How To make Gingerbread Dough For Structures
2/3 c Shortening
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Blackstrap molasses
1 Egg
3 c Flour
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Baking powder
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Ginger
1 ts Cloves
1/2 ts Nutmeg
Cream shortening and sugar. Add molasses and egg; beat thoroughly. Sift together remaining ingredients and add to liquid mixture. Mix well. If dough does not come together, add water as necessary. (Dough tends to be stiff.) Roll to 1/2" thick and cut pattern for desired structure. Bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes. Be very careful when removing from baking sheets to cooling rack. Let cool thoroughly, then assemble using Royal icing (2 egg whites, 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar, 1/2 to 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 lb. confectioners sugar. Beat until stiff.) A couple of things: Roll out the dough right on the cookie sheets, cut your pieces, and peel away the extra dough. A lot easier than trying to transfer the pieces from rolling board to sheets. Leave some space between pieces; this dough tends to spread a bit. It also has a tendency to crack a little when you take it off the baking sheet if you use a small spatula to move it. I went out and invested in one with a 5"x3" blade. The cookie isn't too sweet, but nice and spicy. I spent the whole day with my mom, helping her make cookies for Christmas gifts. Somewhere around 600 cookies later, I'm finally home.... Anyway, she gave me permission to divulge her gingerbread recipe, so here it is. * The Polka Dot Palace BBS 1-201-822-3627. Posted by EPONA
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A Beautiful Gingerbread House From Scratch
Making an epic gingerbread house from scratch is a challenge!
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Here's what I use and highly recommend for this project:
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Cake board (base):
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Wilton icing tips and couplers:
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Time-stamps:
00:00 Sketch Out a Gingerbread House Design
00:45 Make a Gingerbread House Template
01:53 Gingerbread House Dough Recipe
03:00 How to Prepare a Base for a Gingerbread House
03:40 How to Roll Out Dough for a Gingerbread House
03:52 How to Cut Out Elements of a Gingerbread House
04:25 How to Make Stained Glass Windows for a Gingerbread House
05:07 How to Make Royal Icing for a Gingerbread House
06:05 How to Assemble a Gingerbread House
07:15 Instal Lights Inside the Gingerbread House
07:46 Build a Roof of a Gingerbread House
08:55 How to Decorate a Gingerbread House
10:09 Royal Icing Fence for a Gingerbread House
11:46 Pipe Icicles with Royal Icing
12:12 How to Assemble a Royal Icing Fence
12:52 Dusting Gingerbread House with Powdered Sugar
13:46 Lighting Up the Gingerbread House
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Gingerbread Ingredients:
340g (3 sticks) unsalted butter
1 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
2 eggs
1 cup unsulphured molasses
6 cups flour
2 tbsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
Royal Icing:
2 cups powdered sugar
2 tbsp meringue powder
3 tbsp warm water
Stained Glass:
1 cup isomalt crystals
1/4 cup hot distilled water
liquid food coloring
Gingerbread Hack: Build a Gingerbread House in 5 Minutes NO DRYING TIME & NO ROYAL ICING| ALL EDIBLE
Ever had a gingerbread creation fall apart? With this hack it will NEVER happen again and you can put together structures in MINUTES. Large ones!
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For this tutorial, I really didn't have to use much!
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Louise Lennox's Festive Gingerbread House Recipe | Kid-Friendly Christmas Baking
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For the Ginger Bread:
115g Granulated sugar
115g Demerara Brown Sugar
200g Butter
225g golden syrup
100ml whole milk
600g plain flour
1/2 Tablespoon bread soda
2 Tablespoon ground cinnamon 2 tablespoons ground ginger
For Decorating:
2 packets Instant Royal Icing
5 sheets leaf gelatine – for the windows optional Sweets to decorate
Additional supplies: Pen, paper, cardboard
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00:00 | Introduction
00:40 | Melt sugar, butter, golden syrup & milk
01:22 | Pour into flour mixture
02:09 | Put in tin at room temperature
02:45 | Engineering the house
03:38 | Cut out your shapes
04:02 | Bake for 20 minutes
04:53 | Assemble your house!
07:19 | Add your personal accessories
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Baking an EPIC Gingerbread Village Ski Resort FROM SCRATCH | Fully Edible Gingerbread House/Village
Happy Holidays everyone! If you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas. We had this idea a bit last minute but once we started dreaming it up, we just had to execute it to the fullest. We did lots of research to figure out how to bake a strong gingerbread structure to create the Gingerbread Ski Resort of our dreams. Frosty Valley (what we’ve called our village) is complete with a glowing A-frame cabin made of gingerbread & butterscotch candy, a fully edible chair lift up to the slopes, and a candy ice rink. This is the craziest thing I’ve ever baked for sure. While time consuming and a huge challenge, maybe we will make it our new holiday tradition! At least I hope to be able to do some fun creative baking each year…Or it will just be an amazing Christmas memory we’ll remember forever. Either way, I hope you enjoy the making of our epic gingerbread village/ski resort.
We ended up using two different Gingerbread recipes. Our strong structural construction gingerbread recipe:
(note: we used half butter & half shortener in an attempt to make it a bit more edible, plus half dark brown sugar & half white sugar in our first batch)
The delicious, chewy but still strong Gingerbread Cookie Recipe thanks to my bestie Sarah. We did many batches but here it is:
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup molasses
3 cup flour (and extra for rolling)
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Preheat to 375 F
Beat butter & sugar
Stir in egg & molasses
Fold in flour/spices/salt into butter
Chill 2 hours
Cut dough into sections
Roll on floured board
Bake 10 min (or less if you have really small cookies like some of the ones we made)
TIME STAMPS:
00:00-00:39 - Intro
00:39-2:08 - How we built our structure
2:08-3:05 - The Plan
3:05-4:09 - Making our Construction Gingerbread
4:09-5:54 - Laying down our Gingerbread ground
5:54-6:56 - Cutting out our A Frame & Making a Candy Window
6:56-7:30 - Icing & Baking
7:30-8:19 - Building our A-Frame Gingerbread House
8:19-8:58 - Icing & Cutting out Gingerbread Cookies
8:58-11:45 - Constructing our Gingerbread Chair Lift
11:45-13:38 - Changing up some plans
13:38-14:48 - Making our Frozen Candy Pond & Edible Trees
14:49-17:06 - Decorating our Gingerbread & Frosting our Village
17:06-18:48 - Finishing up our Edible Chair Lift
18:48-22:09 - The Grand Reveal & Tour our Gingerbread Village/Ski Resort!
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