Thatched Roof Gingerbread House

Make third batch of royal icing for extra snow for lawn and thatched roof.

Thatched roof gingerbread house.

Not your average gingerbread house. It took a more than two months to build. Bake as directed in the recipe. Decorate roof and house with candies attaching with a dab of icing.

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The bungalow sports a roof of shredded wheat sugar wafer shutters and a porch with candy posts. When the gingerbread comes out of the oven and is still piping hot and soft use a sharp knife to score lines in the cookies. From the stained glass windows and steepled roof of the gingerbread house to the lily pond and winding stream in our gardens there is a enchanting fairy tale feeling which will transform any event into something extrodinary. Pipe icing along both edges of one side wall and join it to one end of both the front and back walls.

The gingerbread house cottage is in the small town of llminster at the heart of hamstone country england. The windows are gelatin sheets and the inside figures are made of marzipan. This gingerbread cottage is complete with a thatched roof and chimney. Fairy tale gingerbread thatched roof cottage not your average gingerbread house.

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Captivate young and old alike with this fanciful heartland gingerbread cottage. Roll out some gingerbread dough and cut into strips slightly wider than the roof of the gingerbread house. The houses feature shiplap and individual pastillage shingles. This is not a silly folly of a house.

It s tucked behind a nut fence and landscaped with ice cream cone trees and gingersnap stones. Fill a piping bag fitted with a 3 tip with 1 1 2 cups of royal icing. Using serrated knife cut each shredded wheat in half along seam line. Use original shredded wheat cereal squares to construct the thatch roof and sesame candy pieces for the porch roof.

Let cool and then rub powdered sugar on the thatched roof pieces. This gingerbread cottage is complete with a thatched roof and chimney. Fill in spaces between rows with icing. The porch can be constructed of pretzel rods and the fake rocks on the side.