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The fluffy white frosting on the roof with confetti sprinkles creates a playful touch to the elegant frosting designs on the front of the house. You can then “glue” the pieces together with melted candy or frosting. Adding candy canes, colorful candies, pretzels and other edible decorations to give a festive, holiday feel. This type of gingerbread house can be made to be as simple or as intricate as desired. If you're more familiar with the store-bought, build-it-yourself gingerbread houses, that's OK too, though.
This is another cookie that can be used with gingerbread houses that makes the process easier. I found some animal crackers in the shape of unicorns, and others that are iced in different colors. You can use these in the design of your house, or to make a little gingerbread barn or zoo.
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Put your expert decorating skills to the test with this extravagant gingerbread village. The multiple small details make this particular design a little harder for kids but ideal for über artsy folks. For defined snow details, like frosted windows or sparkling snow, pipe the icing directly onto the window pane. Icing makes magical snow, in that it helps everything stay in place.
With a house-shaped cookie cutter you can get that gingerbread house look without all the effort. Pipe on doors and trim to complete the look (feel free to add candy, too!). A little gingerbread house is allowing you to escape into the joys of Christmas time.
Sweet Gingerbread House Decorating Ideas for Lots of Christmas Fun
Clever use of green frosting, paired with white frosting form the base of the roof pattern. The green icing also serves as the door frame as well as the window trimming, giving the house beautiful holiday greenery. Peppermint candies add more color to the front of the house, with the windows made entirely of purple and pink lollipops. This house makes an excellent addition to your living room, allowing people to appreciate the detailed craftsmanship that went into it. Any kid’s dream as they think of gingerbread houses and with so much variety of tasty candies to eat and best of all, just about anyone can make this house. Gumdrops, hard candies and Sixlets dot the roof, offering you more color than just your typical gingerbread and frosting.
A wonderfully detailed and unique looking gingerbread house with just clever uses of one candy and some frosting. The kisses provide the window accents, the shingles and the lawn decorations, all without a last-minute trip to the store. Plus, this house is lovely for all those that like a little touch of gold as well.
Glittering Sugar Frosting
An inspired use of frosting creates some very wintery icicles along with a beautiful decorative wreath. To round things out are some tasty looking gummy bushes along with lovely use of candied hearts to show the love and care to create this gingerbread house. The sugar encrusted gingerbread house with frosting design has an almost artificial look to it as it has meticulous and hardened frosting and candy details. The sugar adds a hint of glimmer and fun to this unique gingerbread house. This particular gingerbread house would look great as a piece to be shown off, not eaten, within a ceramic Christmas Village collection. In addition to using decorations, you can also craft your own gingerbread house from scratch.
Here are gingerbread house ideas to inspire you this holiday season. Consider what style of gingerbread house you want to build and decorate. Will it be a login cabin, traditional gingerbread house, or unique? Also, think about what type of gingerbread house candy you would like to add.
The classic gingerbread house-made small and compact and an excellent testament of what you can accomplish with just two simple ingredients. Although there are quite a few decorative flourishes, such as the hard candy and gumdrop window accents, most of the house is constructed from just clever use of frosting. With just a few pattern changes, you can create a diverse pattern that mirrors tiles if you only have gingerbread and icing available. Multi-colored candies like Sixlets make for a subtle but beautiful shingle effect that is both visually arresting and tasty as well. If you have a gingerbread house mold that is quite large, this large gingerbread house with stylish frosting patterns and templates can be a sweet inspiration for you. Framing the first floor of the house with large trees and adding a colorful bunch of candies surrounding the house is a nice touch.
Add color to icing as you're adding water to get it to a piping consistency. We prefer using food color gels so thy don't further water down the icing and delay hardening. Pop in just a bit of the gel, stir it up, and add more if you like a more concentrated color. I’ve always wanted to host a gingerbread house decorating party, especially since becoming a mom. This is a great party idea for young kids, but also a solid adult party idea.
Make city skyscrapers with lots of windows to create a cityscape. Using lollipops on sticks on your gingerbread house can add a dramatic look if they’re large ones that are applied to the side of the house. Small, round candy can be used for piles of snowballs if you use white ones, or for a colorful decoration on the house itself. Marshmallows are an inexpensive way to decorate a gingerbread house because they take up a lot of space. Chocolate-covered mini pretzels are cute to use to make gates and fences, or to place over the door of the house as a decorative ornament. Using breakfast cereal like Chex, Froot Loops, Shredded Wheat, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch is pretty common for making gingerbread house roof material.
From the small detail on the window frames, to the entire garden of blue and white flowers, you can quickly tell the amount of detail and care that was paid to this house. After royal icing is added to the house, further drying may be necessary for the decorations to fully set. In a dry climate, royal icing can take an additional hours to dry and harden to ensure that the decorations remain in place. You can create a larger-than-life house by baking rectangles of gingerbread, then assembling them with royal icing.
Skittles are a similar shape to M&M’s, but they’re different colors. I like to do candy houses as opposed to the ones that are more piped, so I use a lot of candy to make different accessories and decor elements. This gingerbread house resembles a haunted Victorian manor with a graveyard. Plus, the addition of candy ornaments makes this creation extra festive.
I pulled out dozens of bottle brush trees, lit some candles, and pulled out all my new cloth napkins and tablecloths from Spoonflower. Set a table with a pre-built gingerbread house for each guest. Leave the houses undecorated or very lightly decorated so they can do the rest. Love gingerbread house-making but not a huge fan of the cookie itself? You can still participate with this Funfetti sugar cookie house.
Keep the dish upside down on a wire rack and, once cooled, put it between two pieces of parchment paper and press down. To put a simple spin on the traditional gingerbread houses, use chocolate graham crackers. To make your gingerbread party go a bit more smoothly, assemble the homes in advance and spend the party decorating.
Chiclets are small, square pieces of gum that are relatively flat, so you could use them for window panes or for covering an entire roof. You can also cut out small shapes if you use a small pair of scissors, then use those on the house as decorative elements. Peppermint candies that are the traditional round shape can be used individually as decorative elements, or you can do things like stack them together to make a chimney. If you break them into uneven pieces, you can apply them to the iced side of a house to create a stonework look. They can be used for roof tiles, paving stones in the garden, or to create a design on the house walls.
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