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We see the same generous smattering of frosting to form the roof with large gumdrops as shingles. Another traditional gingerbread house with some simplistic gilding designs. With more simplistic frosting designs and a broad array of candy, this house is every kid’s dream to eat. The roof is made with a combination of gummies and harder candies, with the roof being mostly made from frosting with some candies thrown into the mix. More gummies provide a colorful walkway with a decorative wreath of more floral candies.
There are still ways to get creative with the decorations that don't require a lot of time or money. With a little prep work, decorating gingerbread houses with your friends or family can be a memorable activity that becomes a worthwhile holiday tradition. And hey, if there also happens to be a little competition involved (maybe the family matriarch or patriarch can vote on the best house?) that's pretty fun, too.
A Large Gingerbread House with Stylish Frosting Ideas
Other possibilities include making a home out of cake, made entirely of cupcakes, or constructed with waffles. For a more personalized holiday touch, you can also make your own decorations, such as holiday table runners, curtains, and tree toppers. You can get creative and use items from around your house to create decorations, like using glass jars to make holiday lanterns or creating paper snowflakes to hang by the window.
Clever use of the gummies for the door walkway as well as arches above the door. Multi-colored candies line the roof, creating a rainbow pattern that is visually very pretty, pairing well with the icing layer of ‘fake’ snow that the frosting creates. The classic gingerbread house complete with your very own gingerbread man.
Gingerbread House Decorating Party
Again, frosting is used to emulate the look of melted snow with gingerbread making up the smoky chimney. The pink Mike & Ikes give this house a Candyland feel with its vibrant colors and clever uses of red Sixlets for the juniper berries. Although it is subtle, the pink in this house stands out when contrasted to the rest of the house. With the frosting mistletoes, peppermint, and gummy trees, you can feel the joy radiating from this house. Before you start decorating, consider how you will create your gingerbread house. You can make a gingerbread house from scratch, which could take many hours or purchase a gingerbread house kit and decorate right away.
Lisa is also dedicated to finding and testing the best ingredients, kitchen gear and home products for our Test Kitchen-Preferred program. At home, you'll find her working on embroidery and other crafts. You can also buy gingerbread kits, which include the pre-made dough, instructions, and tools necessary to make the gingerbread shape of your choice. If you’re feeling more adventurous, you can also buy a Gingerbread Recipe Book and attempt to make your own!.
Marshmallow Snowmen
If you want your house to be genuinely 100% edible, you should not use hot glue. Adding a whimsical, snow-covered roof effect to your gingerbread house is a great idea. A gingerbread house for the holidays is a wonderful tradition to share with family and friends. And with a few simple supplies and some simple decorating techniques under your belt, you’ll be able to turn four cookie panels into home sweet home.
Shingle-style roofs and Rice Krispie treat hay bales also look great with country barns. You can cover the entire roof with mini marshmallows that are either white or in pastel colors, and it’s an easy way for little kids to decorate. You can decorate them and add them to your gingerbread house design in the yard, or add them doing random things for amusement’s sake. You can make stained glass windows by crushing lifesavers and filling the baked gingerbread window with them on a sheet of parchment paper. It features freshly-baked gingerbread covered in thick royal icing for a touch of color.
Peppermint Roof and Camel Chimney with white Frosting Smoke
"Candy like gumdrops, mini candy canes, crushed candy canes, Twizzlers, M&M's, and gumballs are fun to decorate with," he suggests. Mix together an egg, superfine sugar, and corn syrup along with flour and baking powder. Add in a leaf green gel color, then microwave it in a shallow dish for 90 to 120 seconds.
You can use them to decorate other candy because they’re so small, or you can put them on marshmallow snowmen for eyes and mouths. I’ve seen Christmas trees, gingerbread men, gift boxes, and snowmen through the years, so keep your eye out. They have tiny banana-shaped candies that you can add to a tree to make a tropical scene. Since they’re already the shape of small logs, you can warm them up and stretch and roll them a little to vary the shape, then stack them like a little woodpile outside your house.
I pulled out dozens of bottle brush trees, lit some candles, and pulled out all my new cloth napkins and tablecloths from Spoonflower. Set a table with a pre-built gingerbread house for each guest. Leave the houses undecorated or very lightly decorated so they can do the rest. Love gingerbread house-making but not a huge fan of the cookie itself? You can still participate with this Funfetti sugar cookie house.
For my family, I know from years of experience that there’s no chance we are going to try to dissemble and eat this house. Bring the summer vibes with these colorful ice cream trucks that'll have anyone reminiscing about warmer days. Nut-lovers everywhere will be thrilled to put together this tasty treat. Pistachios, pine nuts, walnuts, almonds, pecans, and cashews make up the nutty house. She works closely with the Digital, Creative and Product teams to produce educational videos, recipes and projects for the Wilton community. She is an avid baker and decorator and spends most of her free time experimenting in the kitchen.
Chiclets are small, square pieces of gum that are relatively flat, so you could use them for window panes or for covering an entire roof. You can also cut out small shapes if you use a small pair of scissors, then use those on the house as decorative elements. Peppermint candies that are the traditional round shape can be used individually as decorative elements, or you can do things like stack them together to make a chimney. If you break them into uneven pieces, you can apply them to the iced side of a house to create a stonework look. They can be used for roof tiles, paving stones in the garden, or to create a design on the house walls.
