Gingerbread Cottage

Name: Gingerbread Cottage
Yield: Serves 10-12
Ingredients: 4 tsp ground ginger; 700 g plain flour, plus more to dust; finely grated zest of 1 orange; 250 g white royal icing; 200 Jazzies (for the roof); 45 small red sweets; 2 strips of thin red liquorice (each 22cm long); 1 small piece liquorice (for the chimney); 1 small piece of candyfloss (for the smoke); 1 tub hundreds and thousands; 5 Curly Wurlys (for the fence); 1 spray of sugar flowers; 3 egg yolks; 200 g light muscovado sugar; 6 tbsp golden syrup; 2 tsp ground cinnamon; 250 g salted butter, very slightly softened and diced; 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda

Cinnamon-Orange Gingerbread

Preparation info

Serves
10-12

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Birthday Cake Book

By Fiona Cairns

Published 2011

About

There’s no reason why a gingerbread house should be reserved for Christmas festivities and covered in snow. It makes a great birthday cake at any time of the year, personalised with favourite sweets or chocolates. It will keep for up to a week, stored in a dry place.

Ingredients

To Bake

700 g plain flour, plus more to dust
4 tsp ground ginger
2

Christmas
Baking
Cookies
Vegetarian
Birthday

Method

To Bake

Sift the flour, spices and bicarbonate of soda into a large bowl and add the butter. Rub together with your fingertips - or tip into a food processor or the bowl of an electric mixer and blend - until the mixture resembles fine crumbs.

Add the egg yolks, sugar, syrup and orange zest and mix until the dough comes together. If it’s too sticky,

Ingredients

To Bake

Method

To Bake

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