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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!

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Comments

  5. I started decorating cakes at age 13 and now at age 16 I’ve been insprired (mostly by your gorgeous cookies) to do cookies too – so im just starting to learn and would love a kitchenaid to help me out…
    Thanks for your amazing blog!
    Happy holidays!

  6. My KitchenAid mixer has gone caput and I know what its like to live without one! Fingers crossed!

  7. Those gingerbread houses are beautiful! I’m making my first one this holiday season, so thanks for the icing recipes!

  8. Winning would be great, because I’m getting married on New Year’s Eve and can’t afford a mixer like that! 🙂

  13. My sister, Mona Alexander is always finding such fun, interesting and creative sites for us to visit!!!! LOve you Sweetopia!!! And a chance at a brand new kitchen aid?!?!!!!!!! OMGosh!!!!!!

  14. I’m back with Cindy Hardy-Speer! This would be a Ho Ho Ho whole lot of greatness for me and my sister…you ain’t never seen cake pops like you would if we win! :o) Merry Christmas to All~

  16. Thanks Sweetopia! I want to win a kitchen aid mixer! Alex from I Adore Food referred me to the contest!

    Happy holidays everyone!

  18. My your houses are stunning…just beautiful. I love all the color combos you used and style is wonderful…thanks for the chance to win this amazing prize….so SWEET

  20. Wow!! Incredible!! Love your Gingerbread houses and your blog! Fantastic! Would love to win! Thank u for the opportunity and Merry Christmas!!

  21. I love reading your blogs and your videos are a great help! Would love to win that mixer to help me along in improving my baking skills 😀

  35. Marian your work is so fabulous! I so look forward to your blogs. I would love to have a brilliant red mixer sitting on my countertop 🙂

  39. I would LOVE to have a larger Kitchenaid Mixer. I have the 4.5 qt, but now that I am baking more I find it’s just not big enough!!!

  41. I would love to win one of these. A kitchen aid mixer has been on my Christmas and Birthday list for at least 4 years – Santa never seems to remember what I want 🙂 Thanks for the chance to enter!

  45. I’ve always wanted to own a Kitchen Aid mixer but rationalized my way out of purchasing one everytime I had the funds to do so. I guess it’s easier to be practical with money and help others than to spoil yourself a little. Still, I’d love the chance to own one of these mixers and I hope I finally can this holiday season! 🙂

  47. Linda Jamison Deckard wrote:

    Wow! That would make a wonderful Christmas Present..I would so love to have a new mixer and a nice one too!

    Linda Jamison Deckard wrote:

    Wow! That would make a wonder Christmas Present..I would so love to have a new mixer and a nice one too!

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