Finally ! I was finally able to make a gingerbread house! It's not for lack of having wanted to for several years, it's more a question of timing. To be honest, I got help! For lack of elf available, I called Wilton, the American brand of pastry utensils. Do you know that she sells a kit to make her house? On this date, it is out of stock on all pastry e-shops of course, a victim of its success :)
The kit includes the gingerbread cookies (which smell divinely good) pre-cut to the right dimensions, royal icing, a pastry bag with the adapted round nozzle, candies to decorate.
I don't mind using the cookies provided and not baking them myself: I don't plan to eat the house, it will just serve as a decorative element for the Christmas period. This prevents me from wasting ingredients.
However, I have a caveat to the icing provided. It turns out that I didn't like its texture at all, which is difficult to work with. So I preferred to make mine, which is much easier to use. I give you the recipe below.
For the assembly of the house, we start by gluing the walls together, then pose the two roof sections, then decorating with a pastry bag and placing the candies.
A nice activity to do at home during the month of December, it will give you a little touch of festive decoration as a bonus :)
Royal icing (for Christmas gingerbread house)
Ingredients:
- 430 g icing sugar
- 2,5 tbsp meringue powder meringue powder
- 60 ml water
Instructions:
- In a container, combine the icing sugar and meringue powder.
- Add water and mix with a fork until you get a sticky texture.
- If the texture is too liquid, add icing sugar, if it is too thick, add water.
- Fill a pastry bag fitted with a very small round or fluted tip.
LadyMilonguera
She's pretty like your whole house!
elodie
There is only one word to say: sublime! Kisses
Céline / A bee in the kitchen
It is super beautiful this little house, bravo!
Lemon June
WOW! Magnificent !!!
small kitchen
Oh how pretty!
Charlotte
That's wonderful !!
martine
It is really pretty this house.
Amandine0109
where to find these pretty presentation dishes?
Lilie bakery
There are some on the Rosecaramelle site in particular :)
Amandine0109
Thank you very much :)
Sweetdaddy @ blog Sweetdaddy
The irregularity of the roof lets me think that it is handmade for this part, it must take a bit long to do all these little dots ... But it looks good;)