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Do you have kids? Would you like to make a gingerbread house that decorates your home and have the children participate and build their own little house with you? Well, start!
Our ingredients
450 g brown sugar
340 g butter or margarine
150 g eggs
450 g glucose or honey or grape must syrup
1350 g all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 ½ tsp salt
1 vanilla pod
2 tsp ground cloves
6 tsp cinnamon
4 tsp ginger
4 tsp cardamom or cardamon
1 ? tsp pepper
Place the butter with the sugar in the mixer and beat until well combined. Then add the eggs, followed by the glucose, and when they are well combined, add the powders. Knead well and divide into 4 parts. Wrap them with cling film and put them in the fridge for one hour.
Then roll out the dough to 2-3 mm thickness, cut the patterns on parchment paper, and place them on the dough. Cut around the outline with a knife, and then bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 15-20 minutes.
To assemble the pieces, you will need to make royal icing.
For the royal icing:
2 egg whites
500 g powdered sugar
Juice of one lemon
1 vanilla pod
Beat the egg whites until they are almost meringue-like. Gently add the sugar, then the vanilla, and lemon juice. Continue beating until the icing becomes shiny and stiff, such that if you turn a spoonful upside down, it does not fall off.
If you are having trouble rolling out the dough, you can easily do it between two sheets of parchment paper.
If you want to make windows in the house, when the pieces are almost ready in the oven, just before taking them out, place jelly candies in the openings. The heat will melt them immediately, creating the appearance of glass.
If the "glue" from the royal icing cannot hold the roof (due to weight if you have put a lot of decoration on top), as well as at the bases of the house, you can melt sugar, turn it into caramel, and it will surely stick better.
Use your imagination to create your own gingerbread house with little candies, cornflakes, and whatever else your imagination conjures.
When cutting the pattern for the tree, make two trees, and in one create an opening in the middle at the top, and in the other, the opening in the middle at the bottom.
Because our dough may not fit exactly when you assemble it, use a knife at the points where it has puffed up to fit comfortably.
For the manger, I used a small yogurt pot in a clay container. I covered the entire clay with parchment paper and on top, I placed a sheet from my biscuit dough. After baking, I let it cool. I made Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and Christ simply without many details with sugar paste.
