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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 loved the gingerbread house very beautiful.And I also wish to win this kitchen aid mixer so bad,I never won anything in my life yet,hope my luck changes today,plz pick me!!!

  2. I would be so stoked to win the 7 quart kitchenAid!!! I could finally bake without fear of exploding the cheap and old mixer I have now!

  3. Our household of bakers and aspiring chefs would love to have the opportunity to win a 7-Quart KitchenAid Mixer!

  5. Please, please pick me! I need the black mixer terribly. My old white mixer died!! Help, please!!!

  8. I would love to give this to my wife we live in a small Alaska town it makes it hard to find such nice things and people. Thanks the GB houses are nice.

  12. It would be amazing to get one of those mixers there so pretty&mix’s great,Very expensive though that’s why I have a off brand(kenmore) my husband bought me for my Birthday a yr ago. It’s okay but doesn’t mix very well it doesn’t reach all the way to bottom so I only use it for thick mixtures.

  13. I would love to win one of these! Thank you so much for the great tutorial on gingerbread houses.

  15. Those houses are amazing
    I admire your talent, hard work and patience!
    & didn’t want to miss a chance to win such a wonderful gift, Wow O.O i must say i admire your generosity also 🙂

  16. I love to bake and I’m starting over from scratch due to loosing my home in a fire. I have always dreamed of owning a Kitchenaid. I would love to win one 😀

  20. My hubby already knows this mixer is on the wish list for someday – I LOVE to bake! Would love the red one!

  23. Oh gosh, this would allow me save so much money in starting a small confectionery business! All my fingers and toes are crossed!

  25. Love the candy apple red mixer. The mixer I have will not even turn alone anymore. I need a new one desperately,

  27. Would LOVE the silver one! I’ve REALLY gotten into baking over the past year & a half & I even keep sourdough starter, etc. I spend 1-2 days/week baking. The large bowl capacity would SURE be nice!

  30. I’ve been drooling over one of these for years….I’m begining to think I need to get married just to get one!

  31. I would love to win the 7 quart ultimate KitchenAid mixer because it is my dream to have a bakery, but for now I love having cookie decorating parties with kids, and also making cupcakes, cakes, or cookies for birthday parties or baby showers. This mixer would make life so much easier, and it would make me so happy!!! I have been looking at them for so long and just waiting for an opportunity to get one!! My hand mixer has recently broke, so unfortunately I can’t do much baking for awhile :/

  38. I would love to have a red kitchenaid! I’ve got a yellow one and love it, couldn’t imagine not having one now.

  39. Normally I would play it safe with a silver mixer….but the red makes a statement….”I AM THE MIXER!”

  45. Well i would like to win this mixer, not so much for me but for my sister. She’s been wanting a KitchenAid mixers since she started baking, when she was 12. So hopefully i can win this for her for Christmas(:

  47. Hi! I was sent over by Esther Holden to enter in this amazing giveaway. This new mixer would be awesome! No longer will I have to worry about burning out my hand mixers while making frosting for my cake orders. I have gone through plenty of those. It would be do much easier to do all the baking that I love to do, especially during the holidays!

  49. I’m a 19 year old self taught baker, and the ultimate kitchen aid mixer would definitely get put to use at my house! I would absolutely love to have it, baking is my passion 🙂

  50. I just love reading your blog thanks to TomKat and what a sweet giveaway! I would love a red one! Merry Christmas!

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