Tuesday, December 14, 2010

The Best Of Kates Playgroung

gingerbread house with a difference ...

Last year I Found 3 days before Christmas, as always, found by chance a blog, presented at a super, super cute gingerbread houses as a topper for cup rims.

For normal cup of biscuits in various There are cookie cutter designs, but as a three-dimensional gingerbread house is something very special! The
instructions and tips for the gingerbread houses on notmartha.org I had saved last year and made an entry in the calendar so I can show you this cute idea this year.
For the pattern is made by Megan notmartha.org a PDF, which you can watch HERE download. In pattern 2 different gables are recorded, but I have now the big doors cut out, because my cups are quite large and thick. Megan wrote in the instructions that you bake the very beginning of a test house should, if you can not because of the size of the door recess is safe ...


's in the article by Megan Linked gingerbread recipe I have translated and scaled down to a smaller size, the amount is now perfect for about 90-10 gingerbread houses. The remaining balance in the end I had just cut with a serrated wheel in right corner ...

gingerbread recipe

240 gr flour
1 / 3 tsp baking powder 1 pinch baking soda

75 gr butter 75 gr

cane sugar 1 / 2 teaspoon ground ginger 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1 pinch ground cloves 1
/ 3 teaspoon ground
pepper 1 pinch of salt 1 egg size
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80 ml sugar syrup

powdered sugar 1 egg white may


the butter until light and fluffy with brown sugar and add all spices. Then gradually the egg and stir in the syrup. Mix flour, baking soda and baking powder and work under the wet mass. Divide the dough into a ball shape and leave at least 1 hour in refrigerator.
I had the dough as much as 24 hours in the refrigerator before I rolled it. The
Preheat oven to 180 °.
Roll out the dough about 3 mm thick and cut out the cardboard template by using parts of the house twice each per cottage. The roll-out works best on a lightly floured surface and lightly dusted on top. Parts Carefully place on baking paper and about 15 min. Freeze this dough bakes evenly behind ...
In my oven baking time was a min of 8. ideal, the house components may only very, very slightly brown on the edges. let cool completely after baking.

Either you stick the pieces together then with a little icing from powdered sugar and water, or you make yourselves out of powdered sugar and protein is a Royal Icing that is really hard. especially handy I found now purchased in Birmingham Royal Icing Mixture, which I just had to add water :-)


should stick together when you make sure that the wall between the two gable parts are parts. Then you can let your imagination run wild and decorate as you wish ...

taste the gingerbread house about as biscuits and fit nicely with cappuccino, hot chocolate or punch. When filling the cups, but make sure that the house does not get wet feet, they are otherwise mulschig ;-)
quiz question: the white one, where I got the word mulschig ...?














in size to the house fit perfectly into our glass Christmas tree that my husband and I a few years back in Italy Bought at a market.
are beautiful this house as a table decoration for the Christmas dinner table or as a giveaway to friends and acquaintances ... - But you will no doubt have other ideas, right?

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