Get the color you want!
Sometimes the exact color shade is needed for a cake, cookie, or gingerbread house! This is the best color chart I’ve found for how to obtain a desired frosting color.
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Category Archives: Gingerbread
Heidi’s Haunted Gingerbread House
There is something wonderful to be said about decorating a gingerbread house for Halloween!
While I love, love, LOVE the splendor of a white Christmas, and all that goes with it… Santa, reindeer, red and green everything, and WHITE snow that just warms my heart… there is something wonderful to be said about decorating a gingerbread house for Halloween.
(more…)St. Andrews Gingerbread House
St. Andrews gingerbread house; inspired by a real house in Eugene, Oregon
The St. Andrews House is a favorite house of mine. Simple and yet majestic, with grand front columns made from giant candy cane sticks.
(more…)Royal Icing – Gingerbread House Glue
The Ultimate Gingerbread House Glue
A quick Google search will provide a plethora of recipes for Royal Icing, used to construct a Gingerbread House. They are all pretty much the same with small variations in amount of water, which will always be a variable from day to day anyway.
(more…)Construction Grade Gingerbread Dough
Literally baking wood in the kitchen!
After what feels like a lifetime of trying different gingerbread dough recipes, looking for the perfect dough for constructing a gingerbread house, I think I may have the perfect recipe.
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