Thursday, January 7, 2010

Where can i find a kit, recipe or online guide on how to make a gingerbread cookie house?

made from cookies, not cardboard!Where can i find a kit, recipe or online guide on how to make a gingerbread cookie house?
I know your game , if your planning to build this gingerbread dungeon and lure youngsters to it , im afraid to say its been done before and it ended in tears , beleive me.





As for my liquorice roller coaster , keep it quiet !!!Where can i find a kit, recipe or online guide on how to make a gingerbread cookie house?
yankeeharvest.com and orientaltrading.com sell gingerbread house kits.


You could also make your own and follow the directions on thriftyfoods.com or fashion-era.com


Links below:
John Lewis have a gingerbread house kit that you can buy on line
There were thousands in IKEA the other day. 拢1.50 I think! xxx
my son had one at the weekend he got it from a local christmas farye croxton school in cheshire if you could contact them any way for more info
Sainsbury's usually have stuff like that...... so I'm guessing Tesco and Asda will aswell.
Ikea used to sell a kit you put together. Maybe they still sell them in their food shop.
Miniature Cookie House Recipe


http://www.vpr.net/programs/cookie_house鈥?/a>


RECIPE, PATTERNS %26amp; DIRECTIONS FOR DOLORES' GINGERBREAD HOUSE


http://www.members.carol.net/~zt.proicer鈥?/a>


HOW TO MAKE A GINGERBREAD HOUSE


http://www.geocities.com/red6012002/how_鈥?/a>


http://archives.cnn.com/2000/FOOD/news/1鈥?/a>


Winter Gingerbread Houses


http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/ah_recipes_othe鈥?/a>


Gingerbread House Chef


http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/cr_occasions/ar鈥?/a>


Ellen's Edible Gingerbread House


http://recipes.tasteofhome.com/eRMS/recp鈥?/a>


Gingerbread House


http://recipes.tasteofhome.com/eRMS/recp鈥?/a>





Gingerbread House Bake Set


http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B鈥?/a>


http://search.ebay.com/bake-gingerbread-鈥?/a>
Maybe you will be interested to know that you can buy the whole gingerbread house [ made of gingerbread] naturally from Squire's it is too cute. It has to be build up by you and you have to ice and decorate it but the hard work has all been done.


:))))
If i were you i would go to google as i have often done -- you get very good recipes there.
As people never say what country they are in, here is a UK version


http://www.gltc.co.uk/ProductDetails.asp鈥?/a>
Jane Ashers website is really good. Try there
Making gingerbread houses are GREAT fun - but very time consuming.





The link to the site below has a good recipe for the basic gingerbread dough. Basically you make your templates out of cardboard and use them to cut out the house shapes from the gingerbread dough. Gingerbread dough is pretty easy to use and you can roll it in to a ball and roll it out again for each piece of the house.





If you want to be REALLY clever cut out small squares or circles in the walls for windows. Crush up boiled/hard lollies - different colours if you can and put the crushed lollies (sweets) in the windows BEFORE you cook the gingerbread. Put in the oven to cook. When it cooks the lollies (sweets) melt and formed 'glass stained' windows - very swish!





The REAL tricky bit is getting the icing to the right consistency to 'glue' it all together (you use the icing NOT super glue!!)





You then use the icing to 'glue' on all the lollies. You may start off thinking it's all messy - but the icing and lollies can cover up a lot of mistakes!!





One of the trickiest things is propping up the walls etc while you are assembling - this link says use 'soda cans' (soft drink cans). I also use baked bean tins/jam jars - anything the right size.





Hope you have a go - it's lots of fun - then you have to put it somewhere where it can be admired before the kids try to demolish and eat it all!!





Good Luck
well, look at how your house looks, then buy the gingerbread and make it similar

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