Gingerbread for Houses: a Ritz-Carlton Recipe

Gingerbread for Houses

Ingredients

• Honey — 1/2 cup  
• Water — 3 tablespoons
• Sugar — 1/2 cup 
• Eggs — 1 whole
• Sugar — 1 tablespoon
• Baking soda — 1 1/2 tsp. 
• Milk — 3 tablespoons
• Water — 1 tablespoon
• Baking powder — 1 1/2 tsp.
• Ginger — 1/4 cup
• Cinnamon — 3/4 tsp
• All-Purpose Flour — 5 cups

Procedure

In a small sauce pan melt together the honey, 3 tablespoons water and 1/2 cup sugar. 

In a mixer whip together the egg and 1 tablespoon sugar. Into egg mixture add baking soda, milk, water, baking powder, ginger, cinnamon and flour.

Add the honey mixture.

Mix until a dough forms. 

Refrigerate until ready to use.

*Recipe from Ritz-Carlton St. Louis Executive Chef Melissa Lee.