How To Make A Curved Gingerbread Roof

Hi im new to gingerbread house making.

How to make a curved gingerbread roof.

So for instance to make a curved roof you could just bend and fold the wire mesh to the right shape and place it on a sturdy cookie sheet. Saved by tessa scott. Pick the gingerbread up off the baking sheet still warm and pliable wear oven gloves and drape over the shaped metal. Then just lay the flexible silicone baking sheet on top place your rolled out gingerbread dough on top of that and bake as usual.

Can you tell me how to achieve the shape. Curved things are not the way to go for a structurally sound dwelling. Do you recommend cutting your shapes before or after the dough is baked. Martha stewart makes a gingerbread house with a copper mansard roof modeled after a savannah georgia second empire house.

Day 2 make your stiff royal icing assemble your gingerbread walls let dry for an hour assemble the gingerbread house details and add candy. Make sure that the total width of the segments is more than the 360 degrees circle to allow for shrinkage and some extra to cut the edges to fit. If you cut the can s lengthwise in thirds or so you can drape rectangular strips of dough over them with only some bend which will put only little gravitational stress on the soft dough during baking. Stsapph posted 15 dec 2008 4 44am.

It will dry into the correct shape. Curved roof gingerbread house timeline day 1 make your foam core template bake your gingerbread pour in isomalt windows and let the pieces cool overnight. I love the downward curved roof. Gingerbread house designs gingerbread house parties gingerbread village gingerbread decorations christmas gingerbread house gingerbread cookies sweet home candy house edible creations.

Doing it this way eliminates the problem of the gingerbread sliding off your metal shape in the oven. With the help of the pasternak sisters she shows how to achieve the maximum visual effect with just a few easy tricks. People also love these ideas.