a gingerbread house decorated with icing and candy

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Gingerbread Christmas Cottage

6 ratings

· 10hr 10min

Have a magical afternoon with your family creating this sweet little cottage. It is a fun kid-made surprise to bring to Grandma's house, too! —Blanche Comiskey, Franklin, Wisconsin

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Ingredients

Seafood

• 4 Rock candy suckers, green

Produce

• 1 tsp Ginger, ground

Condiments

• 1 cup Molasses, dark

Baking & spices

• 6 cups All-purpose flour

• 2 tsp Baking soda

• 1 cup Brown sugar, packed dark

• 1/4 tsp Cloves, ground

• 16 cups Confectioners' sugar

• 2 tsp Cream of tartar

• 10 Ice cream sugar cones

• 12 tbsp Meringue, powder

• 1 tsp Nutmeg, ground

• 1 Paste food coloring, Green

• 2 tsp Salt

• 1 cup Shortening

Bread & baked goods

• 1 Pastry bags

• 36 Pastry tipsstar tips

Desserts

• 1 About 150 multicolored spice gumdrops

• 1 Candy, red hot

• 8 Candy canes (6 inches), large

• 8 Candy canes (about 2-1/4 inches), miniature

• 21 pieces Candy corn in christmas colors or green gumdrops

• 30 Chocolate rock candies

• 1 Multicolored nonpareils

• 18 Shaped spearmint gumdrops, leaf

• 14 Spice gumdrops, red

• 10 Spice gumdrops, green

Liquids

• 2 cup Water

Other

• 1 Large cotton ball

• Edible glitter

• Foam core board (20 inches x 16 inches x 1/2 inch)

• Small cans for propping

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