Starter Gingerbread House

Step 1: Mix dough according to instructions on Gingerbread Cookie Dough recipe.		Step 2: Flour a non-stick pastry mat and knead your dough. Refrigerate for two hours.
Step 3: Roll gingerbread dough to a 1/4" thickness.		Step 4: Flour cutting edge of house cutters, cut out pieces. Bake at 350 for 12 minutes.
Step 5: While gingerbread is warm and pliable, cut a small peaked section into 6 triangles for dormers.		Step 6: Cut two small rectangles in half, cut "v"s into the buttom of each piece for chimney.
Step 7: If you need to make windows or other trim from royal icing, do so with the parts lying on a flat surface prior to assembly.		Step 8: Assemble your house, using royal icing as cement between parts. Hold together with toothpicks until dry.
Step 9: Use slivered almonds, dry cereal or candy pieces for roof shingles.		Step 10: Mount the chimney and dormers as shown, then complete the roof singles

Finished Gingerbread House

Although this is a starter house, you can use the same cutters to make a variety of other houses, churchs and public buildings. Let your imagination be your guide.

	Customer's finished Gingerbread House. Notice the Royal Icing shingles.

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Tools used

• Mixer with paddles and whips
• Silicone pastry mat
• Cake decorating ornamenter kit
• 5-piece Starter Gingerbread House Kit
• Spatula
• Rolling pin

Recipes

Recipes for Gingerbread Cookie Dough and Royal Icing.

Detailed Plan

For a printable assembly diagram, click Gingerbread House Diagram.

Construction and decorating tips:

• Use more powdered sugar in your royal icing to speed drying.
• If you don't want your icing "cement" to show, tint it with food coloring to match the gingerbread.
• Cardboard or wood wrapped in foil, wax paper or decorated with doilies makes an attractive base. Secure the house to the surface with royal icing.
• Make stepping stones fron candy bits for a decorative walkway.
• To create a brick effect, tint royal icing. the color of bricks and while it is still wet, create rows by pressing a woodent skewer into the icing. Use a toothpick to divide the rows into bricks.
• Waffle pretzels make great windows, Pretzel rods can serve as pillars and pretzel sticks make great ballusters.

Caring for your Cutters

Polyresin coated cutters are scratch resistant and dishwasher safe. However, the manufacturer recommends that they be washed by hand in hot, soapy water and dried completely before storage

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