Gingerbread house: how to make the gingerbread house

Gingerbread house, the recipe with step by step tutorial to prepare the gingerbread house

La Gingerbread house she is a beautiful and greedy one Christmas recipe, known around the world based on ginger cookies, although it can be done with any shortbread.

The recipe of our gingerbread house is very simple to make; the various parts of shortcrust pastry are joined, and subsequently also decorated, with the royal icing.
Give free rein to your imagination and involve the children too, it will be a really beautiful moment to share with them.

Ingredients

200 gr of type 1 flour
100 gr of soft butter
100 gr of brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons of ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
370 grams of powdered cane sugar
2 whites
2 tablespoons of lemon juice
additional flour to taste

Preparation Time:
90 minutes
Cooking time:
15 minutes
Rest time:
solidification time
Dose:
4 people to
difficulty:
low

How to prepare the gingerbread house: procedure

Unire in a bowl the flour and the butter into small pieces,
iniziare to work them together to obtain a humid and sandy consistency,
add then the eggs, sugar and spices and continue to knead until everything is amalgamated,

transfer the mixture on a floured pastry board and continue to knead quickly forming a loaf,
wrap it up in the cling film and let it rest in the refrigerator for half an hour.
Meantime draw the shapes of the various parts of the house on a sheet of paper and cut them out.
terminated the rest time resume the pastry and flatten it, the dough will be soft and malleable so it is advisable to help yourself with additional flour during flattening,
lay down the paper shapes on the pastry and cut them out with a pastry wheel or a smooth blade knife,

place the various parts in a pan lined with parchment paper e
cook them in a hot oven at 200 ° for about fifteen minutes or in any case until golden brown,
cooking when finished, remove from the oven immediately and leave to cool on a wire rack.

Prepare now put the royal icing into a bowl with the egg whites and lemon juice, start whipping with an electric whisk or planetary mixer, then add the icing sugar a little at a time and continue whipping until it melts. everything.

Transfer the royal ice in a pastry bag, make a small hole in the bag and start decorating the various parts of the house,
leave them dry, then assemble them together in a serving dish, taking care to join them together with the royal icing.

NB

La royal icing it firms up very quickly, it is therefore advisable to cover it with food film.
If you want to color your gingerbread house you can add ten grams of bitter cocoa to the mixture.