Baking and decorating a gingerbread house takes some time, but is a lot of fun and joy. Whether you do it together with children or with friends, it fits perfectly into the Advent season. Everyone can use their creativity to bake, build and decorate a unique and delicious vegan gingerbread house. Enjoy some Christmas music and follow the instructions for a gingerbread house with vegan royal icing.
More vegan Christmas recipes
I have backed some more delicious vegan Christmas cookies, for example Carob cookies or the sugar-free gingerbread or a a classic amongst European Christmas cookies recipes called Spitzbuben. My rascals are gluten-free, sugarfee and vegan.
Vegan Gingerbread house
Baking and decorating a gingerbread house takes some time, but is a lot of fun and joy. Whether you do it together with children or with friends, it fits perfectly into the Advent season. Everyone can use their creativity to bake, build and decorate a unique and delicious vegan gingerbread house. Enjoy some Christmas music and follow the instructions for a gingerbreadhouse with vegan royal icing.
Ingredients
- 150 g almonds
- 160 g vegan butter
- 120 g fine whole cane sugar (I use Panela)
- 40 g agave syrup
- 400 g flour
- 1 Tbsp gingerbread spice
- 1 Tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 2 pinch salt
- 50 g soy milk
For the vegan royal icing:
- 600 g icing sugar
- 150 g aquafaba
For the decoration:
- various drid fruit, nuts or kernels v or whatever you like; you might also use more vegan royal icing for a snow look
Instructions
- Grind the almonds or use ground almonds.
- Put whole cane sugar, agave syrup, gingerbread spice, cocoa powder and vegan butter in a food processor and mix well.
- Add the ground almonds, flour, baking powder, salt and soy milk and mix everything together. The dough should now be nice and smooth.
- Wrap the dough in cling film and refrigerate for 30 minutes. In the meantime, cut the templates for the gingerbread house parts from paper or baking paper. I hae used the following measurements:2x side walls: 10 cm wide x 8 cm high.2x front and rear walls: 10 cm wide, 13 cm high in the middle, 8 cm high on the sides. (This piece is sort of a rectangle and a triangle on top of it, with the two pieces connected. It's the piece you see at the front of the photo.)2x roof parts: 13 cm long x 10 cm wide.
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Roll out the dough to a thickness of 1 cm and cut out the gingerbread house parts using the templates. Cut out the windows and doors from the side walls, front and back. Cut out a large base or the base for the gingerbread house from the remaining gingerbread dough. Cut out little animals, Christmas trees, stars or other shapes as you like.
- Bake the pieces of the gingerbread house for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the royal icing. Place the aquafaba in a large bowl or in the bowl of your food processor and sift in the icing sugar. Beat with a hand mixer or a food processor. This takes about 6-10 minutes. Refrigerate the royal icing until you are ready to use.
- Once the gingerbread house parts have cooled down, the fun can begin! Decorate the gingerbread house parts with your decorative material and use the royal icing as glue and sugar snow. Let all dry and wait until the decoration holds well.
- Construct the house by first gluing the 4 walls with the royal icing to the gingerbread base and to each other. Then let the house dry a bit before you mount the roof parts. If the pieces don't hold together well or the roof slips off, use toothpicks to secure the pieces together. It may also help to cut off the edges of the gingerbread house parts with a sharp knife, the edges are no longer completely straight after baking.
- Clapping and well done! Let all dry. Decorate with royal icing around he house, add some gingerbread animals or trees or stars.Take a picture and share your fantastic vegan gingerbread house with me!
Notes
Helping hands are welcome when building the house!
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