{"id":178636,"date":"2025-12-12T19:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=178636"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T08:24:32","slug":"gingerbread-house-template-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/gingerbread-house-template-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread House Template &#038; Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PiqVmTXALDI?si=wyQ2rTI0XiBUl7DV?rel=0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>Gingerbread House Recipe<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread house template and recipe ann reardon how to cook that\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-178637\" data-wp-pid=\"178637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-scaled-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Gingerbread House Template<\/strong><br \/>\n\t<p class=\"product woocommerce add_to_cart_inline \" style=\"\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<a href=\"?add-to-cart=178647\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-product_id=\"178647\" data-product_sku=\"\" data-quantity=\"1\" class=\"button buy-it-now-button add_to_cart_button product_type_simple\"><span class='button-label'>Buy<\/span><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-amount amount\"><bdi><span class=\"woocommerce-Price-currencySymbol\">&#36;<\/span>5.99<\/bdi><\/span><\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Gingerbread Recipe<\/strong><br \/>\nYou will need to make 2x the below quantity of dough for this house.  But I suggest that you make it twice rather than double it, otherwise it may not fit in your mixing bowl.<\/p>\n<p>430g (15.17 ounces) or 1 3\/4 cups plus 3 Tbsp butter, melted<br \/>\n430g (15.17 ounces) or 2 cups caster (super fine) sugar<br \/>\n250g (8.82 ounces) or 2\/3 cup plus 2 tsp glucose syrup<br \/>\n260g (9.17 ounces) or 3\/4 cup molasses or golden syrup (note do not use dark molasses or it will be too strong)<br \/>\n180mL (6.09 fluid ounces) or 2\/3 cup milk<br \/>\n1195g (42.15 ounces) or 7 1\/2 cups plain flour<br \/>\n20g (0.71 ounces) or 3 Tbsp cinnamon<br \/>\n12g (0.42 ounces) or 2 Tbsp ground cloves<br \/>\n18g (0.63 ounces) or 8 Tbsp ground ginger<br \/>\n10g (0.35 ounces) or 1 Tbsp ground mace<\/p>\n<p>Preheat oven to 180\u00baC<\/p>\n<p>In a large bowl mix together the melted butter, glucose syrup, molasses and sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Add in the milk, mix thoroughly.  Then add in the flour and spices.  Once all the flour is mixed in, wrap the dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate for a few hours.<\/p>\n<p>Roll it out using a little bit of flour on your rolling pin and some baking paper underneath. Put your template on top and using a pizza cutter, cut straight along the edges. Use a knife to cut out the windows, but leave them in place. Leave a border of dough around each piece to prevent spreading and the edges from getting over-cooked. Peel off the template, before you put it in the oven. <\/p>\n<p>For the little front part of the house, roll the dough quite thinly so that it&#8217;s easy to put together.<\/p>\n<p>Bake for 15 minutes then take your trays out of the oven and re-cut the lines and remove the windows.  Return to the oven for another 10-15 minutes until it has dried out.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread house from scratch ann reardon\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-178643\" data-wp-pid=\"178643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-scaled-1200x900-cropped.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211785-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Royal Icing Recipe<\/strong><br \/>\n1kg (2.2 pounds) or 8 cups icing sugar<br \/>\n50g (1.76 ounces) powdered egg white or 124g (4.37 ounces) pavlova magic mix<br \/>\n100mL (3.38 fluid ounces) or 1\/3 cup plus 1 Tbsp water<br \/>\nplus an additional 4 &#8211; 10 Tablespoons of water to get the correct consistency<br \/>\nFood coloring <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread house template ann reardon\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-178641\" data-wp-pid=\"178641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211795-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Decorating<\/strong><br \/>\n675g (23.81 ounces) White Chocolate melts<br \/>\nOil based food colouring (black, orange, blue)<br \/>\nsmall amount of fondant for plant pots<br \/>\npink lollies to make the flowers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-550x413.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread house decorating ideas ann reardon\" width=\"550\" height=\"413\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-178642\" data-wp-pid=\"178642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-550x413.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211818-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Plants greenery<\/strong><br \/>\nBlend coconut in a blender until it forms a rough powder then tip into a bowl.  Add a drop of green food colouring some almond meal, sugar, melted butter, a little flour and an egg white to bind it all together.  Using your hands rub the mixture together to form a crumbly mixture.  Sprinkle onto baking paper in plant shapes and bake until it just starts to go golden.  Sorry, I did not measure these amounts.<\/p>\n \n<h4 align=center>My Cookbook<\/h4>\n<p align=center>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/cook-crazy-sweet-creations-cookbook-ann-reardon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"40%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hardcover-book-mockup-of-a-woman-reading-3409-el1.png\" alt=\"ann reardon crazy sweet creations cookbook\" title=\"Crazy Sweet Creations Cookbook\" style=\"opacity: 0.8; -moz-opacity: 0.8;\" class=\"fade\" \/><\/a>\n<\/br>\nStores that sell my book listed by country:  \n<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/ARcookbook<\/a>\n<\/br>\nAll recipe quantities in the book are in grams, ounces and cups.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/gingerbread-house-template-recipe\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"gingerbread house template and recipe ann reardon how to cook that\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-scaled-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P1211796-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"178637\" \/><\/a><p>Gingerbread House Recipe Gingerbread House Template &nbsp; Gingerbread Recipe You will need to make 2x the below quantity of dough for this house. But I suggest that you make it twice rather than double it, otherwise it may not fit in your mixing bowl. 430g (15.17 ounces) or 1 3\/4 cups plus 3 Tbsp butter, melted 430g (15.17 ounces) or 2 cups caster (super fine) sugar 250g (8.82 ounces) or 2\/3 cup plus 2 tsp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[31,3963,206,2188,1143,477,952,3964],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178636"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178636"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178681,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178636\/revisions\/178681"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}