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Gingerbread Christmas Cottage Recipe
INGREDIENTS
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Ingredients
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DOUGH:
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1 cup shortening
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1/2 cup boiling water
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1 cup packed dark brown sugar
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1 cup dark molasses
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6 cups all-purpose flour
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2 teaspoons salt
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2 teaspoons baking soda
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1 teaspoon ground ginger
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1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
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1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
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ICING AND ASSEMBLY:
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16 cups confectioners' sugar, divided
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12 tablespoons meringue powder, divided
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2 teaspoons cream of tartar, divided
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1-1/2 cups warm water, divided
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14 red spice gumdrops
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8 large candy canes (6 inches), divided
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Multicolored nonpareils
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1 red-hot candy
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18 leaf-shaped spearmint gumdrops, divided
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About 150 multicolored spice gumdrops, halved vertically
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Edible glitter
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10 ice cream sugar cones
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Green paste food coloring
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30 chocolate rock candies
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21 pieces candy corn in Christmas colors or green gumdrops
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8 miniature candy canes (about 2-1/4 inches)
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10 green spice gumdrops
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4 green rock candy suckers
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1 large cotton ball
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Pastry tips—star tips #16 and #20, round tips #3 and #7, and leaf tip #67
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Pastry bags
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Foam core board (20 inches x 16 inches x 1/2 inch)
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Small cans for propping
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