In the run up to Christmas, the chefs in the Royal kitchens of Buckingham Palace in London have shared their recipe for making the perfect Gingerbread House.
Here's all the information you should need to make the house yourself at home.
Ingredients
1000g - Plain Strong Flour
14g - Bicarbonate of Soda
28g - Ground Ginger
14g - Ground Cinnamon
355g - Butter, unsalted
500g - Light Brown Sugar
140g - Egg
175g - Golden Syrup
Method
1. Mix flour, bicarbonate and spices together
2. Add cold diced butter and continue mixing until crumb stage is reached
3. Add sugar and briefly combine
4. Then add eggs and syrup and mix until dough is formed
5. Divide into 2 blocks, knead together by hand and flatten
6. Wrap and chill for a few hours before rolling to approx. 5mm thickness for the house parts and approx. 3mm for smaller decorative parts
7. Cut gingerbread house shapes using template
8. Place on baking trays and chill again before baking
9. For windows, crush boiled sweets into the spaces you have cut
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Fan oven 165c
18+ min for house pieces
12+ min for smaller pieces
Ingredients
1500g - Icing Sugar
200g - Egg White
50g - Lemon Juice
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Method
1. Sieve icing sugar and combine with egg white and lemon juice by hand first before placing into mixer
2. Paddle together on low speed for about 2min, then scrape sides and paddle well
3. Continue mixing on low speed for approx. another 5min, until a creamy hard peak consistency is reached.
4. For piping, decoration works loosen icing with some water
5. To assemble gingerbread house use hard peak icing