Reviewed: Nov. 28, 2009

This dough is delicious and wonderful for gingerbread cookies, too!

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Reviewed: Mar. 20, 2009

Tasted horrible but held up great!!!!

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jang

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Living In: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Reviewed: Mar. 17, 2009

very fun. I use this recipe for my gingerbread molds every year.

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nookerbean

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Parkland, Washington, USA

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Reviewed: Feb. 10, 2009

Overall, this is a good recipe. I've used this recipe 2 years in a row, but I'm not totally satisfied with it. I always omit the baking soda/powder to prevent the pieces from expanding and changing shapes. I still get some bubbling though. I'm still on the lookout for a better, more structurely sound recipe to build the large detailed "houses" that my husband and I have made a tradition in our home. I have never followed these directions for the house, so I cannot comment on them. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

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JennaPlum

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Reviewed: Feb. 4, 2009

This recipe worked great! My brother and I decided to construct not just a gingerbread house, but a gingerbread skyscraper! Check out the picture on my profile - I was pretty impressed with our very first attempt at gingerbread construction!

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WorldRoamer

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Living In: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2009

This is an easy and fun recipe. I don't consider myself a cook at all, but I did enjoy this recipe and my children had so much fun making this house. They are only 6 so the house came out like it came out, but they are currently tearing it apart now that Christmas is over and eating it. The gingerbread is tasty.

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Lyanka

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Reviewed: Dec. 22, 2008

The gingerbread itself is tasty but was very very sticky to have to try and roll out I had to add more flour to it. Im not sure what is with the icing recipe but the one that is listed there is not a good one. It doesnt work. I used a different royal icing recipe from this site

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Reviewed: Dec. 21, 2008

This was my first gingerbread house and turned out great. My daughter was so happy to decorate it. and she told at least 100 thanks. As other reviewers told, I also added 1 more cup of flour to get the consistency.

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Sujatha

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Reviewed: Dec. 19, 2008

This needed more spice for both flavor and color. The second time I added cinnamon and a little ground cloves and thought it tasted better. This is a very rich dough for something that will likely be eaten before it goes stale. I think I'll search for one with less butter. Wanted to add that a large turkey pan liner bag is good for protecting the house overnight. Also, a battery operated tea light or mini light string can be put in if you leave a door or window big enough.

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Reviewed: Dec. 16, 2008

Only giving it four stars because the recipe for the royal icing doesn't work as is and had to add flour to the gingerbread. **Use 3 egg whites (not 2) to 5 cups of powdered sugar and also add 1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar. It will come out perfect for piping out of a bag and will dry hard as a rock. **I used honey in place of the molasses simply because I do not like molasses. **On advice of other reviews I also added a full 1 1/2 cups of flour. Gingerbread was exactly the perfect consistency for building. **For anyone who wants to use this for other projects, roll your dough to about the same height as a graham cracker. **Roll dough and score your shapes BEFORE you refridgerate. It is easier to work with while it is still room temp and you will only have to chill it for about 15-20 minutes.

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Stefani Buhajla

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Reviewed: Dec. 14, 2008

Not the right recipe for a sturdy gingerbread house. Too much butter, not enough flour, too much powder, should be be honey instead of molasses for hard walls. Would have liked more instruction on how thick to roll out dough. Had to search other sites for better instructions and dough recipe.

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Kris W.

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Home Town: Springfield, Illinois, USA

Living In: Moscow, Idaho, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 7, 2008

This was horrible!!! I hated every minute making it. The dough was WAY to wet. I couldn't take it from my counter to the cookie sheet because it would just fall apart. I had to cook each piece alone and it took forever!! The icing was awful too. It was like clay and I couldn't get it piped onto the house. I had to roll it in my hand to make a snake and then push it onto the house. I even broke one side trying to put the house together. No I have two very upset little girls. I will buy the kits from now on. I can't believe how terrible this was!!

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Living In: Lake Mary, Florida, USA

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Reviewed: Oct. 18, 2008

This recipe is AMAZING! I could not stop eating the batter! I don't usually love gingerbread men, but these are heaven, just out of the oven. I didn't use this recipe for my gingerbread house, but will always use this for my men and piecrust for pumpkin pie (gingerbread crust is great for that). Thanks for the recipe!

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CURBKICKER

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Reviewed: Sep. 21, 2008

This recipe didn't work for us. The frosting wouldnt stick on anything but itself it had a strong smell of eggs which made my children refuse eating it and it wasted alot of sugar. this was supose to be a family project but nobody cared for it i will never do it again!!

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Ranya

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Reviewed: Sep. 16, 2008

I made this with my 3 year old son. I firmly believe that a gingerbread house should be EATEN. Which we did, after about a day and a half. Please allow yourself the childish pleasure of taking a big bit out of the roof!! I added a bit more spices, but otherwise a perfect recipe. Remember to trim!!

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Reviewed: Feb. 14, 2008

We've always bought those kits to make gingerbread houses at Christmas but I'll never do that again - they might as well be cardboard compared to these. So tasty and a lot more fun.

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Reviewed: Dec. 27, 2007

This is a really great recipe. Time consuming but well worth your efforts! I had to use bread flour but if you're not going to eat the house after you build it, it works just fine. (Remember to use 2 tablespoons less per cup if you have to use bread flour!)

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RAJEUNIR

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA

Living In: Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 24, 2007

Hmm. You could find a better recipe. It was way too wet--I'm sure something is skewed in the flour amount, as others have said. And the design of the house is simple and works fine, but it could use much more particular instructions for first-time home-makers. I also got a few bubbles in the slabs of baking gingerbread, which I had to pierce, and had trouble getting the whole thing crisp without the edges being burnt.

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Laura

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Living In: Atlantic, Iowa, USA

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Reviewed: Dec. 23, 2007

Frosting for the "gluing" of the house, but particularly easy to work with, and held it together beautifully. The rest, of course, was yummy. Carolyn

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Reviewed: Dec. 19, 2007

This recipe was pretty good. I definitely added extra flour, but not until I had refrigerated the dough for an hour. After finding the dough was still quite sticky, I kneaded in three quarter cups of flour. Otherwise it worked out well.

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