How Do You Make Gingerbread Shingles

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How do you make gingerbread shingles. Apply the circles one at a time to the icing. First use a pencil to lightly draw a door and windows on the box and then use a box cutter to cut them out. How to make gingerbread cookie shingles for a gingerbread house. Stay safe and healthy.

I opted for an arched door and two arched windows on the front of the house. I also cut square windows on each side of the house. Pipe another line of icing just above the first row and add more circles this time offsetting the circles so that each circle is centered where the two circles below touch. Make a thick log of dough and slice it into six sections.

To attach the gingerbread shingles to the roof pipe a thick line of royal icing directly on the roof. You can make gingerbread house shingles for either the roof or the house siding using sticks of gum glued together with royal icing or one of the edible clays like fondant or marzipan rolled out thin and then cut into the desired shingle shape. Better homes gardens better homes gardens. This will be your white dough.

Using gingerbread for the decorative elements as well as the basic walls and roof really make an affordable alternative to candy. I left a cross shape intact in each window to mimic a window pane.