Gingerbread House 2013 — Winter Wonderland

 

 

This years gingerbread house is a 21" tall confection that I've named "Winter Wonderland". After showing my dad different pics from Pinterest of house styles that I liked he put together an amazing template that created this over the top gingerbread house.

 

 

 

This year I used a different gingerbread recipe and it is fantastic for making gingerbread houses. Shapes stay nice and sharp and it bakes up really hard and dry. We also ended up "gluing" the house together using two methods: sugar glue for the initial hold followed by a generous coating of royal icing to seal everything together.

 

 

 

I found the sugar glue and gingerbread recipes on this great website of a fellow gingerbread house maker. His site is filled with all kinds of useful info and recipes for making spectacular gingerbread houses! Check it out here.

 

 

 

The windows of the house are made with crushed Werthers Butterscotch Candies. The awnings and the base for the wreath are made from rolled gumpaste. Everything else is made of gingerbread and royal icing and various candies and dragrees. The house is finished off with a dusting of powdered sugar "snow" and a sprinkling of glitter.

 

 

 

For more tips and ideas for making your own gingerbread house take a look as some of my previous houses: Gingerbread House 2012 , Gingerbread House 2011, Gingerbread House 2010, Gingerbread House 2009, Gingerbread House 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some pics of the construction of this years house:

 

 

Paper template of house.

 

 

Baked pieces waiting to be assembled.

 

 

Construction begins!

 

 

Construction continues and details are piped on to house.

 

 

Roof shingles are sketched on with chalk before piping with royal icing.

 

 

Lighting for house and inner structure using wooden dowels for support.

 

 

Wrought iron fences piped with royal icing on clear plastic sheet.

 

 

Gumpaste awnings attached to house with royal icing.

 

Comments

[Goodies By Anna]

hi maggie,
i use a recipe made by Ginger Art on gingerbreadexchange.com. Its called construction grade gingerbread dough. You have to create a login and password in order to use the site but there are lots of gingerbread house templates and other useful info that make it worthwile.

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[Maggie]

Hi just wondering what recipe you use for the gingerbread

[Goodies By Anna]

sorry, my dad made the template but we used this house as the reference, hope this helps!
https://www.etsy.com/listing/81518287/faux-gingerbread-house-in-the-victorian

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[Rose]

Do you have the template available somewhere? I would love to make this it's a fantastic design.

[Aprill]

Bravooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!

[Goodies By Anna]

holy crap, LOL! Thanks! :-)

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[leendadll]

holy crap, that's amazing!!!

[Goodies By Anna]

thanks D! :-)

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[Goodies By Anna]

thanks rosie!

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[Rosie]

Amazinggg!! I love it. Thank you for sharing how you did it. This really is a labor of love, no kidding. I bow my head to you.
Thank you!

[donna demarest]

Wowza! Anna does it again with another charming and fab gingerbread house!! Love the amber windows and the piping work is amazing!