Make Your Own Gingerbread House | Day 3 自製薑餅屋
When my little girl and I finally finished our little gingerbread house and it was sitting so pretty on our table...it was just the feeling of magic...I felt almost as if we were transported to that fairy forest, looking through the trees, eyes big with wonder, peeking at a house delightfully and completely made of candy, with a wicked wee witch hiding inside...
- Prep time
- 18 min
- Cook time
- 1 hr
- Yield
- 12 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 3 cups royal icing
- Assorted candies
Instructions
- 1
Your basic gingerbread house is assembled and the house joints are dry. Now it's time to decorate.
- 2
Let the royal icing you made on Day 2 come back up to room temperature. If the icing has separated a bit, just stir it back together.
- 3
Fill up your small squeeze bottles with thick royal icing.
- 4
Prepare the candies you want to decorate with. Use candies that are not affected by humidity, so look for candies like gummy candies, M&Ms, Skittles, gum drops, sour belts and licorice laces. As for candy canes and peppermint swirls, only use if they are shrink wrapped in plastic.
- 5
With your thick royal icing add outlines and patterns to the windows and doors.
- 6
Use thinned out royal icing to add snow along the edges of the roof and on the roof peak. Make icicles coming down from the snowy roof edges by pulling downward with icing bag while squeezing thin icing out at the same time.
- 7
Let the icing decorations dry for a few hours before starting the candy decorations.
- 8
Stick candy decorations on with thick royal icing.