Gingerbread Cottage
photo by Wild Thyme Flour
- Ready In:
- 42mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
1 cottage
- Serves:
- 8
ingredients
-
for the walls and roof
- 650 g self-raising flour
- 3 teaspoons ginger
- 3 teaspoons cinnamon
- 175 g butter, cut into cubes
- 225 g dark brown sugar
- 175 g black treacle
- 2 eggs, beaten
-
to decorate
- 2 (120 g) tubes ready to use white icing
- chocolate, flake bars
- 400 g marshmallows, white mini
- 200 g icing sugar, sifted
- 2 coloured lolly pops
- chocolate, buttons and
- candy cane, to decorate
directions
- Place flour, ginger, cinnamon and butter in a food processor and pulse until they resemble breadcrumbs( do this in 2 batches if the bowl is small).
- Combine treacle sugar and egg in a large mixing bowl. Tip in the flour and stir, then bring the dough together with your hands.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
- Cover and chill for at least an hour.
- Pre heat oven to 180C and line 3 baking sheets with non stick baking paper.
- Divide the dough into 3 and roll out to the thickness of a £1 coin. Using the templates cut out 2 of each for the roof the sides and the front.
- Re roll the scraps and make christmas trees and 1 gingerbread men.
- Bake for about 12 minutes or until JUST firm.Leave to cool in pan for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
- To assemble the house, pipe a door on the front and a window on the side using the icing.
- Pipe icing generously along the bottom edges of the pieces and attach to the board, then join all the sides.
- Use the flake bars to support the inside of the house by laying them behind the walls on the floor of the house.
- Fix the roof of the cottage and leave to set overnight befor decorating.
- stick the marsmallows all over the roof, using the ready icing as glue. Fix chocolate buttons around the door and a sweet as adoor knob and use more chocolate buttons to cover the corner joints. Make icicles hanging from the roof by making a pea sized blob and pulling downwards to break off.
- Mix the icing sugar with drops of water to form a thick spreadable paste and spread on the board to make snow, then decorate with lolly pops ( fastened to sweets), sweets, chocolate buttons and gingerbread trees. Place the gingerbread on the roof or outside the door.
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I live in a beautiful village on the island of Malta ( Europe) with my wonderful daughter, partner and two cats. I love the vineyards infront of my house or walking down to the valley of olive trees.
( I do pick olives every year)
Some years ago I stopped working as a chef but still do a lot of home cooking. What I miss are the expensive ingredients I worked with, its rather hard cooking on a tight budget. My aim is to produce recipes that are very economical and yet nutritious.
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