How To make Gingerbread Dough For Structures
2/3 c Shortening
1/2 c Sugar
1/2 c Blackstrap molasses
1 Egg
3 c Flour
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Baking powder
1 ts Cinnamon
1 ts Ginger
1 ts Cloves
1/2 ts Nutmeg
Cream shortening and sugar. Add molasses and egg; beat thoroughly. Sift together remaining ingredients and add to liquid mixture. Mix well. If dough does not come together, add water as necessary. (Dough tends to be stiff.) Roll to 1/2" thick and cut pattern for desired structure. Bake at 350 for 15-18 minutes. Be very careful when removing from baking sheets to cooling rack. Let cool thoroughly, then assemble using Royal icing (2 egg whites, 1/2 tsp. cream of tartar, 1/2 to 1 tsp. vanilla, 1 lb. confectioners sugar. Beat until stiff.) A couple of things: Roll out the dough right on the cookie sheets, cut your pieces, and peel away the extra dough. A lot easier than trying to transfer the pieces from rolling board to sheets. Leave some space between pieces; this dough tends to spread a bit. It also has a tendency to crack a little when you take it off the baking sheet if you use a small spatula to move it. I went out and invested in one with a 5"x3" blade. The cookie isn't too sweet, but nice and spicy. I spent the whole day with my mom, helping her make cookies for Christmas gifts. Somewhere around 600 cookies later, I'm finally home.... Anyway, she gave me permission to divulge her gingerbread recipe, so here it is. * The Polka Dot Palace BBS 1-201-822-3627. Posted by EPONA
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Thermomix ® Gingerbread House
Making impressive gingerbread houses has never been easier with the Thermomix ® gingerbread house moulds. Today we’re going to show you how to prepare a gingerbread house using a recipe from our new Festive Flavour cookbook and recipe chip and our new gingerbread house moulds available through the Thermomix ® online store.
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The moulds also come with a gingerbread dough recipe that is perfect for the moulds. Once baked, you can get creative with decorating. The finished house measures approx. 19 (h) x 12 (w) x 16 cm (l).
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Baking an EPIC Gingerbread Village Ski Resort FROM SCRATCH | Fully Edible Gingerbread House/Village
Happy Holidays everyone! If you celebrate Christmas, Merry Christmas. We had this idea a bit last minute but once we started dreaming it up, we just had to execute it to the fullest. We did lots of research to figure out how to bake a strong gingerbread structure to create the Gingerbread Ski Resort of our dreams. Frosty Valley (what we’ve called our village) is complete with a glowing A-frame cabin made of gingerbread & butterscotch candy, a fully edible chair lift up to the slopes, and a candy ice rink. This is the craziest thing I’ve ever baked for sure. While time consuming and a huge challenge, maybe we will make it our new holiday tradition! At least I hope to be able to do some fun creative baking each year…Or it will just be an amazing Christmas memory we’ll remember forever. Either way, I hope you enjoy the making of our epic gingerbread village/ski resort.
We ended up using two different Gingerbread recipes. Our strong structural construction gingerbread recipe:
(note: we used half butter & half shortener in an attempt to make it a bit more edible, plus half dark brown sugar & half white sugar in our first batch)
The delicious, chewy but still strong Gingerbread Cookie Recipe thanks to my bestie Sarah. We did many batches but here it is:
3/4 cup butter
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 egg
3/4 cup molasses
3 cup flour (and extra for rolling)
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp ginger
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp cloves
1/2 tsp nutmeg
Preheat to 375 F
Beat butter & sugar
Stir in egg & molasses
Fold in flour/spices/salt into butter
Chill 2 hours
Cut dough into sections
Roll on floured board
Bake 10 min (or less if you have really small cookies like some of the ones we made)
TIME STAMPS:
00:00-00:39 - Intro
00:39-2:08 - How we built our structure
2:08-3:05 - The Plan
3:05-4:09 - Making our Construction Gingerbread
4:09-5:54 - Laying down our Gingerbread ground
5:54-6:56 - Cutting out our A Frame & Making a Candy Window
6:56-7:30 - Icing & Baking
7:30-8:19 - Building our A-Frame Gingerbread House
8:19-8:58 - Icing & Cutting out Gingerbread Cookies
8:58-11:45 - Constructing our Gingerbread Chair Lift
11:45-13:38 - Changing up some plans
13:38-14:48 - Making our Frozen Candy Pond & Edible Trees
14:49-17:06 - Decorating our Gingerbread & Frosting our Village
17:06-18:48 - Finishing up our Edible Chair Lift
18:48-22:09 - The Grand Reveal & Tour our Gingerbread Village/Ski Resort!
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How to Make Gingerbread Houses | Bake It Up a Notch with Erin McDowell
There’s nothing like making a gingerbread house that puts one in the festive spirit! Food52’s Resident Baking BFF Erin McDowell is here to guide you through the process from making the dough, baking, assembly, and finally decorations. She is joined by some special friends to put a creative candy spin on these sweet houses. GET THE RECIPE ►►
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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:41 A trip to a candy store
00:03:48 All the stuff you'll need
00:05:49 Mixing the dough
00:13:26 Let's roll
00:29:21 Bake it up
00:32:03 The decoration divide
00:36:11 Set your foundation
00:45:29 Mistakes happen
00:48:47 Time for the best part
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