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Gingerbread houses
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I foolishly, in a drunken state, agreed to enter a gingerbread house competition at my local.
never cooked gingerbread before...any tips, foolproof recipes etc
Also, anyone ever built a house before and want to inspire me ?
Thanks as always
HM
never cooked gingerbread before...any tips, foolproof recipes etc
Also, anyone ever built a house before and want to inspire me ?
Thanks as always
HM
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Ensure you plan it out first, bear in mid the size of you baking trays.
Use a basic biscuit mix and roll out on silicon paper to a...
Use a basic biscuit mix and roll out on silicon paper to a...
09:49 Sat 10th Nov 2012
I've never made one but last year my friend made one with her six year old daughter. They drew a picture of what they wanted it to look like, before they started and worked out how many surfaces they would need to create a house, with a roof.
They backed four lots of gingerbread cake on flat backing trays and cut up the pieces before it went cold.
They then assembled it and spent hours decorating it with buttercream, sugar paste, sweeties, edible glitter and nuts. It was absolutely fabulous. They took photographs of it before the rest of the family 'demolished' it.
They backed four lots of gingerbread cake on flat backing trays and cut up the pieces before it went cold.
They then assembled it and spent hours decorating it with buttercream, sugar paste, sweeties, edible glitter and nuts. It was absolutely fabulous. They took photographs of it before the rest of the family 'demolished' it.
Good idea sher - hammerman, buy an Aldi one and use it as a template http://
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Ensure you plan it out first, bear in mid the size of you baking trays.
MAKE A BASIC MODEL OF 4 WALLS DOOR AND ROOF OUT OF CARDBOARD AND TAPE IT TOGETHER LIGHTY.
The 6 pieces will be your template for cuting out you biscuits. ensure they all fit onto you baking tray if not the model is too big.
Use a basic biscuit mix and roll out on silicon paper to a thickness of about 5-8 mm no thinner cut out using the templates you made slide onto the baking tray leaving it on the silicone paper.
Bake off all the pieces and allow to cool, use a large board cover in foil as a base and construct the house sticking it together with royal icing decorate with sweets, smarties jelly tots ect at will, if you want windows and doors cut out before baking and use leaf geleting as glass and choc match sticks as a log door, these can also be used on the roof or you could also use choc thin dinner mints as tiles.
Make sure you don't make it too soon as the bisciut will go soft.
Good luck with your first one it gets easier after the first 5, im sure you will have fun and may even supries your self, you can fill it with sweets and light it up with christmas light too.
MAKE A BASIC MODEL OF 4 WALLS DOOR AND ROOF OUT OF CARDBOARD AND TAPE IT TOGETHER LIGHTY.
The 6 pieces will be your template for cuting out you biscuits. ensure they all fit onto you baking tray if not the model is too big.
Use a basic biscuit mix and roll out on silicon paper to a thickness of about 5-8 mm no thinner cut out using the templates you made slide onto the baking tray leaving it on the silicone paper.
Bake off all the pieces and allow to cool, use a large board cover in foil as a base and construct the house sticking it together with royal icing decorate with sweets, smarties jelly tots ect at will, if you want windows and doors cut out before baking and use leaf geleting as glass and choc match sticks as a log door, these can also be used on the roof or you could also use choc thin dinner mints as tiles.
Make sure you don't make it too soon as the bisciut will go soft.
Good luck with your first one it gets easier after the first 5, im sure you will have fun and may even supries your self, you can fill it with sweets and light it up with christmas light too.
Fox's glacier mints make good windows. Cut out the window and put a could of mints in the void.
Depending on the size of you house chocolote buttons make a good roof tile.
Dessicated coconut coloured with green food dye can become grass. Grated chocolate or blitzed chocolate biscuits make good soil.
Depending on the size of you house chocolote buttons make a good roof tile.
Dessicated coconut coloured with green food dye can become grass. Grated chocolate or blitzed chocolate biscuits make good soil.
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