Ann Reardon

Christmas Gingerbread House Recipe

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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
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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
christmas gingerbread house
2014
by Ann Reardon How To Cook That

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185 Comments View Comments

  1. I love it, its beautiful

    • Great work Keikei. The detail on this cake is amazing!

  2. Hi,
    I live in Ghana and i am making this house. I have every thing i need but i do not the pavlova magic mix. How do you make it is there a way to make it from scratch.

  3. Hi i am making this for a christmas party for my class all my friends are looking forward with out this rite now i will be worried. THANK YOU!!!

  4. Hi Ann, I’ve bought everything I need to make this and I’m super excited but I wanted to know how long it would last? I don’t know how far in advance I can make this… Thankyou!!

    • Hi vanessa, we usually make ours 2 weeks before Christmas and eat it on Christmas day

  5. I would love to win the mixer , I’m from New Zealand

  6. Hi Ann!

    This gingerbread house looks really gorgeous and DELICIOUS, I shall certainly attempt to make it… and depending on the results I might (or not 😀 ) send you the picture 🙂

    I don’t know if it the comment box will let me post this link, but since it’s Christmas and you’re Australian I thought you might enjoy listening to this song called Summertime Christmas . It’s really pretty.

    • *well, nearly Christmas… December the 1st is nearly Christmas, right? 🙂

  7. I watch your baking all day everyday. I love your baking!

  8. Hi Ann
    This gingerbread house looks so amazing and I can’t wait to try it! I’m from hawkes bay New Zealand and im a huge fan of all your recipes, if I wanna bake something I always go to how to cook that first. I would love to win this stand alone mixer because I’m really trying to advance my baking skills and trying to make things a little bit more challenging and I think having the tight tools would definitely help 🙂

  9. Oh! and one more thing. I really love your baking. It is really interestings you are making some day I am going make cakes like you do. You are really good!!

  10. Hi. I’m Minseo. I’m from Korea but I am living in Canada. I’m grade 8 and I first didn’t relize how much baking is fun but I did. I was going to make vanilla souffle and I was making meringue, but I didn’t have that much strength so I finished without making it. There is so many things that I want to make. If I am not late can I have that mixer?? Please. It will be handy and it is worthy. I will make lots of breads and cakes with it. I would really like to have it. Thank you bye.

  11. Hello Ann
    I love your work, thank you for sharing it freely, you are an inspiration. I have been making cakes for 15 years now and I sitll learn new things every day and you have been a big part of my learning curve. I tried your gingerbread recipe and had purchased the silicon kit as well. I went with “frozen” for the theme find picture attached. Let me know what you think and have a wonderful Christmas.

    • Hi my name is Erica Lumpkin, I’m from Miami,Florida, USA. I love baking so much. It’s my absolute favorite past time. However I do think that my right arm is definitely a bit bigger than my left from all the mixing (the mixer will definitely come in handy) lol. I love your videos and can’t wait to try out the Mickey Mouse cupcakes except I’m going to do Minnie for the chocolate. Thank you so much.

      • I love this gingerbread house and I would love to make it for my christmas gifts. Are you please able to tell me how far in advance can I make theses and how long will they keep?
        Thanks for your reply in advance.

  12. Hi Ann, I’m from the US and I would love a mixer because I am so in love with making food of all kinds and have wanted a stand up mixer as long as I can remember but because I have such a large family I have not been able to get one yet. I have hopes that someday I will get one but for now I do my best to create and bake. I very much love your videos and now I am subscribed so I am looking forward to what else you have to share, thank you so much for posting!!!

  13. Hi Ann, I liven in Sydney, Australia. I came to know about your site while I was looking for Lightening Mcqueen car cake recipe. I made the car for my son’s 3rd b’day and it was a cracker. Just wanted to thank for the fantastic job you are doing and it is so much helpful. I’m very much interested in baking but still I use the little hand mixer. I always wanted a stand mixer but because of the price my wish never come true. I will be more delightful if I win this beautiful Breville Stand Mixer. I’m not sure whether I’m late to submit my comment for the competition. But still I wanted to thank you for the lovely work you are doing.

  14. Hi Ann i am from Australia.
    I’d like to win the Breville stand mixer to make an authentic aussie christmas gingerbread house, complete with santa upside down in the chimney! Thanks.

  15. Hi Ann, My name is Sobitha. I am from Arlington, Virginia, USA.It’s undoubtedly a great pleasure watching your videos and learning so much from you. I moved to Virginia last year with my husband. Before moving here i never baked in my life apart from some amateur cupcakes with my friends. It’s now that I discovered that baking is not just a passion but a devotion for me. When I saw your “Template Chocolate Bridge”, I was spellbound. The one which completely stunned me was the Louis Vuitton handbag. It was impossible to call it a cake. You are my biggest inspiration. Getting an opportunity to win this mixer from you is really an honor and pride for me. My husband supports me a lot in everything especially baking. He got me several baking accessories. I am currently studying and unemployed. Honestly, the mixer is a big investment and I don’t wish to put this burden on him. I want to get it myself and this competition is a great opportunity to get the mixer and above all winning from you.Thank you

  16. Hi Ann
    I’m from Gold Coast, Qld. love this video by the way..awesome gingerbread house 🙂 I have watched quite a few of your videos over the last 12 months, I have had an unfortunate medical condition controling my body of late, and it means I can no longer do my job, Photography, which I loved 🙂
    However I have discovered I enjoy cooking cakes and cookies, and have found much inspiration from your videos, but find the mixing process difficult. I have made your cake pops and even gave Elsa cake a crack 🙂 anyway I would love to win this mixer simply because it would make life so much easier for me to do what I’d love to do 🙂
    Anyway keep the awesome videos coming, your great!

    Anyway fingers crossed
    Sharon

  17. Hi Ann me and my sisters love baking we love you channel so much we would like to have a mixer because we need should have a more baking supplies because Our mom can’t afford a new mixer.we live in the U.S.A

  18. Hi! My name is Sophia and I live in the United States! I just turned 13, and I love to bake soooo much. (I would like to become a pastry chef when I grow up!) I’ve always dreamed of having a stand mixer but my family can’t afford one right now. Even though I don’t have a compelling reason to why I should win a stand mixer I wrote you a poem to show how much I love to bake:
    Sticky fingers, dirty floor,
    Apron caked in flour,
    Peeking through the oven door
    Been waiting for an hour

    Baking goodies is my joy!
    Mixing,tasting,slicing…
    Stand up mixer I’d employ
    To make the dough or icing

    “How to cook that” is my guide
    To art of sweet creations
    I always cook with love and pride
    Your show’s an inspiration!

  19. Hi Ann!
    I live in Christchurch, New Zealand i’m 13 and 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!

  20. United States
    I love making desserts and am fascinated with your YouTube channel. I have a large family of dessert-lovers who always ask “what will you prepare next?” The stand mixer would greatly help to reduce the time and labor involved in bringing to life each homemade creation and enable me to put even more smiles on the faces and more treats in the bellies of my family members. Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful creations with us. They really inspire me.

    • Hi Anne!
      I’m from Colorado, Unided States and I’m 14.
      I absolutely adore watching your videos. I am truly fascinated and your are absolutely incredibly talented. I have been watching your videos lately and they really help me learn how to bake all kinds of desserts. I would really love to have the mixer because my current one is not that great and doesn’t hold much. I always bake and my family loves me to bake for them. They keep asking me for all sorts of things and your recipes provides me with all sorts of things to make. The mixer will make baking more convenient and easier to do. I would be so greatful to have a mixer like that so baking could be so much easier. Thanks! you are truly an inspiration and when I grow up I want to become a baker too!

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