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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

  1. The houses are amazing! Thanks for the recipe. I would like to win one of these. I would gift it to my daughter. Then maybe she would give my old small Kitchen Aid stand mixer back…lol

  3. I am a little embarassed to say I stopped by just for the give away, but I love reading your post, and while I live in Germany, I have an APO, so shipping costs won’t be abnormal (maybe even cheaper). It seems like there is a lot of competitions, so I am glad I at least got turned onto a great blog 🙂 Happy Holidays.

  4. I love my Kitchen Aid and would be so thrilled to win this and give it to a friend who loves to bake and needs a great mixer like this.

  5. I would love to win!!! I could use the 7 qt, especially when I’m making a ton of frosting of whipped cream. 🙂

  7. Happy Holidays! Crossing my fingers that this Christmas will be a very merry KitchenAid Christmas, lol. Thanks again!

  12. I have been DYING for a Kitchen Aid mixer for MONTHS NOW. No one got it for my birthday, and I doubt any of my family members remembered to get me one for Christmas. All the hard work I’ve been putting in to college and working a full time job and trying to get a cake decorating business going will finally pay off if I get to win this! Money is tight and winning this would sure help out A WHOLE LOT!!!!!!!!! ps; I LOVEEEEE YOUR PAGE! you’re amazing!

  14. Enter me! OH my gosh! I have been stressing about school and my life and the only thing that makes me happy is baking. This mixer will so make me happy. I wanted a kitchenaid since I was in 6th grade. OMGOSH~ pick me random program 🙂

  15. A new standmixer would be great for making up all these cake pop orders! And candy apple red would look fantastic in my kitchen! =)

  17. Omg, I would LOVE a Kitchen Aid! I bake so much and unfortunately only have a hand mixer so it gets pretty annoying! Also, your gingerbread houses ae too cute!

  19. This is awesome!!! This is the only thing missing in my kitchen… I would like to have one…please…

  21. So glad Love from the Oven posted this link on fb! Your work us fabulous. I can’t wait to browse older entries.

  23. My basic hand-held mixer broke, and a new Kitchen Aid stand mixer would be a dream come true! Ali Hecimovich sent me over to enter this contest, and has also entered.

  28. I would absolutely LOVE a Kitchen Aide stand mixer, especially to make all sorts of goodies during the holidays! Sweetopia is amazing for doing this!

  31. Hi Marian, I’m SOOO in love with your website! Hope you keep doing this for a very long time. Kisses from Belgium!

  35. I would love to win this mixer! I love my KitchenAid mixer, but to be able to do double batches, or maybe not make quite as big of a mess when I make buttercream icing would be wonderful

  37. The gingerbread houses are gorgeous!!! I so need one of these stand mixers, in black please!!!

  38. Wooo Hoooo Looove KitchenAid mixers. Would share my old one with a friend or family member and break in a brand new purty red one 🙂

  42. I am 74 years old and have been married for 47 years. The first year I got married, my husband bought me a table mixer so that I could make divinity candy for Christmas. I have made that candy every Christmas since and my old mixer is getting tired like me. The motor heats up and I have to finish by hand. I would love a new one please. I do not care what color it is.

  43. The gingerbread houses look amazing! I think your blog looks fun too, I just learned about it! Love the chance to win!

  44. Baking and cooking is a huge passion of mine! Would love to win!! Thanks forte chance to enter! 🙂

  45. OMG! Those gingerbread houses are what my mother’s dreams are made of! Absolutely beautiful! I’m having a hard time entering the contest though! =(

  46. I would love to win this giveaway! Thanks so much for the chance…beautiful blog, btw!! 🙂

  47. Found you thru love from the oven…great site! I would love to win the mixer! Unemployed hubby….doesn’t look like I will be buying one anytime soon! Plus maybe he could learn to use it to make goodies tha will be waiting for me when I get home! Lol. Thanks for offering the chance to win an amazing product, btw gorgeous candy houses!

  49. I am not sure there is anyone who wants to win a Kitchen Aid more…. I am hoping 🙂

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