In our house gingerbread is a treat all year round. There’s something about the smell and taste which I find very comforting. I’m always happy to mix up some dough and spend a happy afternoon cutting out shapes, I think gingerbread makes the best after school treat!
Ages ago I discovered Gingerbread Wonderland by Mima Sinclair. I’ve tried a few of the recipes and the light and dark gingerbread doughs are lovely. I used the light gingerbread dough to make Clangers and Iron Golem biscuits, both of which were a success.
The book contains many more ideas than two different doughs. There are 30 magical houses, biscuits and bakes. I think I will really need to up my game with this years’ gingerbread house!
I have one copy of Gingerbread Wonderland to giveaway today. To enter simply answer the question via the Rafflecopter widget below. The giveaway ends on the 30th April and the winners’ name will appear on this post.
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it would be huge with lots of icing
My girls would like a spooky house
A big santas grotto x
It would look like the gingerbread house from the story of Hansel and Gretal. It would have an iced roof and lots of candy stuck to the walls!
My dream gingerbread house would look like a pretty Swiss chalet deep in winter snow (i.e. yummy icing!) with a biscuit evergreen tree nearby and a logpile (maybe of little chocolate flakes) arranged against one wall. Hmmm, now I’m craving gingerbread!
A Hansel & Gretel style house
It would look like a traditional Austrian house with icing snow on the roof.
An Amsterdam Town House as I love these buildings with rows of neat windows and the wonderful shaped roofs!
Massive with a heated pool and hot tub 🙂 very colourful and a few turret’s
It would be big with lots of sweetie decorations !
It would have lots of candy and icing.
Love something in the style of Saint Basil’s Cathedral, Moscow including having the domes with colored with different flavored icing.
It would look like Chambord castle!
Bite-sized and sat on the edge of a hot chocolate!
Like the witches house in Hansel and Gretel
more like a cottage or a castle
I’d like a traditional sort of look, but I’d like to make it a lot larger than standard and add a lot of other sweets to it to perfect the Hansel and Gretel look… candyfloss smoke from the chimney, a garden of edible delights… it would be amazing!
One that stays together but doesn’t break your teeth when you eat it. My attempt at one this Christmas was terrible and never got eaten or even taken out of the box!
What a fabulous looking book. My dream gingerbread house would be a fairytale castle fit for a princess.
Santa’s grotto with lots of brightly coloured decorations.
A fabulous castle with lots of turrets and towers
A country cottage with roses around the door
A traditional cottage with lots of icing and sweeties
a big castle
It would be a lovely beach house
Mine would be rustic and traditional!
It would be big enough to share and easy to eat some of without it all collapsing straight away!
A log cabin.
My dream gingerbread house would be the Taj Mahal
Mine would look like a traditional german house with lots of icing and liquorice
Like a fantasy castle
it would be big lots of windows and a good size garden 🙂
I’d love a country church in the snow with a walled graveyard and trees and bushes.
Like the castle in Disneyland 🙂
A stable with horses in
A spanish villa with little blue iced shutters, Soft chewy sweets on the walls and most important of all a garden with iced flowers, food colouring essential as much as a creative flair. Makes me peckish just thinking about it!
Something big and decadent
I’d love to be able to recreate a Gingerbread Windsor Castle to send to the Queen for her 90th birthday…might score an invite to share a bite with a cup of tea? 😉
Pink and full of candy on the outside
Covered in sweets and filled with fudge would be a dream gingerbread house
Anything that is covered in chocolate x
Mine would look like a pretty palace
like hogwarts from harry potter
would love to make one that looks like a cuckoo clock for my mum’s birthday.
I can’t pick just one building, so I’d go the whole yule-hog and bake up an entire street.
a little coutry cottage
Something with really intricate icing and a tower! 😀
It would be like Buckingham Palace but everyone could share it
It would be filled with Christmas red and green buttercream. Topped off with royal icing snow, candy lights, and chocolate filled wafers that will make the roof of the house look like a log cabin.
It would be a lovely traditional ginger bread house, with frosted window panes and a roof dusted with icing sugar 🙂
100% chocolate themed!! With plenty of glitter xx
A gingerbread version of the house I live in! 🙂
It would look like a little woodland cottage, like in Hansel and Gretel, covered in sweeties and icing sugar for snow.
It would look like a childrens play house and have lots of smarties all over it!
like a haunted spooky house
I’d love to make one like an old gothic style house
The addams family house with little ginger bread monsters.
I’d like mine to look like a chocolate box cottage
I would love a gingerbread castle like Elsa’s in Frozen ( would have to use a ton of white icing obviously).
Like a huge yummy castle with turrets
Covered in lots of yummy sweets!!
It would be a traditional old cottage that looks a lot like Hansel and Gretel, covered in sweets and icing
I have seen some amazing gingerbread houses online that have lights and are huge…. I would love to be able to make a mansion with porch, swing and even shutters on the windows.
Spooky with ghosts and spiderswebs
it would be like a castle fit for a princess
A house covered in sweets and coloured icing
A small sloped roof, chocolate buttons as tiles, marshmallow snow, windows and doors are chocolate slabs. Surrounded by a marzipan forest. Mmm
Just the one in Hansel and Gretal
It would be like a Windmill
The Seattle space needle (that would be a challenge)
It would be covered in chocolate and sweets!
Like a castle
A country cottage with lovely icing roses round the door
It would be small with lots of white icing for snow and chocolate sprinkles to look pretty on the walls
Creepy with ghosts
It would be a gingerbread castle covered in sweets and chocolate
A little shed filled with treats
a woodland cabin
Would be a cottage in the countryside xx
A cottage in the woods
My dream gingerbread house would be very cutesy and covered in sweets and icing for a wintery feel.
It would have sweets for windows and doors and other treats!
Like a swiss cottage
I was in Harrods a couple of years ago at christmas time and they had this gingerbread grotto that almost spanned half of the counter it was incredible .
A star wars battleship
A treehouse
My gingerbread house would be a big castle with tall towers and an icing moat
GOT TO BE A CASTLE, AND MADE TO LOOK LIKE THE COTTAGE IN HANSEL AND GRETAL. SO FULL OF SWEETS.
A Hansel & Gretel style house