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How to make Stained Glass Window Biscuit, and Stained Glass Recipe for Gingerbread Houses!

Perfect as both Christmas tree decorations and homemade Christmas gifts.
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Design International - Transportation Art Gallery
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Alex Cochrane Architects - Space Lodge

Stained Glass Window Biscuit Recipe

Ingredients:
- 75g Unrefined Light Muscovado Sugar - 75g Unsalted Butter (Softened)
- 1 Egg
- 1tsp Vanilla Essence
- 175g Plain White Flour
- 1 Pack of Coloured Boiled Sweets - 250g Royal Icing Sugar

Utensils: 

- Polythene Bag - Rolling Pin
- Mixing Bowl
- Star Cutters
- Drinking Straw
- Teaspoon
- Baking Paper
- Non-Stick Baking Tray - Cooling Rack
- Piping Bag
Method:
  1. Place the sweets, still in their wrappers in a polythene bag, taking care not to mix the colours and bash them with a rolling pin until they are crushed. Set aside.
  2. Cream together the butter and sugar and then add the egg and vanilla. Add the flour to make a soft dough. Turn out onto a floured surface and bring together with your hands, wrap in cling film and chill for about an hour.
  3. Preheat the oven to 180°C / 160°fan / Gas Mark 4 and line two baking trays with parchment.
  4. Roll out the dough one quarter at a time and cut out the biscuits with the large star cutter.
    Transfer them to the trays. Once on the trays cut out a window with the smaller cutter. Bring
    together the leftover dough and keep cutting out until all the dough is used up.
  5. Using a drinking straw, make a hole in the top of each biscuit (if making decorations) - you will
    need this to hang the biscuits as decorations.
  6. Using a teaspoon, carefully fill the star cut-out with the crushed sweets.
  7. Bake the biscuits for 12 minutes and once cooked allow to cool on the tray. When cool,
    carefully peel off the paper and leave to cool completely on a rack.
  8. When the biscuits are cool, mix up some royal icing according to the instructions on the
    packet, and using a piping bag, pipe your decorations.
  9. Allow to dry completely and hang up with the ribbon.

General Stained Glass Recipe for Gingerbread Houses

Ingredients:
- Gingerbread recipe
- Coloured Boiled Sweets
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Utensils:
- Non-Stick Baking Tray - Baking Paper
- Cookie Sheet
- Rolling Pin
​- Resealable Bags - Cooling Rack
Method:
  1. Bake pattern pieces: Using your own pattern for the windows, cut out your pieces and bake according to the Gingerbread recipe instructions.
  2. Make windows: Divide boiled sweets by colour, placing each colour in separate resealable bags. Using a rolling pin, crush the boiled sweets inside the resealable bag.
  3. When the gingerbread has only 5 minutes left to bake, sprinkle the crushed sweets, a few of each colour, into the cut out windows.
  4. Bake for 5 minutes until the sweets have melted. Cool completely before removing the gingerbread from the tray.​
Top tip:
Bake your gingerbread pieces on a parchment paper, lined cookie sheet for an easier cleanup.
Colouring 
For Adults and Children
Garibaldi Villas North
by Sketch Architects
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Our live/work townhouse integrates future automated vehicle trends with an emphasis on e-vehicles, particularly bicycles. It includes a dedicated space for storing and charging, and acts as a covered pick up/drop off point for AV vehicles. This element also serves as a hydroponic greenhouse with an allotment shown too, providing residents opportunities to grow basic food items to reduce grocery trips and food delivery. The house can be affordably expanded meaning residents do not need to move further out of Gingerbread City to cheaper homes and can stay close to jobs, schools and communities reducing or removing commutes.

sketch-architects.co.uk
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