Gingerbread box
Ingredients
Pleasant present to give away. Fill with sweets, either home-made or bought, or with your favourite Christmas cakes such as gingerbread biscuits.
Use home-made or bought gingerbread dough.
Instructions
Roll out the gingerbread dough to about 4 mm thickness. Using a circular cake tin as a template, cut out two circles and place on a baking sheet lined with baking parchment. Bake at 190 °C for about 10 minutes. Leave to cool.
Measure around the cake tin. Divide the measurement in two, and cut out two strips to make the desired height of the “sides” of the box. Place the strips on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Cut out a handle for the lid and place on the same baking sheet. Bake. Place the strips around the cake tin as soon as they come out of the oven. NB! They are very hot, so take care and use gloves.
Hold the strips in place around the tin until they have cooled. Join the seams in the strips with icing and leave to set. Using icing, attach the now round “side” to one of the round cake bases and leave to set. Using icing, attach the handle to the other round cake base. Decorate the box with icing. Fill the box.
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