A few weeks ago, I had baked this year’s gingerbread house. And, even though I thought I’d find the time to assemble it, the days kept passing me by. Last night, I finally decorated it and this afternoon, I did a fast job of assembling it, too! USUALLY, I decorate it with chocolates, cookies, and special candies, but this year I decided to decorate it as if it were a Lebkuchen cookie–just gingerbread and frosting—wish I’d had almonds!!
It’s my magical house…summer on one half and winter on the other (smiles). I would’ve liked a bit more color, but it’s fun to change things up a bit. I certainly do NOT usually do them in just white. In the past, I have used Necco candy wafers to be the tiles for the roof and a wafer conical ice cream cone for my trees. I would ice them green and decorate with tiny ball candy. Also, I usually assemble and THEN decorate. This time, I decorated the pieces and then assembled.
I decorated last night and let the icing set. I used royal icing. Decorator’s icing would’ve been too soft when assembling.
I used a dollop of icing to hold each piece in place. I had to use “things” to help hold everything in its position (smiles) until the icing firmed up!
Roof panels and chimney already on.
I used mini shredded wheat for the “hay”.
The side of the house. This was the fastest decorating job, but it’s cute. At first I was going to do ivy, but I couldn’t find the green dye I was looking for, so this is an imaginary flowering vine. LOL!
I was going to have a candle burn inside it this year, but the gingerbread is too soft from the humidity in the air and the heat hardly being turned on. Then I was going to put a battery light inside so the light would flicker in the windows. But, I can’t get my hand in and out of the door that easily!! I also thought of cutting a hole in the bottom of the cardboard and inserting a lightbulb, alas…another year!!
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