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December 31, 2004
gingerbread house poppers
Our contribution to a New Year's Eve potluck: gingerbread house poppers. Mark thought it would be funny to make gingerbread houses you could eat whole. Like you were a monster or something. We used the gingerbread cake recipe from December 2004 Martha Stewart, plus bought cream cheese frosting. Make the gingerbread, let it cool, and chill it in the fridge. Chilling it makes it easer to cut up. The cake should be about an inch thick. Use a bread knife to cut the cake into 1 inch cubes. Cut some cubes on a diagonal for the roofs. Use a generous dallop of icing to glue the roof to a cube. Pipe on the doors and windows with a tiny tip. Once you have a little village, sift powdered sugar over the roofs. Devour accompanied by monster growls and screaming noises.
We experimented with candy doors and windows, but they either didn't taste good with gingerbread (sour gummy ribbons) or they were the wrong scale (Necco wafers). Sidenote: if you want to use Necco wafers for anything like this, they're really easy to cut to size. Just use a serrated knife to score, and snap right along the score.
Posted under Projects with Instructions at December 31, 2004 05:08 PM
Comments
Hi,
I love your little houses. I also made small villages instead of a big house and used sprinkle candy(the kind you have on icecream or cookies) and roasted shaved almonds for decoration. It was fun because I could make so many details with them. I'll try to add a link so you can see them. This was the 6th little village I made so I was a little tired when I decorated.
Johanna
Posted by: Johanna at January 18, 2005 05:29 PM
i love them so very much they are so good
Posted by: anna at November 10, 2006 11:24 PM
you can also make this recipe with brownies mix.
Very good idea these miniature houses.
Posted by: D.G. at November 29, 2006 08:14 PM
yummy
Posted by: Anonymous at December 6, 2006 05:48 PM
Would like the recipe and instructions on Martha's big Gingerbread house. I made one 12 years ago. I can't find the instructions.
Posted by: Katherine at December 11, 2006 01:23 AM
look good
Posted by: Amy at December 12, 2006 06:57 PM
delicious!!!!! love them!
Posted by: Jessica C. at December 19, 2006 05:31 PM
I [b]LOVE[b/] them!
Posted by: Anonymous at April 16, 2007 09:53 AM