Step by step homemade baking recipes
Today I am showing you how to make a Candyland Gingerbread Castle Cake. This Gingerbread house idea comes from combining two of my super popular cake tutorial- Candyland cake, and my, pink chocolate gingerbread house!
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This is the third video in our three part series on baking with Gingerbread. If you haven’t yet, make sure you check out the recipes for how to make Gingerbread Dough, and Gingerbread Men. This video is my favourite though as it was so much fun to make. I vaguely remember trying to make a gingerbread house from scratch as a teen but I think I tried to use cake or something as I remember the edges wouldn’t stand up or go together.
I did a lot of research before starting this project and the best tip I read was to use a soup can to keep the frame of the house up when you’re putting it together. It totally works and makes building the house so much easier. Did you think that I was classy when you saw my jar of Jamie Oliver pasta sauce? HAHA…I wanted to use my No Name soup of vegetarian chili but thought that might make me a little trashy for the viewers. Gotta keep up appearances!
Anyway, take this project on as you’ll LOVE it. It’s such a fabulous family task and you can let the kids go crazy decorating it.
“Run, run as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m a marbled gingerbread man!”
When I think of Christmas baking, of course gingerbread men come to mind! Making gingerbread men requires a really good dough recipe, so make sure you check ours out, because rolling out cookies to cut can be a pain in the bum. You can decorate these gingerbread men however you want, but I wanted to make sure that I showed you a different way to do them, in case you were up for a baking challenge this holiday.
Marbling the royal icing creates a really cool effect . . . almost psychedelic . . . and it’s surprisingly easy when I show you how to do it. You can use any colour combination that you want- I went with the traditional red and green, but I think pinks and purples would be pretty too. Pretty much any colour goes for Christmas now. I was at Target the other day and the Christmas bulb pack they were selling had pink, purple and aqua in it, wrap that up in some white sparkly garland and you totally have a non-traditional, but beautifully decorated house! I should have bought that stuff . . . what was I thinking? I’m off to go get it.
