Gingerbread House Icing is the Glue that holds the house together. Do you have a favorite Royal Icing Recipe or even just a tip for icing gingerbread houses Share it Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page. Simple gingerbread house recipe BBC Good Food. Heat oven to 2. 00. Cfan 1. 80. Cgas 6. Melt the butter, sugar and syrup in a pan. Mix the flour, bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger into a large bowl, then stir in the butter mixture to make a stiff dough. Best Gingerbread House Recipe' title='Best Gingerbread House Recipe' />If it wont quite come together, add a tiny splash of water. Cut out the template see below to download. Put a sheet of baking paper on your work surface and roll about one quarter of the dough to the thickness of two 1 coins. Cut out one of the sections, then slide the gingerbread, still on its baking paper, onto a baking sheet. Repeat with remaining dough, re rolling the trimmings, until you have two side walls, a front and back wall and two roof panels. Any leftover dough can be cut into Christmas trees, if you like. This spiced gingerbread cake cake is topped with a rich cream cheese frosting and a dollop of Lemon Curd. Use this gingerbread recipe to get the kids in the kitchen and create some magical memories, from BBC Good Food. If you like the dinner rolls at the Texas Roadhouse restaurants, youll love this best dinner rolls recipe These taste just like Texas Roadhouse RollsMake and share this The Most Wonderful Gingerbread Cookies recipe from Genius Kitchen. Pick out the most intact flaked almonds and gently poke them into the roof sections, pointy end first, to look like roof tiles. Bake all the sections for 1. Leave to cool for a few mins to firm up, then trim around the templates again to give clean, sharp edges. Leave to cool completely. Put the egg whites in a large bowl, sift in the icing sugar, then stir to make a thick, smooth icing. Spoon into a piping bag with a medium nozzle. Pipe generous snakes of icing along the wall edges, one by one, to join the walls together. Use a small bowl to support the walls from the inside, then allow to dry, ideally for a few hours. Once dry, remove the supports and fix the roof panels on. The angle is steep so you may need to hold these on firmly for a few mins until the icing starts to dry. Dry completely, ideally overnight. To decorate, pipe a little icing along the length of 2. Use three, upright, for the door. Using the icing, stick sweets around the door and on the front of the house. To make the icicles, start with the nozzle at a 9. Keeping the pressure on, pull the nozzle down and then off the icing will pull away, leaving a pointy trail. Repeat all around the front of the house. Cut the chocolate mini roll or dipped Flake on an angle, then fix with icing to make a chimney. Pipe a little icing around the top. If youve made gingerbread trees, decorate these now, too, topping each with a silver ball, if using. Black Forest Torte. Dust the roof with icing sugar for a snowy effect. Lay a winding path of sweets, and fix gingerbread trees around and about using blobs of icing. Your gingerbread house will be edible for about a week but will last a lot longer.