Easy gingerbread house recipe | Women's Weekly Food

Easy gingerbread house recipe | Women's Weekly Food

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Making your own gingerbread house could be easier than you think with this recipe and some store bought lollies for decoration.

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Ingredients

  • Easy gingerbread house
  • 250 grams (8 ounces) butter, softened
  • 1 cup (220g) firmly packed brown sugar
  • 1 cup (350g) golden syrup
  • 2 egg yolks
  • 5 cups (750g) plain (all-purpose) flour
  • 2 tablespoons ground ginger
  • 2 teaspoons mixed spice
  • 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
  • 1 sheet cardboard
  • 28 centimetre x 33cm (11¼-inches x 13¼-inches) covered board
  • 700 grams (1½ pounds) assorted sweets
  • desiccated coconut, for `snow' glaze
  • 1 tablespoon caster (superfine) sugar
  • 2 tablespoons water
  • 1/2 teaspoon powdered gelatine royal icing
  • 2 egg whites
  • 3 1/4 cup s (500g) pure icing (confectioners') sugar, approximately
  • 1/2 teaspoon strained lemon juice

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