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🍰 Bake a Gingerbread House: How to Build Your Own

1390 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Put honey, butter, sugar, vanilla sugar, and water into a pot.
  2. 2. Warm the mixture over low heat while stirring constantly.
  3. 3. Remove the pot from the heat once the sugar is completely dissolved.
  4. 4. Let the mixture cool down briefly.
  5. 5. Rinse the lemon under hot water.
  6. 6. Grate about one teaspoon of the zest.
  7. 7. Mix the egg with the lemon zest, cocoa powder, baking powder, flour, and spices in a bowl.
  8. 8. Add the cooled honey-butter mixture.
  9. 9. Process everything with a hand mixer and dough hooks until you have a smooth dough.
  10. 10. Wrap the dough in cling film.
  11. 11. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator overnight.
  12. 12. Take the dough out of the refrigerator the next day.
  13. 13. Let the dough acclimate to room temperature for about 30 minutes.
  14. 14. Sprinkle some flour on a work surface.
  15. 15. Roll out the dough evenly on the floured surface.
  16. 16. Cut out the desired shape from the dough.
  17. 17. Cut out one base, two equal-sized roof panels, two equal-sized side walls, and two slightly narrower front and back walls for the house.
  18. 18. Cut window and door frames into the front walls as desired.
  19. 19. Place the gingerbread plates on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  20. 20. Put the tray in the refrigerator for about 15 minutes.
  21. 21. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  22. 22. Bake the gingerbread plates for about 20 minutes.
  23. 23. Let the baked plates cool down completely.
  24. 24. Separate the remaining eggs and use the yolks for something else.
  25. 25. Whip the egg whites stiff using a hand mixer and whisk attachment.
  26. 26. Sift the powdered sugar into the egg whites gradually.
  27. 27. Continue stirring until the icing has a firm consistency.
  28. 28. Fill the icing into a piping bag with a round tip.
  29. 29. Alternatively, fill the icing into a freezer bag, tie it tightly, and cut off a small corner.
  30. 30. Place the base of the house.
  31. 31. Brush the edge of one side wall with icing.
  32. 32. Press the wall onto the base.
  33. 33. Hold the wall in place for about one minute until the icing sets.
  34. 34. Draw a thin line of icing along the sides to secure it.
  35. 35. Brush the edges of the front wall with icing.
  36. 36. Attach the front wall to the side wall.
  37. 37. Draw thin icing lines along the sides here as well.
  38. 38. Repeat the process for all walls.
  39. 39. Attach the roof.
  40. 40. Decorate the finished house as desired with the remaining icing.
  41. 41. Use chocolate buttons or cookies as decoration.
  42. 42. Let the house rest for about 30 minutes after completion.
  43. 43. Wait until the icing is completely firm.

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