![]() ![]() The beauty of a kit is that you can reuse the cutters every year and don’t have to fuss with print outs and the like. There’s so many available online – Amazon has several but you can also find kits on Etsy and Ebay as well. You can print a template from a plethora available online – I will also add some to this post soon as I get the chance.īut I have to admit I found it easier to purchase a gingerbread house kit which contains cutters for the roof, front and sides of the house. I will leave this part up to you – after you have your house constructed you can be your own designer! Gingerbread house template & Kits If my kids were in charge however the house would be a full Hansel and Gretel extravaganza, with just about every candy under the sun used for roofing, doors and bricks. It’s just my inner control freak wanting to keep things simple I guess. I do use candy to make the windows (stained glass cookie style). I prefer to keep my gingerbread house on the Scandi style side, simply decorated with icing. It will hold the walls of your gingerbread house so well no huffing and puffing will ever blow them down! Plus it can be used to decorate the house and any cookies you have – it’s fabulous stuff. Royal icing is very easily made using only three or four ingredients: icing sugar (powdered sugar), egg whites, lemon juice and vanilla extract. Royal Icing (our “cement”)Īfter experimenting with caramel, I have landed on royal icing as my gingerbread house “glue” or cement. What’s more it is SO EASY to make, no mixer required, no chilling needed. This dough is sturdy for house construction but delicious to eat – you can make gingerbread cookies with it. My gingerbread dough is great for building and for eating – not that I would necessarily advise you to eat a gingerbread house that has been handled by many little hands. This can be good for construction, as the name suggests, but not tasty! Many recipes use construction gingerbread dough for making gingerbread houses. Let’s break it down! Gingerbread House DoughĪt one point there were no surfaces available anywhere in the kitchen, covered as they were by cookies on wire racks, decorated houses, cookie cutters, dough in bags and icing sugar dusted everywhere. I promise to make it easy.īut if you have this romantic idea (as I did!) that baking and constructing a gingerbread house from scratch is EASY then I will have to let you down… a bit.Ī gingerbread house is made up of three elements: the dough, the icing “mortar” to stick it together and the decorations. ![]() Learn from all of my mistakes and follow my tips to bake, construct and decorate your very own gingerbread house (or gingerbread village!). I baked and assembled SO MANY gingerbread houses while researching and testing this recipe that our kitchen looked like some sort of mad Santa Grotto. Especially if you have never attempted to make one before. The vision of the perfectly perfect gingerbread house you have in your mind may well be very far from reality. ![]()
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