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Making a Gingerbread House

The harder German-style Gingerbread is often used to build gingerbread houses similar to the "witch's house" encountered by Hansel and Gretel. These houses, covered with a variety of candies and icing, are popular Christmas decorations, often built by children with the help of their parents.

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Gingerbread House Mold
Make a Gingerbread House
Making a Gingerbread House
Making Great Gingerbread Houses
Assembling Graham Cracker Gingerbread Ho...
Makin a Gingerbread House with Graham Cr...

Kitchen Supply Gingerbread House Mold

Amazon Price: $13.74 (as of 05/31/2012)

Gingerbread House Mold lets you make celebrations special with a unique Gingerbread House that is easy to make and better than store-bought. Two-sided design in hand-cast aluminum gives you a Brick House on one side of mold or a Log Cabin on the reverse, each with its own chimney, roof and family. Complete recipes plus easy instructions for construction and decorating a Holiday, Easter, Birthday or Haunted Halloween House are included. House is 6-inch by 6-inch by 5-inch high.

Make a Gingerbread House

Making a Gingerbread House

Gingerbread Recipe (For Cookies or a Gingerbread House)

Ingredients

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup molasses
1 1/2 teaspoons ginger
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon clove
2 teaspoons baking soda
1/2 cup margarine
1 egg, beaten
3 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

Directions

In a medium saucepan, heat sugar, molasses, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves to boiling, stirring occasionally.
Remove from heat; stir in soda (it will foam up).
Stir in margarine till melted.
With a fork, stir in egg, then flour.
On a floured surface, knead dough till mixed. Divide dough in half, wrap half with plastic wrap; set aside.
Roll half the dough, with a rolling pin, slightly thinner than 1/4 inch.
Cut with cutters.
Bake at 325F on a cookie sheet for 12 minutes; cool on a wire rack.
Makes about 3 dozen 3" gingerbread people.
NOTE: We make houses by cutting out our house design (the 2 sides of the roof, two sides, a front and a back of the house) on graph paper, and then placing the graph paper shapes on the dough and cutting the dough shapes out with a knife.

Instructions

Making Great Gingerbread Houses

Delicious Designs from Cabins to Castles, from Lighthouses to Tree Houses

Making Great Gingerbread Houses: Delicious Designs from Cabins to Castles, from Lighthouses to Tree Houses

by: Aaron Morgan, Paige Gilchrist

Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 05/31/2012)

This is part pastry art and part architecture modeling, but making gingerbread houses is all winter-holiday and Christmas-time fun! These forty scrumptious-looking projects are perfect for anyone of any age with an urge to bake & decorate. Complete easy-to-follow instructions from an experienced pastry chef, illustrated step-by-photographic-step in full color.

Assembling Graham Cracker Gingerbread Houses

Makin a Gingerbread House with Graham Crackers

Alternative Gingerbread Houses

not martha - a tiny gingerbread house that perches on the edge of your mug

A Brief History of Modern Gingerbread Design : TreeHugger