![]() I haven’t tried printing this template yet but I think the cut-outs should be roughly the correct size. Just use a small knife to cut around the stencil. I just drew the shapes below onto some card using a ruler, cut them out then used them as a stencil to place onto my rolled-out dough. I created my own template for my gingerbread log cabin. Desiccated coconut (I used this for the ‘snow’ on the ground).Watch out for less obvious ingredients like beeswax and certain E-numbers- check out my E-numbers list if you’re unsure. Obviously, make sure whichever decorations you’re buying are vegan-friendly. That way, I didn’t have to leave them on the whole time while the roof was still setting in place. Lastly, I added some battery-operated string lights inside to help the windows glow! I kept the battery pack at the back of the house, with the wire concealed neatly under the roof. I kept a little bit pf white icing aside for decorating the roof and the edges, to make it look snowy. I decided to add cocoa powder to some of my royal icing so that it would blend in nicely with the chocolate fingers and buttons. ![]() Instead, I now recommend using Asda free-from giant buttons. Since creating this recipe, sadly Bournville have added milk powder to their products. I used Fox’s glacier fruits for the windows and Bournville buttons for the roof. I also took a leaf out of Mary Berry’s book with the stained glass windows and chocolate buttons on the roof. You could use something like cotton wool or soft toy filling instead, which obviously isn’t edible but will not dissolve. I used vegan candy floss for the ‘smoke’ just to take the pictures but it did dissolve after a few hours. And instead of a Graham cracker door, my house had a Biscoff biscuit door. Instead of the cinnamon sticks that Christie used for the walls, I used Cadbury’s dark chocolate fingers. I had one look and knew that’s what I was going to do! I did change a few of the gingerbread house decorations though. None of them really stood out to me until I saw this beautiful one by Three Pixie Lane decorated like a log cabin. This one isn’t perfect but it’s much better than the first one! Gingerbread log cabinĪfter my failed attempt, I decided I’d just find a design I liked online and copy that. The more I tried to fix it, the worse it got, so I just admitted defeat and decided I’d make another one. Not to mention the extremely thick ‘snow’ I added to try to hide the gaps between the house and the roof. The walls were too long, the roof was far too heavy/thick and kept slipping down, and the stained glass window was barely visible. The result was a gingerbread house that resembled an abandoned, vandalised church. But for some strange reason, I decided to go ahead and trust the vision in my head. I’d say I’m pretty OK at art (and cake decorating) if I have a visual representation of what I’m trying to achieve, but I am absolutely hopeless at it if I’m trying to work from a vision in my head. It wasn’t because the recipe itself took long to make, but more so because of my terrible decorating skills and lack of preparation. Maybe it’d take a few hours to bake, construct and decorate… Oh man, I was wrong. ![]() When I first considered making a gingerbread house from scratch, I thought it would be quite a straight forward task. ![]() My first attempt was a complete disaster, to put it bluntly! It took me 4 long days to get a fully constructed house that I was happy with. This was actually my second attempt at a dairy-free gingerbread house. ![]()
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