Ingredients

This recipe makes one complete house, with enough dough left over for two sides of another house.

2 3/4 cups flour
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/8 teaspoon cloves
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/3 cup brown sugar
2/3 cup molasses (light)
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/2 cup melted shortening

Mix dry ingredients, sugar included, together in large mixing bowl. Combine egg and molasses, then add to the dry ingredients and mix. Add melted shortening to mixture and mix with wooden spoon until all mixture pulls together in a ball. Lightly grease and flour a cookie sheet. Roll the dough out on a cookie sheet. Place the pattern for the house pieces on the dough and cut out the pattern. Be sure to remove the dough from the windows. Bake at 375 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Allow to cool completely before using.

Snow Icing

6 egg whites
1 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 2-pound package powdered sugar

Directions

Beat egg whites to soft peaks. Add cream of tartar and mix well. Slowly add powdered sugar and continue beating to stiff peaks. Keep covered until use so it doesn't dry out.