After all, making gingerbread houses together as a family is fun and creative, and a great way to build memories one house at a time. You can also coax icicles down by dragging the end of a toothpick through the wet roof icing.There's no better time than the holidays to indulge in one of the best Christmas desserts: gingerbread cookies! And if you're a fan of sugar, spice and everything nice, then making gingerbread houses is sure to be high on your Christmas activity bucket list. Click here.Ĭover your roof with white icing and sprinkle on coarse sugar.Īdd the icicles by putting slightly thinner white icing in bag and piping “drips” from the eaves. For roof icing, you’ll want the “medium consistency” icing.
Here’s an excellent explanation with photos from SweetAmbs showing three different consistencies of icing. If it’s visibly fighting gravity and loosing, it’s too thin. You don’t want it thin enough to droop or slide. To test it, hold your knife at a 45 degree angle. To thin royal icing, add water drop by drop. All of the syrup. I’ve been there too many times to count. Think syrup trickling down the edges of stacked pancakes. If the icing gets too loose however, it will slowly (or quickly!) slide down the sloped roof and run off into the yard. The answer of course is to thin the icing slightly to increase the stickiness factor. Sometimes though, with super stiff icing or dry weather, I find that sprinkles and sugar won’t adhere well. There’s no need to let this dry you can go straight to the next step.īefore you ice the roof of a gingerbread house, make sure your icing is up to the job. The stiff, cement-like royal icing you used to build the house and fill the roof beams is wonderful on roofs. Make certain you fill all the cracks between pretzel logs. You’ll want the icing the same thick consistency you used when assembling the four walls of the house. Spread stiff royal icing across both sides of the roof. Table sugar – they crystals may be tiny, but they still add texture to white royal icing snow. Sanding Sugar – is slightly larger and coarser than table sugar. Here’s where I buy mine: White Coarse Sugarģ. Comparison – a cleanly cut, sparkling crystal. The crystals are large (roughly the size of large pretzel salt) with cleanly cleft facets. Coarse Sugar / Sugar Crystals – my favorite way to add a shiny brightness to white icing. I don’t use these because they’re rough and don’t reflect light well. Rock Sugar or Rock Candy – very large crystals (about 1/4″ each) that look like crushed ice. Here they are starting with the most coarse.ġ. There are several different types and sizes (levels of coarseness) of decorating sugar. Collect the fallen sugar in a corner of the baking sheet, then pour it back into the bowl. The excess sugar falls down into the bowl or baking sheet. You can see in the photo that I raised the house above a baking sheet and sugar bowl. Immediately sprinkle on white crystal sugar. Working in small sections, pipe zig-zags of white icing using a large round tip. Pipe a zig zag of white icing snow to outline both sides of the walkway. Little bits of candy or broken pretzel do the trick. Even though my house rests on the curve of an overturned plate, I like the shrubs to line up vertically.
Look at the gumdrops at the house’s corners - I propped them up higher with extra slices of gumdrop. Use white royal icing to attach green gumdrops and spearmint leaves to the perimeter of the house. Pipe brown icing on the walk and push in chocolate jimmies to line the path with gravel. Mark the shape of a front walkway on the base with a non-toxic graphite pencil. Small wisps of cotton or piped white icing can be added as smoke. Use brown royal icing to add a short column of the rock-colored jelly beans to the top of your fireplace. If you missed the cabin’s construction, click here for building instructions. It snowed! Layers of icing and sugar have taken our gingerbread log cabin from the golden warmth of Fall to the cozy snugness of a Winter’s afternoon.
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