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Bake and decorate an adorable gingerbread house.

Posted by Cat Morley from London, United Kingdom • Published 6th January 2012 • See Cat Morley's 1145 projects »

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Step 1
Beat together the brown sugar, eggs, butter and syrup.
Step 2
Mix together all the dry ingredients and then combine with the wet mixture to form a thick dough. Wrap in cling film and put in the fridge to harden.
Step 3
Roll the dough out, so that it's still quite thick and place your templates on top.
Step 4
Cut out the shapes, keeping the door from the front wall and cut a circle in to the door for a window.
Step 5
Cut out all of your house shapes.
Step 6
Bake in the oven at gas mark 4 for 15 minutes, until hard and leave to cool on a wire rack.
Step 7
Cover a board with foil or use a store bought cake board.
Step 8
Take your first side and place a strip of icing along the bottom. Stick it to your board, so that it stands up.
Step 9
Bring in the back wall and other side, using icing to stick them to both the board and other walls along the edges.
Step 10
Bring in the front wall and stick in to place.
Step 11
Now's the time to put your fairy lights inside. Battery powered ones work best but make sure the switch is easily accessible from the open door.
Step 12
Pipe icing along the top edges of your house.
Step 13
Attach the two roof slates, joining them together with icing in the center. Attach the door, so that it's ajar with icing and build the chimney, icing it on to the top of the roof.
Step 14
Now it's the fun part, start decorating your house.
Step 15
We used chocolate buttons to tile the roof and silver edible balls along the top and chimney. We also edged the roof with strawberry laces.
Step 16
We also used buttons to build a garden path and picket fence around the house.
Step 17
We then used candy confetti to tile parts of the walls.

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April C. · 6 projects 18th February 2012

That's so cute!! Its too pretty to eat.

Tom · London, GB · 49 projects 12th January 2012

Omnomnom!

Tom · London, GB · 49 projects 12th January 2012

Omnomnom!

Tom · London, GB · 49 projects 12th January 2012

Omnomnom!

Cat Morley · London, GB · 1432 projects 7th January 2012

It was royal icing, thanks for pointing that out - I forgot to include it originally

CO + K User

January 6th, 2012

That is so cute!!!

p · 2 projects 6th January 2012

Wow this is way better than the one i decorated back in Christmas with my friend, mine fell apart 4 times! Btw, using cans to prop your walls up whilst the icing dries really works!