{"id":6726,"date":"2014-10-31T18:31:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T08:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/?p=6726"},"modified":"2024-09-23T17:29:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T07:29:03","slug":"christmas-gingerbread-house-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/christmas-gingerbread-house-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Gingerbread House Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hrecipe\" align=\"center\">\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo size-large wp-image-6802\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/recipe_gingerbreadhouse-550x335.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread house recipe ideas 2014\" width=\"550\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/recipe_gingerbreadhouse-550x335.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/recipe_gingerbreadhouse-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/recipe_gingerbreadhouse-60x36.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/recipe_gingerbreadhouse-400x244.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/recipe_gingerbreadhouse.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Christmas is coming, how exciting! I love the carols, trees, twinkling lights, advent calendars and of course the kids&#8217; delighted faces on Christmas morning.  <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lao7-up1a6A?showinfo=0\" width=\"550\" height=\"309\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Giveaway is now closed.<\/strong><br \/>\nCongratulations to the winners &#8211; Australia: Amy Watson, USA: karatinajr, Canada: Cassandra Taylor and in New Zealand Phoenix Down.<\/P><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"fn\"><strong>Christmas\u00a0Gingerbread House Recipe<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Makes enough dough to make one house using this <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1PnwuhH\">silicone mould<\/a>.<br \/>\n<span class=\"ingredient\"><span class=\"amount\">125g (4.41 ounces) or 1\/2 cup plus 2 tsp <\/span> <span class=\"name\">brown sugar<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n180g (6.35 ounces) or 3\/4 cup plus 1 Tbsp unsalted butter<br \/>\n300g (10.58 ounces) or 3\/4 cup plus 3 Tbsp golden syrup or you can use treacle<br \/>\n1 tspn ground cinnamon<br \/>\n1 \u00bd Tbsp ground ginger<br \/>\n1 tsp ground nutmeg<br \/>\n\u00bd tsp ground cloves<br \/>\n500g (17.64 ounces) or 3 cups and 3 Tbsp plain (or all purpose) flour<\/p>\n<p>Preheat your oven to 170\u00b0C (338 degrees Fahrenheit).<br \/>\nBeat the butter, sugar, golden syrup and spices on low speed for a couple of minutes<br \/>\nAdd the flour and mix until it forms a nice dough.<br \/>\nSplit the dough between the sections of the house as shown in the video and push down into the mould.<br \/>\nPlace the moulds onto baking trays and bake for 20 minutes, swapping the trays after 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gingerbread House Icing Recipe<\/strong><br \/>\n1kg (2.2 pounds) or 7 and 3\/4 cups plus 3 Tbsp icing sugar<br \/>\n50g (1.76 ounces) powdered egg white or 114g (4.02 ounces) pavlova magic mix (one packet)<br \/>\n100millilitres (3.38 fluid ounces) water<br \/>\nplus an additional 2 \u2013 5 Tbsp of water to get the correct consistency<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6734\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1020470-550x366.jpg\" alt=\"gingerbread house how to cook that\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1020470-550x366.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1020470-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1020470-60x40.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1020470-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>To decorate the gingerbread house as shown in the video you will need: <\/strong><br \/>\n1 packet of mint leaves<br \/>\nwhite fondant<br \/>\ngreen gel food colour<br \/>\nred fondant<br \/>\n10 red and 10 green Smarties<br \/>\nsoft sugar pearls to decorate the tree<br \/>\n375g (13.23 ounces) or 2 1\/2 cup white chocolate melts<br \/>\n50g (1.76 ounces) or 1\/3 cup milk chocolate melts<br \/>\n1 packet hundreds and thousands<br \/>\n1 tube mini M&amp;M\u2019s<br \/>\nicing sugar for dusting the snow<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6733\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1010894-550x825.jpg\" alt=\"christmas gingerbread house\" width=\"550\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1010894-550x825.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1010894-300x450.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1010894-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1010894-60x90.jpg 60w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/P1010894-400x600.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><br \/>\n2014<br \/>\nby Ann Reardon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/\" title=\"Welcome to How To Cook That\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How To Cook That<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\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\/christmas-gingerbread-house-recipe\/\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gingerbread_house_recipe-150x150.jpg\" class=\"alignleft tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"gingerbread house recipe how to cook that\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gingerbread_house_recipe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gingerbread_house_recipe-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gingerbread_house_recipe-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/gingerbread_house_recipe-1200x1200-cropped.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" data-wp-pid=\"6731\" \/><\/a><p>Christmas is coming, how exciting! I love the carols, trees, twinkling lights, advent calendars and of course the kids&#8217; delighted faces on Christmas morning. Giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winners &#8211; Australia: Amy Watson, USA: karatinajr, Canada: Cassandra Taylor and in New Zealand Phoenix Down. &nbsp; Christmas\u00a0Gingerbread 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,1652,748,3824],"tags":[1326,31,1933,1069,1935,1143,1932,1931,528,477,952,465,163,1934,1468],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726"}],"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=6726"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175461,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6726\/revisions\/175461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.howtocookthat.net\/public_html\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}