Oma's Gingerbread House Recipe

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Oma's Gingerbread House
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Ingredients
12
Count
Nutrition
1195
Calories
Total time
25
Minutes
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Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Mix ingredients in order given.
  2. Flour liberally! It will start out a bit sticky. Just keep adding flour to your board and your rolling pin. Turn it often.
  3. Roll to a maximum thickness 1/4 (1 cm).
  4. Bake at 350°F until brown and slightly crisp. It is hard to give a time for how long to bake. It depends on how many pieces you have on your sheet, how thick they are, etc. I found that they all needed a minimum of 8 minutes. And then I just kept checking every 3 minutes after that.
  5. Dust the flour off of the pieces after they have cooled. A pstry brush works well for this.
  6. Glue: Melt a fair amount of sugar in a large heavy pan over low heat. Mom used a cast iron pan. We started with about 2 cups of sugar and ended up adding about another cup. Keep stirring and waiting. You want the sugar to get to the point where it is almost a clear brown. Be careful though, the glue burns BADLY if dripped on skin.
  7. Mom would simply dip the edge of the piece that she wanted to glue into the sugar and then press it with the other piece. When it cools, it is VERY hard and holds very well. It does cool quickly though, so work fast.
  8. For Icing: Beat egg whites until stiff. Slowly add in all of the icing sugar.
  9. To make cookies: Bake until lightly browned for soft cookies. Crisp cookies will keep better though.
  10. There is enough dough to make a house and a free form base to put your house on. Or you can simply make a bunch of cookies with the leftovers .
  11. Mom has some hand drawn pictures of how to cut out the house. Here are her measurements and directions.
  12. Cut 2 side walls: 7 x 4 .
  13. Cut 2 roof panels: 9 1/2 x 8 .
  14. Cut 4 chimney pieces: 2 1/4 x 1 1/4 (in two of them, cut a 1 V into the bottom so that it will straddle the peak of the roof).
  15. Cut 2 end walls: 6 x 9 (4 up the sides, cut diagonally to the top center to make a point). In one end, cut out door and two windows. Bake the door along side.
  16. For the windows: Place foil underneath and fill with crushed lollipop. Bake as usual.
  17. Base: Simply roll out the leftover dough to make a free form base. Make sure that it is wide enough for the house.
  18. NOTE ABOUT CLEAN-UP: Don't fret! Your pan that you melted the sugar in is certainly not ruined! All you need to do is add some hot water, let sit for a little while (5-10 minutes) and then rinse it out. If for some reason, that isn't quite working, simply heat the pan full of water over low heat for a short while (again, about 10 minutes).
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 1194.78 Kcal (5002 kJ)
Calories from fat 289.26 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 32.14g 49%
Cholesterol 31.71mg 11%
Sodium 2458.24mg 102%
Potassium 917.18mg 20%
Total Carbs 206.71g 69%
Sugars 63.26g 253%
Dietary Fiber 11.53g 46%
Protein 22.51g 45%
Vitamin C 0.6mg 1%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 4%
Iron 11mg 61%
Calcium 434.3mg 43%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 357.2 Kcal (1496 kJ)
Calories from fat 86.48 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9.61g 49%
Cholesterol 9.48mg 11%
Sodium 734.94mg 102%
Potassium 274.21mg 20%
Total Carbs 61.8g 69%
Sugars 18.91g 253%
Dietary Fiber 3.45g 46%
Protein 6.73g 45%
Vitamin C 0.2mg 1%
Iron 3.3mg 61%
Calcium 129.9mg 43%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 25.8
    Points
  • 32
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low cholesterol,
  • good source of fiber

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar

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