Making Hogwarts Castle Out Of Gingerbread

• Produce

  • 1 Cacao nibs
  • 4 tbsp Ginger, ground

• Refrigerated

  • 2 Egg whites (60grams/2 oz
  • 4 Egg yolks
  • 2 Eggs

• Condiments

  • 2 cups Golden syrup
  • 2 tsp Lemon juice

• Baking & Spices

  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • 4 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
  • 800 g Bittersweet chocolate
  • 4 cups Brown sugar
  • 8 tbsp Cocoa
  • 2/3 cup Coconut and green food colouring, dessicated
  • 1/2 cup Cornflour
  • 12 cups Flour, plain
  • 1 Food colouring, black or brown
  • 300 g Icing sugar, pure
  • 1 Royal icing
  • 1 Some of the faux rock chocolates if you want
  • 4 tbsp Spice, mixed

• Bread & Baked Goods

  • 1 Inside of rolls from paper towels

• Dairy

  • 800 g Butter
  • 1/2 cup Cream, pure

• Frozen

  • 6 Lollies, yellow or orange

• Desserts

  • 1 Amount of white fondant, small

• Liquids

  • 2 cups Water

• Other

  • black cardboard large enough to fit over the top of the box and maybe the sides
  • soft cardboard to make the smaller round towers
  • The decorated pieces of Hogwarts
  • thick double sided sticky tape-yards of it really
  • foil
  • A hardy resolve to finish the damn thing
  • Irridescent dark copper powder and brush
  • a large, sturdy box

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Ingredients

• 500g butter
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 cups golden syrup
• 4 egg yolks
• 10-11 cups plain all purpose flour
• 4 tablespoons ground ginger
• 4 tablespoons cocoa, sifted
• 4 tablespoons mixed spice
• 4 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda
• 6 yellow or orange boiled lollies (I used barley sugar lollies)
• 2 egg whites (60grams/2 oz)
• 2-3 teaspoons lemon juice (and a little water if needed)
• 300g/10.6ozs sifted pure icing sugar
• black or brown food colouring
• Irridescent dark copper powder and brush
• A small amount of white fondant, a small circle cutter and black pen for the clock face
• Stencils for cutting out -you can make these yourself as I did just from looking at models of Hogwarts online. There are limitations to what you can do in gingerbread so keep it simple.
• The inside of rolls from paper towels
• soft cardboard to make the smaller round towers
• Foil
• 300g/10.6 ozs butter
• 250g/8.83 ozs dark chocolate
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 cups water
• 2 cups plain all purpose flour
• 1/2 cup cornflour
• 4 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 300g/10.6 ozs dark chocolate
• 1/2 cup pure cream
• The decorated pieces of Hogwarts
• the leftover royal icing
• a large, sturdy box
• foil
• thick double sided sticky tape-yards of it really
• black cardboard large enough to fit over the top of the box and maybe the sides
• 2/3 cup dessicated coconut and green food colouring
• cacao nibs
• Some of the faux rock chocolates if you want
• 250g/8.83 ozs dark chocolate
• A hardy resolve to finish the damn thing