How To Make a Gingerbread House

By MiNDFOOD

How To Make a Gingerbread House
Use these easy templates to create the perfect gingerbread house and ensure it all comes together seamlessly.

MiNDFOOD’s editor-in-chief Michael McHugh travelled to Austria to visit a Salzburg-family run company, Nagy, with a 130-year-old tradition of hand-making gingerbread and learned how to create their iconic edible houses for Christmas.

Each batch of dough is kneaded, rolled, cut and decorated by hand.

The company makes over 60 varieties of gingerbread. Biscuit shapes include hearts and stars, Christmas trees and gingerbread men. The treats are cooked to browned and chewy perfection in custom-made ovens then transferred to drying racks, iced and packed.

‘The recipe hasn’t changed since 1879’ – fifth-generation owner of Naggy, Wolfgang Svoboda

Click here for our gingerbread house template

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