BBC Good Food

02 January 2008

Tested

"Wonderful recipe!!! I'm quite an experienced cake baker, but had never had much luck with biscuits and had never made gingerbread before and it came out perfect!!! I added a little more ginger, though, as I like my gingery things strong! Tons of lovely comments made about the two I made and I had so much fun decorating them! As an alternative to Royal icing, I used Super Cook's white designer icing (available in most supermarkets in large tubes with a variety of nozzles) and this held perfectly! I also made the little icicles and a lot of the decoration with them. Another handy tip I found while googling is to make small window-shaped cutouts in the dough just before baking and piling them full of crushed hard-boiled fruit sweets which then melt and set in the oven to create little see-through windows! I stuck to filling each with sweets of the same colour, so I got one each of a red window, a green window, an orange window and a yellow window!"