Since childhood, everyone associates gingerbread houses with a festive atmosphere and a New Year or Christmas fairy tale - creating such a house always becomes an exciting and fabulous activity for the whole family, which will bring a lot of pleasure to every participant in the process of baking and gluing such a house. The gingerbread house will become an unusual and pleasant decoration for your home during the New Year holidays.
Instructions
Step 1
Despite the fact that the house is made from gingerbread, first cut out cardboard templates - four walls, two of which are even rectangles, and two are squares with a triangle at the top, to form a gable roof. You will also need a roof template.
Step 2
Knead and roll a gingerbread dough no more than 6 mm thick on parchment, and then attach cardboard templates to the dough and cut out the desired parts from it with a sharp knife. Put the details of the future house directly on the parchment on a baking sheet and put in a hot oven for 20 minutes.
Step 3
When the gingerbread is baked, remove it from the oven and cut through the windows and doors without waiting for the dough to cool. Additionally, you can cut a house tube, trees, Christmas trees, and much more from gingerbread dough. Decorate the windows of the house with sugar icing, and finally, proceed to gluing the parts of the house.
Step 4
For gluing the walls and roof, you can use different materials - sugar icing from protein and powdered sugar, hot caramel syrup from boiled sugar with citric acid, or liquid chocolate heated on the stove. To prevent the bonded parts from falling apart until the bonding material hardens, fix them with glass jars of water.
Step 5
Create an imitation of snow and frost from the icing sugar - decorate the walls of the house, window frames and the roof with sugar glaze. You can also use regular white pastry mastic to simulate snow. The roof can be completely glazed - hardened, it will look like real winter snow. You can also leave the roof gingerbread - you can sugar-coat the tiles.
Step 6
To decorate windows, you can use not only icing sugar, but also candy crumbs - fill the windows with crumbs right on the baking sheet, and put the baking sheet in the oven for a while so that the caramel in the windows melts.
Step 7
Attach a gingerbread tube to the roof of the house and cover it with icing to simulate snow. Sprinkle the area around the house with powdered sugar.
