Mary Berry has come up with a great recipe for a Gingerbread house on The Great British Bake Off Christmas Special.

Gingerbread recipes are great for baking with children, and Mary has pushed the boat out coming up with this family fun bake for Christmas.

To make her gingerbread house, Mary’s ingredients consists of unsalted butter, dark muscovado sugar, golden syrup, plain flour,  bicarbonate of soda and ground ginger.

For the icing Mary used free-range egg whites, icing sugar and lemon juice.

Her decorations consisted of boiled sweets, square cake board,  giant milk chocolate buttons,  night-light candles and cocktail sticks.

See Mary’s baking method here: