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Cut out the house pattern out of thick paper.
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The design and size is up to you.
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The pattern on the top left is the chimney, which will be sliced at the folds when baking.
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Make the dough.
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Combine butter and sugar in a bowl, and mix well until it turns pale.
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Add the egg little by little, and add vanilla essence.
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Add cake flour and fold in with a rubber spatula.
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Divide the dough into portions for the white, brown, and green approximately in the proportion as the photo.
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The brown is with cocoa powder and the green is with matcha (I used powdered green tea this time) and knead until the colors are well-incorporated.
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When they are both evenly mixed, wrap each dough and refrigerate for an hour.
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Sandwich the dough between 2 sheets of plastic wrap and roll out to 5 mm thick.
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Take the top sheet of plastic off.
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Lay the pattern on top and cut out using a small knife.
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The color of the dough is up to you.
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Since I like the powdered sugar added to look like snow to stand out, I use brown dough for the ground and roof, the white dough for the walls, and the green dough for the tree and wreath.
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With the pattern paper still attached (on the bottom) to the dough pieces, bake in a 160 C oven for 25 minutes.
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Take off the pattern paper and cool the pieces on a rack.
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Make the decorative parts such as the fence, tree, wreath, animals and so on.
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Cut out any leftover dough with regular cookie cutters.
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The photo shows all the leftover dough this time.)
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Since the cookies will be covered with sugar, the dough is not that sweet.
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Add just a little egg white to the powdered sugar, and mix until it's a bit stiffer than toothpaste.
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Add lemon juice and mix well again.
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Put the icing in a plastic bag turned inside out (this way, the seams won't get in the way) and cut a small bit off one corner in lieu of using a piping tip.
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You can color the icing if you like.
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Draw on the roof or a pattern on the walls with icing, and let dry.
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When it's dry to the touch, assemble the walls roof chimney base decorative elements in that order.
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Each assembly step takes about 15 minutes each for the icing to dry.
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Done.
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Put powdered sugar in a tea strainer and shake it to look like snow.
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This is the side.
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This is the back garden.
