4/19/2023 0 Comments Gingerbread house design ideas![]() ![]() I had a blast using the sugar shapes and chocolate molds from bakers party shop to create a little scene.I make gingerbread houses out of pure joy of seeing it all come together at the end. They're easy!! And no matter how simple or elaborate your decoration style is it will still look great. But, I couldn't resist, it just looks so tropical! I love these reusable gingerbread houses. The one misrepresentation here is that no one has a thatched roof like a hut. Wrapped palm trees, colorful lights, and all the things everyone already loves about tropical weather in a fun, simple package. I reigned in all the temptations to go crazy on the house and opted to really capture what Christmas is like in my neighborhood. Christmas is simple and fun, just like this gingerbread house. You don't see many garlands or Santa's in lawns or candy canes in the bushes. The lights are fewer and farther between, palm trees are wrapped, and most Christmas trees are fake. I spent all of my formative years growing up in Hawaii and Christmas was so weird the first few years we lived there. That's right everyone, a tropical gingerbread house! If there's anything out of the ordinary during the Holidays, it's warm weather. Hawaiian Holiday Gingerbread House by Lexi of My Batter Fingers I’m pretty sure this will be my go-to for the future! This house was so fun to design and decorate, and I really appreciated the opportunity to decorate “within my comfort zone” (using candy melts), instead of tackling ingredients and techniques that aren’t within my skillset! And, I think the nontraditional ingredients used here are barely recognizable, because the house itself looks so realistic and classic. The rest of the details were created by piping melted candy coating, similar to how one would pipe royal icing. The trees, candy canes, snowflakes, holly leaves, and a few other accents, were made using silicone or plastic candy molds. All of the decorations on this hosue, with the exception of the sprinkles, nonpareils, and Holiday Cheer Sprinklefetti sprinkle mix that I used for the roof, are made with candy melts. The adorable happy critters and people, and the bright, festive colors of the line are very much “my style,” and similar to a lot of the cake pops I make. So, when Bakers Party Shop introduced a snap-together plastic gingerbread house that I could decorate with melted candy coating/chocolate, instead of royal icing, that was a game-changer! This house was inspired by the colors and characters of Doodlebug’s Christmas Town line of paper goods. I’m not great with cookies (gingerbread or otherwise), or icing, or gluing cookies together with icing. It took forever, and it wasn’t exactly a culinary or architectural masterpiece. One year (our first year of marriage), I made a “real” gingerbread house. Over the years, I’ve created (err…attempted to create) my own gingerbread houses…most of them were the size of school-lunch milk cartons, and constructed from graham crackers. Walking through the display was my favorite part of the event. As a child, one of our family’s traditions involved a visit to an annual Christmas-themed event that included a massive gingerbread house village, with hundreds of houses on display. Holiday Cheer Gingerbread House by Becca of Sweet Whimsy Shop Once you are done for this season you can wash off your house and pack it away until the next time you want to decorate it. The ladies were up for the challenge of transforming the plastic realistic cookie houses that snap together in no time so you can get to the fun part faster.the decorating! You can use store bought candies and other food items as well as sprinkles, fondant and chocolate. It's gingerbread house season and we've got gingerbread house decorating ideas to share with you! Our sweet design team used the Ginger Snap Reusable Gingerbread House Kit to create all of the examples shown here. ![]()
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