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I finally did it. I made my homemade gingerbread house. I made the dough recipe which I kinda hated but came out good. Here’s the recipe.

Construction gingerbread house recipe

Ingredients

1 cup light corn syrup

1 cup honey

1 1/2 cups brown sugar

1 1/4 cups margarine

9 cups all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 tablespoon ground cinnamon

1 tablespoon ground ginger

2 teaspoons ground cloves

1 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Instructions melt butter add sugar honey and corn syrup. In big bowl add flour spices and salt. Slowly add wet mixture while you mix. I used my rarely used KitchenAid mixer. My mixer had hard time because so much. Supposed to let sit for half hour but I didn’t and it was fine. Really didn’t need four to roll out either. Took me while to cook all the pieces so my oven was on a while. Made royal icing for the glue frosting. That recipe is just about a pound of powder sugar to two egg whites beat until stiff. If after five minutes still lose need more sugar.

I added the sides let sit for five minutes then added the roof. Then let sit for 20 minutes and amazingly it didn’t fall apart.

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Unlike most people I got candy that looked good but my daughter wouldn’t eat. She eats candy with her daddy all the time. We decorated for fun not to eat candy. I also don’t have to worry about her picking at it cause she doesn’t like the candy so double win.