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🍰 Gingerbread House

450 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 level tbsp Ammonium carbonate
• 4 tbsp Milk
• 2 tsp Potash
• 4 tbsp Kirsch
• 500 Honey
• 2 tbsp Powdered sugar (heaped)
• 750 g Flour
• 1 packet Gingerbread spice
• 2 Egg yolks
• Flour (for the work surface)
• 2 Egg whites
• 260 g Powdered sugar
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice
• blue sugar almonds
• white sugar almonds
• Meringue dots
• Sugar straw (from the confectioner)
• Blue sprinkles

Instructions

1. 1. Dissolve the hartshorn salt in the milk.
2. 2. Dissolve the potash in the kirsch.
3. 3. Warm the honey, powdered sugar, and 50 milliliters of water in a small saucepan until they dissolve.
4. 4. Mix the flour with the gingerbread spice.
5. 5. Sift the flour mixture into a bowl.
6. 6. Add the dissolved honey-sugar mix and the egg yolk.
7. 7. Knead the ingredients into a dough.
8. 8. Add the milk-hartshorn salt mixture to the dough and knead it in vigorously.
9. 9. Add the kirsch-potash mixture to the dough and knead it in vigorously.
10. 10. Shape the dough into two equal-sized balls.
11. 11. Wrap each dough ball individually in plastic wrap.
12. 12. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours.
13. 13. Dust a work surface with flour.
14. 14. Take one dough ball and roll it out to about 0.5 centimeters thick.
15. 15. Cut out a front panel from the rolled-out dough sheet.
16. 16. Cut out a back panel.
17. 17. Cut out two side panels.
18. 18. Cut out two roof panels.
19. 19. Cut out a floor panel.
20. 20. Cut window openings into the respective dough parts.
21. 21. Cut door openings into the respective dough parts.
22. 22. Repeat the rolling and cutting with the second dough ball.
23. 23. Cut out a chimney from the dough scraps.
24. 24. Cut out a witch from the dough scraps.
25. 25. Cut out a cat from the dough scraps.
26. 26. Cut out trees from the dough scraps.
27. 27. Line a baking tray with baking paper.
28. 28. Place the house dough parts on the prepared tray.
29. 29. Place the decoration dough parts on the prepared tray.
30. 30. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius (convection 160 degrees Celsius).
31. 31. Bake the dough parts for about 15 minutes until medium brown.
32. 32. Let the baked parts cool completely.
33. 33. Whip the egg white with the powdered sugar and a few drops of lemon juice into a stiff foam.
34. 34. Fill the egg white mixture into a piping bag with a round tip.
35. 35. Use the egg white mixture to mortar the house walls.
36. 36. Attach the roof with the egg white mixture.
37. 37. Attach the door with the remaining egg white mixture.
38. 38. Attach the window shutters with the remaining egg white mixture.
39. 39. Decorate the house as you like with almonds.
40. 40. Decorate the house as you like with meringues.
41. 41. Decorate the house as you like with the cut-out gingerbread figures.
42. 42. Let the icing dry completely.
43. 43. Dust the finished house with powdered sugar as snow.
44. 44. Decorate the house as you like with sprinkles.
45. 45. Serve the gingerbread house.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 450
• Protein: 7 g · Fett/Fat: 4 g · Carbs: 82 g