Home of Delicious: Traditional Gingerbread Houses
What you'll learn
- Learn simple and easy recipes to build an eatable Gingerbread House.
- Learn how to easily assemble and decorate a Gingerbread House that will keep for days or weeks during the holiday season.
- Access to recipes with photos of finished Gingerbread houses and videos with full step-by-instructions.
- Learn how baking can be done with basic home equipment.
Requirements
- No prerequisites or baking skills required.
- Anyone with an interest to celebrate the festive holidays with a traditional Gingerbread House to use for home decoration and of course eating.
- This class can be easily completed with basic kitchen tools such as a whisk, spatula, mixing bowl, weight scale or measuring cups/spoons.
Description
One of my Christmas traditions is baking and I would like to share my love of this activity with you. Every year I make many of the same cookie and cake recipes but they taste just as new and delicious each year.
I started making Gingerbread Houses since I enjoy both the baking and the decoration process. The taste of gingerbread cookies or cakes during the Christmas season is one of my favorites that I look forward to every year.
Making a Gingerbread House may seem overwhelming so let me help you with your baking. I will share recipes for the Gingerbread House and Royal Icing that will help you build a sturdy house that will last through holidays...if it doesn’t get eaten first.
This class has 2 delicious recipes to make a house.
1. Traditional Gingerbread
2. Vanilla Sugar Cookie
The Gingerbread House can be easily made in the home kitchen without buying expensive equipment or searching all over town for special ingredients.
The step-by-step videos and detailed downloadable recipes will show you how to break down each step so that the baking process is not overwhelming.
Grab a friend or family member and roll up sleeves to get ready for baking.
Who this course is for:
- Adults and children who want to make a traditional Gingerbread House for the Christmas season.
- Both beginner and experienced bakers who want to work on a delicious holiday project that is eatable.
Instructor
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- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 19 Reviews
- 207 Students
- 5 Courses
About Me
Tucked away in my recipe file, I still have the apple pie recipe from my high school days. The recipe is a little brown around the edges now, but it still works. I have not always been that successful in the kitchen but I have tried to improve my skills along the way. I took many informal cooking classes as I have moved around and finally, I took the plunge and enrolled in Le Cordon Bleu Cooking School in Tokyo and graduated with the Grand Diploma. Le Cordon Bleu was a huge eye opener showing me dishes and techniques I had never experienced and those learnings will stay with me forever. Needless to say, I ate very well for the three years I was in cooking school!
Maybe it is my sweet tooth, but I enjoy making desserts more than cooking so now I spend more of my time rolling dough rather than making sauces. After cooking school, I started to teach baking in my home through Niki's Kitchen (based in Tokyo) and have been doing this for over ten years. I know that not everyone is striving to be a first-class baker so I have learned to adjust recipes to fit home kitchens so that baking can be a fun and successful experience.
I live in Japan and kitchens are not large here so I cannot collect lots of equipment & other items which take up counter space so you will see me use basic equipment throughout the lessons.
I hope to share with you some new recipes to expand your comfort zone past just the usual cookies and brownies. Hopefully, you will be able to add some of these recipes as part of your 'go to' dessert for the next potluck get together or home party.
Let's Get Started
I realize one constraint everyone may feel about home baking is lack of time. Hopefully, you will see through the lessons that baking does not have to be an all-day affair. Most of my recipes start with making everything from scratch but, if time is limited, please feel free to take short cuts with the recipes as needed based on your circumstances.
I have provided detailed recipes and videos for all of the desserts in this lesson and hope you can easily prepare these at home as well.
Enough talking, let's get baking!