Iced gingerbread house
Follow our recipe to make your own gingerbread house, beautifully decorated with icing.
Ingredients
240 g Dansukker Light Syrup
200 g Dansukker Granulated Sugar
200 g butter or margarine
1 large egg
2 tsp ground cloves
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground cinnamon
About 450 g plain flour
1 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Instructions
Melt the butter, sugar and syrup. Stir until the mixture cools down. Add the egg. Dissolve the bicarbonate of soda in a little water and mix in the spices. Add the flour. Form into a dough and leave overnight.
Download the template for the gingerbread house here. Copy the template onto thick cardboard or strong plastic. Set the oven temperature to 175 °C.
Roll out the dough until approx. 3 mm thick on baking parchment. Place the template on the dough and cut out the various sections. Trim away any excess dough. It is easier to cut out windows after piping on icing to mark the windows.
Bake the larger sections in the oven for 10-15 minutes and the smaller sections for 5-7 minutes. Place the template on top of the baked sections and check that the sizes match. Cut the edges to straighten them, if necessary.
When all of the sections have cooled, stick them together using icing. Stick the house sections together, the roof sections together and the pipe sections together. When the icing on the various sections has set, place the roof on the house and then "cement" the pipe on top.
Icing for the gingerbread house
1 egg white
2 ml (half a small teaspoon) spirit vinegar
240 g Dansukker Icing Sugar
Using an electric whisk, beat all the ingredients into a thick mixture. Use the icing sugar to cement the joins and decorate the gingerbread house.
Would you like more information about Nordic Sugar and our products and services?
Jam and marmalade with the flavours of summer
Capture the flavours of summer fruits and berries, and check out our delicious recipes for jam and marmalade. Perfect on bread at breakfast, in yogurt or with a pancake buffet. Dansukker Jam Sugar makes it even easier to enjoy your home-made jams and marmalades.
Preserved summer vegetables
Save a little bit of summer in a jar. Pickled summer vegetables extend the flavours of summer. Perfect with late barbecue parties. Follow the recipes and you will soon have a refrigerator full of home-made pickled summer vegetables!
Summer juices
Take the opportunity to make juice in the summer and store away your favourite berries and fruits in bottles! Making juice is much easier than you think - see below for inspiration and our delicious recipes. The juice can be served immediately or stored for those long winter nights. Store cold or in the freezer.
Blueberries – the best berry in the forest
Blueberries are definitely the best berry in the forest. Blueberry season tends to start in July and can extend into autumn. Pick the blueberries in the forest and use in pies, jam or cordial.
Plums galore
Plums are one of our most common garden fruits, and are wonderful in desserts and marmalades. Why not make a delicious plum marmalade or plum chutney to serve with a cheese board? Or try our wonderful plum pie.
Blackberry deluxe
Luxurious summer blackberries! Blackberries work really well in baked goods, smoothies, jams and juices. They also add a little luxury as a decoration and garnish. Blackberries ripen in late summer and early autumn.