How To Make Shingles For Gingerbread House

Apply the circles one at a time to the icing.

How to make shingles for gingerbread house. Decorate the house with vanilla frosting candies and sanding sugar. If your icing is too runny mix in some powdered sugar. I left a cross shape intact in each window to mimic a window pane. Cut the candy wafers.

I opted for an arched door and two arched windows on the front of the house. See our edible clays page for more info. Spread royal icing on the base of your house for a snowy yard. Let the candy.

The links in the video may not show. They are not bad options but just didn t have the realistic old weathered look that i was trying to achieve for my mini house. To make icicles pipe a dot of frosting then drag the pastry bag downward. Gingerbread house construction tips.

First use a pencil to lightly draw a door and windows on the box and then use a box cutter to cut them out. Bake the cobblestones for 2 3 minutes at 375. Get the right texture use royal icing because it dries hard it should be thick like peanut butter. I made some gingerbread using this recipe and then found a great pattern for a gingerbread house over at chocolate on my cranium i like this pattern because you can cut the entire house out of a single sheet of gingerbread.

All you need is a little bit of the dough. Pipe another line of icing just above the first row and add more circles this time offsetting the circles so that each circle is centered where the two circles below touch. Roll little balls of the dough in various sizes then squish with your finger. To attach the gingerbread shingles to the roof pipe a thick line of royal icing directly on the roof.

Gingerbread house shingles by. Arrange the cereal on the roof in rows starting from the bottom and working your way up. Make a thick log of dough and slice it into six sections. Candy wafers tutorial make your own gingerbread house shingles recipe for candy wafer dough.

You want the cobblestones to be irregular in different shapes and sizes. I also cut square windows on each side of the house. Spread it around with a butter knife or an angled spatula to place the icing in an even layer. Dust your surface lightly with cornstarch.

How to make a gingerbread house from scratch. Tablet and mobile device users. Put 1 2 cup hot water in a small glass bowl. Overlap the rows so they look like shingles.

Kelly you can make gingerbread house shingles for either the roof or the house siding using sticks of gum glued together with royal icing or one of the edible clays like fondant or marzipan rolled out thin and then cut into the desired shingle shape. Then to give it the appearance of snow on the ground around it add icing to the board.