No-bake gingerbread house

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Ingredients

Ingredients:

• 1 shop-bought gingerbread or chocolate loaf cake, or try this recipe for gingerbread cake.
• half a batch of royal icing
• Christmas cake decorations
• Raspberry liquorice pieces
• Icing sugar for dusting

Method

Method

Step 1. Wrap your cake in cling wrap and put it in the freezer for a few hours to make it easier to work with. Using a sharp knife, cut your cake into thick slices, then trim them into squares and matching triangles to make houses and roofs.

Step 2. Using a piping bag, pipe a door shape onto each of the squares. Add Christmas decorations if desired.

Step 3. Dust the roofs with icing sugar, then cut a slit in one side and insert a raspberry liquorice piece into each roof.

Step 4.  Pipe some icing onto the top of each square to attach the roof to the house.

Notes

• Use a slab cake of your choice if you don't fancy baking; banana bread, chocolate or gingerbread all work well for this recipe.
• You could blob some royal icing on top of the licorice chimneys to look like snow.
• Inspired by: Gingerbread house cakes. Created by Picklebums

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