How To Make a Gingerbread House

Introduction

Gingerbread houses are a common sight during Christmas holidays. These delicious goodies are easy to bake provided you follow a well-defined plan. In case you’re looking for a simple house gingerbread recipe, please go through the next couple of paragraph. This article comprises of sep-by-step instructions for baking an edible gingerbread house.
Firstly, users have to look for an appealing design for their house. Check out online catalogues or flick through the pages of cook books to find an impressive structure for your house gingerbread. Jot it down on a paper so that you remember it.

Step 1

Next, you’ve to shop for ingredients. Following items are required for the recipe:
For House Gingerbread:
- Plain Flour (6 cups),
- Dark Molasses (1 cup),
- Light Brown Sugar (1.5 cups),
- Ground Cinnamon (4 tbsp),
- Ground Ginger (4 tbsp),
- Baking powder (½ tbsp),
- Allspice (½ tbsp),
- Table Salt (½ tbsp),
- Water (1 tbsp),
- White Butter (12 tbsp),
- Eggs (2).

Step 2

For Icing:
- Powdered White Sugar (2.5 cups),
- Egg Whites (2),
- Sweeteners and flavors (as per your choice).

Step 3

Required Tools:
- Preheated oven or microwave (at 170° Celsius).

Step 4

Recipe:

1) Preparing Mixture:
In order to make house gingerbread, take a mixing bowl and blend all the ingredients in it. Take flour, add sugar powder plus butter to it and whisk till the dough appears fluffy. Add water, followed by eggs and molasses and beat in your flour slowly. Apply force on it and knead well to blend all the stuffs. You can add more flour if required. Keep this mixture in your refrigerators overnight.
2) Creating Different Parts Of House Gingerbread:
Draw front panels, back panels, side panels, roof panels and door on a cardboard. Cut it using scissors. Make sure you’re accurate in your measurements because it is extremely important that the opposing panels are of equal sizes.
Take out refrigerate dough and spread it on a flat surface covered with buttered greaseproof paper. It should have uniform thickness. Lay your cardboard panels on top of them and slice your dough accordingly. Place them separately in a spacious microwave dish. The baking plate should have sufficient room to accommodate all the pieces if they spread out.

Step 5

3) Baking:
Keep the baking dish in the centre of your preheated oven. Bake the smaller pieces for 6 minutes until they turn brown and crispy. Remove them and cook the larger ones in second trip, for approximately 7 to 9 minutes. Remove the greaseproof paper and place the cardboard templates over corresponding biscuits to chop off overhanging parts. Set aside for cooling.
4) Icing:
Blend the mentioned ingredients to prepare icing. Your icing is used as a gluing material so it should be sufficiently thick in texture. Refer to your house gingerbread design and stick the panels together. The 4 walls should be erected first and then the roof. Use large quantities of icing to bind them. Let the walls bind firmly. Once they’re hard enough, you can construct the roof. Apply icing to the top edges of all the 4 walls in order to place the roof. Be careful in this process otherwise your house will collapse.

Tips

5) Decorations:
Decorate your house gingerbread with fudges, nuts, raspberries, candies, sticks, chocolates and sliced fruits. You can also bake candy men, snowmen, reindeers and Christmas trees to create a festive appearance. Download the recipes of baking these decorations from internet.
Collect more house gingerbread recipes and experiment with various ingredients to bake a delicious treat.