Make Your Own Gingerbread House | Day 2
We're making a Hansel and Gretel inspired gingerbread house! This is Day 2 of our step by step guide to making your own gingerbread house where we construct the gingerbread house from the gingerbread shapes baked on Day 1. It's house construction time!
- Prep time
- 2 min
- Cook time
- 5 min
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- EASY
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 pasteurized egg whites, or 6 tbsp/3 oz
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 cups icing sugar
- food coloring
- 3 tbsp water
Instructions
- 1
Beat egg whites and vanilla til frothy.
- 2
Add the sugar little by little until incorporated and shiny.
- 3
Using high speed beat till soft peaks form, about 5 minutes.
- 4
Your bowl of white icing should have a consistency like toothpaste if using for 'glue' or piping outlines and details. If using for covering a large area or for icicles, the icing should be thinner with a consistency like honey.
- 5
Scoop into pastry bags or small plastic squeeze bottles and use to decorate the gingerbread house.