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Gingerbread House

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Ingredients
  

  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
  • 2 teaspoons ground ginger
  • 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves or allspice
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 60 g butter or shortening shortening preferred, softened
  • 150 g light brown sugar
  • 1 large egg
  • 1/2 cup dark molasses
  • 1/2 Tbsp water

Royal Icing

  • 90 g egg whites
  • 400 g icing sugar
  • 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar or lemon juice
  • Coloring

Template

  • Print this on any size paper according to your preferred house size

Decorate with

  • Candies Lollies, chocolates, biscuits, anything you like... even savoury stuff???

Instructions
 

Make the gingerbread.

  • Heat the oven to 170degree Celsius.
  • Mix the wet ingredients except the egg in a saucepan and then bring to a boil.
  • Remove from the heat and stir in the egg, then the dry ingredients.
  • Knead to a dough and spread half to 1/4 inch thick.
  • Cut out the shapes from the template. Transfer the design to a hard cardboard.
  • Using the hard cardboard, cut out the house's shape on the ginger bread dough using a sharp knife.
  • Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.

Assemble

  • Beat the egg whites with the cream of tartar till the egg white is frothy.
  • Add the icing sugar, then beat until the icing becomes glue-like.
  • Using this as the glue to stick the house together.

Consistency

  • If the royal icing becomes too hard, add a bit of water.
  • If too much water is added to the icing, add icing sugar to firm it again.