Christmas Baking: Gingerbread House




As I write this i've not actually had time to make a gingerbread house from scratch this holiday season, so heres how I made one a couple of years ago - the photo of it got me into the final round of the Canon Christmas photo competition! I'm guessing I didn't win because I use a Nikon!


Ingredients List



350g plain flour
175g brown sugar
100g butter
1 medium egg
4 tablespoons of golden syrup
1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
1½ teaspoon of ground ginger
Icing Sugar
Sweets to decorate




Step 1

Rub in the flour, butter, ginger and bicarbonate of soda together.

Step 2

Add the sugar, syrup and egg and mix everything together until it forms a dough

Step 3

Roll out your dough and cut to the required shapes. I got a house template online and used a cookie cutter for the trees.

Step 4

Bake on a baking tray for 10-15min at 180ºC

 Step 5

Decorate and display/enjoy.

I used green and red Nerds sweets as Christmas lights on my house, and added a dusting of icing sugar to the top of the house, trees, and the surface they were standing on to make it look like it was snowing.



Show me your gingerbread creations!





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