HELP gingerbread dough rock hard

[drspouse]

I froze Mary Berry gingerbread house dough and it's been in the kitchen defrosted overnight (so not in the fridge) but now it's too hard to roll out and just crumbles!
Heeeelp!

[wowfudge]

I don't know if you managed to sort this out, but warming it a little in the microwave might help. Was it definitely defrosted btw?

[drspouse]

It was defrosted overnight, microwave didn't help, I ended up blitzing it with a splash of milk.
Also the royal icing recipe was rock solid and wouldn't come out of the piping nozzle so I had to add water.
All round a let down from St Mary!