The secret? A strong cookie! You might be following a recipe that calls for tasty, soft, and chewy cookies, but to remain the last house standing, you'll want to think twice before you go for a cookie with these traits, or one that's too thin that'll crack just by looking at it.
If your gingerbread house is just for show, opt for a recipe like this one from Haniela's that avoids the use of a leavening agent which allows the cookie to bake into hard, firm shapes and results in a strong base for your gingerbread house, which is especially useful when it comes time to decorate with icing and candy. If you'll be indulging in your gingerbread house, try this recipe from Wholefully , where you'll definitely want to add a leavening agent.
Overall, the golden rule here, according to Reader's Digest , is to use a ruler to measure the thickness of the dough before you cut into shapes and bake. The thicker it is, the crispier it will get without getting soggy cookies. The point is to add milk or water, or vegan milk only to bind the icing sugar.
Some folks add a teaspoon or corn syrup, and mix in some food coloring too. This kind of gingerbread glaze is best used as an all-over pour, rather than a lining.
The best icing to use if you want a harder one is royal icing. It get thick, fluffy, glossy, and hardens into a really beautiful layer. TheSpruceEats have a great royal icing recipe you can try out. This can be achieved with the icing sugar and milk recipe, only leave it a little thinner. Thicker than milk, a little thinner than yoghurt. Of course, you can always use this as a pour-over glaze. Just be sure to use a cooling rack and a sheet pan underneath, there will be lots of pooling and dripping.
A thinned out chocolate glaze will work really well, and you can use any chocolate you like, be it white, dark, or milk. You will need a lot of heavy cream for this.
The more cream to chocolate you have, the thinner the glaze. This tends to work best with dark chocolate, as it hardens nicely while milk chocolate turns a little sticky, and white chocolate is a little soft. I expect my bakers to be forward thinking and not stuck in butter ration times. At home in my kitchen, I tore into the bag only to find these gingerbread men were, gasp, uncompromising to the teeth.
Their skin hinted at some softness that eluded my bite. They were, oh dear Gabriel, harder than a fruitcake. What self-respecting bakery would sell such monsters?
And then sat down to blog. I polled my Instagram followers on their thoughts. Only two people claimed belief in a hard gingerbread deity. But this is We need to worry about our healthcare and tax cuts and the education of our citizens, not bloody butter and whether our gingerbread cookies are soft enough to roll with the punches!
Decorations are only limited by your imagination. There are so many creative ways to use food items as decorations. For inspiration, look online and try to recreate your favorite gingerbread finds. Or, put out a wide variety of sweet treat toppings and let your kids decorate to their heart's content. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Use precise geolocation data. Select personalised content. Create a personalised content profile. Measure ad performance. Select basic ads.
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