Gingerbread house - a step by step recipe with a photo, master class

With the onset of the New Year, houses are filled with the aromas of joy and favorite festive food, and hearts are filled with the anticipation of a miracle. Of course, one of the most fun and exciting New Year's activities is baking a gingerbread house. In this article, we will show you how to make a beautiful fragrant house step by step.

Making gingerbread dough
Cooking the icing
Assembly and decoration
Decorating options for houses

Cooking the walls and roof of the house

For the test you will need:

150 g of liquid honey;
100 butter;
125 g granulated sugar;
2 eggs;
1 tsp ground ginger;
1 tsp ground cinnamon;
vanillin;
375 gr. white flour;
1 tsp cocoa (if you want the walls of the gingerbread house to be brown);
2 tsp baking powder.

Combine ginger, cinnamon, vanillin, cocoa and baking powder with flour.
Mix the softened butter with sugar, add honey, mix again. Add eggs and stir again.
Add dry flour and spice mixture, stir again, roll the dough into a ball. If the dough is liquid (sticks to your hands or does not roll out well), put it in the refrigerator for half an hour, the butter in the dough will solidify, and it will be easier to work with it.
After the gingerbread dough is ready, sprinkle the table with flour and roll it into a layer, about 1 cm thick.If you like crunchies, then roll it out thinner, if you like soft gingerbread, roll it thicker.

Make a paper pattern in advance and lay it out on the layer. With a sharp knife, you need to cut out the details.

Now transfer the walls and roof to a baking sheet covered with a baking sleeve or baking paper. Bake the house in the oven at 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.
Make sure that the gingerbread does not burn, because the dough is brown, and it can be difficult to see if it is done.
The oven can be opened during cooking.

The leftover dough can be used to make gingerbread. If you paint them with icing, they will turn out to be incredibly beautiful!

While the biscuits are baking, we will prepare a mass for gluing the house.

Glaze for gluing and decoration

You will need:

1 fresh chicken egg white;
250 grams of powdered sugar;
1 tbsp lemon juice.

Carefully separate the white from the yolk (if even a drop of the yolk gets into it, nothing will work). It is advisable to sift or shake the icing sugar.

First, beat the protein with a fork until light foam, then gradually add the powdered sugar and grind it with the protein (you do not need to beat, bubbles in the glaze are not needed). After all the powder has been added, add lemon juice at the end. At this point, food coloring can be added if desired. You should get a thick homogeneous mass, you need to put it in a pastry syringe.

Assembling and decorating a gingerbread house

After the walls and roof of the house have completely cooled down, you can start assembling. We glue the walls, as shown in the photo. This work is quite long - be patient and hold the parts together until the mass hardens.

After the gingerbread frame is assembled, you can start decorating. Here you can give free rein to your imagination: sweets, pastry beads and stars, parcels and much, much more can become decorative elements!