Simple gingerbread house

Name: Simple gingerbread house
Prep time: 1 h 12 min
Cook time: 1 h 12 min
Total time: 1 h 12 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 250 grams unsalted butter; 200 grams dark muscovado sugar; 7 Tbsps golden syrup; 600 grams plain flour; 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda; 4 teaspoons ground ginger; 200 grams flaked almonds; 2 egg whites; 500 grams icing sugar, plus extra to dust; 125 grams pack mini chocolate fingers; 1 serving generous selection of sweets, choose your own colour theme; 1 mini chocolate roll or a dipped chocolate flake; 3 balls few edible silver; 1 serving template

Simple gingerbread house requires approximately 1 hour and 12 minutes from start to finish. This recipe makes 1 servings with 9167 calories, 120g of protein, and 361g of fat each. This recipe covers 72% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of butter, bicarbonate of soda, template, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy. It is perfect for Christmas. If you like this recipe, take a look at these similar recipes: Luxe Gingerbread House Decorating Party & Gingerbread Truffle Martini, Gingerbread House (Mini Gingerbread Houses), and Gingerbread House.

Instructions

Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas

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Oven

Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan.

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Butter

Sugar

Syrup

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Frying Pan

Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger into a large bowl, then stir in the butter mixture to make a stiff dough. If it wont quite come together, add a tiny splash of water.

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Baking Soda

Ginger Powder

Butter

Dough

All Purpose Flour

Water

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Bowl

Cut out the template (download from ingredients list). Put a sheet of baking paper on your work surface and roll about one quarter of the dough to the thickness of two 1 coins.

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Dough

Roll

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Baking Paper

Cut out one of the sections, then slide the gingerbread, still on its baking paper, onto a baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, re-rolling the trimmings, until you have two side walls, a front and back wall and two roof panels. Any leftover dough can be cut into Christmas trees, if you like.

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Dough

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Baking Paper

Baking Sheet

Pick out the most intact flaked almonds and gently poke them into the roof sections, pointy-end first, to look like roof tiles.

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Almonds

Bake all the sections for 12 mins or until firm and just a little darker at the edges. Leave to cool for a few mins to firm up, then trim around the templates again to give clean, sharp edges. Leave to cool completely.

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Oven

Put the egg whites in a large bowl, sift in the icing sugar, then stir to make a thick, smooth icing. Spoon into a piping bag with a medium nozzle. Pipe generous snakes of icing along the wall edges, one by one, to join the walls together. Use a small bowl to support the walls from the inside, then allow to dry, ideally for a few hours.

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Powdered Sugar

Egg Whites

Icing

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Bowl

Once dry, remove the supports and fix the roof panels on. The angle is steep so you may need to hold these on firmly for a few mins until the icing starts to dry. Dry completely, ideally overnight. To decorate, pipe a little icing along the length of 20 mini chocolate fingers and stick these lengthways onto the side walls of the house. Use three, upright, for the door.

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Chocolate

Icing

Using the icing, stick sweets around the door and on the front of the house. To make the icicles, start with the nozzle at a 90-degree angle to the roof and squeeze out a pea-sized blob of icing. Keeping the pressure on, pull the nozzle down and then off the icing will pull away, leaving a pointy trail. Repeat all around the front of the house.

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Candy

Icing

Cut the chocolate mini roll or dipped Flake on an angle, then fix with icing to make a chimney. Pipe a little icing around the top. If youve made gingerbread trees, decorate these now, too, topping each with a silver ball, if using. Dust the roof with icing sugar for a snowy effect.

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Powdered Sugar

Chocolate

Icing

Roll

Lay a winding path of sweets, and fix gingerbread trees around and about using blobs of icing. Your gingerbread house will be edible for about a week.

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Candy

Icing

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Servings:

250grams

unsalted butter 200grams

dark muscovado sugar 7Tbsps

golden syrup 600grams

plain flour 2teaspoons

bicarbonate of soda 4teaspoons

ground ginger 200grams

flaked almonds 2

egg whites 500grams

icing sugar, plus extra to dust 125grams

pack mini chocolate fingers 1serving

generous selection of sweets, choose your own colour theme 1

mini chocolate roll or a dipped chocolate flake 3balls

few edible silver 1serving

template

Recommended wine: Cream Sherry, Moscato Dasti, Port

Cream Sherry, Moscato d'Asti, and Port are great choices for Gingerbread. A common wine pairing rule is to make sure your wine is sweeter than your food. Delicate desserts go well with Moscato d'Asti, nutty desserts with cream sherry, and caramel or chocolate desserts pair well with port. One wine you could try is NV Solera Cream Sherry. It has 4.5 out of 5 stars and a bottle costs about 17 dollars.