Gingerbread Roof Icing

Let the house dry for at least a couple of hours before adding the roof.

Gingerbread roof icing.

The icing can also be used to secure shingles a chimney draw on windows and more. If you plan on adding candies to the roof after applying the icing do so quickly while the icing is still soft. Repeat process on sides and back of the house. Home muller creates intricate buildings made from the holiday favourite treat.

Use a butter knife to spread it across your roof panels. Out of a garage workshop in her innisfil ont. You can also use a variety of round tips to create your icicles. Adhere two long pretzel rods on the edge of the roof at one front end of the house using royal icing image 3.

Make sure the icing is spread evenly so your gingerbread house looks neat. Use a variety of round tips to create thin and thick icicles. Press cut pretzels into the royal icing image 2. For a natural look use a bag with a round tip to pipe pull out dots around the roof of your house.

The roof over the door is constructed much like the roof with just a few more added embellishments and lots of icing same goes for the chimney. Below i used royal icing that i had watered down to about the consistency of elmer s white school glue to make accents for the roof line of my gingerbread house. Royal icing works great for not only for gluing your gingerbread house together but for making custom decorations as well. Just vary the pressure to make icicles of different sizes.

For a realistic look pipe icicles in varying lengths and thickness. Put the roof pieces side by side with the underside up and the eventual exposed part of the roof down. Add an extra snowy look to some of your icicles by squeezing heavily and letting the icing build up before pulling the tip down. For a classic gingerbread house with a snowy roof apply white icing across the entire surface.

Set yourself up for success with the best gingerbread house icing and you ll have a. Add a line of icing on both sides of the wall joint and gently press together holding until the icing sets. Assemble the gingerbread house with the royal icing. When it comes to holiday traditions few are as architecturally complex and hands on as building a gingerbread house.

Repeat with the two remaining walls allowing the icing to set each time. It s just one cookie cut our and icing is added to make it look like a chimney sometimes you will have extra pieces from other sections that have to be cut down and that s when you can add these. In place of bricks and mortar she uses gingerbread and icing.