Wendy's Festive Gingerbread House
Wendy's Festive Gingerbread House
Wendy's Festive Gingerbread House
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This recipe makes enough for at least five small gingerbread houses,
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750 grams (2 cups) golden syrup/treacle
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4 tablespoons white vinegar
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon Be entertained
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1 teaspoon salt
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1.25 kilograms (10 cups) plain flour
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2 egg whites
800 grams (about 4.5 cups) pure icing sugar
1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
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Place butter, treacle & sugar in a heavybased pan and stir slowly over a
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low heat until butter has melted and sugar has dissolved. Cool for at
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least 10 minutes, then transfer the mix to a large mixing bowl.
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In a separate bowl, sift all the dry ingredients together.
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In another separate bowl, whisk the eggs and vinegar until just
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combined. Add this mix to the cooled butter mix and beat well with a
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Add all the sifted dry ingredients gradually to the butter mix. The August 2008 (9)
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cooler the mix is, the softer the gingerbread will bake. For crispy
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a moderate oven (180 degrees Celsius) for approximately 1215
minutes. Check during cooking because if the oven heat isn’t even, the
shapes will burn.
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Once baked, remove from oven and leave the gingerbread on the tray
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for five minutes. Take the pieces off the tray and place on a cooling rack.
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Beat the egg whites until combined. Add the sifted icing sugar until the
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Cut your own using the following
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measurements:
Roof: 10cm x 11.5cm
Sides: 9.5cm x 5cm
Front & back: 10cm x 4.5cm x 9.5cm
(the diagonal)
Chimney pieces: 1.5cm x 5cm, 1.5cm x
3cm, then two more with a diagonal cut
(see diagram)
…0r just download the PDF version
here or JPG version shown here.
UPDATE: This template gets downloaded thousands of times per year,
but nobody has ever let me know how the recipe/template worked for
them. Please do leave a message below!
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Cover a large plate with foil. Spoon a small amount of icing onto the
plate in the shape of the gingerbread house foundations (a rectangle).
Using a piping bag, pipe some icing on the short ends of the two house
sides (the small, rectangular pieces). Place the unpiped sides on the
plate, parallel to each other but far enough apart for the house front and
back edges to rest on the piped sides. You should now have a rectangle
base for the roof to attach to. Give the structure a few minutes to “glue”
together. You can add the door to the front of the house and start
working on the chimney (fiddly) while you’re waiting.
Pipe down the edges of the front and back sections from the top tip to
where they meet the sides. Take each roof panel and place on each side
– simultaneously if possible – so that they meet at the top.
Decorate with sweets and icing. Allow a few hours for the icing to harden
before wrapping in cellephane or covering.
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I'm a technical author, journalist and writer from
Australia who has been living in Europe since 2000
and exploring the world from there. My passions are
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17 comments on “Wendy’s festive gingerbread house”
Angelica says:
4 December, 2010 at 3:10 am
Thanks!!! for sharing n_n.
adelle says:
6 December, 2010 at 12:09 am
I used this template last year and I’ll be using it again this year.
Although I think I will make it a little smaller this year…
We never actually EAT all the gingerbread!
Here’s a link to some pictures and some tips!
http://www.adelle.com.au/howtomakeagingerbreadhouse
Anyhoo.. thanks for a great template!
Taryn says:
17 December, 2010 at 6:47 pm
I’m excited to try this with my boys and their friends this year. Thanks
so much for sharing!!!
Catnip says:
17 December, 2010 at 7:50 pm
We used your template to make gluten free vegan gingerbread
houses. I’ll try to upload a photo to my blog soon.
Freckles says:
18 December, 2010 at 8:12 am
Thanks for the recipe and template.
The recipe makes a lot of dough, far more than I needed for the 5
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houses using the template, though that is not a complaint since it’s
easily freezable to use later. The gingerbread biscuit is a nice hard
crunchy one, excellent for gingerbread house making.
The templates and instructions were excellent. I didn’t use the
chimneys because I thought they’d be too fiddly.
Everyone enjoyed the assembling and decorating.
Wendy says:
20 December, 2010 at 9:30 am
Ah, the biscuit will be crunchy if you don’t refrigerate the mix before
cooking. The butter temperature doesn’t cool down which means it
gets really hot in the oven, causing more liquid loss. For a
chewier/softer biscuit, refrigerate over night!
I’m pleased everyone has enjoyed this so far. Very keen to see the
glutenfree vegan version!
Elise says:
26 November, 2012 at 12:55 pm
Used the template first time this year…already had recipe and dough
made…works really well, though my son commented he thought it
should be bigger, so will have to up the size for the next one
As I can see comments & feedback, can you perhaps delete your
note on the template about same and perhaps leave this website as
the place to submit feedback….would think it useful and time
saving…
mrsmouthy says:
13 December, 2012 at 7:22 am
I’ve used your template for several years in a row–it fits together
perfect and is such a cute design. Thanks for sharing it with us!
Thea Linnemeier says:
23 January, 2013 at 1:52 am
Hi Wendy,
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I downloaded your gingerbread house pattern and used it this year, I
wanted a classic pattern with a chimney. Thank you for providing
one; it was perfect. It was my first gingerbread house made in years
and I really enjoyed it. Also it was my first gingerbread made on my
own as an adult, so…I made it with totem poles, a pond, and ninjas!
Here is my blog address http://thealinnemeier.wordpress.com
I’ve posted pictures of the house so you can finally see one of the
houses you made possible : )
Thanks again,
Thea
Michelle Park says:
16 December, 2013 at 3:15 pm
I used your template to make Gingerbread Houses for my art class
here in Chuncheon, Korea. The kids absolutely loved it, and I had a
fun time preparing the houses for them and helping them to decorate.
I used a different recipe for the dough, since some of your
ingredients are a bit hard to find here, but your template was the
absolute best that I could find. Thanks so much!
Sara McCourt says:
21 December, 2014 at 3:25 pm
This is the 4th or 5th year we have used this pattern for our houses.
It is perfect. Every year we invite friends over and they all build
houses.
Wendy says:
22 December, 2014 at 1:58 pm
I’m so happy to hear from you all and to see the photos of your
houses, and especially happy to hear of new annual traditions with
friends and family too. I’m starting mine late this year – this
afternoon!
Sabby says:
30 December, 2014 at 12:21 am
Hi, thanks for the recipe, it looks so easy to follow and all of the
ingredients are obtainable compared to others I’ve seen. I’ve never
made a gingerbread house before but I’d like to make one for my
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brother and sister in laws housewarming party. Was tempted to buy a
ready kit but I’m going to brave it after seeing your recipe. Very
nervous about the gingerbread losing it’s shape during baking though
so any tips or tricks for that would be great help! Also, is there a way
of baking hard boiled sweets in the mix to make stained glass
windows where the hole is? Ahh and if I print the template straight off
the PDF will it be to scale for correct sizes? Sorry for all the
questions, I’m in a gingerbread fix!
Thanks in advance
Wendy says:
30 December, 2014 at 7:29 pm
Hi Sabby, and I’m keeping my fingers crossed that it all goes well for
you with the gingerbread house.
Make sure you refrigerate the gingerbread for at least two hours
(preferably overnight) as that will ensure it holds its shape better in
the oven, and will also stop it from being too crispy. Even if the
pieces are slightly wonky, you can use the icing sugar like cement to
make everything stay where it should. If you’re worried, you can use
a sharp knife while the gingerbread is still hot (either still on the pan,
or as soon as you move it to the cooling rack) and straighten any
edges.
For the hardboiled sweets, I use about half a sweet in the hole and
that makes a nice glass window. No need to break it up even!
The PDF is not full scale as it wouldn’t fit on a single A4 sheet.
However, you’re best using a sturdy cardboard, like a cereal box
cardboard, and measuring out the pieces (paper is a bit flimsy to use
for cutting the gingerbread). I made the template mostly because I’m
a visual person and I like to be able to see all the pieces required
when I’m making a template like this.
Lastly, this recipe makes a *lot* of gingerbread. You might want to
halve it as you will still get 23 houses out of it, or lots of gingerbread
men or other shapes you might wish to place around the house.
Read the full instructions and go through the comments section too,
as there are a variety of tips from me and others along the way. All
the best!
Sabby says:
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30 December, 2014 at 9:02 pm
Wow, thank you so much for your reply Wendy! You’ve made me feel
a lot less nervous about getting stuck in and I can’t wait to try it.
Thank you very much
laura says:
17 November, 2015 at 3:23 pm
is there a printer friendly version of the recipe?
Wendy says:
17 November, 2015 at 3:32 pm
Hi Laura. Thanks for getting in touch and I hope you like the recipe
and template provided. I’m afraid I haven’t had time to put together a
separate version, but the print option of your browser shouldn’t do
too bad a job. Cheers, Wendy.
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