- Yield: 1 house and 12 cookies or more
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 10-12 minutes
- Serving: Family
GINGERBREAD HOUSE and COOKIES
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If you are looking for a easy and delicious recipe for a gingerbread house and cookies you are in the right place. So easy to make and build just follow our video for step by step tutorial on HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN. I recommend you watch the video first before starting to make you own, unless you have made one before and feel comfortable making them.
This dough you can eat it from start to finish, and its easy to make. Plus it got no egg in it or in the icing, so if you wish to have you kids helping you they can help you make it and eat it raw.
Our gingerbread cookies was only baking for 10 to 12 minutes and they are ready to take out, plus they stay soft for days and always tasty every time you eat them. I hope I've convinced you to make our recipe for GINGERBREAD HOUSE and COOKIES.
Please continue on to our recipe for how to make our gingerbread cookies and house, I will also share with you our link to our cookbook if you wish to check it out. https://www.bonitaskitchen.com/cookbook
Ingredients
- Molasses - 1/2 cup
- Brown sugar - 1 cup
- Butter or margarine - 3/4 cup
- Flour - 2 1/2 cups
- Baking soda - 1 tsp
- Cinnamon - 1 tsp
- Ginger - 2 tsp
- Ground cloves - 1 tsp
- Water - 1 tbsp ( more if needed )
Instructions
Method:
- In a large bowl, add butter, brown sugar, spices mix together until creamy.
- Add molasses and baking soda in a small bowl mix together then pour in with the other ingredients.
- Sift flour slowly and mix together with wooden spoon then add 1 tbsp water more if needed. When cookie mixture starts to form a ball continue working the flour with your hand.
- When the dough forms a ball, cut ginger bread house walls or cookies of choice place on cookie sheet on top of a piece of parchment paper.
GINGER BREAD HOUSE:
- Cut out 4 rectangle shapes 3 x 5 inches, this is for the two sides and roof and 2 square shape 5 x 5 inches for the back and front cutting from the 3 inches mark on both sides to make a peak, to match the 3 inches sides, put on a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes on 350º of heat.
- Placing the wall sides on a plate or homemade base, put a line of icing sugar on the outer sides and stick together with other wall. Doing this until four walls are icing together, then placing the roof the same way with icing sugar on the outer sides to touch the top of the walls, keep something outside the walls so they don’t fall down.
- After you built your house then decorating it is up to you, making icing windows, doors and shingles for roof.
ICING FOR GINGER BREAD HOUSES:
5 Cups, confectionary sugar 1/2 Tsp, cream of tarter
7 Tbsp, Water 1 Tsp, almond or mint extract
1 Tsp, corn syrup 1/2 Tsp, sea salt
- In a large bowl add all your ingredients, mix until blended and add extra icing sugar if needed.
- Cover with clear wrap and place in the fridge until ready to use. Use decorating bag to icing gingerbread house and to seal the sides, mix different bowls add food colourings if you like to have a coloured house. This icing is edible and it will form a hard mortar to keep your gingerbread house together.
Preheat oven to 350°F, baking time 10 to 12 minutes,
Baking Tips:
- See video for more instructions located at www.bonitaskitchen.com
- Having all your walls and roof cut out and ingredients ready to use before starting to build your house.
Allergens
If you are looking to have some family time with your children or grandchildren, what a wonderful way to start. Plan a GINGERBREAD HOUSE and COOKIES party and invite the old family, after you bake the walls to the gingerbread house you can start to decorate anyway you like. Share a picture with us on our Facebook page and we would love to see it, share your family story with us.
We love making these delicious little gingerbread houses with our adult kids and grandkids and watch a gingerbread man video with them. This recipe we are sharing with you today is our families secret recipe and if it works for us it will work for you. I hope you enjoy this recipe all christmas long or even for a kids birthday party, this would be a lovely fun project. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit our website and for leaving a message, so from our kitchen to yours have a wonderful day. 🙂 Bonita, RMHussey Productions and Team,
Excellent tutorial Bonita. So good to see you and Raymond. We miss you in Yellowknife, NT.
Merry Christmas from our home to yours. ????????
Hi Prem: It is so lovely seeing your message and I’m so glad you enjoyed our new gingerbread house christmas special recipe and video. We think about all of you so often and it is lovely to get messages from our Yellowknife friends. You and yours as well have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, keep warm and well. From our house to yours. 🙂 Bonita and Raymond xo