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Gingerbread House Royal Icing {Video} & KitchenAid 7-Quart Mixer {Giveaway!}

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6 batches of my gingerbread recipe…

4 batches or 4 kg of royal icing…

and goodness knows how much candy later…

is what it took to make the 7 simple and whimsical gingerbread houses & gingerbread dollhouse facade I had planned to make this year.

I’m so happy I just managed to get them all done!

They’re why I haven’t posted in a while, but I wouldn’t have managed to even make them as fast as I did without my new, 7-quart bowl-lift KitchenAid mixer.

Sigh. It is a thing of beauty.

Not only is it pretty to look at, it’s pretty powerful too. It had no problem mixing the 6 batches of gingerbread I mentioned earlier. Amount-wise, with this mixer, I only had to make the dough twice! (3 batches at a time). For the royal icing, I only had to make 2 double-batches and still have leftover icing which I’ll use for decorated cookies.

To show you how I made the icing in my new mixer, I finally made another video – here’s a how-to on making royal icing for your gingerbread houses:

{Video} How to Make Royal Icing for Gingerbread Houses

Click here if you can’t see the video.

If you’d like to make royal icing for your gingerbread house(s), and would like printable recipes, I’ve included a single and double batch recipe here for you, as well as a classic royal icing recipe made with egg-whites especially for those of you who can’t find meringue powder. The first two recipes listed here are adapted from cakecentral.com’s user Antonia74. The recipe made with egg whites is adapted from the author of Gingerbread for All Seasons, Teresa Layman.

You can find a template for a gingerbread house and a video on how I put the house together, HERE.

I bought most of my candy at Old Thyme Confections HERE.

Royal Icing Recipe for Gingerbread Houses (One or Two Batches)

Click here for the Printable Recipe

Royal Icing Recipe Made with Egg-Whites

Click here for the Printable Recipe  THE PRINTABLE RECIPE HAS A TYPO! IT SHOULD SAY 1 KILOGRAM (KG) ICING SUGAR, NOT 1 pound (lb).

Classic Royal Icing Made with Egg Whites Sweetopia

A quick note about royal icing – if you’d like more information on how to store it, how long it lasts etc., please click here and for a video on find royal icing consistency for decorating cookies, please click here.

It was completely worth the one hour’s drive to Toronto to buy the mixer (I had to drive there to get one as it’s a new model and the residential model is exclusively available to Williams-Sonoma right now. The NSF commercial mixer is more readily available. You can find it on Amazon here), as the amount of icing I went through for the houses and the facade was really something!

You might be wondering by now what a ” gingerbread dollhouse facade” is. In fact, I didn’t know what to call it, so I just kind of made the name up. I know you’re not supposed to play with your food, but I couldn’t resist making a little gingerbread “house” that our H-banana could play with this Christmas. Truth be told I had wanted to make an all edible interior too, but time-wise, that was just not going to happen. I can’t wait to see how she reacts.

And another confession, I’m not sure who’s going to enjoy her gift more, her or I. Lol. I think I’ve fallen in love with miniatures.

I mean, really. Those little cookies are barely 1 cm long.

And oh my goodness, a little sieve and whisk! I want to try sifting flour with it! (No, haven’t done it yet… stress the yet).

By the way, there’s a tiny version of something in the ‘gingerbread dollhouse facade’ that I’ll possibly be giving you for Christmas – except it will be adult size.  Can you guess what it is? Chances are, if you’ve read the title of this post, you already know 😉 .

You got it!

Ultimate 7-Quart KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway!

To celebrate the Holiday season and help you with your Christmas baking, I am hosting a giveaway for TWO 7-quart Ultimate KitchenAid Mixers!

You’ll be able to chose from the following available colours:

I am so excited and thankful that KitchenAid is sponsoring this giveaway for you! Good luck!

Here’s how to enter:

You have at least five chances of winning – each option below gives you one chance, and you’re about to see how there are even more possibilities.

Either use Facebook or your name and email to enter the contest below.


a Rafflecopter giveaway

The contest is not running on Facebook and although I appreciate your comments on my Facebook page, those comments will not be entered into the draw. Again, you must leave your comments here.

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Announcing the Winner of the *TWO* 7-Quart KitchenAid Mixers!

First of all, thank you to all of you who entered; I was delighted and touched by your sweet, funny and passionate responses.

I really WISH I could give away as many mixers as there were entries; you dedicated bakers and sweet-tooths deserve it!

There is one winning comment number though, and it is:

Congratulations!!

The winner is Nicole Irwin Cross, entry #16,754!

Please contact me with the best way to reach you so that you can claim your prizes.

Thank you to ALL of you how entered! Blessings to you this holiday season!

xo,

Marian

Don’t miss out!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. Would so love to win a kitchen aid mixer. It is top of the line for all baking needs as demonstrated by the magical cookies produced by you!

  4. This mixer is absolutely gorgeous, especially in red!!! Would love to be able to stop mixing by hand every once in a while:P

    Oh, and I saw this contest shared by Jamie-Lee.

  6. I would absolutely LOVE to win a new Kitchenaid Mixer for our new home we are moving into within the next few weeks, so I can mix up some amazing and wonderful sweet treats for my three little boys!! I’m a SAHM and what better thing to do during the day!!!

  7. I would love to win that mixer.I can smell the cakes cooking now.Amy Rouse told me about this giveaway.

  11. I would really, really love to win this mixer because I love to bake so much. Baking is my hobby and my stress relief. I love baking for my family and for others. I am definitely no artist, but baking brings me great enjoyment and pleasure. My daughter told me about this great giveaway and I know she’d love to win as well! Thanks for this fabulous giveaway!

  12. I would really love to win the mixer. My daughter shared your link with me (Stacy). We would both really love to win!

  19. I love my 4-quart KitchenAid mixer and would ADORE a 7-quart one! Also, I love your blog, your gingerbread houses, your cookies, everything. It’s all very inspiring.

  21. My Mother in law posted this link. Just toasted a hand held mixer making cookies…this would be a dream!!!

  23. Amazing gingerbread houses. I have no idea why you are calling them simple! And yes, what a beautiful mixer. Kitchenaid, you are AWESOME!

  28. I really need this Kitchen Aid! My precious 6qt just bit the dust and making my Italian meringue buttercream without a kitchen aid is a huge task. I hope I win!

  32. Hi, I would love to win the red one. I love all ur post and have been following for quite some time now. I am in college full time and culinary and baking and pastry are the degrees I am going after. Would love love love the red kitchen aid mixer.
    Me.

  33. I would LOVE to win one of these mixers but even better I know of a little Italian lady named Auraura who loves to bake holiday cookies and pastries for all of her neighbors. She is 84 and her old Kitchenaid mixer just died. She is on a fixed income and cannot afford a new one. This would really make her Christmas special :o)

  35. I would love to win this. Our house burned last week so right now we’re in a hotel until they can find us a house to rent. This new mixer would look great in my house after they get it fixed.

  39. That Kitchenaid looks amazing! I just regaled the women at my office with all the benefits of such a great mixer!

  41. Really would love a kitchen aid as I am getting married and starting a new life with my hubby-to-be. We love to cook and I LOVE to bake, so a kitchen aid must be in our future! We love the red.

  42. Your gingerbread houses are SO cute! (I’m glad we don’t have to pick our favorite in order to enter for the mixer, ’cause I don’t know WHICH one I like the most!)

  44. I would love a new mixer to take my cake business to the next level! And the gingerbread houses are adorablely cute!

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