Gluten-free gingerbread for houses

This is adapted from a recipe found at recipezaar.com I like it because you don't have to chill it before you roll it out. I increased the recipe by half as much again and it easily made three small houses. I personally like the A-frame design because it is much more stable. We used two 1/4" dowels to help roll out the dough the correct thickness. We used home-made powdered sugar to make buttercream frosting to glue everything together. We used organic, corn-free candies to decorate our houses. My notes begin with (*

By: LUv 2 BaKE
Dec 24, 2005

This dough is very easy to work with. We use this gingerbread to make our annual gingerbread houses. One recipe makes 3 fair sized gingerbread houses. This is also works excellent for gingerbread people. From Good Housekeeping Dec 94


Ingredients

* 3/4 cup sugar
* 3/4 cup molasses
* 2 1/4 teaspoons ginger
* 1 1/2 teaspoons allspice
* 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
* 1 1/2 teaspoons cloves
* 3 teaspoons baking soda
* 3/4 cup margarine (*2/3 c oil)
* 1 1/2 eggs, beaten (*1/2 cup egg substitute, 1/2 cup water and 1/2 Tbsp tapioca)
* 5 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (*gf blend)

Directions

1.In a medium saucepan, heat sugar, molasses, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves to boiling, stirring occasionally.
2.Remove from heat; stir in soda (it will foam up).
3.Stir in margarine till melted.
4.With a fork, stir in egg, then flour.
5.On a floured surface, knead dough till mixed. Divide dough in half, wrap half with plastic wrap; set aside.
6.Roll half the dough, with a rolling pin, slightly thinner than 1/4 inch.
7.Cut with cutters.
8.Bake at 325F on a cookie sheet for 12 minutes; cool on a wire rack.
9.Makes about 3 dozen 3" gingerbread people.
10.NOTE: We make houses by cutting out our house design (the 2 sides of the roof, two sides, a front and a back of the house) on graph paper, and then placing the graph paper shapes on the dough and cutting the dough shapes out with a knife.



http://www.recipezaar.com/Gingerbread-For-Cookies-or-a-Gingerbread-House-149257

Here is a link to various gingerbread patterns http://christmas.lovetoknow.com/Gingerbread_House_Patterns