Gingerbread for House Building
This gingerbread recipe is perfect for gingerbread house making. While it's still plenty tasty, it's much more suitable for building than making cookies.
- 2 Sticks Butter at room temperature
- 298 Grams brown sugar
- 824 Grams all-purpose flour plus more for dusting
- 1 Tbsp ground ginger
- 1 Tbsp ground cinnamon
- 3/4 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp baking powder
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 Eggs at room temperature
- 1 Cup molasses
Make Dough
In a mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream together the butter (2 sticks) and sugar (298 grams) until fluffy (about 5 minutes). Scraping down sides as needed.
In a separate bowl, sift together the dry ingredients (824 grams flour, 1Tbsp ginger, 1 Tbsp cinnamon, 3/4 tsp baking soda, 1/4 tsp baking powder, 1/4 tsp salt) and set aside half.
With mixer running at low speed, add eggs (2), one at a time. Mix in molasses (1 cup). Scraping down the bowl as needed.
Next add half the dry ingredients In 3 batches, mixing just to combine. Do this very slowly to avoid flour flying out at you. You can drape a towel over it when mixing to help keep it in.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap and refrigerate at least 2 hours, but overnight if possible.
Bake
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
Roll out dough: You’ll have quite a bit of dough, so you’ll want to cut off smaller pieces at a time to work with. I usually cut off 1/3 of the dough to work with at a time.
Lightly dust a large piece of parchment paper with flour. Place your piece of chilled dough on top. Roll side to side and up and down to make a rough square shape. While you roll, make frequent quarter-turns so that the dough remains even and prevent sticking to your surface.
Roll until dough is about ¼-inch thick. Transfer to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Use your paper templates to cut out your pieces. You’ll likely need to roll out several pieces of your remaining dough to get all of the pieces cut out.
Bake for 15 to 25 minutes, or until even and firmly set. Allow to fully cool before assembling your gingerbread house.
Keyword christmas, gingerbread, holiday