Christmas Gingerbread House Cookies Can Also be Used to Build Houses and Give Children Christmas Surprises
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In order to save trouble, the gingerbread house directly uses gingerbread premix powder with eggs and honey, but it does not need gingerbread premix powder. Here is the gingerbread recipe for everyone, friends who want to do it yourself can do it yourself Try it!
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The method of making gingerbread dough comes from Mr. Jun Zhi: Ingredients: 500 grams of low-gluten flour, 100 grams of butter, 60 grams of water, 50 grams of brown sugar powder, 100 grams of powdered sugar, 70 grams of honey, 50 grams of eggs, 1/2 small of cinnamon powder Spoon (2.5ML), 2 teaspoons of ginger powder (10ML);
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Method: 1. Pour all the ingredients for making gingerbread into a bowl. 2. Mix and knead by hand to form a dough. 3. When you first knead into a dough, the surface of the dough will be rough. Continue to knead patiently for a while until the surface of the dough is smooth. Put the kneaded dough into the refrigerator to chill and relax for 1 hour
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First of all, design the house drawing you want to build. After drawing it, cut it out and keep it for use. If you want to build this house, you can draw one according to this drawing. You can adjust the size according to your needs. This is the drawing of the main house. If you only want to make the main house and don't want to be the attached house on the right, you only need to make the two roofs the same without leaving the gap!
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This is the drawing of the attached house. The attached roof needs to be cut in half!
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All the drawings!
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It’s better to make the noodles. Pour the gingerbread premix powder and egg honey into a large bowl, knead vigorously, knead the dough until it does not stick to your hands, wrap it in plastic wrap, and let it rest in the refrigerator for an hour .
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At this time, it is easy to make egg liquid. Mix 10 grams of eggs and 20 grams of water and mix well!
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The loose dough is placed on the chopping board and rolled into a thin dough sheet with a thickness of about 0.3cm. (If the chopping board is not big enough, you can divide the dough into smaller portions and roll them out in batches).
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Put the cut paper model on the dough, and use a knife to cut the pattern along the edge of the model. Because my oven is relatively small, I didn't cut it all at once. Which pieces do I bake? Cut those pieces! Friends with a big oven, you can cut all the drawings at once and bake them together!
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Put the cut noodles on the baking tray (try not to deform), pierce some holes with a fork (or not), brush a layer of egg water, let it rest for about 20 minutes, and then brush a layer of egg water. Put it into the preheated oven, heat the middle layer up and down at 180 degrees, about 12-18 minutes (depending on the size of the biscuits), bake it to the degree of coloring you like, then take it out. Of course, if time is tight, you can directly brush with a layer of egg liquid and put it into the oven. It is also possible to bake it, but it is not as good as the biscuits with two layers of egg liquid, but they must be pierced, otherwise the surface of the biscuits will be bulging. stand up!
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Take the test one by one, and be sure to bake all the "parts" and don't miss it. Finally, you need to bake a large dough piece as the base. Because I bake it in batches, and only brushed with a layer of egg wash, the biscuits tested were of different colors, hehe, but because I want to decorate the top, the original color will cover it, so it doesn’t matter!
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After the biscuits are baked and cooled, the gingerbread house can be assembled. First make the meringue frosting: mix the egg whites and powdered sugar and stir, add lemon juice, and continue to whisk to become the meringue frosting. (This step is very simple, you don't have to use an electric whisk, just use a manual whisk.) The thickness of the prepared icing can be adjusted freely according to your needs. For example, for my gingerbread house, the frosting used to glue the house should be thicker, so you can add a little less lemon juice or more powdered sugar. The icing on the roof should be thinner, so you can add a little more lemon juice. Because it was late at night when the biscuits were baked, the family was asleep, so there are no photos for many of the steps below. I'm really sorry!
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Start to "build a house" on the base. First assemble the bottom part and glue the corresponding biscuits with icing sugar as shown in the picture. Then build a small house on the side. (Because I pierced the tin foil when I pierced it, and the egg liquid from the brush penetrated the tin foil, so in some places the tin foil was not completely peeled off, because I didn't plan to let the baby eat it, so that's it, no matter what! Hope perfectionists ignore it! Hey!
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After the icing is dry, start to build the roof. At this time, the house has taken shape.
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Then decorate the house according to your own preferences, and sprinkle some powdered sugar on the whole house, and the dream house is completed. There is no fixed pattern and pace. You can play freely according to your own preferences. You can also let the children decorate!
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After finishing the house, I always feel that the gingerbread house I made is a bit monotonous!
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Later, I thought of missing Santa Claus and Snowman, so I made a Santa Claus and Snowman with fondant, and found that there is no chimney! Where does Santa Claus go in without a chimney and give gifts to the babies? So use the remaining biscuits to make up another chimney!
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I have not been good at crafting classes since I was a child. The Santa Claus and Snowman made out of this is ~~~ Hey! Don’t say anything, and hope they don’t blame me!
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Well, done, it's 3 o'clock in the morning by this time! But still very happy! Hope the baby will be very happy to see it!
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Put a few more
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One more piece
Tips:
Junzhi honestly: You need to relax the gingerbread dough for a while before you roll it out, otherwise it will tend to shrink when you roll it out and engrave the shape with a mold. Similarly, it is best to relax for a while before baking, otherwise it may be easily deformed. The surface of the biscuits can also not be brushed with egg water. The difference is that if you brush the egg liquid, the surface of the biscuit will have a layer of gloss, so you need to be patient when assembling the house. Especially for the roof, you must wait for the icing to dry before letting go to prevent the roof from falling down.
