{"id":26510,"date":"2019-11-27T14:14:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pricecheck.co.za\/blog\/?p=26510"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T12:31:26","slug":"recipe-how-to-make-your-own-ginger-bread-house-with-the-kids-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/recipe-how-to-make-your-own-ginger-bread-house-with-the-kids-this-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe: How to Make Your Own Ginger Bread House with the Kids this Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

November is almost over and it’s starting to feel a lot like Christmas! If you’re really keen to get into the festive season mood with the kids, why not spend the day baking<\/a> your very own gingerbread houses? The 12th of December is international Gingerbread House Day and you’ve got just enough to get everything you need to bake your own gingerbread house at home.<\/p>\n

Baking, building and decorating the house can be a fun activity for the whole family to enjoy and, of course, the best part is that once the house has been created it can be devoured! This recipe by\u00a0Unsgaard Baking Paper<\/a> makes baking your own gingerbread house super easy!\u00a0Unsgaard Baking Paper is sold at most leading grocery retailers in South Africa and is the only baking paper supplied with patterns (standard round and loaf tin patterns plus a gingerbread man pattern).<\/p>\n

\"Unsgaard<\/p>\n

Gingerbread House Recipe<\/h3>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00b7 250g honey (organic tastes best)
\n\u00b7 100g sugar
\n\u00b7 100g butter
\n\u00b7 2 eggs
\n\u00b7 1 tsp ground cinnamon
\n\u00b7 1\/2 tsp ground cloves
\n\u00b7 1\/2 tsp ground ginger
\n\u00b7 1\/2 tsp ground cardamom
\n\u00b7 3 drops almond essence
\n\u00b7 500g flour
\n\u00b7 1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
\n\u00b7 1\/2 tsp baking powder<\/p>\n

Royal Icing \u2013 for the glue and the piping detail<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00b7 3 egg whites
\n\u00b7 250g icing sugar<\/p>\n

Decorations:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wafer biscuits and rolls
\nRaw pecans
\nToasted almond slivers
\nCandy canes
\nRed mini Astros
\nNicoletta silver balls
\nCoconut and green food colouring mixed for grass<\/p>\n

Tools needed:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Gingerbread house stencil
\nHand-held blender
\nRolling pin
\nWide turner or spatula \u2013 plastic works well
\nParing knife or pizza cutter
\nBaking trays
\nBaking paper
\nIcing pen
\nWooden board or cake board
\nRound and shaped cookie cutters<\/p>\n

Method:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1. In a large saucepan bring the honey, sugar and butter to a simmer, stirring the ingredients together. Remove from the heat and leave to cool.
\n2. Using a hand blender, whip the eggs and all the spices together until nice and frothy.
\n3. Add your honey mix to the whipped eggs and stir well.
\n4. Sift in the flour, bicarb and baking powder and mix well.
\n5. The consistency of the dough should be quite heavy, springy and ever so slightly sticky. Cover this with a dishcloth and set aside to rest for 12 hours before cutting using your stencil.<\/p>\n

Get everything you need for this gingerbread house recipe and your holiday baking online with PriceCheck. Click here to find the best prices on baking essentials<\/a> now.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delicious and fun, this is the perfect festive season activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,2849],"tags":[191,4005,262,2152,1477,5656,5655,473,5441,5657,1506,4864,3008],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Gingerbread-house.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26517,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26510\/revisions\/26517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}