Bright colorful house will create a fabulous atmosphere of any celebration. Making a gingerbread house is a fun and enjoyable activity, in which children can also participate with pleasure. Products are stored much longer than cakes with protein cream - which means you can eat them gradually, enjoying a gift made by yourself.
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You will need
- For gingerbread dough:
- - 3 yolks;
- - 700 g of flour;
- - 140 ml of milk;
- - 175 g butter;
- - 175 g of dark brown sugar;
- - 1 teaspoon of baking soda;
- - 1 tablespoon of ground ginger;
- - 3 tablespoons of light molasses (light honey);
- To decorate:
- - cotton candy (for "smoke");
- - two thick colored sugar sticks;
- - sugar in the form of brilliant crystals;
- - finished white and green sugar icing (royal icing);
- - small multi-colored sweets (M & M's, marmalades);
- - small stars made of white chocolate, chocolate round pads;
Instruction manual
1
Make a gingerbread dough. Heat the honey (molasses) until the crystals dissolve, and then cool to room temperature. Whisk the softened butter and sugar in a large bowl in a lush cream. Then, continuing to beat, enter one at a time yolks. Sift flour with soda and ginger, pour in milk, honey (molasses).
2
Mix thoroughly until smooth. Dust with flour the working surface and knead the soft dough, gently squeezing the mass with your fingers. Divide the finished dough into six identical parts. After sprinkling flour on the table, roll each part of the dough into a 5 mm thick layer. Place the two halves of the gingerbread house blank on the baking sheet. Use a sharp knife to cut rolled pieces of dough to the size of each part of the mold.
3
Transfer the relevant details into the silicone mold for the house and press the dough firmly over the entire area so that it prints window patterns on the walls of the house and roof tiles. Bake in the oven at 180 ° C for 15 minutes until cooked. Having taken out the baked gingerbread details from the halves of the mold and shift to cool on the wire rack. Apply white icing from a pastry bag to the sides and bottom of the walls of the house.
4
Collect the gingerbread house. Having put the walls of the house on a silver board, press them to each other with the edges lined with glaze. Fasten the parts, crushing cans from all sides, leave for an hour until the glaze completely hardens. Lay out another portion of the glaze on the upper edge of the walls and the ridge of the roof, to establish the roof panel.
5
Glue the parts of the chimney to the roof slope with glaze. Paste the white sugar icing on the contours of the tiles with a pastry handle. Spread the glaze along one of the edges of the door and glue it to the corresponding hole in the house as if it was ajar. Place the house in a cool place at night to harden the icing.
6
Decorate the house. Put white sugar icing from the pastry bag down the edges of the roof panels, depicting it in the form of icicles. Attach the same colored sweets to the top joint of the roof and to the sides, along the ridge of the roof. Spread the icing over the top of the chimney as snow. Insert a fluffy piece of cotton candy into the pipe simulating smoke.
7
Cut neat pieces from the marmalade or jelly with a small sharp knife into the shape of the recesses in the window frames and glue them with drops of glaze to the glass place. Attach large oblong pieces of marmalade (jelly) under the lower windows.
8
Fill the windowsills with white icing with a pastry handle, and window frames and binders with green sugar icing. Attach the colored small candy to the door in the form of a handle. Lay out the “snow” with white sugar glaze on the top edge of the windows, on the door and on the top and bottom edges of the shutters.
9
Cover the entire free part of the board around the house with completely white sugar glaze, slightly raising it with a spatula like snowdrifts of snow. Put the path out of the chocolate pads. Sprinkle the “snow” with small stars of white chocolate and shiny crystals of sugar.
10
Put green and white icing on gingerbread bushes, sprinkle with sugar crystals and place near the house. Place the decorated house in a cool, dry place until the glaze hardens completely.
