2 Reviews of Gingerbread for Houses

From: Rae England

On Dec 22, 2007

I don't think I'll be making this but I wanted to say *WOW*. Beautiful!

From: kiwidutch

On Feb 12, 2009

I didn't make these into an actual house, but rather rolled the dough into squares the size of my baking trays and decorated these, one for DD's bus driver, one for her teachers and one for DS's creche staff. I also had spare dough left over and made some gingerbread men and women. The taste was great, but by far the biggest complication of this recipe is that the ingredient Flour is missing, Guessing, I added 600g and it was too sticky, then upped it by 100g each time to 800g when it suddenly got too dry, so probably somewhere between 700 and 750g would have been closer to the mark. I liked that it had golden syrup in it and not molasses but the flour problem meant that it was more of a hassle to make. Still, we got there in the end. It's not the easiest dough to roll, but again probably my Flour guess wasn't quite on the button and that WOULD have made a big difference. I hope to see this recipe updated because I Zmailed the chef, and delayed making the review but there has been no reply. A good tasting gingerbread, which I hear delighted the recipients. It would have gained 4 stars if the missing ingredient had been corrected. Thanks. Note: review dropped to 2 stars because I wanted to make these 1 year after my first review and the amount of flour still hasn't been added. Sorry, but despite the great taste I don't want the hassle of guessing again, therefore won't be making these again.