SIMPLE GINGERBREAD HOUSE RECIPE - BBC GOOD FOOD
Bake a gingerbread house with our simple biscuit recipe and design template. Get the kids involved, too, and weave some magical Christmas memories
Provided by Jane Hornby
Categories Afternoon tea, Dessert, Treat
Total Time 1 hours 12 minutes
Prep Time 2 hours
Cook Time 30 minutes
Yield Makes 1 house with 12 portions
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger into a large bowl, then stir in the butter mixture to make a stiff dough. If it won’t quite come together, add a tiny splash of water.
- Cut out the template (download from the tips below). Put a sheet of baking paper on a work surface and roll about one quarter of the dough to the thickness of two £1 coins. Cut out one of the sections, then slide the gingerbread, still on its baking paper, onto a baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, re-rolling the trimmings, until you have two side walls, a front and back wall and two roof panels. Any leftover dough can be cut into Christmas trees, if you like.
- Pick out the most intact flaked almonds and gently poke them into the roof sections, pointy-end first, to look like roof tiles. Bake all the sections for 12 mins or until firm and just a little darker at the edges. Leave to cool for a few minutes to firm up, then trim around the templates again to give clean, sharp edges. Leave to cool completely.
- Put the egg whites in a large bowl, sift in the icing sugar, then stir to make a thick, smooth icing. Spoon into a piping bag with a medium nozzle. Pipe generous snakes of icing along the wall edges, one by one, to join the walls together. Use a small bowl to support the walls from the inside, then allow to dry, ideally for a few hours.
- Once dry, remove the supports and fix the roof panels on. The angle is steep so you may need to hold these on firmly for a few mins until the icing starts to dry. Dry completely, ideally overnight. To decorate, pipe a little icing along the length of 20 mini chocolate fingers and stick these lengthways onto the side walls of the house. Use three, upright, for the door.
- Using the icing, stick sweets around the door and on the front of the house. To make the icicles, start with the nozzle at a 90-degree angle to the roof and squeeze out a pea-sized blob of icing. Keeping the pressure on, pull the nozzle down and then off – the icing will pull away, leaving a pointy trail. Repeat all around the front of the house. Cut the chocolate mini roll or dipped Flake on an angle, then fix with icing to make a chimney. Pipe a little icing around the top. If you’ve made gingerbread trees, decorate these now, too, topping each with a silver ball, if using. Dust the roof with icing sugar for a snowy effect. Lay a winding path of sweets, and fix gingerbread trees around and about using blobs of icing. Your gingerbread house will be edible for about a week.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 636 calories, FatContent 30 grams fat, SaturatedFatContent 13 grams saturated fat, CarbohydrateContent 80 grams carbohydrates, SugarContent 38 grams sugar, FiberContent 2 grams fiber, ProteinContent 10 grams protein, SodiumContent 0.6 milligram of sodium
QUICK BLACK FOREST CAKE RECIPE | ALLRECIPES
This version of Black Forest cake gets you an easy, delicious, and moist cake by using cherry pie filling and devil's food cake mix.
Provided by Donna
Categories Cake Mix Cakes
Yield 1 - 9 x 13 inch pan
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Mix together: cake mix, beaten eggs, almond extract, cherry pie filling and 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips. Stir until just combined. Pour batter into a greased 9x13 inch pan.
- Bake in a 350 degree F (175 degree C) oven for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Remove cake from oven and let cool.
- To Make Glaze: Heat 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips, butter or margarine, and milk in a saucepan over medium high heat. Once semisweet chocolate chips are melted and mixture is combined stir in confectioners' sugar.
- Spread glaze over cooled cake. Serve cake as is or with whipped cream and a cherry.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 263.4 calories, CarbohydrateContent 41.7 g, CholesterolContent 38.5 mg, FatContent 9.7 g, FiberContent 1.2 g, ProteinContent 4.1 g, SaturatedFatContent 4.7 g, SodiumContent 235.7 mg, SugarContent 23.5 g
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