Showing posts with label gingerbread. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gingerbread. Show all posts

Saturday, 28 December 2013

Gingerbread House

(Completely forgot to upload this post! but better late than never ;)
 
During the festive season, there are a lot of things I love to do to make me feel Christmassy!
 
One of them, is to make a gingerbread house from scratch. (It always ends up messy, but making it stand up on it's own this year was a first!)
  
 
 

I start off by making the gingerbread, which I do by using the same recipe as I did for my Halloween Biscuits.When it comes to shaping the dough, I roll it out pretty thin - about 5mm , and use a template from the internet. This Year I Used one from the Tesco Website, which you can find here. I then baked all the sides of the house in the oven for about 20 minutes at 190°. After they had cooled, I decorated them with chocolate buttons and little coloured sweets (which ended up falling off the door of the house, as I managed to drop it on the floor :( ), and I then stuck them together with icing.
 
Hope you enjoyed this post!