Welcome to How To Cook That I'm Ann Reardon ... Merry Christmas everyone 🎁
Today I'll be attempting to make a mini gingerbread house in my teeny weeny
kitchen. I had some dough left over in the fridge from making my big
gingerbread house so I thought we'd give it a go using that. Scoop out some of
your dough onto some non-stick baking paper and roll it out you can add a
little bit of flour here to stop it sticking to your rolling pin. Then add
your template on top and cut around it using a knife and I'll put the recipe
details and the template on the howtocookthat.net website and there's a
link to that below. Remove the template and slide that carefully onto a baking
tray. Light your oven and place that in to bake and you want to repeat that process
for all of the other pieces there you have two walls two ends and two roof
pieces. While they're baking let's take a break and open up some presents ...
what's inside this little gift bag. Oh look at that it's a cute little owl ornament
he can go over there. Now what about this big present from under the tree, undo
the bow take that off what are you hoping to get under the Christmas tree
this year for yourself? Undo the tape ... I'm having a hard time unwrapping this I
think I'll just have to rip the pretty paper so that I can get inside. Oh My
look at that can you see what it is? Look it's a blender with a little blender jug
awesome! That can go over there too - that matches my pink mixer perfect. Mmm I can
smell gingerbread it must be done. Look at that that's looking good a nice
golden brown YUM! Once all the pieces are done you can put out the oven. Phew look at
that smoke just as well the mini kitchen doesn't have a miniature smoke alarm. To
make the royal icing place egg whites and icing sugar into the bowl of
an electric mixer and whip that up until it's thick and glossy.
Place that into a piping bag fitted with a round nozzle and if you fold down the
top of the bag it's easier to get the stuff into the bag without making a mess.
Lay out the gingerbread walls flat on cake board so you can see where the base
of them is going to sit. Then you want to pipe royal icing around the base and up
the sides of the front of the house and also at the back of the house so we can
join it all together. Lift up one side wall and then the other one, then lift up
the back wall and the front wall and pop them into place making sure it's all
straight. Pipe icing around the top and then add the two roof pieces into place
and look at that we have a house but we can't leave it plain we need to decorate
it. I'm gonna pipe lines of icing diagonally across the roof one way and
then back the other way so it has the little sort of diamond crisscross
pattern on it. Now we just need something colorful like M&Ms and I want to add
one of those at each of the little intersections. This icing is so small
that's drying so quickly I'm having to add a little bit more icing onto each
one so that they'll stay and then just keep adding them all over the roof. Now
I'm gonna use some melted chocolate for my door just piping it on up and down
like that. Now that's still a bit plain so let's add some Jaffas now I know
not all countries have Jaffas so if you don't have them they're like round
with a hard crispy shell and then chocolate on the inside and it's orange
flavored I really like them. That works well just to cover the join at the ridge
there. Now let's put some candies around the front door just to define that a bit
more and make it a little prettier and then I think some mints would look good.
Let's add them I think above the door just like that
and one on each side. Then I think I'll have to use an M&M for the door handle
that looks better. Now for some candy canes to make it extra Christmassy just
tip those out of the packet and then cut the hook part off using a knife. Add some
royal icing and then put the candy cane into place on the side of the house. If
you want it to look snowy add some icing hanging down from the
roof. We were chatting in my last gingerbread house video in the comments
about who actually has snow at Christmas and it seems for a guaranteed white
Christmas we all need to visit Daniel in Alaska or there was also plenty of snow
in the northern parts of Sweden, Michigan, Canada or I guess he could always visit
the North Pole! Add some M&Ms for a path and some more
snow around the outside to cover the cake board. Then sprinkle that with a
little bit of edible glitter just to make it all shine and your miniature Teeny Weeny
gingerbread house is complete. Special shout out to Leo, Ali, Popsy
dragonsphere, Sak,i not so twins and Katie for requesting a miniature
gingerbread house. Click here to go to my channel page, here for other teeny-weeny
videos and here for full-size gingerbread houses and here for the
latest video. Write all your requests in the comments below, make it a great week
and I'll see you on Friday 🎄