How To Make A Gingerbread House Roof

Additional candies if desired.

How to make a gingerbread house roof.

Hold a few minutes. Get the tutorial at life made sweeter. Start by placing your base on a table. This graham cracker based gingerbread house gets its rustic walls and roof from whole almonds and sliced almonds.

While still holding both roof sides run a thick bead of royal icing down the seam where the roofs meet at the top. Unwrap the gingerbread house pieces and make sure they have no cracks or chips. Pipe icing along the top of the roof and around the edges of the roof to look like icicles. Necco wafers and snowcaps make indisputably charming housetops.

Cut a small chocolate roll in half on the diagonal for the chimney and fix with icing decorate around the top. A gingerbread house kit we suggest the wilton ready to decorate gingerbread giant a frame house. Then apply a thin layer of icing to one wall and press it into the base. Scatter sweets around the house and make a path.

Gumdrops hard candies and sixlets dot the roof offering you more color than just your typical gingerbread and frosting. While still holding the first wall apply icing to the second wall and add it to the house. Start by unpacking the kit. 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.

Then while still holding the first roof side add the second roof side and hold a few minutes. Happily there are many different methods of decorating gingerbread houses. We had the most gorgeous christmas gingerbread houses so these pretty little valentine s day gingerbread houses are the perfect transition. Pecans pistachios pine nuts and cashews are also used on the house.

Make a star burst window at the top of the front wall using the sweets. I love these because they make smaller houses perfect for valentine s day. Well instead of the traditional gingerbread we cheated a little and used graham crackers. Hold a few.

9 traditional gingerbread house with gumdrop roof. The easiest way to make an edible gingerbread house it to glue your gingerbread pieces together with royal icing. Place the candies icing decorating bags and decorating tips off to the side. First place one roof side on the gingerbread house making sure it lines up with the gable peak.

It s best to chill the dough for 30 minutes before pressing into the molds.