Has anyone ever made a 'gingerbread house' and decorated it for the holidays? Do you have an easy recipe that you use?

Please give lots of details and recipe if possible. I went too a class a couple years ago for one meeting and didn't keep going as they 'assumed' you had all the supplies all ready which I didn't (I didn't know that ahead of time) so I didn't continue.It was a 'short term' class through adult ed. I just found a recipe today on allrecipes.com that appears to be very easy and it doesn't make a really big one.

Has anyone else seen this or tried it? I want to make one with my daughter this year and need some suggestions, recipe, ideas, help, and? Any help will be greatly appreciated.

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Gingerbread House Recipe Instructions Planning is the key to making a gingerbread houseNothing makes a more impressive centerpiece during the holidays than a homemade gingerbread house, and they are not as difficult to make as they might appear. It is also a great way to get your children involved in the holiday festivities. You can put the basic frame structure together and watch the kids have a ball decorating with their favorite candies.

Gingerbread House InstructionsThe construction of your gingerbread house will closely follow the building concepts of a real house. Proper planning is essential. You can make the gingerbread ahead of time, making sure to let it thoroughly cool in a dry area before wrapping securely to store.Be sure to allow plenty of time to put the pieces together.

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CaHere are a few simple tips:• Cut the basic structure templates for your house from posterboard and test first by taping the pieces together. If it will stand as made out of posterboard, then most likely it will be structurally safe for your gingerbread house. • Don't limit yourself to a plain box house.

You can make virtually any shape, from igloo to Victorian to farmhouse. Or, use a loaf mold in the shape of a house to eliminate the construction steps. • Prepare a base for your house.

Use a piece of plywood covered with foil, a large heavy platter or baking tray. You will want to be able to move the entire structure easily. You can use a sheet of gingerbread on top of the base if you wish, but it's not necessary.

• Keep in mind that the dimensions of your gingerbread house will be restricted to the size of a 12-by 15-inch baking sheet, and cut your templates accordingly. • Maximum thickness for dough should be 3/8-inch. For houses larger than 6 inches square, use 1/4-inch thickness and for smaller houses, use 1/8-inch.

Weight-bearing walls should be just slightly thicker. • If you want the walls covered in icing, you may need to thin the icing with a few drops of water and then spread gently on the sides before assembling. Let sit for the icing to dry.

• When assembling, apply the "glue" icing using a pastry bag, and let sit for 30 minutes to set before actually assembling. This will help the pieces adhere better, resulting in a more stable structure. • When assembling, apply a generous (but not dripping) amount of icing glue to one side of the joint.

Press un-iced piece to the iced edge and hold briefly until the icing sets. If you want more stability, you can also icing-glue the walls to the base. • For the icing decoration, use a pastry bag with various decorating tips or a knife.

You can easily fill in gaps and smooth construction errors with icing and candy decorations. Wipe off smudges or drips with a clean, damp paper towel. • To apply candy decorations, dab a small amount of icing to the underside of the candy and hold in place until set.

• You can use dough scraps to roll out added decorative cut-outs to be applied with icing glue. These cutouts can be impressed with designs before baking. • If you don't have time to do the baking, you can use cardboard or graham crackers and still show off your decorating skills.

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Yes, every year; family tradition Basic recipe for a gingerbread house about 6 inches by 8 inches: 1 c hard shortening 1 c molasses 1 c sugar several tsp (your choice, I use about three) ginger 1tsp nutmeg 1tsp baking soda 4-5 c flour (humidity has everything to do with this) 1 tbs - 1/4 c water, depending, again, on humidity and need Melt shortening (we use microwave). Stir in molasses and sugar until sugar is dissolved. Add everything but flour and water and stir this mess well.

Add flour until it seems a little crumbly. Add water until it is kneadable. Roll out on BOTTOM of cookie sheets to about 1/4" thickness.

Cut out pieces and peel away extra for baking. You will need 2-3 cookie sheets for this much dough. Have some forms already pre-made of stiff paper or cardboard so you know the house will fit together the right way when you are done.

Two sides, two roof pieces, two ends. If you want chimneys, cut out about three squares with a ’v’ shape cut out of one side (you will frosting the three pieces together and then the matched cut sides will frosting onto the roof). 375 degrees for 12-14 minutes.

Take out and do NOT remove from cookie trays. Allow to cool a little first. But as soon as you take them out, cut out any doors or windows you want.

We use old Christmas card pictures of trees and deer or manger scenes etc. To frosting to the insides of the windows so just the picture shows from the outside when the house is done. Save window cutouts and cut them in half for shutters for the windows if you like. Save door pieces and they will be half-open doors if you like.

Get a good stiff piece of cardboard bigger than the footprint of the house (you need a bit of yard, you know! ) and then, when the gingerbread pieces are mostly cool, move them from the cookie sheets to a wire rack to finish cooling and hardening. We usually leave ours for a day before we attempt to start frosting.

What you should do a day ahead, though, when the roof pieces are cool and stiff, is glue them together. Use some stiff paper smaller than the size of the two pieces together. Make a stiff form of the frosting below (more powdered sugar) and smear it across undersides of both roof halves.

Put the roof halves together with one side propped up a bit on something - anything (a box or two of jello side by side is fine! ). Put the paper firmly on the underside of the roof pieces, so they are connected.

Press down a bit to get a good connection with the frosting. When this is dry the roof will then not fall apart on you! It is connected underneath itself and will stay put.

Frosting: each batch is 1 egg white few shakes of cream of tartar powdered sugar (food coloring can be added if desired, but we always stick with keeping it white) Figure about 1/5 c powdered sugar for the basic frosting, but more when you are gluing the sides of the house together and gluing it onto the cardboard. Nice thick stuff which is still sticky is what you want for that part. You will need LOTS of candy!

First, line the outline of the house with a thick glob of frosting ( I usually make three batches at a time together to make sure I have enough for all the ’major construction’) and also glob lines of frosting on the bottoms and sides of the house wall pieces. Set them up and press together. Use your finger to smooth the joining parts a little.

DO NOT WORRY about gaps and such. Frosting covers all problems! Go play a game of cards with the kids or do the laundry or something for an hour or two while the house frosting dries.

You can cover frosting in the bowl with a wet rag, as it will dry quickly if you don’t. Now go back to the house and put whatever decorations you want in the windows before the roof goes on. Next year I want to try to wire one for lights, but that’s getting mighty fancy!

Just do pictures now. Cut out the pictures you like but bigger than the size of the window so you have room for the frosting dabs on the edges which will hold them in place. NOW the roof!

Do not try to frosting the roof, instead, do some great globs of nice thick stuff along the tops of the walls and then put the roof on. Press down a little to make contact. Go finish the laundry, make a few beds, get something out to defrost for dinner, iron a shirt or two.... Go back to the house.

Put any doors and shutters on which you like. Now you can start decorating in earnest. We usually use licorice pieces (any color) along the top of the roof where the crack is and along the four sides of the house.

We have used non-pariels for roofing shingles, or M&M’s in designs or flat mints, or leave it with just frosting (my oldest also likes to use sugar sprinkles). Big gumdrops on top of each other make neat trees. Little mints or M&M’s make neat door knobs.

Jelly beans are great decorations and mini candy-canes and marshmallow snowmen are fun. Christmas candy corn makes super picket fences and cut pieces of brown or black licorice can be stacked as firewood. Hershey’s kisses on top of the chimney look cool (keep the wrapping on).

Have fun. For a grand finishing touch, you can do icicles when all the candy is on. Make yourself a new batch of frosting and make it just thick enough so you can get it to form an ’icicle’ off the knife when you lift the knife out of it, and thick enough so the icicle doesn’t fall off, but would harden there if you left it.

And that is exactly what you will do with the roof line of the house or anywhere else you want. Dip the knife in the frosting and dab it where you want icicles, then pull the knife down and away and you will have your icicle. They will be various lengths and you can have fun experimenting.

We do 4-6 houses a year now. Started out with one, but now the kids are grown and each family wants one to take home.....so that’s a lot of prep cooking for me before they arrive, but it’s much too much fun to stop now.It takes time and work, but once you get the hang of it, it is a super thing to have fun with with friends or family or both.

1 I've tried a couple of times with homemade gingerbread, but they always fell apart. I've had much more luck just using graham crackers, but that is only if you want to make a ghetto gingerbread house.

I've tried a couple of times with homemade gingerbread, but they always fell apart. I've had much more luck just using graham crackers, but that is only if you want to make a ghetto gingerbread house.

3 I haven't looked this year, but Target usually sells a great kit with pre-made gingerbread houses in pieces that you assemble and decorate. I would suggest that, then you can concentrate on what's really fun--the decorating part. Another place that usually has the kits is Joann's Fabrics and Crafts.

They are nice sized houses, I think about a foot square. The kits come with frosting and candy and some plastic decorations but of course you'll want more candy for it! .

I haven't looked this year, but Target usually sells a great kit with pre-made gingerbread houses in pieces that you assemble and decorate. I would suggest that, then you can concentrate on what's really fun--the decorating part. Another place that usually has the kits is Joann's Fabrics and Crafts.

They are nice sized houses, I think about a foot square. The kits come with frosting and candy and some plastic decorations but of course you'll want more candy for it!

I can't remember the 'brand' anymore either. So thats why I thought I would attempt to make a 'small one' from 'scratch'....make it a 'family tradition' with my daughter.

I did a 'kit' a few years ago, and unfortunately it was a real fiasco. The frosting didn't even hold the house together and there wasn't enough. But we didn't buy it, my fiance and I did it up for his niece.

I can't remember the 'brand' anymore either. So thats why I thought I would attempt to make a 'small one' from 'scratch'....make it a 'family tradition' with my daughter.

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