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Are you looking for some easy gingerbread house recipes that you can do yourself at home? Whether this is your first gingerbread house attempt or you are a gingerbread house building veteran, we have some great tips, ideas and recipes here to keep you making fabulous houses from season to season.

Making gingerbread houses is both easy and fun. If you are creating them alone, as a family or even as a fun project for children, you can find easy gingerbread house recipes here that allow you to do just that.

There are a surprising number of recipes available for gingerbread. Not all of them are the best for house-building though. Here are a few easy gingerbread house recipes that work very well. This recipe will give the house walls strength so that you can decorate with candy, icing and even additional pieces of gingerbread without having to worry about the house collapsing.

Simple Gingerbread House Recipe

Ingredients:

• ¾ of a cup of butter, softened
• 7/8 of a cup of packed light brown sugar
• 1 ½ tablespoons of lemon juice (fresh is best, but bottle is okay, too!)
• 1 teaspoon of lemon zest
• ½ cup of molasses
• 2 eggs
• 3 cups of all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking powder
• 1 tablespoon ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons ground allspice
• Cardboard

Directions:

Step 1: Begin designing your gingerbread house pieces with cardboard. Cut out the design of your home using cardboard, so that you can easily get the measurements correct before you begin backing. You’ll want to completely erect a gingerbread house out of cardboard to give you the stability that will come from a tight fit. Do this loosely so that you can easily take it apart to cut out the shapes of the house using your model.

Step 2: Make the gingerbread. To start, mix butter and sugar together until they are creamed (will be light, fluffy and soft to the touch.) Then, add in your lemon juice and zest as well as the molasses. Once combined add the eggs. Do this all in one large mixing bowl.

Step 3: In another mixing bowl, sift together your flour, baking powder and the spices. Sifting lightens the flour so that it will combine well with the wet ingredients.

Step 4: Mix the dry ingredients into the wet mixture. Fold it in and don’t over stir the mixture. That will cause it to become hard and completely difficult to work with!

Step 5: Chill. Keep the dough refrigerated for at least one hour so that it can firm up. The butter will gel with the flour enough to create and easy to manage dough.

Step 6: From here, you’ll be able to roll out the dough on a floured surface without much trouble. You can then use the cardboard cut outs to help you to roll the dough the right size. A great trick is to use a pizza cutter to help you to cut out the desired shapes.

Step 7: Now that you have your house pieces, you need to bake them. Bake for 10 minutes at 375 degrees F. Monitor baking. You want dough to cook through but not to become hardened or too stiff. When the bottom is toasted, you’re done. Place on wire rack for cooking (don’t allow the pieces to sit on the trays you backed them on as they will continue to cook there. Allow at least 6 hours for hardening.

From this point, the decorating is up to you. Look throughout this website for additional help in designing and constructing your gingerbread house. We have more easy gingerbread house recipes as well as some more complicated ones. Don’t forget the many ways that you can decorate your creation, too.

Mini Gingerbread House Recipe

• 7 graham crackers
• Frosting- vanilla, chocolate, red and green
• Colored candy- for decorating
• Christmas ribbon

  You can put your frosting in a pastry bag or in a Ziploc bag with a tiny hole in one corner. Use graham crackers to make the sides of your gingerbread house. Apply the frosting to hold the crackers together and then allow it to dry and harden.

  Once dry, use more frosting, various candies and ribbon to decorate the house. Give each child their own house to decorate as they please. Or make a whole village yourself and use it as a Holiday party centerpiece.

  These easy gingerbread house recipes should get you started. Search our site for more recipes, from simple to elaborate, and send us your favorite easy gingerbread house recipes along with photos of the end result.
  
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