How To Support The Roof On Gingerbread House

Use supports like you would for a real house look at the way houses are made real houses and that s where you ll put the supports for the roof.

How to support the roof on gingerbread house.

Fold the roof of the gingerbread house and place it on top of the gingerbread house frame. Position roof on assembled house. Attach roof panels centered on each half of support with icing. To support roof cut a 2 x 3 1 2 in.

Grab a string of christmas lights and drop it into the gingerbread frame then plug in the lights. Print out your paper gingerbread house paper template and transfer the walls and roof to your foam core. Don t cut all the way through the foam see video. Long piece of cake board and bend in half.

With every row that you add let the tile slightly overlap the row of tiles below. Then carefully start attaching the gum to the roof allowing the frosting to act as a glue. Pipe tip 4 seam on top peak. To start applying your gum tiles squeeze two rows of frosting for every row of tiles.

These shallow cuts allow you to curve the roof. Make beams out of gingerbread and support the roof. Put your house frame where you plan to display your gingerbread house. The sprayed on frosting quickly forms into a solid roofing membrane sealing the gingerbread building envelope.

You can put them in through the roof or under the back wall your choice.