Recipe For Royal Frosting Gingerbread Houses

Gingerbread house icing is the perfect royal icing recipe to hold together all of your baked gingerbread cookies.

Recipe for royal frosting gingerbread houses. You can even use one tablespoon less water for a thicker royal icing. Mix at low speed until sugar disappears into a paste then gradually sprinkle in the rest. For 1 4 cup tinted icing dip the tip of a toothpick into the desired color then into the icing and whip.

The royal chefs gingerbread house in the run up to christmas the chefs in the royal kitchens have shared their recipe for making the perfect gingerbread house. 4 to 5 tablespoons warm water. For building gingerbread houses beat until thick and creamy.

For the red doors and custom door mats beat until the icing is a thick pourable consistency. It hardens quickly so your house will stay together but you need to keep it in an icing bag or covered so it doesn t dry out in the bowl. In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment combine egg white with half the powdered sugar.

3 tablespoons meringue powder. This should take about 7 to 10 minutes at low speed with a heavy duty mixer or 10 to 12 minutes at high speed with a hand mixer. Oh i also left out the extract which doesn t change the icing at all except for the taste.

This gingerbread house icing is quick drying sturdy and strong. All you ll need to do is beat the three together about four cups of sugar five tablespoons of warm water and three tablespoons of meringue powder until peaks form. You want your icing to be thick for gingerbread construction.

We start with perfect gingerbread cookies or even sugar cookies as a base. 3 3 4 cups confectioners sugar. Here s all the information you should need to make the house yourself at home.