New Year's baking: gingerbread house

Before you make a gingerbread house, you will need prepare templates, which you will use. You can use any paper for this. Draw and cut out 7 patterns for the gingerbread house:

• 2 walls (back and front): 12.5x20 cm. Cut two windows on each wall. On one of the walls it is required to cut out a door measuring 7x3.5 cm;


• 2 side walls in the shape of a house (triangle on a square): 12.5x15 cm. The height of the triangle is 17 cm. One window is cut out on each wall;


• 2 rectangles for the roof: 11.5x23 cm;


• door: 7x3, 5 cm.

When your templates are ready, you can start preparing the dough. You will need such ingredients:

• 225 g of softened butter


• 1.5 tbsp. brown sugar


• 2 eggs


• 1 tbsp. black molasses


• 1 tsp. vanilla essence


• 6,25 st. flour


• 4 tsp. ground ginger


• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon


• 1 tsp. soda


• 0.5 tsp. ground cloves


• 0.5 tsp. salt


• 3 tbsp. powdered sugar


• 2 egg whites (for glaze)

We begin to knead the dough for the gingerbread house. Mix well in the mixer. Add sugar and continue to beat until you get a soft and light mass. In turn, add eggs. At the end add molasses and vanilla essence.

Mix together the flour, ginger, cinnamon, soda,cloves and salt. This mixture is gradually added to the whipped oil. The finished dough is rolled in a thick layer, wrapped in waxed baking paper and left in the freezer for 1-2 hours.

Preheat the oven to 175 ° C. Oil the two baking sheets. The work surface, on which you will prepare the dough, sprinkle a little flour. Divide the dough into two parts. Each part should be rolled on a sheet 1 cm thick. Transfer the rolled dough to the baking sheet and cut out the parts of the house using templates. Bake the dough for 10-15 minutes. Ready cakes are removed and left until they are completely cooled.

For the decoration, prepare the glaze: mix the powdered sugar and egg whites in the mixer. Glaze must have a light enough consistency that it can be smeared.

Now you can collect gingerbread house. Prepare the surface on which you will serve the cake. It can be a large dish or plain cardboard. On the chosen stand, collect and decorate the gingerbread house. Parts of the house are glued together with glaze. While the icing is drying, the walls of the house should be supported with a bottle of water, so that they do not fall apart. In the same way attach the roof of the house. The front door is also glazed. You can leave it a little ajar. The rest of the glaze is applied to the roof. Further, the whole gingerbread house can be decorated for your taste.

Gingerbread house can be decorated with biscuits, glaze of various colors, marmalade, nuts. In addition, you can make the yard decorationgingerbread house. From the remains of the dough you can bake the Christmas tree. Bake small biscuits, from which you can then make a fence. With these additional decorative elements, your New Year's baking will look very original.