How To make Gingerbread Dough For Structures

How Not to Make a Gingerbread House - Christmas Recipe

A gingerbread house is more or less essential for a Proper Christmas, but this is the first one I've actually made. If you've come to this video expecting an easy recipe for making gingerbread houses, best leave now! I had a tough time making my gingerbread house, and in this video I show you what went right, and what went wrong.

It's hard to know how to eat a Christmas gingerbread house, but basically we treat it as one big biscuit, and nibble bits of gingerbread as we pass it.

But I triumphed in the end - I made a gorgeous-looking gingerbread house, and it didn't taste bad either.

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Gluten-free Gingerbread House

This gluten gingerbread house was made using a pampered chef mold and a recipe from Petite Allergy Treats. You can find the recipe here.



My biggest gingerbread house tip is to construct your house with carmelized sugar. This is a great way to keep your house from falling apart and fixing any structural issues. Icing takes too long to harden. Remember carmelized sugar is hot. Please be careful.

You can see the construction tip helps with a fully loaded down house hahaha note my kiddos decorations.

Gingerbread House Dough Recipe & Baking Instructions Trailer

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No more muss and fuss! Learn how to bake gingerbread house parts so that they come out flat and straight every time. Design your own custom cookie house or use the printable cut-out template that is provided. This new & improved kit, featuring a fresh array of video content, contains tricks and tips on the craft of gingerbread house blueprinting & baking.

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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT
Hey Bakers. I’m Kristen from Wicked Goodies and in this video, I’m going to give you sneak peek of what’s inside Gingerbread House Dough Recipe & Baking Instructions.

This kit comes with a 25 page ebook, 5 video tutorials, a printable recipe for my gingerbread house dough, and a printable paper template for this shape. In the videos, I provide all kinds of tips for designing, creating, and coding your own custom gingerbread house templates for both small and large structures. I share the two keys to making the kind of gingerbread house dough that yields flat, even pieces. I talk about the science of gluten and how this affects the performance of gingerbread house dough. Then I show how to mix, roll, cut, bake and cool house parts for optimal results. For more advanced bakers, I show how to emboss and overlay patterns into your parts to make 3D effects.

Here are some photos of amazing award-winning structures made by readers of the first edition. Based on valuable feedback that I received in response to that edition, I have revised the recipe and added video content so this ebook is new and improved.

This book is the first in a series. If you are interested in getting my royal icing recipes and learning all my best tricks for decorating and assembling gingerbread houses, you can find that information in Book #2: Gingerbread House Decoration & Construction. I’ve included the link for that below.

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techlife: How to assemble a gingerbread house

NAIT Baking instructor Trevor Stayer demonstrates the step-by-step fundamental process that can be applied to building gingerbread houses of any level of complexity.

Check out Stayer's gingerbread and icing recipes at techlifemag[dot]ca/gingerbread-house[dot]htm

The BEST Gingerbread Recipe For Gingerbread Houses & More! ~ Recipe & Tutorial

In this video I will show you step by step how to make my favorite gingerbread recipe. This recipe is suited specifically for making gingerbread houses or anything that needs to hold it's structure while still tasting delicious! Enjoy :)
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Gingerbread Recipe

Ingredients US Measurements:
6 cups All Purpose Flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
4 tsp Ground Ginger
4 tsp Ground Cinnamon
½ tsp Ground All Spice
½ tsp Salt
3 Sticks (1½ cups) Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
1½ cups Packed Light Brown Sugar
2 Large Eggs
1 cup Dark Molasses
1 tbsp Water

Ingredients by weight:
780 grams All Purpose Flour
½ tsp Baking Powder
4 tsp Ground Ginger
4 tsp Ground Cinnamon
½ tsp Ground All Spice
½ tsp Salt
339 grams (12 oz) Unsalted Butter, Room Temperature
330 grams Light Brown Sugar
2 Large Eggs
325 grams Dark Molasses
1 tbsp Water

Directions:

Sift together the dry ingredients and set aside.

Cream together the brown sugar and butter until fluffy (2-4 min). Then add in the eggs, water and molasses and mix until well combined.

Add the dry ingredients in two parts, scraping down the bowl in between each addition.

Divide the dough in two and wrap each section with cling film. Refrigerate the dough for at least two hours, preferably overnight.

After the dough has chilled, let it sit out for a few minutes before rolling it out to a ¼ inch thick.

Preheat the oven to 350F.

I like to set my pieces on a parchment covered baking sheet and into the freezer for 10 minutes before baking. This step is optional, but it helps the cookies maintain their shape while in the oven.

The baking time varies depending on the size of your cookie, so just keep an eye on them as they bake. Large pieces will take about 11-15 minutes and small pieces will take about 6-8 minutes. You know they are done when the edges of the cookie begin to darken.

*Helpful tip when making a gingerbread house or anything that requires precise edges: Immediately after you take a tray of cookies out of the oven, take a knife and cut any sides of the cookie that have spread. You will have to work quickly as this only works when the cookie is hot.

Allow the cookies to cool on the sheet pan for about 10 minutes, then transfer them to a wire rack to cool completely.

Assembly - Gingerbread House Series

This video demonstrates techniques for assembling small and large gingerbread house structures.
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00:00 Introduction
00:41 Painter's Tape Construction Method
05:21 String & Can Construction Method
07:50 Putting on Additions
08:19 Roofs
10:04 Chimneys
10:49 More Than Four Walls
10:09 Piping Trim
11:54 Multiple Levels
12:46 Round Structures
14:50 Final Assembly

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