I think building a gluten-free gingerbread house is the wonderful way of celebrating a gingerbread house day. I am using this space to tell you about best 5 gluten-free gingerbread houses, which you can make for gingerbread house day. I have mastered some gluten-free gingerbread house recipes over the years. You can perhaps take the help of your kids or friends to assemble these gingerbread houses in a better manner.

Graham Cracker Gingerbread House – Best 5 Gluten-free Gingerbread houses
You can't enjoy anything else as much, if at least once you have tried constructing a gingerbread house using graham crackers. If you want to start a family tradition of making gingerbread house, then here are the ingredients: a box of graham cracker squares, milk, assorted candies of various colors and sizes, icing, aluminum foil and a square piece of cardboard.

The base of the house is created by wrapping an aluminum foil around the cardboard. Prepare glue, oops!, icing by mixing cing sugar and milk. Start creating the walls of the gingerbread house using the graham crackers and icing. Continue doing it until you get the structure, which resembles a small cottage. Once done allow the icing to dry and get thick. Stick the assorted candies with the help of the glues. Decorate these candies to resemble the windows, doors and pathways and chimneys. Once it gets dried, display it proudly to your family and friends.

1-2-3 Gingerbread Houses by Betty Crocker – Best 5 Gluten-Free Gingerbread houses

You can start the family tradition of preparing gluten-free gingerbread house by following this simple Betty Crocker recipe. The real fun lies in decorating, which is easy for the kids of all ages. You will require 1 cup sugar, 1 cup shortening, 1 cup full-flavor (dark) molasses, 1 egg, 4 cups Gold Medal® all-purpose flour, 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon , 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice. For Icing you will need 1 tub Betty Crocker rich and creamy vanilla frosting, assorted cereals and candies.

Heat oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Cover Jelly roll pan with heavy-duty foil leaving one inch foil hanging on each sides of the pan. Mix molasses, egg, sugar, and shortening in the bowl. Mix the remaining ingredients. Bake half of the dough by pressing the other half on the pan. Bake the gingerbread house for 15 minutes, until it is done. Cool for 5 minutes and lift the foil and gingerbread house from the pan. Cut the gingerbread into rectangles of various sizes to make walls, and roofs. Join them using the icing and allow it to dry. When dried, decorate the house with the candies and icing. Now your gluten -free gingerbread house is ready.

Dark Muscovado Sugar Gingerbread House:  Best 5 Gluten-Free Gingerbread houses

In my opinion a Christmas is dull without the smell of gingerbread and a pinch of excitement in the air. I came across a wonderful gingerbread house recipe from BBCgoodfood.com. I have tried the recipe on my own and found that its simpler and easier than many other gingerbread bread house recipes I have ever handled. You will need unsalted butter, dark muscovado sugar, golden syrup, bicarbonate of soda, plain sugar and ground ginger to prepare the gingerbread house and flaked almonds, egg whites, icing sugar, chocolate fingers, dipped chocolate flake, and few edible silver balls to decorate a gingerbread house.

Heat oven to 200 degree Fahrenheit. Melt butter, syrup and sugar in a pan. Mix bicarbonate of soda, ginger and flour in a bowl and add butter mixture to it. Download the template from internet and roll out one quarter of the dough on the surface. Cut the gingerbread in shapes of walls, roof panels by rolling the dough on the surface. Poke the pointy ends of the almond flakes on the roofs to resemble a roof tile. Bake all sections for about 12 minutes until the edges turn little dark. And allow them to cool completely. Make icing by mixing the icing sugar and eggs in a bowl. Feed this mixture into the piping bag. Join the walls of the gingerbread house by icing them. Allow them to cool. Stick the chocolate fingers on the house to appear like windows and use dipped chocolate flakes and edible silver balls to decorate the house.

Only Sometimes Clever Gingerbread House - Best 5 Gluten Free Gingerbread Houses

I decided to name it only sometimes clever gingerbread house because I got this recipe from one site which sounded like only sometimes clever. The best thing about this recipe is that you can serve it to people suffering from celiac disease. This recipe will allow you to bake the nut-free, casein-free and gluten-free gingerbread house. You will require amaranth flour, potato starch, brown rice flour, sweet rice flour, xanthan gum, baking powder, ground ginger, cloves, cinnamon, allspice, powdered sugar, dark brown sugar, shortening, dark molasses, candies, eggs, and salt to prepare this house. For icing you will require albumen-based powder and egg whites.

Preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Blend flours, starch, xanthan gum, baking powder, and spices in a bowl. Combine powdered and brown sugars, eggs, shortening, molasses and salt until creamed and mix this wet mixture with the dry mixture. Chill the dough for about an hour. Knead the dough and cut them into the pieces of desired shapes using the cookie cutters. Bake the dough pieces at 350 degree centigrade until it becomes tough. Whisk the egg white and albumen based powder to form glue. Stick the pieces of gingerbread using an icing. Stick the assorted candies using icing to decorate the house.

Variation of an Only Sometimes Clever Gingerbread house: Best 5 Gluten Free Gingerbread Houses

This is one of the tasty gingerbread house recipes I have ever tried out. This recipe will help you to bake and eat nut-free, casein-free and gluten-free gingerbread house. You will require rice flour, potato flour, cornstarch, xanthan gum, baking powder, egg, nutmeg, cinnamon, brown sugar, butter, corn syrup and molasses. For icing you will require albumen-based powder, egg whites, lemon juice and soft butter.

Melt the butter, brown sugar, corn syrup and molasses in a small saucepan. In the meantime preheat the oven to 350 degree Fahrenheit. Add dry and melted mixture to form dough. Add more egg if the mixture is dry and crumbles. Roll the dough on well floured surface at approx 1/4 inch thickness. Similarly roll the dough on rectangular shaped surfaces and trim them using the cookie cutters. Bake these shapes for 8-10 minutes. You can either bake two big rectangular shapes or cut them when they cool, or you can bake the shapes by measuring them beforehand. Join these shapes with the help of the icing. Icing is prepared by mixing egg whites, lemon juice, butter and sugar. Now decorate the house with candies.

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