ginger bread houses

 

This week I made some very cool ginger bread houses. gingerbread recipe. I made the houses using about half the ginger bread for each house. Above is the template that I used for the house. I used a packet of royal icing for the icing holing the two houses together and for the vine work. Some normal icing was used for everything else. Spearmint leaves with the very bottom cut off were used for the bushes around the houses. The cutoff bottom bits were cut up futher to make the leaves on the vine house. I piped the vines on with the fine nozel of a piping bag. The windows were made by cuting the hole befor baking and putting in some boiled sweets. The sweets melted to form coloured suger windows.

One packet of MnM's were used to do the roofing on the second house. I used normal icing sugar for this and i found that it didn't give enough hold to keep the MnM's from sliding off the house. I would definately recomend using Royal icing for the roof as well.

To make the door's I cut the hole from the house fronts and put icing over the front of the cut out rectangle. One MnM was placed onto the door as a handle.

When putting the house together, remember to use alot of icing. This will make sure that it will stay together and hold. Put the walls together first and put a couple glasses in the middle and around the sides to hold the walls in place. When the walls are firmly set, place the roof's on using alot of icing to hold them in place.

For MnM roof, spread icing over both sides of the roof, place the MnM's onto the roof, starting at the top and putting them in at an angle. Each new row goes slightly under the row above it, this holds them in place.

Refridgerate in an airtight container for up to a week.

I would definately recomend this for people to try.

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