Cookie cutter set gingerbread house

Gingerbread house cookie cutter set, 15 x 19 x 21 cm

Spending an afternoon in the bakery creating a great gingerbread house is part of every Advent season! Cutting out the house yourself or assembling it with the cookie cutters that the cupboard has to offer can be difficult and if the house doesn't end up looking as desired, it's frustrating. With this cookie cutter set, the gingerbread house is guaranteed to succeed and so you can concentrate entirely on the decoration. The cookie cutters are made of food-safe plastic and can be easily rinsed by hand.

Gingerbread house cookie cutter set - Application

Prepare a delicious gingerbread dough. This tastes wonderfully spicy and is very stable, so it is perfect for building an edible house. Depending on the decoration, it becomes a snowy house in the middle of the winter landscape or a creepy witch's house in the dense forest.

Cut the dough into large pieces, so it is easier to roll out. Use a rolling mat as a base or put enough flour on your work surface. Then roll out the gingerbread dough to 3 to 5 mm using rolling pins. Then take the cookie cutters to hand. Cut out the wall with the tip twice and the square chimney part twice. Add to this once more the wall with the door, three times the large rectangle and fir trees as desired. Then use the small rectangle to cut out a window from two walls, for a rounded window use the slightly larger cookie cutter. Roll out the remaining dough to 5 mm and cut it into a rectangle, which will serve as a base. Bake the individual pieces according to the recipe and brush them with gum arabic while still warm.

While the gingerbread is cooling, you can already prepare the icing. Either make your own egg white icing or mix a royal icing mix with a little water. You can color part of the mixture, for example, green for the fir trees, red or light blue for a decoration. Put the white icing in a piping bag with a hole nozzle. It's best to apply decorations to the walls now, because if the walls are standing then the icing will run down them and the pattern will smudge. Then get the base plate ready and start with the walls of the house. These need to be glued to the base plate as well as to each other. With enough royal icing, then put the roof and chimney together and glue them down. Allow enough time for the house to dry in between after each step, so it will definitely hold up well. Often a prop, for example a glass or a measuring cup, also helps.

If the house is standing, only the remaining decoration is missing. Let your creativity run wild! For example, glue small sweets such as gummy bears, Smarties and sugar pearls or decorate the house with colored royal icing. You can also glue almonds on the roof, so it looks like the nuts are tiles. There are no limits to your decoration, so this work is especially fun for children.