The Gingerbread Cottage

Name: The Gingerbread Cottage
Yield: Makes 1 gingerbread cottage
Ingredients: Chocolate finger biscuits, for the vegetable patch; 2-3 Cadbury Curly Wurly chocolate bars, for the fence; Flower- and vegetable-shaped sweets, for the flowers and vegetables; Oreo cookies, crushed, for the earth; 250 g icing sugar; 1 egg white; Red liquorice laces, for the Christmas tree ‘candles’ (optional); A few drops of lemon juice; Icing sugar, to dust; 1-2 Cadbury Flake bars, or cinnamon cassia sticks, for the logs; Fizzy laces or mini Daim Bars, for the pathway; Flower- and vegetable-shaped sweets, for the flowers and vegetables; 1-2 Cadbury Flake bars, or cinnamon cassia sticks, for the logs; Fizzy laces or mini Daim Bars, for the pathway; 250 g unsalted butter, softened; 200 g dark muscovado sugar; 10 tbsp golden syrup; 600 g plain flour; 200 g caster sugar and 180 ml water, for the caramel; 200 g caster sugar and 180 ml water, for the caramel; 200 g caster sugar and 180 ml water, for the caramel; Vegetable oil, for greasing; 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda; 4 tsp ground ginger; 1 tsp ground allspice; 1 tsp ground cinnamon

Preparation info

Makes
1
gingerbread cottage

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Ms Marmite Lover's Secret Tea Party

By Kerstin Rodgers

Published 2014

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A gingerbread cottage makes a spectacular centrepiece for a woodland tea. Here are my step-by-step instructions, but you don’t have to follow everything I’ve suggested - think up your own ideas and simply use this as your starting point.

There are several templates available to download from the internet, from simple A-frame houses/cottages to complex colonial-style mansions. It’s probably best to start simple. It’s essential that the gingerbread pieces bake as flat as possible: thi

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Vegetarian
Winter

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