Help!! Need A Recipe For Non-Gingerbread For A House
Baking By ellersickc Updated 6 Oct 2007 , 10:12pm by 7yyrt
I'm making a little girls birthday cake which involves a haunted house (cookie) on a sheet ch.chip cookie cake. with some other ideas. but what I'm having trouble with is finding a good sturdy recipe for a dough that is easy and NOT gingerbread! any ideas?? 
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) I bought a kit from Wilton to make the christmas tree out of star cookies, it has a recipe in there for a sugar cookie dough that can be used to make houses, too... if you don't have a gingerbread book (most of mine have a sturdy sugar cookie recipe in there) I'll try to find it tonight and post when I get home.
Depending on how big you want the house, I've made them with regular sugar cookie dough. See my pics and those are just regular sugar cookies... For a BIG house, I would use a thicker cookie.
HTH
Found this Christmas Cookie House - http://www.karosyrup.com/recipeDetails.asp?id=484
Ok, sorry for the delay, I tried to "cheat" and just use the scanner to read and type the recipe for me, but it didn't want to and I wasted a lot more time fooling with that than it would have taken me to just type the silly thing out!!!
Roll-Out Cookie Dough (from the Wilton Christmas tree kit)
2 c. butter
2 c. sugar
2 large eggs
4 t. baking powder
2 t. vanilla
6 c. flour
Preheat oven to 400. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar with an electric mixer. Beat in eggs and vanilla. Add baking powder and flour, one cup at a time, mixing after each addition. The dough will be very stiff; blend last flour in by hand (if dough becomes too stiff and does not hold together in a ball, add water, a teaspoon at a time). For Chocolate Roll-Out Cookie Dough, stir in 3 ounces melted, unsweetened chocolate at this point. Divide dough into 2 balls. Do not chill.
Working with one cookie dough ball at a time, roll each out on a floured surface to 1/4" thick. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet on middle rack of oven; about 10-15 minutes or until light brown. Remove cookies from sheet immediately onto wire racks to cool.
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Super Easy Rolled Sugar Cookies-These are SOOO good with the almond! 
1 Box Betty Crocker SuperMoist butter flavor cake mix
1/2 c. shortening
1/3 c. butter or margarine, softened
1 t. vanilla or 1/2 t. almond or 1/2 t. lemon extract
1 egg
Heat oven to 375. In large bowl, beat cake mix, shortening, butter, vanilla and egg with electric mixer on low speed 30 seconds, then on high speed 1 minute.
Divide dough into 4 equal parts. Roll each part 1/8" thick on lightly floured cloth-covered surface with cloth covered rolling pin. Cut with 2 1/2" cookie cutters into desired shapes; sprinkle with sugar. On ungreased cookie sheet, place 2" apart.
Bake 5-7 minutes or until light brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheet to cooling rack. Frost cookies.
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3 "tubes" of Pillsbury Sugar Cookie dough (1 lb. each) and blended them together with brown paste food coloring. Sugar cookie dough is rather sticky, so I slowly added flour to the mixture, until the dough could be formed into a ball... more directions on page.
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