Completed Gingerbread house!!

pictures fron the very start to very end all finished and pretty!!

 My friend came over and decorated it with me :) it kind of looks like a church but wasnt meant to, it was meant to be a window hahah!! you just cant really see the curtains!!

And the recipe :) I found it made tonnes of dough and made over 80 other cookies which we have frozen and given away :)

Ingredients :

250g butter softened

1 cup of Brown Sugar

½ cup Golden syrup

½ cup molasses

1 egg plus 1 yolk

5 cups (750g) plain flour

2 tablespoons ground ginger

2 teaspoons mixed spice

2 teaspoons cinnamon

1 teaspoon nutmeg

2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C or 160°C fan forced. Line 4 oven trays with baking paper.

Use an electric beater to beat the butter and brown sugar in a bowl until pale and creamy. Add golden syrup, molasses and egg and yolk and beat until combined. Sift the flour and spices and bicarbonate of soda and mix to a dough. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.

Roll dough between two sheets of baking paper to 5mm thickness on oven trays. Refrigerate for 30 minutes. Cut shapes for house using patterns out of baking paper so the template doesn’t stick to the dough

Remove the top layer of baking paper.

Cut out the dough using the template and place on baking tray

Bake gingerbread door for 8 minutes and larger panels for 10 – 15 minutes or until lightly browned. Allow to cool on oven trays.

When cool assemble using royal icing, i bought mine :)

original recipe is HERE if you would like it, this version I have changed some ingredients and steps to which I have found works better and tastes nicer :)