Make Gingerbread Shingles

Cut the candy wafers.

Make gingerbread shingles. Next glue on the embellishments. Apply snow to the roof. The gingerbread house facade. Using gingerbread for the decorative elements as well as the basic walls and roof really make an affordable alternative to candy.

With lightly floured 1 inch round cutter cut at least 120 circles to make shingles from dough and transfer to large parchment lined cookie sheet spacing slightly apart. Use a small circle cutter to make the circle shapes. See our edible clays page for more info. Well more gingerbread that is.

Put 1 2 cup hot water in a small glass bowl. Gingerbread siding as trim was most popular in the mid to late 1800 s when the economy was booming and money wasn t an issue. Glue house to the cardboard base. Glue the icicles on the edge of the roof.

Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until firm in center. Building a gingerbread house doesn t have to be a complicated affair but one thing it does require is time. And then assembling the structure take a few days if done carefully if you re pressed for time though there s a shortcut we love. Photo by nancy andrews.

Let the candy. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees f and line two 9 by 13 inch pans with parchment paper. Prepare cake mixes as directed. If necessary reroll scraps and continue with cutouts.

During that period wood was the material of choice to make gingerbread siding out of. Candy wafers tutorial make your own gingerbread house shingles recipe for candy wafer dough. Glitter the door and windows and embellishments. How to make gingerbread cookie shingles for a gingerbread house.

Decorative roofing materials played a major role in gingerbread cottage construction. You can make gingerbread house shingles for either the roof or the house siding using sticks of gum glued together with royal icing or one of the edible clays like fondant or marzipan rolled out thin and then cut into the desired shingle shape. Here the porch s red painted cornice trim lures attention to its shed roof s fish scale shingles. Instead of four walls and a roof a gingerbread house facade.

Paint the house with the gingerbread paint. Divide between the pans and bake as directed. Glue the house together. Make the cardboard base.

Coat with cooking spray. Adhere the roof to the house. Bake at 375 degrees but split up the dough circles into three small batches. Dust your surface lightly with cornstarch.

Start by rolling out your gingerbread dough just as you would to make the larger pieces of the house. A subdued palette calls attention to this home s distinctive lines as it protects the wood from insect and. Make a thick log of dough and slice it into six sections. One charming inexpensive alternative is a shingled roof made out of gingerbread.