How To Support The Roof On Gingerbread House

Attach roof panels centered on each half of support with icing.

How to support the roof on gingerbread house.

The sprayed on frosting quickly forms into a solid roofing membrane sealing the gingerbread building envelope. Put your house frame where you plan to display your gingerbread house. These shallow cuts allow you to curve the roof. With every row that you add let the tile slightly overlap the row of tiles below.

Spray powdered frosting spf foam roofing is the favored frothy roof system for mid century modern gingerbread designs such as eichler homes. Print out your paper gingerbread house paper template and transfer the walls and roof to your foam core. Long piece of cake board and bend in half. Cut them out land then cut some shallow lines into the roof about 1 4 wide.

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. You can put them in through the roof or under the back wall your choice. Start at the bottom of one side of the roof. To support roof cut a 2 x 3 1 2 in.

Pipe tip 4 seam on top peak. Fold the roof of the gingerbread house and place it on top of the gingerbread house frame. Then carefully start attaching the gum to the roof allowing the frosting to act as a glue. Grab a string of christmas lights and drop it into the gingerbread frame then plug in the lights.

Position roof on assembled house.