Put all scraps into a bowl and cover. Stir in flour 1 cup at a time until dough can be formed into a ball.
Wipe your working surface with a damp sponge and lay the foil on top.
Gingerbread house dough recipes. In a large mixing bowl cream the butter brown sugar molasses cinnamon ginger cloves and baking soda together until the mixture is smooth. Blend in the flour and water to. If your dough is too tough to roll out microwave for 10 15 seconds.
You will need to measure your house template of choice to determine how much dough you need to make for example we had to make a 6x batch to make enough dough for our house. Gently using the spatula lift the dough and place it on the foil lined prepared cookie sheet. This pdf ebook is recommended for use on a computer mobile devices must have enough free space to accommodate the file.
This is a base recipe for strong gingerbread dough that is perfect for building houses. Gather scraps roll out dough and cut more shapes if necessary. Darker dough use dark brown sugar dark corn syrup and.
This recipe makes enough dough to fit in one standard 18 x 13 baking sheet. Instead of measuring out the flour for a double recipe use 1 5 pound bag plus 1 cup flour. This recipe can be increased if you want to make it a project for several kids by doubling or even tripling the ingredients.
Place one of the paper pattern pieces on the dough and cut around the edges. How to mix gingerbread dough how to cut bake the dough gingerbread recipes for gingerbread houses gingerbread cookies and cake recipes royal icing recipes mixing gingerbread dough when mixing gingerbread dough you will encounter different colors and textures based on which ingredients you use. Use gingerbread house templates to cut out shapes image 4 and transfer to prepared sheets spacing 2 inches apart.
This shortcut gingerbread house and cookie dough recipe is a godsend. Working with one disk at a time roll out dough between two sheets of wax paper to 1 4 inch thickness image 3. Dough designed for gingerbread houses to with stand cracks and sagging but still delicious.
Cut a piece of foil the same size as your baking sheet. If you re pressed for time you might want to use an easy gingerbread cookie dough recipe to speed the process along. There s less measuring and only one spice to buy ginger than with a from scratch dough mixing takes less than 10 minutes cutting takes about 10 minutes and baking takes another 10 minutes.
In a large saucepan cook the sugar shortening and molasses on low until shortening is melted and sugar is dissolved stirring constantly. Gingerbread house dough recipe how to bake roll and cut sheets of dough how to use the printable template how to bake flat and even parts how to emboss overlay patterns sealing edging tricks. On a well floured surface roll out a small amount of the dough until it is 1 4 inch thick.
Add the cinnamon baking soda and salt. Save these to make gingerbread men. Use aluminum foil to roll out transfer and bake your pieces.
