How To Support The Roof On Gingerbread House

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

How to support the roof on gingerbread house.

Then carefully start attaching the gum to the roof allowing the frosting to act as a glue. These shallow cuts allow you to curve the roof. Attach roof panels centered on each half of support with icing. Cut them out land then cut some shallow lines into the roof about 1 4 wide.

With every row that you add let the tile slightly overlap the row of tiles below. Position roof on assembled house. Don t cut all the way through the foam see video. Fold the roof of the gingerbread house and place it on top of the gingerbread house frame.

Put your house frame where you plan to display your gingerbread house. Start at the bottom of one side of the roof. Make beams out of gingerbread and support the roof. Grab a string of christmas lights and drop it into the gingerbread frame then plug in the lights.

To start applying your gum tiles squeeze two rows of frosting for every row of tiles. Print out your paper gingerbread house paper template and transfer the walls and roof to your foam core. The sprayed on frosting quickly forms into a solid roofing membrane sealing the gingerbread building envelope. Long piece of cake board and bend in half.

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.