Who doesn't love a vegan gingerbread house? These are super fun to make and can be any shape or size.
You can decorate your gingerbread house with any sweets or sprinkles that you would like.
This gingerbread house is a great one to make with your kids; They could decorate a side or two each or make one each. Making these houses are the perfect, fun activity for the whole family to do together!
As you can see, our house was a little wonky. Even though Katie and I measured the size of our house, we still somehow managed to have a slightly wonky house. It adds to the character of the house, I think.
We placed our gingerbread house on a square cake board and stuck vegan marshmallows all around to, we used the icing to stick it to the cake board.
Measure your shapes to make the perfect gingerbread house. I used some cardboard to make the shapes. Unfortunately, I only made one of each side so I didn't put the house together to check it worked.
We also used our left over dough to make a Christmas tree and gingerbread man to prop on the sides.
I hope you and your family love making gingerbread houses as much as we did!
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Gingerbread House
Ingredients
2 tbsp Chia Seeds You can also use flaxseeds
6 tbsp Warm Water
1 Cup Butter We used flora but any plant based butter will work.
1 Cup Caster Sugar
1 Cup Brown Sugar
2 tbsp Apple Cider Vinegar
2 tsp Vanilla Essence
4 ⅔ Cup Plain Flour
3 tsp Baking Powder
2 ½ tsp Ground Cinnamon
2 ½ tsp Ground Ginger
Icing;
1 Cup Icing Sugar
1-2 tsp Water or Milk
1 tsp Vanilla
Colours of choice
Any sweets and sprinkles you would like to add
½ Cup Sugar (if sticking house together with melted sugar)
Method
In a small bowl, mix the water and chia seeds to make a flax egg.
In a large bowl cream together the butter, sugar & molasses.
Mix in the vinegar, vanilla and flax egg.
Sift in the flour, baking powder, cinnamon, ginger and salt if using.
Wrap the dough in cling film.
Chill in the fridge for 1 hour.
Preheat the oven 180C
Roll the dough to roughly ¼ " thick.
Cut out your gingerbread house shapes; 2x shorter sides, 2x roof panels & 2x longer sides. We also cut our a christmas tree and gingerbread man
Bake for 10-15 minutes
Let cool completely before icing
Icing;
Sift the icing sugar into a medium bowl.
Add the water a little at a time, until it is almost the right consistency.
Add the vanilla essence.
Assembling; (Decorating the sides before sticking them together will create less dripping icing. However, we assembled it first.)
Do in whichever order you would like; Decorate first or stick the sides together.
Sticking the sides together;
You can use icing for this, you will need quite a lot and it may take some patients for it to stick or you can use melted sugar.
Melt the sugar in a small frying pan. You can swish the pan a little but don’t stir the sugar or it will burn quicker.
You need to move quickly so the sugar doesn’t burn
Once it has started to melt, turn the heat down, and either use a knife to spread the sugar onto the sides or dunk one side in to the sugar
Stick the connecting sides together
Repeat until all sides are stuck together.
Once all the sides are stuck together (or before if you would like) decorate your
house however you would like to.
Serve
Enjoy!
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