Christmas Gingerbread House Recipe
Christmas is coming, how exciting! I love the carols, trees, twinkling lights, advent calendars and of course the kids’ delighted faces on Christmas morning.
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Christmas Gingerbread House Recipe
Makes enough dough to make one house using this silicone mould.
125g (4.41 ounces) or 1/2 cup plus 2 tsp brown sugar
180g (6.35 ounces) or 3/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp unsalted butter
300g (10.58 ounces) or 3/4 cup plus 3 Tbsp golden syrup or you can use treacle
1 tspn ground cinnamon
1 ½ Tbsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground nutmeg
½ tsp ground cloves
500g (17.64 ounces) or 3 cups and 3 Tbsp plain (or all purpose) flour
Preheat your oven to 170°C (338 degrees Fahrenheit).
Beat the butter, sugar, golden syrup and spices on low speed for a couple of minutes
Add the flour and mix until it forms a nice dough.
Split the dough between the sections of the house as shown in the video and push down into the mould.
Place the moulds onto baking trays and bake for 20 minutes, swapping the trays after 10 minutes.
Gingerbread House Icing Recipe
1kg (2.2 pounds) or 7 and 3/4 cups plus 3 Tbsp icing sugar
50g (1.76 ounces) powdered egg white or 114g (4.02 ounces) pavlova magic mix (one packet)
100millilitres (3.38 fluid ounces) water
plus an additional 2 – 5 Tbsp of water to get the correct consistency
To decorate the gingerbread house as shown in the video you will need:
1 packet of mint leaves
white fondant
green gel food colour
red fondant
10 red and 10 green Smarties
soft sugar pearls to decorate the tree
375g (13.23 ounces) or 2 1/2 cup white chocolate melts
50g (1.76 ounces) or 1/3 cup milk chocolate melts
1 packet hundreds and thousands
1 tube mini M&M’s
icing sugar for dusting the snow
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Hi Ann!
I have been following you for a long time baking is my hobby. As I child in my original country in Hungry I was in the kitchen and baking with my mum. All the time. We never had money for fancy machines so my dad had to whip the cream the egg whites by hand .lol . I learnt lots of traditional stuff from mum she is amazing. I moved to Australia and started to bake more and more and found your page where I learnt all the tricks from you and it made everything easier you are my big inspiration and the reason why I would like to have one of those machines because I always wanted one but I am a stay at home mum and can’t afford it. I have to stop and scrape the sides all the time and it doesn’t have a low setting either. Well thank you for all these amazing videos I will keep following you love Netty
Hi Ann, I live in the US the reason i would love to win this mixer is because i started baking around 8 now i’m 13 and since 8 i have been asking my parents for mixer but i haven’t gotten the chance of being gifted to one. The mixer will just be a great help. I want to be a pastry chef and i have this huge passion for baking it will help me build up my skills and be prepared for many things having to do with baking. Also thank you for being a huge inspiration and i just love your Creativity.
Hi Ann,I never knew that I had skills on baking until I had my first born child. Im a single stay home mom from Los Angeles California and baking cakes for my friends and taking special orders has help me to earn a little bit of income on the side. I would love to win this mixer and I know this mixer would help me alot to expand my baking abilities. I love your videos and I love what you do so please dont get tired of sharing your amazing creations. Thank you
Roselle
Hi Ann
I really love your videos. You are so clever. I only recently discovered them and now have already amounted a growing list of the ones I really want to make. I especially live the handbag and have the perfect person to make it for. I am from New Zealand and would absolutely love the Breville Stand Mixer please – love the scrapper attachment – can imagine how much easier that would make it. Would be estastically happy if they would throw in a cool breville microwave to 😉 lol. Wow! A melt chocolate function! What I could do with that! 🙂 take care and thanks for your great videos
Hi Ann,
On the 23rd October I received an email from you saying that your old email system was no longer working and to click the link to be on your new list. I was eagerly waiting for Friday 31st for your latest email, bu alas it did not arrive. Is your new system not up and running yet?
Hello! I live in a tiny town in Missouri in the US. I would feel so blessed to have a new stand mixer! My mother-in-law had given me hers a couple years ago, but after 46 years of service it has caught fire and is out of commission. Money is tight, and I can get by with my hand-held mixer, but baking my son’s 2nd birthday cake would be so much easier with this stand mixer! If all goes well I could use it to start a small business in our area as well. I have just recently discovered your page after looking for how to bake a Thomas the Train cake. I’m hooked! Your videos are so quick and helpful! Thank you!
hi I’m victoria and i live in the united state and i will love a stand mixer because i really need one and i cant afford one i love love recreating your ides so is really hard to recreate thing you do.
Hi Ann!
I live in Christchurch, New Zealand I love baking and watching baking tutorials and videos especially yours . I’ve always wanted a stand-alone mixer. I would have to pinch myself if I win this because I would think that it was just a dream and I’m never lucky enough to win something like this. Stand-alone mixers just make everything a whole lot better in baking. As soon as I saw you had a new vid I was excited to watch it but when I saw you were giving away a stand-alone mixer I was literally jumping up and down I could be the one to win this!
But I probably won’t win this.
But I could!
I live on the Sunshine Coast of Australia and I’d like a new mixer because I’ve nearly worn my mixer out.
That gingerbread house is so cute! You’re very clever.
Hi, My name is Janis and I live in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I would love to win a Breville mixer and scale so I can make wonderful treats, just like Ann! Friday is my favourite day because I can then watch the latest How to Cook That video. Always beautiful and creative treats from this website and I love Ann and her Aussie accent!
Thank you for all of your wonderful ideas, Ann. You are a true inspiration!
hi anne,
i would love to win the breville mixer. My kitchenaid is dead. Just bought a breville barista express and love it. I just realized we have a breville waffle maker, oven and microwave, the MIXER would really help with the kitchen baking I need to do for greenaid. PS breville is brilliant.
HI, my name is Khadija, and I live in Detroit Michigan, US. My sister and I LOVE to bake. We have been dreaming for a stand mixer for so long, and at the moment we just don’t have the money. Just imagine being 14 and saving up that much money for one mixer. It would be a dream come true to get one! Just getting now would just boost my passion for baking, and maybe open my own bakery. I love your videos, wait every friday for the next one, and I think whoever gets these mixers will be very lucky!
Thank you.
hi my name is Alicia, I am from kingman Arizona USA. and I like so much all your recepies and I will like to win the mixer. thank you
Hi Ann, my name is Jacquie and I live Melbourne Vic. I love Fridays because of the wonderful videos you post. I would love to win the mixer as I work with special needs children in a mainstream primary school and would love to do some cooking lessons with them. Often In the afternoons they are tired and can’ t concentrate on their work so having a fun activity to look forward to would be a lovely way to end the day.
Wow your video was fantastic. That’s such an amazing recipe. I would LOVE to win a mixer as I currently don’t own one….even a basic one. We use a fork or spoon when making cakes at our house. My son wants to be a chef so if I won one of these, this recipe would be his first creation. With one of these, he may be the next Jamie Oliver…. 🙂 Thank You.
And I am from Australia. Sorry I forgot to mention that 🙂
Hello,Ann 🙂 you’re cake is amazing and awesome. i love it sooo much 🙂 i love this cake & i think,i would try it 🙂 i’m from Malaysia 🙂 always waiting on friday for your next video 🙂
Hi Ann Reardon. I’m 14 years old, and love to watch your videos. I live in Australia with my Mum. I have not subscribed yet because the only email address I have is my schools, but I would love the oppurtunity to win this mixer because your videos inspire me to make cakes and desserts.
Thank-you!
Hello, I am Marina from Canada. I love to bake and love children ( working at the day care), every Thursday we have baking day at our Centre, I wish I can win. Will be glad to use the mixer at our baking activities.
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Your videos are awesome keep up the good work.
Hello Ann. My name is Susanne and i live in Darwin NT. I’m a stay at home mum of two kids under 4 right now and it is a passion of mine making birthday cakes for my kids. I look forward to birthdays every year. I love your videos and especially love cake weeks. It is a dream of mine to set up a cake making/decorating business one day as i love to see the smiles on little faces when they see an amazing birthday cake. This prize would help me follow my dream.