Gingerbread House with 'Glass' Windows (and Light)

Did you start preparation for Christmas? Have some fun and make a Gingerbread house, then let your children (or child in you) decorate it!

You will need:
Recipe for gingerbread dough
Boiled lollies (for glass windows)
other lollies for decoration
Food colour (optional)
Cake board
(tea candle; if you want light inside your house)

Method:
1. Prepare paper template (mark windows and doors)
12 x 19 cm - 2 times, 
10,5 x 16 cm - 2 times 
16 x 18 - 2 times (you'll need to cut upper corners of those rectangles, so they support roof - see picture
2. Transfer templates onto roll-out dough (cut out windows and doors)
3. Place onto baking sheet (lined with baking paper); fill widows with crushed boiled lollies. Bake
4. Trim 'house sides' while hot (if necessary); cool
5. Glue house sides together (egg white and icing sugar / thick paste) placing pieces on cake board, supporting them with cans
(Don't forget to cut out hole for tea candle on the board, if you want light in your house. In that case, make a chimney for heat / smoke escape)
6. Decorate when sturdy (leave 2-3 hours to dry or overnight)
7. Let it snow over your house (dust with icing sugar)

Gingerbread Kucica sa 'staklenim' prozorima (i svjetlom)

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Potrebno:

Recept za Gingerbread tijesto 

Secerne bombone (tvrde bez punjenja, za prozore)

Razne slatkise i bombonice, za dekoraciju

Kartonski podlozak za kolace / torte

Prehrambena boja (opciono)

Male 'cajne' svijece (ako zelite svjetlo u kucici)

Postupak:

1. Pripremite papirne modele (oznacite prozore i vrata)
12 x 19 cm - 2 puta
10,5 x 16 cm - 2 puta
16 x 18 - 2 puta (ove cete morati nakoso zasjeci, tako da krov nalegne - vidi foto)
2. Prenesite model na tijesto; zasijecite dijelove
3. Postavite na papir za pecenje (na tepsiji), ispunite prozore sa lomljenim bombonama. Ispecite
4. Ako je neophodno, ispravite dijelove poslije pecenja, dok su vruci; ohladite
5. 'Zalijepite' stranice kuce (bjelance i secer u prahu -gusta masa); podrzite ih konzervama na podlosku za torte (ne zaboravite izrezati otvor za cajnu svijecu na podlosku, ako zelite svjetlo u kucici. U tom slucaju napravite dimnjak kako bi vrelina / dim izlazili vani))
6. Dekorisite kad je dovoljno cvrsta (susiti 2-3 sata ili preko noci)
7. Zasnijezite kucicu (sa secerom u prahu)!

Gingerbread Dough

There is no smell like Gingerbread Dough smell.

Ingredients:
-Dough
750 g flour
3 tbs baking powder
2 teas cinnamon
1 teas cloves ground
1 teas ginger powder
1/4 teas cardamom powder
pinch of salt
190 g honey
150 g sugar, caster or icing
70 g butter, melted
juice and zest of 1/2 lemon
1 large egg
1 egg yolk
-Icing 'glue'..if you want to make a house
1-2 egg whites and enough icing sugar to make thick but still runny paste.
Method:
Mix all ingredients and make stiff dough. Cover and leave it rest for 20-30 minutes.
Dust working surface and roll out the dough 5 mm thick. At this stage you cut shapes, or 'house walls'. For a house you need to cut rectangles of following sizes;
12 x 19 cm - 2 times, 10,5 x 16 cm - 2 times and 16 x 18 - 2 times (you'll need to cut upper corners of those rectangles, so they support roof - see picture). From the rest of dough, cut out stars, ginger men, harts... Bake 10-15 minutes at 160*C. If you need to reshape (trim) your dough, do it while still warm.
Leave it cool completely, before you start assembling.






To do this you'll need some cans,
to hold walls up-right, while
corners (which you have spread with icing)
dry and become solid.
It usually takes couple of hours. Then you can
stick roof in the same way. After that
comes decorating part!
My Snowman is made of Raffaello truffles, which I have rolled into icing sugar.




'Gingerbread' Tijesto

Obozavam miris (i ukus) ovoga tijesta!

Potrebno:
-Tijesto
750 gr brasna
3 kasike praska za pecivo
2 kasicice cimeta
1 kasicica karanfilica
1 kasicica djumbir praha
1/4 kasicice kardamom praha
malo soli
190 gr meda
150 gr sitnog secera
70 gr putera, otopljenog
sok i kora 1/2 limuna
1 vece jaje
1 zumance
-Secerno 'ljepilo' za kucu
1-2 bjelanca i dovoljno secera u prahu da smjesa bude gusta ali jos uvijek 'tecna'.
Nacin:
Umijesite cvrsto tijesto od svih sastojaka, pokrijte i ostavite odmarati 20-30 minuta. Na pobrasnjenoj povrsini razvaljajte na debljinu od 5 mm i vadite oblike ili 'zidove' kuce. Za zidove cete trebati po 2 pravougaonika sljedecih dimenzija:
12 X 19cm, 10,5 X 16cm, i 16 X 18cm (od ovih cete odrezati gornje uglove, da bi mogli podrzati krov - vidi sliku).
Pecite 10-15 minuta na 160*C. Kada izvadite i prije nego se ohladi, odrezite/dotjerajte oblike. Ohladite prije nego zapocnete 'gradnju'.
Kada podignete zidove, ivice namazite bjelanjkovom smjesom, pa zidove ucvrstite sa konzervama. Ostavite da se stegne prije nego stavite krov na isti nacin. Poslije ovoga dolazi dekoracija, koju cu prepustiti vama.
Od ovoga tijesta mozete praviti i druge oblike.