Icing is an indispensable component of many baked goods, especially during the holiday when elaborately decorated gingerbread cookies grace our tables. This recipe makes the perfect icing.

The holidays are an exciting and busy season -- shopping for gifts, planning holiday parties and meals, and, of course, lots of baking. While leaving cookies out during Christmas is a tradition in ...

(Remember to remove the sharp cocktail sticks from your gingerbread house before eating it, to avoid a choking hazard.) Pipe icing between the cocktail sticks and fix the two roof panels onto the ...

They aren't supersweet, so feel free to be generous with your icing decorations. If you want something a bit different, add both cocoa powder and melted bittersweet chocolate to the gingerbread dough.

You can make 2 separate batches of gingerbread by halving the quantities. The first batch can be wrapped in cling film and frozen, then defrosted when the second batch is ready. The icing can be ...

of gingerbread dough, 161 lbs. of icing and 105 lbs. of candy. Bakers and decorators — some of whom have day jobs outside the food industry and did this in their free time — spent 3,500 hours ...

Similarly, the Brothers Grimm's tale Hansel And Gretel popularised the concept of gingerbread houses, inspiring the creation of elaborate edible houses decorated with frosting and candy.