Building your own gingerbread house for Christmas is one of the best parts of the season, with its limitless edible decoration possibilities.You can use our template as a printout, or draw your own house on a piece of paper - just remember, that the sides have to fit with the walls and roof. Enjoy!

Directions

1. Preheat your oven to 200 degrees convection.

2. Melt the butter in a pot with brown sugar and syrup. It shouldn't get too hot - just enough to melt the butter.

3. Let cool for about 10 minutes, then whisk with the egg in a bowl.

4. Add cinnamon and ginger and stir well. Mix baking powder with most of the flour (you might not need it all) and add to the wet ingredients. Knead well.

5. Roll out the dough with a rolling pin, to about half a centimetre thick. Pop your template on top, and cut along the edges. Now place the pieces on a baking sheet with baking parchment. If you have leftover dough, roll it out into peppernuts! Rul dejen ud med en kagerulle til den er ca. en halv cm. i tykkelsen. Læg skabelonen på og skær langs kanterne. Læg nu delene på en bageplade beklædt med bagepapir. Har du dej tilovers, så tril resten til pebernødder.

6. Bake for 6-7 minutes, until the gingerbread is golden on top. But do keep an eye on them, so the edges don't get too dark. Remove from the oven and leave to cool. Once cool, it's time to decorate - before it's assembled.

7. Mix powdered sugar with egg whites - it's supposed to be thick. Pop the icing in a piping (or freezer) bag and cut a small hole in the corner - and you and the kids are ready to decorate away with icing, sweets and sprinkles. Use the icing as glue when putting on sweets.

8. Once you're done decorating and the icing is dry, it's time to assemble the house. Find a cutting board to place your house on. Begin with assembling the sides - it can be helpful to 'glue' the walls to the cutting board with icing. Finally put on the roof - again secured with icing. We suggest sprinkling with coconut flour for the snowy look.

9. And now for the absolute hardest part: before you can eat it, the house needs to be admired for... at least a couple of minutes!

10. Enjoy!

Tip

Tasks for kids in the kitchen: Let your kids help stir and knead the dough. And of course they'll be decorating and assembling with you - and certainly helping to eat the house. When was the last time your kids ate a house? We're just asking..!