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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

  1. I Would soooooo love to win this mixer. I am currently using a smaller sunbeam and it does NOT like RI. It makes a very bad noise everytime I make a batch. Love your site and all your Gingerbread houses.

  5. Oh, wow! If I was lucky enough to win, I would choose the white, I guess. (Even though my sister would complain that I’m boring.) It goes best with my green and white kitchen. 🙂

  12. Never made a gingerbread house! Looks fun.

    What a great Christmas present this would make! I can just picture the white one on my counter, filled with royal icing or double batches of cookie dough!
    Ansa

  14. I would love to win this beautiful Ultimate 7-Quart KitchenAid Mixer! (In Medallion Silver)

    Amy Rouse sent me.

  16. I would LOVE the Red one, for me, my GrandDaughter, Libby, my Daughter, Meg, and my Mother, Marme!!!!!! We love to cook together!!!!!!! Thanks so much!

  17. I’m so excited–I emailed my sister about this giveaway last night and she just called to tell me she was going to enter 🙂

  23. Kitchen aid products are amazing. Hope my sister-in-law (Penny McFarlane-Highfield) and I who sent me to this post can win one. What an awesome Xmas dinner we will have!!

  24. If I win the mixer, I would give it to my daughter-in-law who is a wonderful baker. She bakes the best cakes I have ever eaten and is also the mother to my two grandchildren!!!

  28. I would LOVE a KitchenAid Mixer! I’ve been dreaming of all the wonderful confections I can make when I get one.

  32. Tammy Detta sent me over here. 😉 Hope she wins the Mixer! She’s just borrowed ours recently (Which we love!).

  34. My friend Cortney A. posted this link to her facebook and when i saw it i knew i had to enter. When i got married 4 years ago the kitchen aid mixer was the one and only thing i wanted to get but unfortunately my husband is in the Air Force and we were being moved to Italy. With the difference in power over there i knew i wouldnt be able to use it. We just moved back to America in October but now we have a growing family and are buying our first home so i cant justify the money. I would LOVE to win this and start making memories in my kitchen with my daughter.

  40. I love these mixers and use my mom’s everytime we visit her. I would love to win it to be able to cut my baking time down and spend more time with my little ones. Although they love to help.

  42. Oh my gosh. I would love to win this Kitchen Aid mixer. The children and I would have so much fun baking with this machine. Please, please pick me 🙂

  45. I would love to win one of these mixers! Who wouldn’t? The Candy Apple Red would just go with my black and red kitchen! (I guess the black would too though, eh?)
    If I won a mixer I would be baking my HEART out! Lol 😀

  47. Hi love your giveaway and mostly your site is awesome!! I would love to with this beauty of Kitchen Aid mixer!!!!

  49. I would love this for me and my little girls. We bake almost every day and this would make it sooo much easier!

  50. I would love to win one and have one of my friends win one also 🙂 I would give it to my mom as a gift- she does alot of baking and can never afford to buy herself anything, so it would be a nice gift for her since she always does for others. 🙂

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