GINGERBREAD
HOUSES
YOU
CAN
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I have saved
these from magazines, brochures and catalogs. I hope they will help you
with ideas when you
Want to make
to make a gingerbread house for your family!
I do not have
patterns.. Try making your own - you'll be surprised how easy it really
is!
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Christmas 2011
They had a lot of fun, a lot of
laughs...and memories to last forever.
click photos to enlarge
From a Michael's Brochure
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From the Marshall Fields Catalog
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Caroling
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Mr & Mrs Claus & Elves
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Gingerbread house shared by Michelle
I'm not really TRYING to
sell one; since for the right motivation,
it's
possible that I *might* be convinced!
Michelle Mullin
imnebulous1@yahoo.com
Cute idea. Put kids in the windows!
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Artisan Gingerbread
House
Use small
tips to keep this dainty look!
MORE:
Old
Country Home
Gingerbread
Santa box
A
Fairy Tail Cottage w/directions
2 Gingerbread
Houses I've made:
Photo
One
Photo
Two
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Joyce's Gingerbread
houses:
House
1 - For little boys
House
2 - For Santa's reindeer
Church
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Small
no-bake gingerbread houses made of cookies and graham crackers w/directions
OTHER
GB HOUSES
A simple
Gingerbread
house
Little
Red School House
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| Below is a super special Christmas
card I got 12/02 from a friend. I will always treasure it! Sharing with
all of you...see, this can be done! Dolores
Hello...
I found a recipe for a gingerbread
house on your website. I used your recipe and your patterns to make
my very FIRST gingerbread house, at age 23. I guess you're never
too old. My mom and I had so much fun (and some pain) making the
gingerbread house. It was awesome spending time with her and working on
the house. It currently is sitting as a centerpiece for our dining
room table. Our gingerbread house is even featured on our
family's christmas card this year.
I've attached a photo of our christmas card, which, of course, includes
a photo of the house. Please feel free to use this photo and my email
on your website as you see fit. Thanks for helping out a guy and
his mom who hadn't a CLUE about how to make a gingerbread house.
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MY HOME
By Dolores
I used patterns from a book no longer
available
Chord for lights here.
Windows are hard candy inserted before baking. Decorations are done using
royal icing. Santa on chimney is figure piped.
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By Dolores
I used patterns from a book no longer
available
Chord for lights here.
Windows are hard candy inserted before baking. Santa on chimney is figure
piped.
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It is a very simple design...however,
it looks like the front of my church in Whitney Texas
Our Savior Lutheran...by Linda W.
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door is a cookie iced red,
jelly watermelon candies for shutters.
cute little figure-piped snowman
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What You Need:
Foil to make silo dome
Cookie cutters of farm animals
2 14x11-inch pieces of white cardboard
Pastry bag with writing tip and
star tip
Floral clay
6-inch length of cardboard tube
from foil or plastic wrap
White or yellow string to make hay
bales
Patterns
- requires Adobe |
No instructions, sorry
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By Williams-Sonoma 2008
Gingerbread manor is an edible architectural
wonder. Meticulously built and decorated by hand so that no two are quite
alike, the all-natural gingerbread structure is bedecked with gumdrops
and peppermint balls. Delightfully surprising details like the royal-icing
window shutters, entryway lanterns and personalized doormat bring the house
to life. The door mat can be personalized with a name of up to eight letters.
26" x 20 1/4" x 18 1/2" high. $249.95!
It should be very easy to make
a pattern to do this one.
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No instructions, sorry
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King's Arms Tavern
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Bootmaker's House
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Wyte House
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Nicholson Store
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Neiman Marcus $150.00 (2008)
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Martha Stewart Living 2008
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Personalize it!
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Gingerbread Lighthouse
To make this round, bake the gb
on heavy duty foil and as soon as you remove from oven, leay ot over something
you can find in the shape and let it cool that way. I have no patterns.
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By Barbara (Inlow) Whipp 2011
Barbara is teaching our Gingerbread
House classes this year!
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By Barbara (Inlow) Whipp 2011
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SUGARCRAFT GINGERBREAD HOUSE 2011 (Includes instructions)
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CDecorating
ideas. Click pictures to enlarge
HINTS
FOR USING
SUGAR
VEIL SET from the maker of the Sugar Veil pen
Thought you might be interested
in seeing holiday gingerbread people wearing SugarVeil skirts, sweaters,
glasses, hair, etc. (techniques from the new Dessert Garnishes DVD you
carry). Michele at SugarVeil
A few helpful tips for the SugarVeil
Icing you have in stock.
1. When piping, use 1/3 c. boiling water
to 1 c. SugarVeil (this is less water than noted on bag)
2. Pipe finely using a "0" or "1" tip
- even a hairline of Sugarveil can be peeled from greased parchment
3. If lines are sticky, they are not
yet "set"
4. When the mixture is made the day
before, and the lines are piped finely, setting time is usually short,
but to speed setting time:
* Prepare mixture 1-2 days prior to
use
* Place in 100 degree oven, or oven
with light/pilot light on [note: since my oven temp minimum is 175 degrees,
I place the SugarVeil decorations on the stovetop while the oven is on
175 degrees]
* Place in a food dehydrator
* Place in the path of a fan or a heated
air duct **
* Use a dehumidifier in room * Apply
in finer lines * Increase ambient temperature of room
* Use heat lamp overhead (this also
adds a patina sheen) Hope this is helpful
also, FYI - I've been decorating and
dressing gingerbread men with SugarVeil and even cutting out their clothes
from solid sheets of SugarVeil (as shown in the new Dessert Garnishes DVD
you carry) smoothed on a Silpat or greased parchment - so cute and works
great!.
FROM A CUSTOMER 2006:
I just wanted to take the opportunity
to thank you for selling the pre-baked/pre-cut gingerbread house that I
purchased at your store a few weeks ago.
Almost 30 years ago, my sister and
I attended a class taught by then-local home economist Beverly Nye. Using
her recipe and pattern pieces, my mom and I annually baked and decorated
a gingerbread house, much like the one I purchased at your store. Mom always
baked and cut the pieces (the very difficult part) and I did the decorating
(the fun part). In the years since my daughter was born, lack of time had
put an end to this tradition, and in the past couple of years my mom has
not been in good enough health to make the pieces for me. My eight year
old, however, became intrigued with the idea of assembling one thanks to
the Food Network. When we came to your store on December 9th to purchase
some decorating sugars, I spotted the pieces and decided $12.50 was a terrific
price, as I could not bake one any cheaper.
I am pleased to say that the pieces
went together perfectly and my daughter and I had a wonderful time making
the house. I do hope you will continue to sell the pieces in future years
as I will come there to buy them! Thank you so much for helping me to reestablish
this tradition.
Sincerely,
Shari S
Mason, Ohio
Gingerbread
Jamboree
Tools:
Standard Cupcakes 'N More® Dessert
Stand
Holiday Mini Cutter Set (gingerbread
boy used)
Standard Muffin Pan
White Standard Baking Cups
Tip: 3
Cookie Sheet
Cooling Grid
Rolling Pin
Ingredients:
Buttercream Icing
Grandma's Gingerbread
Recipe
favorite gingerbread cake mix
spice drops
mini candy-coated chocolates
Roll out dough. Cut, bake and cool
23 gingerbread boy cookies. Pipe tip 3 dot and outline facial features.
Bake and cool 23 gingerbread cupcakes. Ice fluffy and position gingerbread
boy cookies and candies.
RECIPE:
Grandma's
Gingerbread Recipe by Wilton
Ingredients:
5 to 5 ½ cups all-purpose
flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons powdered ginger
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 cup solid vegetable shortening
1 cup granulated sugar
1 1/4 cups unsulphured molasses*
2 eggs, beaten
Preheat oven 375°F. Thoroughly
mix flour, baking soda, salt and spices. Melt shortening in large saucepan.
Cool slightly. Add sugar, molasses and eggs; mix well. Add four cups of
the dry ingredients and mix again.
Turn mixture onto lightly floured
surface. Knead in remaining dry ingredients by hand. Add a little more
flour, if necessary, to make the dough firm. Roll out on a lightly floured
surface to a 1/4 inch thickness and cut out cookies with Gingerbread Boy
and Girl Cookie Cutters. Bake 6-10 minutes for small to medium size cookies
and 10-15 minutes for large cookies.
If you're not going to use your gingerbread
right away, wrap dough in plastic and refrigerate. Refrigerated dough will
keep for a week, but be sure to remove it 3 hours prior to rolling so it
softens and is workable.
*Substitute 1 1/4 cups light corn
syrup for molasses to make Blonde Gingerbread.
Makes 40 medium-sized cookies.
Royal
Icing to Decorate your Gingerbread Creations by Wilton
Ingredients: Yields 3 cups of icing.
3 level tablespoons Meringue Powder
4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
(approx. 1 lb.)
6 tablespoons water
Beat all ingredients at low speed
for 7-10 minutes (10-12 minutes at high speed for portable mixer) until
icing forms peaks.
Ornaments
With royal icing, pipe outlines
and facial features using Tip 3 and Disposable Decorating Bags. Use Icing
Colors to create different looks. Attach candy canes with royal icing.
Gift Tags
Pipe outlines and facial features
using Tip 3. Attach real ribbon bow with royal icing. Cut a tag from lightweight
cardboard and punch a hole to attach to bow.
Place Cards
Ice area where the name will go.
Add name and trim with Tip 2. Pipe outlines and facial features using Tip
3. Bake a small triangle shaped gingerbread piece to prop gingerbread cookies
up. Prop upright by attaching triangle to back of gingerbread cookies using
royal icing.
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