening and molasses until well blended. Stir in cold water. Stir in remaining gingerbread ingredients except candies. Press one-third of dough into square pan; press remaining dough into rectangular pan.

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Brown Sugar

Shortening

Molasses

Candy

Dough

Water

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Bowl

Oven

Frying Pan

Bake 1 pan at a time about 15 minutes or until no indentation remains when touched in center. Cool 5 minutes; turn upside down onto large cutting surface. Immediately cut as shown in diagram (cut windows if desired). Cool completely, about 25 minutes.

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Oven

Frying Pan

In medium bowl, mix 1 cup of the powdered sugar and remaining frosting ingredients until smooth. Stir in enough remaining powdered sugar to make stiff frosting. (If frosting becomes too stiff, stir in additional milk.)

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Powdered Sugar

Frosting

Milk

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Bowl

Decorate front of house as desired using frosting and assorted candies and cookies. For windows as shown in photo, cut yellow tissue paper slightly larger than outline of windows.

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Frosting

Candy

Brush paper with vegetable oil and "glue" to back side of windows, using frosting. Use frosting to attach supports to back of house, sidewalk to front of house, door and sign to front of house and fence to sidewalk. Complete decorating as desired.

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Vegetable Oil