Gingerbread House

Every Christmas I make gingerbread and this year I made a little house using a classic easy recipe.

Ingredients

300 g brown sugar

1000 g golden syrup

250 g butter

100 g eggs

1320 g self raising flour

30 g mixed spice

40 g ground ginger

Method

Place sugar, syrup and butter in a mixing bowl and mix evenly. Add egg and combine. Add flour and spices and mix until a dough is formed. Place the dough in cling wrap and allow cooling in the fridge for at least 30 minutes. Roll the dough out to 4 mm thickness and place on a paper lined baking tray. Bake in a preheated oven on 180ºC normal bake for approx. 12 min. Allow cooling before cutting the shapes from the template. You will need 1 bottom piece (21 x15 cm), 2 side pieces (8 x 14 cm), 2 end pieces (11 x 17 cm) and 2 roof pieces (18 x 11 cm). Make a royal icing with eggwhites and icing sugar. Glue the pieces together with the icing and decorate with a variation of candy and chocolate.

Note: Use the same dough to make gingerbread men and biscuits.

Here is a picture of the templates I use. The brown is the bottom, green the roof, rectangular yellow is the side and the other yellow is for the end pieces.