Castle Gingerbread House

Overview

Gingerbread houses are essential during Christmas. Baked gingerbread cookies are assembled into various shapes such as mini houses, and then decorated with candies and decorations;

Tags

• baking
• children
• cookies
• christmas
• butter
• egg
• food coloring
• honey
• low gluten flour
• turmeric powder
• brown sugar powder
• cinnamon powder
• lemon juice
• powdered sugar
• protein
• water

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Pour all ingredients for gingerbread into a bowl.

   

2. 2 Use chopsticks to stir slightly into a flocculent form

   

3. 3 Mix and knead with your hands to form a dough.

   

4. 4 When you first start kneading the dough, the surface of the dough will be rough. Continue to knead patiently for a while until the surface of the dough is smooth. Place the kneaded dough in the refrigerator to rest for 1 hour.

   

5. 5 .Put the relaxed dough on the chopping board and roll it into a thin sheet about 0.3CM thick. (If the cutting board is not big enough, you can divide the dough into several small portions and roll them out in batches)

   

6. 6 Take out the cut drawings

   

7. 7 Cut out cookie shapes on the rolled out dough.

   

8. 8 Poke holes out of the carved gingerbread cookies with a fork, place them on a baking sheet, and put them in a preheated oven. Heat the middle layer at 180 degrees for about 12 minutes. Bake until the color is the desired color and take it out.

   

9. 9 Beat the egg whites until they are foamy and add powdered sugar

   

10. 10 Add a few drops of lemon juice. The thickness of the meringue can be adjusted as needed. The meringue for the base color should be slightly softer and in a fluid state. The dripping lines can disappear and become flat within ten seconds, so that the background color will be uniform, bright and smooth. The meringue for drawing patterns should be appropriately stiff, so that the dripping lines will not disappear easily. This will make it easy to shape, and the lines will be obvious, clear and lasting. The beaten meringue can also be adjusted at any time. You can first add less powdered sugar and thin it out, then add the appropriate amount of powdered sugar and stir again. This time the stirred meringue can be used to decorate the lines. You can add food coloring to the adjusted meringue according to your preference to adjust the color you like, and then you can start decorating.

    

11. 11 Divide the meringue into 5 parts and add coloring

    

12. 12 Put it into a piping bag and tie it tightly

    

13. 13 Cut a small opening at the end of the piping bag. If you need to use it as a base, fill in the color first and smooth it out with a toothpick in a circular motion. Then pick up the biscuit and gently knock it on the table to flatten the surface. Wait for it to solidify. You can add other colors to paint

    

14. 14 First find a suitable position on the base and squeeze the icing, and then glue the wall. You can use external objects or hands to support it for a while, and it will stop falling after a while. You can use colored sugar beads to decorate as you like.