How To Make A Gingerbread House Roof

But decorating the roof of a gingerbread house entirely with candy shingles uses a lot of materials more than you d guess and it s an option that can get expensive quickly.

How to make a gingerbread house roof.

Scatter sweets around the house and make a path. Necco wafers and snowcaps make indisputably charming housetops. First place one roof side on the gingerbread house making sure it lines up with the gable peak. The easiest way to make an edible gingerbread house it to glue your gingerbread pieces together with royal icing.

Unwrap the gingerbread house pieces and make sure they have no cracks or chips. Use any remaining dough to make other fun shapes to match the season. We had the most gorgeous christmas gingerbread houses so these pretty little valentine s day gingerbread houses are the perfect transition. While still holding the first wall apply icing to the second wall and add it to the house.

Gumdrops hard candies and sixlets dot the roof offering you more color than just your typical gingerbread and frosting. Place the candies icing decorating bags and decorating tips off to the side. Any kid s dream as they think of gingerbread houses and with so much variety of tasty candies to eat and best of all just about anyone can make this house. It s best to chill the dough for 30 minutes before pressing into the molds.

9 traditional gingerbread house with gumdrop roof. When making gingerbread cookies from scratch you ll want to use a gingerbread dough recipe which that is sturdy enough to support lots of decorations but still tastes delicious. While still holding both roof sides run a thick bead of royal icing down the seam where the roofs meet at the top. Pecans pistachios pine nuts and cashews are also used on the house.

Additional candies if desired. Hold a few. Pipe icing along the top of the roof and around the edges of the roof to look like icicles. This graham cracker based gingerbread house gets its rustic walls and roof from whole almonds and sliced almonds.

Well instead of the traditional gingerbread we cheated a little and used graham crackers. Make a star burst window at the top of the front wall using the sweets. Happily there are many different methods of decorating gingerbread houses. Cut a small chocolate roll in half on the diagonal for the chimney and fix with icing decorate around the top.

Then while still holding the first roof side add the second roof side and hold a few minutes. A gingerbread house kit we suggest the wilton ready to decorate gingerbread giant a frame house. Hold a few minutes. I love these because they make smaller houses perfect for valentine s day.

Start by unpacking the kit.