Long time ago Hans and Gretchen lost their way and they got into the gingerbread house of a wicked witch. Narrowly they escaped from getting into the boiling pot of the witch. After that adventure all confectioners of the world have been busy baking many kinds of scented gingerbread houses – also in Finland almost a hundred years.
Your imagination is the only limit, when you are making a gingerbread house. Using gingerbread plates, sugar frosting and caramel you can create a realm of sweet dreams.
Recipe of a gingerbread house (g = gram, dl = decilitre):
300 g butter or margarine
Your imagination is the only limit, when you are making a gingerbread house. Using gingerbread plates, sugar frosting and caramel you can create a realm of sweet dreams.
Recipe of a gingerbread house (g = gram, dl = decilitre):
300 g butter or margarine
1½ dl syrup
4 dl sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons ginger
2 teaspoons ground clove
3 eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
about 13 dl wheat flour
Frosting: 6 dl powdered sugar
Frosting: 6 dl powdered sugar
1 egg white
a drop of lemon juice (1/2 lemon)
Boil butter, syrup, sugar and seasonings in kettle. Let cool down. Add eggs. Mix baking powder and half of flour and mix them into butter-syrup-seasoning mixture. Add rest of flour and mix well. Let dough rest in cool place at least a couple of hours, if possible over night.
Meanwhile you can draw and cut the patterns for your gingerbread house: two gables that will support the ridge roof, 2 long walls with a doorway in one of them, and 2 sheets for the ridge roof. You can also make a square chimney, if you like. Use cross ruled paper, so you don’t need a ruler or measuring tape.
On floured table roll part of the dough into little more than ½ cm (1/4 inch) thick sheet for bottom of the house. Roll rest of the dough for other parts of the house. Put rolled sheet to baking plate and cut parts using patterns you have made. You can make also bushes, fir trees, animals, etc. which you can put to the yard of your gingerbread house. Bake in oven at 170 C degrees; make sure that dough will bake well, so that the house will be strong enough. Let cool down well and put parts together using melted sugar as ’glue’.
Frosting: Put powdered sugar into bowl. Add egg white and mix well. Add drop of lemon juice to make frosting suitably liquid. Mix until mixture is glossy. Decorate the house with frosting and with candies that can be fixed to their places using melted sugar as glue.
Boil butter, syrup, sugar and seasonings in kettle. Let cool down. Add eggs. Mix baking powder and half of flour and mix them into butter-syrup-seasoning mixture. Add rest of flour and mix well. Let dough rest in cool place at least a couple of hours, if possible over night.
Meanwhile you can draw and cut the patterns for your gingerbread house: two gables that will support the ridge roof, 2 long walls with a doorway in one of them, and 2 sheets for the ridge roof. You can also make a square chimney, if you like. Use cross ruled paper, so you don’t need a ruler or measuring tape.
On floured table roll part of the dough into little more than ½ cm (1/4 inch) thick sheet for bottom of the house. Roll rest of the dough for other parts of the house. Put rolled sheet to baking plate and cut parts using patterns you have made. You can make also bushes, fir trees, animals, etc. which you can put to the yard of your gingerbread house. Bake in oven at 170 C degrees; make sure that dough will bake well, so that the house will be strong enough. Let cool down well and put parts together using melted sugar as ’glue’.
Frosting: Put powdered sugar into bowl. Add egg white and mix well. Add drop of lemon juice to make frosting suitably liquid. Mix until mixture is glossy. Decorate the house with frosting and with candies that can be fixed to their places using melted sugar as glue.
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