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For the walls and roof

To decorate

  • 2x tubes white ready-to-use icing
  • 2x chocolate
    flake bars
  • 2x packs white mini marshmallows
  • 200g icing sugar
    sifted, plus extra for dusting
  • coloured lollies, chocolate buttons, sweets
  • 30cm square silver cake board

Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal0
  • fat0g
  • saturates0g
  • carbs0g
  • sugars0g
  • fibre0g
  • protein0g
  • salt0g
    low

Method

  • step 1

    Place the flour, ginger, cinnamon and butter in a food processor and pulse until they resemble breadcrumbs (do this in two batches if the bowl is small). Combine the sugar, treacle and egg in a large mixing bowl. Tip in the flour mix and stir, then bring the dough together with your hands. Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth. Cover and chill for at least 1 hr.

  • step 2

    Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Line three baking sheets with non-stick paper. Divide the dough into three and roll out on a floured surface to the thickness of two £1 coins. Using the templates, cut out two each for the roof, sides and two pointed end walls. Lift them onto the baking sheets. Re-roll scraps of dough, then cut out the small trees. Bake for 12 mins or until just firm. Leave to firm up for 5 mins, then transfer to a wire rack to cool.

  • step 3

    To assemble the house, pipe a door on an end wall and a window on a side wall, using the squeezy icing. Pipe icing generously along one long edge of one side wall and stick it to the board. Repeat with an end wall, join the corners with a line of icing, then fix a flake bar to the base as a 'foundation'. Stick the remaining walls together. Use another flake bar to support the other end wall. Fix on the roof pieces, then leave overnight to set.

  • step 4

    Stick the marshmallows all over the roof, using the decorating icing as glue. Fix chocolate buttons around the door and to cover the corner joins. Pipe icicles along the front edge of the roof using the squeezy icing – start each one with a small pea-sized blob of icing. Pull the icing nozzle downwards and away from the blob – the icing will break off in a jagged 'icicle'. Alternatively, decorate with a line of white chocolate buttons.

  • step 5

    Mix the icing sugar with drops of water until you have a thick but spreadable icing. Spread this over the board and decorate with the lollipops (fastened to soft sweets), sweets, chocolate buttons and gingerbread trees. Dust lightly with icing sugar for a snowy effect.

  • step 6

    NOTE: To make the templates draw each shape on card or paper, using the following measurements. Side walls: 16cm x 10cm. Roof walls: 19cm x 12cm. End walls: Total height 18cm to the apex. 10cm tall to the top of the box. Angled line 11cm long.

RECIPE TIPS
PRINT A TEMPLATE

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Recipe from Good Food magazine, December 2005

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A star rating of 4.8 out of 5.12 ratings

melodycox

I have just worked out the template sizes. You need to draw:

2 x Rectangles for the SIDE WALLS - 16cm along the base, 10cm height

2 x Rectangles for the ROOF - 19cm long edge x 12cm shorter edge

2 x End walls - Draw a rectangle 18cm long x 10 cm high. Then draw the triangle part on the top by…

lkjhg

thank you so much! You saved me a pre Christmas min-strop! I was getting in such a muddle with the template - your instructions have made it much clearer

saschlet

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

The recipe itself is spicy and sweet. Worked perfectly for rolling and cutting. I followed the instructions/ingredients to the letter and was pleased. I baked them on my new silicone liner sheets which was a good idea. One roof panel broke and I was able to glue it back together with icing and it…

geraldine_bagger

Very delicous ginger bread recipe. The dough is easy to work with too. Now I am confident to challenge a ginger bread house during the weekend :)

ramydam

Made with 2- and 4-yr old, so measurements were interpreted very loosely, all ingredients were dumped into bowl together and "smooshed" together and we skipped the chilling, but turned out great and kept them occupied over an hour!

cerijones11

Probably a really stupid question!! But can anyone suggest a different flavour to ginger? I'm not a big fan of ginger but want to make this for my family! I was considering simply using vanilla, but any suggestions would be great!!

nicole_kirsty

My family and I aren't real ginger fans either but we LOVE cinnamon so I use that instead.....it's delicious!

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