Cake nineten - Santa's House 2013 edition

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It’s been long since I first attempted to make a gingerbread house but every year I’m as thrilled as the first time I made it and I note down some little changes to make the next time. This time I used  a sugarless dough for the house external walls, the trees and sleigh and it really proved very good to look at but quite weak to bear the weight of the roof. So we had to make other walls with the old style (I mean the one we’ve always used) dough and stick two walls together - one made with the new dough and one with the old using some brownish icing as glue. Another new thing was to bake the roof in two parts and bake them twice so that they become harder. 

Sugarless gingerbread dough
200 g butter 
500 g honey
2 tsp ginger, pepper, cinnamon and muscat nut
15 g cocoa
1200 g flour
1 packet baking powder
1 pinch salt
2 eggs
same proceeding as in Cake nineteen
http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2013/03/cake-nineteen-father-xmass-house.html

for ‘old style’ gingerbread dough see link above

for assembling advice see:

http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2013/03/cake-nineteen-father-xmass-house-making.html


http://time-for-cake-making.blogspot.it/2013/03/cake-nineteen-father-xmass-house_10.html

 House details:
1. House grounds and trees

2. Front wall, window with flowers and wreath

 3. Side walls and window 

4. Inside wall with door and Santa Claus

5. Inside the house 

6. Sides and back

 7. ready!

 also visit http://time-for-a-cake.blogspot.it/2013/12/cake-nineteen-2013-edition.html