A gingerbread house is always beautiful!

is the recipe for gingerbread and for a gingerbread house.

You can either just make gingerbread cookies

Without icing or other decorations, or gingerbread hearts with a nice decoration.

But the most beautiful thing you can do is a gingerbread house

You can glue the individual, cut-out parts of the house together with sugar icing, and decorate it as you like. With almonds, sugar pearls, sugar stars…

With the icing, you also make the “snow”.

The best way to do this is to fill the icing into a small plastic bag and then cut off a small corner.

You can make the spice mixture for gingerbread yourself, just as you like

Or you can buy a ready-made gingerbread spice mix.

I personally like the gingerbread more if it has a little less anise and star anise in it, but a little more cinnamon. Therefore, I make my own mixture.

Have fun decorating!

Gingerbread House

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 30

Decorating time 30

Total Time 1 20

Course Cake, cookies, Dessert

Cuisine German, Swiss

Servings 1 small gingerbread house

Ingredients

For the dough

500 g flour
100 g sugar preferably whole cane sugar
2 tbsp gingerbread spice OR 2 tsp ground cinnamon,1/4 tsp ground coriander seeds, 1/8 tsp cloves powder, 1/8 tsp star anise powder, 1/8 tsp cardamom powder, 1 pinch of mace powder
1 packet of baking powder
200 g honey
2 dl milk

For the icing

150 g powdered sugar
½ - 1 egg white
A few drops of lemon juice

Instructions

For the gingerbread

Preheat oven to 180°C
Mix flour, sugar, spices and baking powder
Add honey and milk and knead well
On a baking tray lined with parchment paper, spread out the dough about 1 cm thick or cut out in any desired shape.
Bake at 180°C for about 20 minutes
Then cut into any shape and decorate as you like. With sugar icing, sugar beads, almonds etc.
Or make a gingerbread house ?