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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

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Comments

  1. OMG! How adorable are the minitures to go in your PERFECT little gingerbread houses. You are so talented. I aspire to be like you one day.

  5. I would soooo love to win this mixer! My passion is baking, but I can’t afford a mixer like this so I am limited to my handy dandy hand-held mixer 🙂

  8. Love the Gingerbread house!! Amazing!! I built Tiny ones for each place setting this year!! Fun but lots of work these things are!!

  11. Dejah Morris sent me. These gingerbread houses are adorable! I hope to have the time some day to do these!

  14. I would love to win the KitchenAid 7qt. Mixer…and thanks to Esther Holden for sending me to your page~ I have no doubt the KitchenAid Mixer would make Gingerbread House creations much easier. Love your blog and your GORGEOUS Gingerbread Houses!! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

  15. What a sweet giveaway from such a sweet site!!!! Way Beyond Cakes by Mayen sent me!!!! 🙂

  17. I have 6 young children so you can imagine how much a mixer like that would come in very handy! Just for Christmas parties this week alone I have to make 12 doz cupcakes!

  18. I loooove your gingerbread house! It rocks! I’ve been dreaming of having a KitchenAid mixer for so long and I’m sooooooo eg-zaay-ted when my friend Lainie Lauron have shared your website to me and learned about your christmas giveaway 😉

  19. I would go crazy if i get it, I am a single mom who is begining a business and the kitchenaid would be the best to make it work. By the way i love your blog and your houses are the cutest thing i’ve ever seen!

  20. I would love a Candy Apple Red KitchenAid – have heard so much about them and how great they are. And the size is exactly what I am looking for!!!! Just starting my caking business so it will be a worthwhile investment!!!

  21. Wow! Just found your blog and love it! I hope I win, I’ve been wanting one of these mixers as long as I can remember!

  22. I would like to have this mixer to help me make yeast breads, especially oatmeal molasses. It is yummy.

  23. Love your gingerbread houses. They are absolutely stunning. Would love to win the kitchen aid mixer! It would be a fantastic Christmas gift for myself!

  24. i would love to when this for my mom the most amazing person in my life and the world,ps fayzeh send me.

  29. Those houses are amazing! I can’t begin to imagine the time and attention it must have taken!

  34. like the old song goes (hippo song)…I could see me now on Christmas morning walking down the stairs…an apple red mixer standing there! Please pick me…pick me…pick me!

  36. I love the gingerbread houses, too cute! I must say, a Kitchen aid mixer is all I asked for this Christmas, although I doubt I got one, so this would be a great prize!!!

  37. cant waint to see who the winner is good luck to you all… loving this give away so close to the holiday

  40. This is an amazing competition! I would love to win!!! Your gingerbread houses are adorable! 🙂

  43. Thanks for the great gingerbread house inspiration! I would love to win one of these awesome machines!

  44. You are absolutely amazing! I can’t believe the beautiful work you do. I love to see what you come up with next!

  50. me encanta tu trabajo, haces unas cosas preciosas y aprendemos muchisimo con tus explicaciones, muchisimas gracias por todo.

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