Gingerbread Dough for House
"This was a recipe for a Gingerbread house that my mother helped my sister make for a class project. It is time comsuming and can be fun to do as a family. The Gingerbread house is also a wonderful decoration around the Holidays."
photo by plegler
- Ready In:
- 48hrs 12mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
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1 house
ingredients
directions
- FOR SNOW: 1 cup confectioner's sugar, 1/2 egg white and 1/2 teaspoons lemon juice.
- You can use M&M candies, peppermint candy, Bassett's Licorice, gummy bears, Smarties and a lot of imagination.
- GLUE: melt sugar in a large frying pan, and dip the edges into the sugar and put together with mating part - very quickly.
- Directions:.
- Heat sugar, molasses, butter and spices in a pot on low heat.
- Pour in the milk and let the mixture cool.
- Mix the baking soda into the flour and the flour mixture into the liquids.
- Make the dough.
- Sprinkle some flour on top and cover with towel or plastic wrap.
- Place in refrigerator for 24 hours.
- While dough is sitting, design a house and cut out the walls, roof, doors, windows chimney etc. Out of cardboard.
- Turn on the oven to 350 °F.
- Roll out dough (not too thin!) and place cardboard pieces on top of dough and cut around the edge into wanted shapes.
- Bake until golden brown for about 12-15 minute.
- Put the house together and decorate.
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Reviews
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this was great. My family loved them -
I just tried using this recipe to make a gingerbread house... it turned out rly good; easy and tasty too! i just cut out the shapes, letting them cool and then going to decorate and construct it, lol! anyways, the reason why i tried your recipe was because i didnt have any more eggs, and i didnt want ot go out in the storm! also, i didnt use ginger, personal preference. overall, great recipe! thanks! happy holidays!!!
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litldarlin
Merrillville, Indiana
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