How To Make A Festive Gingerbread Cake House

This festive gingerbread cake house is a delicious treat and decoration for the holidays as well as a great family project!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Diet Vegetarian

Fridge Life? N/A

Freezable? No

Prep Time 15

Cook Time 12

Cooling time 1

Total Time 1 27

Calories 2053kcal

Author Dora

Preheat the oven to 180℃ or 350℉.
Mix all the dry ingredients with a whisk in a large bowl.
Join the honey with the egg in a separate bowl.
In a stand-alone mixer (or with a hand mixer with a large mixing bowl), mix the butter and sugar at medium speed until you get a foamy texture.
Add the egg and honey mixture and the dry ingredients mixture to the butter and sugar.
Mix together until you get a firm gingerbread dough.
Make a disc out of the dough, wrap it in plastic foil and put in the fridge for at least an hour.
Once the gingerbread dough has cooled, take it out of the fridge, remove the plastic wrap and roll out until you have a 0.5 cm thick dough.
Print Template: Print your gingerbread house template from this link.
Transfer to Baking Paper: Place baking paper over the template and trace the design with a pen or marker.
Cut Out Shapes: Cut along the traced lines on the baking paper to create your gingerbread house parts.
Cut Dough Using Template: Lay the baking paper shapes on your rolled-out gingerbread dough and cut around them with a knife.) Using a sharp knife, now cut out your gingerbread house shapes:
- one front of the house
- one back of the house
- 2 sides
- 2 rooftops
From the extra dough cut other shapes with cookie cutters or gingerbread men.
Place all the cut shapes onto a baking sheet and bake for about 10 - 12 minutes.
Take out of the oven and let cool completely.

Whisk the egg white and add a few drops of lemon juice.
Add the icing sugar little by little and mix well with the egg white until you get the texture of melt down ice-cream.

Put the royal icing into a piping bag, pastry bag or regular freezer bag where you have cut off the top.
Before joining all the sides of the house together, decorate them separately.
To join the side pieces of the house, coat the sides of the house and the rooftops generously with the royal icing and press together gently. Keep them pressed together for a few minutes until you can feel the royal icing starting to work.
Now leave the house to dry.

Decorate the rest of the cookies per choice and enjoy nibbling while you wait for your gingerbread house to dry.