Sunday 16 December 2012

Gingerbread House



Dear Santa:

I've made a gingerbread house. Do you like it? I promise to be good and not eat it all in one go.


So, can I have a real house for Christmas? Pretty please?

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Have a great week and Merry Christmas! You can see below step by step of how I made it =)







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And here is how I made it - I used the recipe from BBC Good Food - you can find it here.


1) Make the recipe mixture in a suitably large bowl. Yes, I did use a wok. Woks are the best thing EVER.


2) Using the template on the recipe, cut out house sections and bake. They burn quite easily - so be careful to watch the timing carefully.


3) Stick the parts of the house together using icing sugar paste (icing sugar + egg whites). You may need some mugs for propping up the sides whilst it dries. (Did you notice my elephant mug??? I love my elephant mug).


4) Keep on sticking.



5) Don't give up now!


6) Decorate! I used peanut m&m's for the roof, white chocolate fingers for the door and glace cherries for the door frame. White marshmallows make up the side windows and the rest is writing icing =)


Soooo....I hope I've shown you it's not too hard to make a gingerbread house - this is my first time and I think it turned out okay! So try it try it try it =)

I wish you all a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year.




5 comments:

  1. So darn cute! Well done! I hope Santa brings you your dream house ... or at least shows you a way to find one you can grab for your own! Merry Christmas!

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  2. Awww that is so cute :D I've never attempted a ginger bread house before! I am very impressed! I hope Santa brings you a house! It's on my list too :(

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  3. That is the happiest little gingerbread person I've seen - adorable!

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  4. This is such a cute gingerbread house! I love the door with the white chocolate fingers and cherries.

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  5. Happy New Year to you, Xinmei. I'm so behind but love popping in to see what you're up to! My kids told me off last Xmas for having never made a Gingerbread House and after seeing your amazing work of art with instructions on how to do this, I'm pinning it for Christmas 2013!
    Good luck with all of your studies.

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