Recipe: Gingerbread House

Today’s guest blogger is one of my beloved girlfriends, Anja, who writes a blog called aentschie and who sews the cutest toast iphone cases in the world. <3

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I have been making two
gingerbread houses and my loved ones Lu and Sylvio got something to nibble. :)
Such a delicious house can
be made easily:

You need:  

You have to use your
favourite gingerbread or cookie dough and then you have to cut out the parts of
the house (front, back, two pieces for the sides and two pieces for the roof).

Bake the dough according to
the recipe, let it cool down and buy lots of sweets and icing sugar.
 

Sticking together the
pieces of the house is a bit tricky. It works best with melted sugar (caramel).
Be really careful, because it’s extremely hot and you can get a burn blister.
:(

When everything sticks together and you’ve tested the house’s sturdiness, you can get started with
decorating your house (and because then you later don’t see how leaning it is
;)). Use icing sugar and liquid (just like you want it, you can either use
water, or juice; I prefer lemon juice (white) or cherry juice (red)) to mix the
icing. The icing has to be really thick so that it sticks well and does not
drip. An injection bag works best for applying the icing to the house (you can
also use a freezer bag with a little hole in one corner!). Finally, decorate
the house with sweets to your heart’s content! :)

The houses look so
delicious!
I don’t like recipes and
indications of quantities that much, but in case you have any question
concerning any detail, feel free to ask me. :)
So just try it out, such a
house is an awesome present idea!
I wish you a lovely
pre-Christmas period!
*aentschie

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Doesn’t that looks cute?
Thank you for sharing, sweetheart! <3
Lu