And go crazy with the decorating.įor cookies - decorate your heart out with color and sprinkles. Bake the house for another 5 minutes until it's baked and the candy is melted and filled out the window frame. Glue the house together with royal icing or hot melted sugar. Bake the house-parts for 5-7 minutes, remove from the oven and fill the windows with crushed Jolly Ranchers hard candy. If you want other shapes than gingerbread houses, use cookie cutters to cut them out.īake the cookies for about 5 minutes for cookies, and 10-12 minutes for the larger pieces for the houses.įor houses with candy windows. Cut out the small and large house and place them on a parchment lined baking sheet. The dough needs to be about 0.1-0.2-inch (3-5 mm) thick. Let the dough rest in a ziplock bag in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours, before rolling out. Let the syrup cool down for a bit, before you add egg and flour.Īdd syrup to a stand mixer, and mix in the egg and flour and keep mixing until you have a smooth and shiny dough. Remove from heat, and stir in baking soda and spices. Melt butter, syrup/molasses and brown sugar in a saucepan over medium heat. The recipe is from a Danish Weekly magazine Ingredients:

Nothing says Christmas like a homemade gingerbread house.

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