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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

  3. I would SOOOOOO love to win this as the mixer I use now is a cheap one and I could do so much more using this Kitche Aid!!

  4. I recently changed careers, I just turned 32 yesterday, and my new career as a baking and pastry student would benefit SO very much from this beautiful red mixer. It’s perfect for the holidays and I can practice my school recipes at home! I would be so grateful to have this giveaway, it would be awesome! And those gingerbread houses looks winsical and beautiful. I may have to try my hand at one;)

  7. I would be beyond excited & grateful if I won the Ultimate 7-Quart KitchenAid Mixer Giveaway! This would be a great way to start the new year!

  15. The Ultimate 7-Quart KitchenAid Mixer would be a great addition to my new gourmet marshmallow business! The 7-quart mixing bowl, means bigger batches, and less time in the kitchen, which also means more time with my 2 children. Sounds like a win-win!!!!!

  18. I would love to win this, every year I gather all of my nieces, nephews and my children and we spend a weekend making cookie, Christmas treats and Gingerbread houses. This mixer would help us make so many more treats. They are all in there late teens and early 20’s now but its a become a family tradition since they older kids where 5.

  19. I would love to win! My husband and I just broke ground on our new house and the silver one would look fabulous in my new kitchen! 🙂

  23. I’m visiting my mother and want to enter, but it won’t clear my moms entries and let me enter mine , I commented and tweeted and liked on fb

  27. I would love to have one because the hand mixer i have sux. wanting one for xmas but finances not good only the grandbabies get gifts. They are the love of my life my heart. as long as they are happy i am happy. plz i need one to help bake with them.

  32. I have wanted one for years and years. Based on what we like to cook, I think I would probably use this beautiful machine every single day. Thank you for the opportunity!

  33. I love to win that Candy Apple Red Kitchenaid Mixer. It beauitful and I like to bake it would make preparing cake batter,cookies mixes,and bread dough easier.Thanks for opportunity to win a Kitchenaid Mixer and check out you fantastic site.Love the great ideas for desserts.

  37. Oh, I’d just love to win a candy red kitchenaid mixer! It’d be the perfect holiday gift and I’d finally be able to have a real mixer (all I have now is a handheld).

  41. I would love to win the candy apple red mixer – it’s just gorgeous! Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂

  43. I would absoluteley love to win the 7-Quart Ultimate KitchenAid Mixer!! I could make so many delicious treats 🙂

  47. Those are the most adorable gingerbread houses! And I love KitchenAid. I bought a 1952 KitchenAid mixer at a tag sale and it still works great!

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