This year we decided to change the recipe we used to make our gingerbread houses and make the gingerbread houses much smaller. We found that the bigger ones look prettier and can fit more decorations on them, but that the children just east all the lollies instead of eating the gingerbread. This recipe is one that the children like eating, so I was hopeful it would be more successful.
125g margarine
1/2 cup of Caster Sugar
1 egg yolk
2 cups of plain flour
3 teaspoons of ground ginger
1/2 teaspoon white pepper
1 teaspoon of bi-carb soda
1/4 cup of golden syrup warmed for 20 seconds in the microwave
-beat butter and sugar until creamy
-add egg yolk and mix thoroughly
- sift flour, ginger, pepper and bi-carb soda together and then add to the butter mixture along with the golden syrup. This should bring the dough together into a thick stick ball of dough
- knead dough on lightly floured surface and roll out to a 1/2cm thickness
-cut the house pattern out of the dough and bake in the oven for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
Makes 1 house and a few tiny biscuits to taste test.
I used the computer to make house shapes to print out so I could use them as templates for cutting out my gingerbread house pieces.
It is a good thing that royal icing can make up for our wonky house pieces!
The children had a lovely time decorating the houses and then eating them.
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