Vegan Gingerbread House
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Eggless, dairy-free gingerbread house decorated to look like a Christmas log cabin!
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Ingredients
Gingerbread:
- 125 g black treacle (or molasses)
- 3 Tablespoons soy milk unsweetened
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
- 350 g plain flour
- 1 Teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 4 Teaspoons ground ginger powder
- 1 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 100 g Dairy-free margarine
- 165 g caster sugar
Decorations:
- hard boiled sweets For the stained-glass windows. I used Fox's glacier fruits, roughly chopped
- dark chocolate fingers see notes, or pretzel sticks; cut to size to cover your house pieces
- 110 g Chocolate buttons see notes, giant, vegan
- 1 Biscoff biscuit (for the door)
- 1 small cake decoration for the door handle, vegan
- Christmas wreath decoration (I used a small artificial one from Hobbycraft but you could also make one out of royal icing)
Royal Icing:
- 5 Tablespoons aquafaba
- ¼ Teaspoon cream of tartar
- 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
- 450 g icing sugar
- 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
Instructions
For the gingerbread:
For the royal icing:
Assembly:
Notes
- Since I created this recipe, Bournville have added milk powder to their chocolate fingers and buttons. The only like-for-like replacement for Bournville chocolate fingers that I can find are Hotel Chocolat's chocolate batons but they are quite pricey. For a cheaper alternative, you can use pretzel sticks, either plain or covered in vegan chocolate. Alternatively, make extra chocolate royal icing and use that to decorate the house.
- For the roof buttons, you can use Asda free-from giant buttons.
- If you can't get molasses or treacle, use agave nectar and switch the caster sugar out for brown sugar.
- Use spreadable dairy-free margarine rather than block vegan 'butter'. The dough will likely be too dry if you use butter.
- The white icing will likely harden by the time you're ready to use it. Mix in a splash of water to make it pipeable again.
- To stop the icing from drying out in the bag while the house is setting, place a piping tip cover onto the nozzle then secure the open end of the piping bag so that it becomes airtight. Let the bag sit in a bowl or tub of room temperature water.
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