Sunday 5 December 2010

Miniature "Hexenhaus" (Gingerbread House)

For all those who never get around to making a proper gingerbread house, I have a solution: the miniature "Hexenhaus" - no baking required, and easily devoured.



 You will need:

Icing sugar
some warm water
Dominosteine (small chocolate covered lebkuchen shaped like a cube, or other small cube shaped confectionary or biscuit)
Butterkekse (Butter biscuits, or other thin square or rectangular cookies that break easily)
Plenty of decorations such as gummibears, chocolate drops, sprinkles, etc.

1. Make firm icing by mixing icing sugar with a tiny bit of water (I used about 2 tablespoons of icing sugar with half a teaspoon or so of warm water). Use one biscuit for the base and break another biscuit in half )or break off 2/3rds of two biscuits) to make the roof.

2. Dip the base of your cube in the icing, then place on the back half of your biscuit base.




3. Smear some icing on the left and right edge of the cube and place the roof pieces on the house.

4. Use more icing to seal the gap at the top and to decorate the roof with snow.



5. Decorate your house with anything you fancy


1 comment:

  1. Thanks. That's a neat way to make a house to decorate without doing a lot of baking. {SMILE}

    Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

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