Gingerbread House Help Please

[Lollipop]

Hi Everyone

I want to make another Gingerbread house for this Christmas, I made my first one last year.
I'm trying to find pictures of it no luck so far but I think my Nana probably took some.

It did manage to stand up my little brother helped me make it (he isnt little little just younger than me ) think we used a bit too much icing to make it stick together because we were worried it wouldn't but it did . Did looked good though because it looked like snow

So this year I want to make another one & make it better than last year I made so much food & sweets last year. This year I am focusing on doing a Gingerbread house, Yule log, Truffles & My bacon & cheese mini puffs (those were gone with in a few seconds of putting them out last year) '


I was wondering if any of you could help me with any ideas or tips for a Gingerbread house as I'm still new to it. If you have any recipes that would be great too

Any templates for a Gingerbread house that I could print out would be very helpful too, I made my own last year & I'm not sure where I put it now lol.

I know it is still awhile till Christmas but I need to plan this house out now so that I can get everything ready, I won't be making it till about the 22nd of Dec though as I will be making my boyfriend help me & he doesn't arrive till the 20th of Dec.

Last year I made glass windows for my house I want to do this again but I want to know if there is a better way to do it. I cut out the window shape in the walls before then filled them in with hard clear but colourful candy so when the gingerbread baked in the oven those also melted. This did work perfectly but the problem is the back of it, I use edible paper on the backs of the window so the candy wouldn't stick to the tray, I tried to get most of the paper off afterwards but it didn't come off easily so the glass ended up being smoky rather than clear.

Any ideas & help would be much appreciated

If anyone has a recipe for a Yule/Christmas log that would be very helpful too

Thank you
:smilepony:

 

[Star_Flare]

Yes! Please post pics of last years if you can find some. We'd all love to see it. I've not made any gingerbread houses before, but I've watched a Food Network challenge where they did and they used clear jello to make the windows. I don't know if that would be easier for you, but I thought I'd mention it.

 

[Lollipop]

I shall have to look that up & see how they did those jello windows No luck with pictures yet but I am sure there are some somewhere

 

[Lollipop]

My Nana found some pictures of my Gingerbread house I made last year, as well as my Yule Log & Gingerbread Man (made him with the left over dough from the house)









(my auntie wanted to eat Gingerbread Man's Foot the moment he got to my Nana's house lol)

You can see what I mean about too much icing on the Gingerbread House

 

[SweetSparkle]

How about some Ponies' candy themed cutie marks as a Gingerbread House idea? For example Minty's peppermints, Goody Gumdrop's gumdrops, Sweet Sparkle's lollipops etc etc :LOL:

 

[Lollipop]

Sounds like a good idea think I know some where that does baby lollipop's lollipops hehe

Thank you

 

[starbeam]

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