Gingerbread House 2010 & Happy Holidays!

This years Gingerbread House stands over 12 inches tall and  features 3 dimensional shutters on cathedral-style windows, two brick chimneys, a covered front porch complete with stairs and potted plants! The little fence and peppermint stick posts are the finishing touches that tie the house together.



For a holiday look I added wreaths to all the windows by baking rounds of dough and gluing on colored sunflower seeds and silver dragee balls with lots of royal icing. The window panes are made of crushed butterscotch candies that are baked right into the cut out dough.

The entire house is sprinkled with powdered sugar for snow and lots of glitter for sparkle. This house took two days to construct: First Day: bake all the pieces and start decorating. Second Day: construction and finishing touches. Here is a link to last years Gingerbread House for comparison. This years house is based on the basic template of last years house with different windows, front porch and extra 3 dimensional touches, all thanks to my Dad's great construction skills. Here is a link to my very first Gingerbread House. Happy Holidays to everyone and thanks so much for looking at my posts!

Comments

[Goodies By Anna]

Hi denis, there is no available template for that hose but if you look up my 2011 gingerbread hose there is a link to the template in the post. Good luck!

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[Denis]

Hello Hello,

I'm am trying to find a template for this gingerbread house I really want to try my hand at making it. If anyone can help locate the template Gingerbread House 2010 I would be very grateful. Thank you

[Goodies By Anna]

sorry no template for that gingerbread house. however, there is a printable template for this gingerbreadhouse:

http://goodiesbyanna.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/gingerbread-house-2011.html

Gingerbread House - 2011

goodiesbyanna.typepad.com

Im kicking off this holiday season with a festive gingerbread house! Each year I try to make my gingerbread house a little more elaborate and difficult that the year before, this years gingerbread house took a week to complete! There are so many pieces that
need to be carefully readjusted...

[Kate]

Hi Anna!
I can't for the life of me find your template for this house! Do you still have it online? I would love to try making this one!
Kind regards,
Kate

[Goodies By Anna]

pdf for template is right in link at the bottom of the page.... says template pdf in huge letters....

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[Emily]

Hi I tried following the link you posted in the comments but I'm really struggling to find the template for this?

[Goodies By Anna]

hi alex,
the 2010 house was a modification of the house I built in 2009 and is a custom template.

If you look at my house for 2011 you can use the below link to a template to build this house:

2011 HOUSE:
http://goodiesbyanna.typepad.com/blog/2011/12/gingerbread-house-2011.html

LINK TO TEMPLATE FOR 2011 HOUSE:
http://www.haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/index506.html

good luck and happy house building!!
anna

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[Alex Castellanos]

Hi i really like your house i would like to know how you made this im a students a Bell Gardens Highs and we are making gingerbread house for an event that where having i would like to know if you can tell me how you did this awesome house Thanks you

[Goodies By Anna]

For the 2010 house I think I used a petal tip. For all the newer houses i just used a round tip. To make icicles you will basically just squeeze, pull down, stop squeezing and pull away.

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[Fay]

Wow, it's gorgeous! I'm almost done with my gingerbread house and I want to finish it off with the snow and icicles. How do you make these with royal icing? (What tip did you use?)

[Goodies By Anna]

Hi Laura,
my dad made the template for me. its actually a modified version of the previous years gingerbread house.

thanks so much for the compliment and good luck with your gingerbread house!
-a

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[Laura]

I'm absolutely in love with things gingerbread house. Is there anywhere I can find a template for this gorgeous piece?

[Goodies By Anna]

thank you! be sure to check out this years gingerbread house!

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[Amelia Fowler]

I LOVE this!

[shane]

what are the deminsions

[Goodies By Anna]

You can find all the info on how to make the gingerbread houses here: http://goodiesbyanna.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/gingerbread-house-how-tos.html
The icing is called Royal Icing and is a combination of meringue powder, water and powdered sugar. This icing can be made very thick and is used to glue the house together as well as the decorations. Good Luck!

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[Jen]

Amazing! I make lots of gingerbread, never made my own house before though, this has given me the kick up the bum i need to make one! Is the white icing just icing sugar and water? anyway of getting it thicker?

[Goodies By Anna]

Thanks Cindy! This was my third gingerbread house so a lot of the building kinks got worked out this time...cant wait to come up with one for next year, my dad is a great gingerbread architect!

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[cindy harris]

Wow! Amazing.