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DECORATION
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The
fun part of making a gingerbread house is the decoration!
If you have made gingerbread houses before you have
no doubt an opinion about whether they should be decorated
before or after assembly. Try both and see what you
prefer. I prefer to do it before assembly, as it gives
me greater freedom in decoration. It is rather difficult
to ‘paint’ with small sweets on an upright
wall, and far easier when the wall is horizontal on
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Decorations are only limited by your imagination. Try to
choose sweets that are small in size, as it will stick better
to the house. You can make a theme of different coloured
sweets of same type, like wine gum, or you can go for a
particular colour of lots of different sweets. Chocolate
and biscuits are also great so is any type of cake decoration.
Use your imagination, but try to have some sort of plan
in mind so you don’t run out of a particular colour
or type of sweet.
Make icing of 1 egg white and 5 drops of lemon and then
stir in enough icing sugar to make a firm but smooth paste.
You can buy white icing in a tube for easy applying and
you can also buy cake decoration in different colours. |
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For
the icing decoration, use a pastry bag with various decorating
tips or a knife. Or, for easy disposable bag, fill a small
plastic bag with icing, white or coloured with food colouring,
cut a tiny hole with a pair of scissors in one end, or simply
use ready made icing in tubes. You can easily fill in gaps
and smooth construction errors with icing and sweets. To
apply sweets, dab a small amount of icing to the underside
of the sweet and hold in place until set. For a line of
small sweets, like small silver pearls, make a line of icing
sugar, pour the pearls over and press down carefully. Shake
off any excess pearls. |
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If
you want the walls covered in icing, you may need to thin
the icing with a few drops of water and then spread gently
on the sides before assembling. Leave to dry completely
before you continue decorating. Toothpicks work well for
helping correct errors, keep some handy. Wipe off smudges
or drips with a clean, damp paper towel. Don’t forget
to decorate around the house too! White cotton wool looks
great as snow and with a few trees made of marzipan or icing
the scene is complete. |
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