Need help in searching Internet for Ashley Howard's gingerbread dough recipe

marilynfl

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Some facts:

Ashley Howard is from Winter Springs, FL (beware: there are million Ashley Howard out there)

She won the National Gingerbread House Contest (at Omni Grove Hotel in Asheville) 3 times.

She has won other gingerbread house contests.

She has apparently shared her recipe, which is key because it doesn't get soft like mine always did.

Of course, I don't know if this means it was a "secret" share.

One article called it "ginger dough".

Do NOT confuse this with "ginger play dough".

Dough may include "gum arabic" which is a edible powder used to harden icing. This would make a lot of sense.

Dough probably does not include any rising agents, like baking soda, baking powder or eggs. But I could be wrong.

It MUST be made of edible products (so no glue, etc), but the dough doesn't necessarily end up edible (meaning it gets too hard to eat, but is perfect for building something that won't collapse on you, unlike others which collapse thereby causing you to collapse in the corner whimpering.

I already have something called "construction dough" (uses 5 cups of flour). That sucker collapsed in Florida so I'm looking for something even sturdier. However, there could be another recipe called the same thing. I'll take that too.

REASON: I'm going to give a GBH tutorial to teens at our local library in November and I'd like to test this one out first.

Thank you, my Internet Search Geniuses.

 
Oh, my goodness--it took 300 hrs to create & build plus 100 eggs in the Ripley's version! Astounding

 
Good research, G & C. Omni lists her as Ashley Howard, C found Pat Ashley Howard & now you've found

this version. They are all the same person.

 
This national Howard winner took 650 HOURS. She built individual GB bricks and

mortared them together with Royal icing. Structurally, she erected three internal floors, which would be difficult if you were working with traditional sheets of gingerbread.

She definitely changed the paradigm with this one.

https://pix.sfly.com/0Ouq9Y

 
Not Howard's dough but wonderful Gingerbread Cookie

Marilyn,
Many years ago the boys took a gingerbread cookie decorating class with a local chef (Matt Prentice) who shared his recipe with us. I have NOT made this recipe but the cookies the boys decorated were excellent! We were told that a gingerbread house could be made using this dough. YMMV

Sourdough Cafe Gingerbread Cookie Recipe - 4 dozen
Cream together:
1# shortening
1 1/2 cups brown sugar, packed
1 Tbs baking soda
2 tsp salt
2 tsp powdered ginger
oinch cinnamon

Stir together and mix in, adding 1/2 at a time, scraping bowl and mixing well
3 eggs
2 cups molasses

Stir in 7 1/4 cups all purpose flour, mixing only until combined

Chill until firm, roll out to 1/4" thickness. Bake in preheated oven at 325 degrees until golden brown. Cool.

 
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