How To Support The Roof On Gingerbread House

Pipe tip 4 seam on top peak.

How to support the roof on gingerbread house. Put your house frame where you plan to display your gingerbread house. Position roof on assembled house. To support roof cut a 2 x 3 1 2 in. Make beams out of gingerbread and support the roof.

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. Fold the roof of the gingerbread house and place it on top of the gingerbread house frame. The sprayed on frosting quickly forms into a solid roofing membrane sealing the gingerbread building envelope. Print out your paper gingerbread house paper template and transfer the walls and roof to your foam core.

You can put them in through the roof or under the back wall your choice. 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. Spray powdered frosting spf foam roofing is the favored frothy roof system for mid century modern gingerbread designs such as eichler homes.

Long piece of cake board and bend in half. Grab a string of christmas lights and drop it into the gingerbread frame then plug in the lights. Then carefully start attaching the gum to the roof allowing the frosting to act as a glue. Cut them out land then cut some shallow lines into the roof about 1 4 wide.

Don t cut all the way through the foam see video.