Samuel's gingerbread birdhouse recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 450g unsalted butter
• 360g dark muscovado sugar
• 190g golden syrup
• 1.08kg plain flour
• 3½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
• 2 tbsp ground ginger
• 500g icing sugar sieved
• 2 egg whites
• 2 lemons juiced
• 150g milk chocolate
• 225g chocolate-coated biscuit sticks
• 1 candy cane
• 10 milk chocolate fingers
• yellow food colouring
• mini sugar-coated chocolate balls in various colours
• 400g white fondant icing
• 50g each brown, red, yellow, black, and blue fondant icing
• 300g green fondant icing
• black edible writing pen
• edible glue (or use golden syrup)
• 120g sugar-coated chocolate buttons in various colours