Gingerbread House

Ingredients

• Cookies

  • 3 3/4 cups (565 g) unbleached all-purpose flour
  • 1 tbsp ground ginger
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 3/4 cup (170 g) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1 cup (210 g) lightly packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup (125 ml) molasses
  • 1 egg

• Icing

  • 1 egg white
  • 1 1/2 cups (195 g) icing sugar

• Decorations

  • Multicoloured jellybeans or other candies, small candy canes and/or sticks, chocolate drops, liquorice in various colours and shapes, red and/or green mints
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