Dear mummy, for the last two years you’ve made a gingerbread house using a kit that you bought from The Range. It’s from Hickler Books and it was published in 2015. It’s a fabulous kit and really easy to follow and use. Use the gingerbread recipe below to get the kids in the kitchen and create some magical memories just like we have. If you can track down the moulds even better!
We’ve had some wonderful results using this kit and together we’ve mastered the art of building a gingerbread house. It’s not often that we both have the patience to bake together but this is a fab project to bring the family together. My mummy mixes and bakes it, my daddy constructs it and I help decorate it!
You can also find this gingerbread house baking kit on Amazon and inside the box there was a book with step by step instructions that even a novice could follow. Also included was 2 silicone baking trays (one for the walls and one for the roof) and more recipes. So we got all our ingredients together, our tools of the trade and some extra special treats for decorating and set to work.
Ingredients for the gingerbread house
- 250g unsalted butter
- 200g dark muscovado sugar
- 7 tbsp golden syrup (It is a British recipe and calls for golden syrup)
- 600g plain flour
- 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
- 4 tsp ground ginger
Method
- Heat oven to 200C/fan 180C/gas 6. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan.
- Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger into a large bowl, then stir
in the butter mixture to make a stiff dough. - If it won’t quite come together, add a tiny splash of water.
- Press the dough into the silicon moulds evenly.
- Bake all the sections for 12 mins or until firm and just a little darker at the edges.
- Leave to cool for a few mins to firm up, then trim around the templates again to
give clean, sharp edges. - Leave to cool completely. We left ours over night.
For the Icing
- 2 egg whites
- 500g icing sugar, plus extra to dust
- Generous selection of sweets of your choice, choose your own colour theme
- Few edible silver balls
To decorate
- Put the egg whites in a large bowl, sift in the icing sugar, then stir to make a thick,
smooth icing. - Spoon into a piping bag with a medium nozzle.
- Pipe generous snakes of icing along the wall edges, one by one, to join the walls together.
- Use a small bowl to support the walls from the inside, then allow to dry, ideally for
a few hours. - Once dry, remove the supports and fix the roof panels on. The angle is steep so you
may need to hold these on firmly for a few mins until the icing starts to dry. - Dry completely, ideally overnight.
- Enjoying decorating it with icing and sweets!
We began our construction. The moulds themselves are wonderfully detailed and the gingerbread popped right out of the silicone. We loved the roof tile details and the windows. We stuck sweets around the door and on the front of the house. To make the icicles like ours, start with the nozzle at a 90-degree angle to the roof and squeeze out a pea-sized blob of icing. Keeping the pressure on, pull the nozzle down and then off – the icing will pull away, leaving a pointy trail. Repeat all around the front of the house.
Our gingerbread house will be edible for about a week but will last a lot longer. So what do you think, pretty nifty for a non-baker, it might even be just about Pinterest worthy!
Love Bella x
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Gingerbread is one of my absolute favourites and this house looks great. I could probably do it too and I’m rubbish at baking
We’re not the best either so grab a kit and get mixing x 😉
Oh wow this looks incredible! You’ve done a great job. I know mine would definately not look like this ! 🙂
This looks fantastic and so easy to do!
That is a fantastic kit. It looks like you had lot of fun!
We usually buy one where the walls are already made and we just decorate it. x
This looks amazing! The kit is fab and I am totally going to get myself one. The kids love decorating gingerbread houses at Christmas. 😀
This looks absolutely fantastic! Going to have to pick this up I think!
What a fab idea and your gingerbread house looks amazing! We brought a kit in Morrisons last year but I would love to make our own this year so may keep an eye out for this kit!
I am really impressed with your Mummy! we think we are winning when we buy a kit from the supermarket and stick it together. It sounds like we should take it to the next level with some baking
You did so well. My finished product wouldn’t look like that! Great activity for little ones though, great stocking filler too.
I love how the silicon molds can help you build your dream gingerbread house! How perfect does your one look? x
You’ve made me want gingerbread and it’s not even 7am yet! It looks delicious. #dreamteam
Oh wow this looks absolutely amazing! #dreamteam
I love the finished look. It looks amazing.
That is brilliant gingerbread house and what a fab kit
What a good idea for over Christmas! X
I’m impressed! And you even made the house from scratch too. I’m very tempted to give this a try. We usually buy the kits (and stock up on them when they are in a deal) – the ones already baked and you just put the pieces together and decorate. I’m sure your one tastes much better! Thanks for sharing with the #DreamTeam xx
Aww thanks, every year we get a bit better at making them! Give it a try you’ll really enjoy it Hun x
What a fab activity to do with children or gown ups lol. Looks like you have made a fab job of it too x
I definitely love this type of crafty thing. I could spend hours making sure it looks perfect. I would have loved to prepare one with my parents as a kid.
Mika
Ive never made a gingerbread house before. It does look very fun. Yours looks great
Wow it looks so good! Mine would look a mess but you made it look so easy and fun and I bet it was fun eating after too mmm x
I love the little door that opens. I have always imagined that it would be really difficult to make a gingerbread house. Thanks for showing me different 🙂
Whenever I have tried to make a gingerbread house I’ve always been unsuccessful so I might have to re try this year x
That looks amazing! We make one every year but I find it hard going and messy! This looks like a great one to try!
I am so rubbish at making these, this one is fantastic! Well done!
Last time I used a gingerbread house kit it came with it pre-baked so just biscuits you decorated. This looks so much better since you get to actually bake and build it, which means it’s fresher and you could add a little spice or something different if you wanted to. Love the fact it comes with the moulds. Definitely pinterest worthy.
Last time I used a gingerbread house kit it came with it pre-baked so just biscuits you decorated. This looks so much better since you get to actually bake and build it, which means it’s fresher and you could add a little spice or something different if you wanted to. Love the fact it comes with the moulds. Definitely pinterest worthy.
I think the cheetah and I would be more about the eating rather then the building of a gingerbread house!
What a fab kit, definitely something fun to do with the kids! Looks brilliant.
Wow Bella what a fabulous kit that is! You all look like you had so much fun making it too! I’m sure Santa will be impressed too xx
Totally love your gingerbread house Bella. So very very clever. I saw a kit in a shop last week, and my son and I decided we would get one this year. Not sure it will be as good as yours though.
You nailed it! Everything looks so well done, it must have been so great putting on the finishing touches and seeing it all come together
Wow! This is a fantastic idea, I’m sure kids will love building this edible gingerbread house.
Woah! This is fantastic! I normally by the DIY kits, but the biscuits are already made and you just have to glue together – this is taking it to a whole new level though, I love it x
Ooh!! I love this SO much!!! I made a gingerbread house once and it took me forever to figure out the sizes that I needed for each piece of the house! This kit makes it look so easy though – and so much more fun too! I’m definitely going to buy one of these! xx
That’s fab very creative and colourful I’m doing one with my son but at 2 I think he’s just going to eat it as we make Jr
Your house turned out so good!! I love making these with a Wilf but ours never end up looking like the picture on the box 😂 x
This looks so pretty!!! You’ve all done a great job. Strangely no-one in this house likes gingerbread so I always miss out on this car little tradition. Maybe we should make grandma one! #FamilyFunLinky
I really need to do this, we make gingerbread all of the time. But, i’ve never tried a house! #familyfun
This looks brilliant! I would love to give it a go, but not sure how well it would turn out lol!
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Wow, this looks amazing. I’ve never attempted a gingerbread house before but now I want to.
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Hello. Thank you for sharing your recipe. My Daughter and I will be doing our first gingerbread house today. I hope you have a great Christmas.