Ginger bread house

[NannyL]

Does anyone know any good recipies (or ideally good recipie books / online, with a template etc) to make a ginger bread house that you then ice / decortae with sweets?

I REALLY want to make one with the children in the christmas holidays but cant seem to find a recipe anywhere!

I saw a great one in an 'Xmas magazine' that was around in November (i was browsing in a supermarket) but didnt pay much attention to the magazine and cant seeem to find it again (or any other recipie) Ive found a tiny version in this years Tesco Xmas mag, but its tiny and only uses these ginger biscuit things not ginger bread, and i want to do the whole, bake ginger bread, cut the walls out etc, and not 'cheat'!

Ive looked online but not found anaything either yet!
TIA

Try this

or

this

HTH

ikea sell them for about £1 .. you put them together and decorate at will

wow, thanks new bethlehem.... 'try this' is VERY helpful!

Does anyone know what mollasses is?

what a shame im no where near ikea, my nearest 2 are in Bristol and London so you can tell i really am too far away to go before Xmas!

I feel I should know what Mollasses are but I can't quite think...

also does anyone have a ginger bread dough in grams / onzes rather than cups?

or can anyone covert cups of butter to grams etc!

New Bethlehem, i feel i should know as well! lol

Mollases is black treacle

There was a thread recently for conversion from cups to ozs if you search.

If you google it, it should tell you.

Treacle

I think the magazine you were browsing was maybe the Good Housekeeping Christmas Recipes special? It has one for a weeny g'bread house.

Anyway, try this which is a UK recipe - matters when you need the biscuit dough to be right. Makes a biggish house - and actually two of the size of the template in the recipe.

Marzipan to stick the panels together is better than icing, though writing icing is essential for sticking the sweeties on with. The bottom of a cereal packet (put it inside & stick the panels to it with marzipan) is good for stabilising the house.

A lovely thing that the recipe doesn't include: if you cut window shapes out of the panels before you bake them, then fill the shapes with crushed up boiled sweets, they melt and turn into stained glass windows. HOWEVER, a candle inside (ie to light up the windows) is not a good idea unless you have cut a hole out of the roof to be a chimney.

Can you guess how I spent yesterday afternoon and today?