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Edible Haunted House (Gingerbread House)
thekitchenfairyPosted for Everyone to comment on, 5 years ago4 min read
Hi Whaleshareians!
Did you do something for Halloween on the weekend? You did? Awesome! How was it? Fun? Oh...not yet? So this Wednesday night then? Hope you will have blast :D
Today I would like to share you to a memory lane of my first gingerbread house EVER.
It was Halloween-themed hahah. I don't know what prompted me making a gingerbread house for Halloween. I do not remember where I got the idea from. I mean, I know gingerbread house is mostly associated with Winter and Christmas, but for my first time ever, it was for Halloween.
I had a blast making it and at that time I did not really realize that we could actually eat them, despite them being edible, I thought they were always only for decoration? Sooooo....my gingerbread house was made for our party center piece hahahah
Yes, it was totally edible, but since I had it in mind that it was only for decoration, I "glued" those nice cookies right on the cake board that was not covered with anything, so the cookies were in direct contact, making them yucky to be eaten :P
But for sure there were cookies that were baked especially for us to munch :D
My first gingerbread house was not so festive. I tried. I placed a couple of tealights inside, and you know how those Dollarstore products are not really great in quality, those tealights were not strong so they did not shine nicely somehow, in the end we dropped in some glow in the dark stick, but of course those did not stay long :P
As it was for Halloween party, it had some ghost cookies, witches broom, graveyard and whatnot
It was not the best looking, but I was so happy with it as it was my first hahahha
What about you? Do you do gingerbread house? Have you got a Halloween one? Share me the picture :D
Here is the recipe for the cookies I used, important note, this was made before I was vegan though, so yes, dairy, eggs and honey were used :)
6 c flour
6 tbsp bpowder
1 tbsp cinnamon
2 tsp cloves
2 tsp ginger
1/4 tsp cardamom
a pinch of salt
3/4 c honey
1 3/4 c sugar
1/4 c butter
juice and grated peel of 1 lemon
1 egg and 1 yolk
Method
In a large bowl, combine flour, bpowder, spices and salt
In a pot, bring honey, sugar and butter to a boil over high heat, stirring with wooden spoon until sugar is dissolved and butter melted, remove from heat and stir in lemon juice and peel. Cool to room temperature
Once cool, beat in 3 c of flour mixture until blended. Beat in egg and yolk, then beat in remaining flour mixture
Flour hands and knead dough until smooth and pliable but still slightly sticky. If its too moist, beat in more flour, a tbsp at a time
Roll flat the dough to 1/2 inch thick, yes it is thick but it makes it stronger especially after the house has dried for a week.
Cut with your template or cookie cutter and place on a greased and lined with parchment paper sheet. You need to also grease and flour the the parchment paper.
Bake at preheated 325 F for 40 minutes
Once cookies are cool, attach and decorate with royal icing and candies/fondant/modelling chocolate