Gingerbread House (2009)

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A house made from gingerbread and decorated using fairtrade goodies.

This is an English edible work of art.

All credit goes to Sweden from whence came the inspiration.

This recipe contains the following types of ingredient: dairy and honey; plants and fungi.

Ingredients

FAIRTRADE Icing Sugar
FAIRTRADE ground ginger
FAIRTRADE golden syrup
Traidcraft Fair Trade yog raisins
Traidcraft Fair Trade muscavado sugar

Notes

With a shortage of time (Christmas is like that) the Fairtrade Cookbook used the instructions published by BBC on preparing a Gingerbread House.

See Simple Gingerbread House for full instructions including a template.

Learning points

This was not as hard as it looked at first sight.

We could have made the gingerbread thinner, and we had plenty left over which was made into cookies.

Royal Icing worked fine as "cement".

Ambitions

For Christmas 2010 the Fairtrade Cookbook will have a bespoke template and will incorporate more Fairtrade Ingredients.