Gingerbread house (how to assemble and decorate)

[Angelina Pryanikova]

First I'll show you my second and third houses, then I'll tell you from what and how.



My usual dough, gingerbread - honey, sugar, egg, flour, spices, soda. Normal icing. This is the White House. Red - lacquered walls, roof under protein filling. The white house went because the glaze was liquid ((((but the red one, according to the advice from here, glued it - first the protein with lemon juice to the peaks, and then mix the powder there with a spoon and a mixer at a minimum speed until smooth. Covers quickly, keeps its shape, after about ten minutes I put the roof on and after 20-25 transferred it to the base.

Angelina Pryanikova, smart girl! beautiful New Year's houses!

Angelina Pryanikova, class, especially the first one liked

[Pluss]

Hello everyone.
Finally got around to the house, take




I will add, the house - the walls, covered with chocolate with a hard brush on several layers, the roof - Hungarian glaze, the fence - chocolate, the grandfather and the snowman, a waffle picture, a tree with a cut-down flower, chocolate hemispheres under the snow drifts, small Christmas trees and decor - chocolate, windows made of purchased caramel like this 🔗

Pluss, cool! And what details do you have? It seems not asterisks. Are Santa Claus and a snowman real or professional?

Pluss, very beautiful, from what windows?

Pluss, charming house! and the tree is awesome! seems so voluminous and fluffy !!

kolobashka, merci .. tree - cutting down a flower, it seemed to me more interesting there than a star. Grandfather and snowman waffle picture. Taranolka, ATP, windows made of broken store lollipops (God forgive me) such as 🔗

DaNiSa, THX .

Taranolka, amazing work, and without jambs anywhere in our business.

added a little description under the photo

[Taranolka]

And I finally finished mine.
I promised drawings, but I won't post it, then I remembered that I had screwed up with the roof, I had to saw off a lot. And in general, I did a lot of rework in the process. I planned to put a substrate on the house under the roof, but when I started doing it, I didn't like it, I did it without it. It turned out that the front and rear roof slopes are on the walls, and the end ones hang, without a lower support.









The diameter of the dish is 45cm, the house is about 30x30x30.

Taranolka, two-storey buildings generally amaze me! great house!

DaNiSa, well, it is relatively two-story, did not risk it and made it from solid panels, according to the principle of one-story.

Taranolka, large-scale work! And how is it that such huge walls and roof have not sagged anywhere! Everything is smooth.

Alena2007, he's sooooo hard. I originally did not make it for food, but if you knock on it, if you knock on it, the sound is like on plywood
I found another photo of the process, the roof exhausted me a lot.

Taranolkalike a real wing, tell me ?!
Luxurious mansion. And I still can't bring mine to mind.

Taranolka, Olga, cool house !!! : bravo: five plus!

kolobashkait seemed like it would never end

[ElenaVT]

Hello dear Craftswomen! Thank you very much for your advice and inspiration !!! Today I made 3 sets of gingerbread houses according to Gerda's recipe.

ElenaVT, It turned out very nicely! And most importantly - how smoothly everything is painted! I'm afraid to even paint mine ... After the crooked gingerbread cookies that I spoiled with my shaking little hands ...

[Pluss]

Pluss, very beautiful house !!!
Taranolkahow much work, bravo !!!
ElenaVT, wonderful houses !!!
when will I paint and assemble my house

[ElenaVT]

ElenaVTwhat soulful compositions!
Taranolka, this is yeah !!! And I don’t get such roofs How many times I’ve done it right from the patterns, but they don’t adapt in any way.One house had to drink the upper part adjacent to the large roof, and then I look at the finished house - and there the coffin was stuck on the side as if. And laughter, and sin ... That's how the house stands, I don't sell it.

For the second day, I sculpt large structures by my own standards. The weight of the stone house is 2300g, the red one is 2700g.

Yrochka, Ira, your works are always a masterpiece !!!

Yrochka, cool houses! I liked the coloring under a stone and Christmas trees with a fence made of icing.

Yrochka, Well, the houses are generally super class! That's how many kinds of sweets had to be put there!

Yrochka, I calculated the roof for a long time and then sawed the same amount
The houses are really cool Well, not houses, cottages
I didn't understand what the stone was made of. Until I increased it, I thought it was laid out from nuts ... Increased, not nuts ... What is this interesting ???
And the deer, the deer is gorgeous !!!! How is it done?

[ElenaVT]

ElenaVT, dear ones

Yrochka, I calculated the roof for a long time and then sawed the same amount
The houses are really cool Well, they are not houses, cottages
I didn't understand what the stone was made of. Until I increased it, I thought it was laid out from nuts ... Increased, not nuts ... What is this interesting ???
And the deer, the deer is gorgeous !!!! How is it done?

[Vei]

And here I mastered embroidery a little squint, but I liked it))
Sizes 20-19-21, Gerda dough.

the house is wonderful! embroidery was successful
for the future, make a stand, preferably also made of gingerbread, so the composition looks more complete, professional and richer.
And if you don't plan a lot of "snowy" icing decor, then glue the house not with white icing, but with colored ones in the color of the walls, so it will be more accurate.
I would add something else here: either white decor (snowflakes, etc.), or colored (I would throw garlands with colored lights or colored serpentine on the walls). And then the walls are empty, something is missing. Well, that's for my taste. It's just that you have such a wonderful neat house that you involuntarily begin to speculate about it. Bad work doesn't inspire hints))

Vei, I didn't want to overload it, I thought about snowflakes, but I was afraid to draw them clumsily. And there will be a stand, there was not enough dough
Thanks for the comments.

Olga, make icicles from icing around the perimeter of the roof and add something above the door on the left and right. Don't worry - you won't overload, this is not an outfit from Chanel))) here butter porridge you can't spoil the decor)))

And here is my whole village at the moment.

Taranolka, oh, how beautiful, and show the rest of the houses.

Vei, I'll try tomorrow. Icing is over, today it's too lazy to do
Vei, So I have already shown three in this thread, and the small ones were molded in between times, while the big ones dried
Here, one has been photographed, the second has not yet been photographed.

Taranolka, Very neat! Well done!!!

Taranolkayour village is amazing!
I involuntarily feel like a sloven, because this year I decided not to make houses

[ElenaVT]

Today I finished decorating my compositions with the houses, added a snowman and a squirrel made of mastic, put a surprise in the house - M & M's (mmdes), and the gingerbreads took shape.

ElenaVT, the village looks quite like winter! and beautifully designed everything, smart girl!
but the gingerbread cookies seem a little sloppy due to the fact that the nozzle is thick

ElenaVT, very nice! Straight village alive))
Can you see the snowman closer?

Taranolka, I won't be able to see my snowman closer, because I have already distributed everything.But here is a link to the master class in which I made snowmen:
🔗

[Aliya83]

Hello! May I come to you with a debut? House 9/14/15, Gerda's dough

Aliya83, you can always visit us! Welcome! the house is beautiful and neat!
I would also add greenery to the Christmas tree and it is so very beautiful, and this delivery of gingerbread really gives such a finished look to the whole composition

DaNiSa, Thank you. Of course, there is work to do.The line does not fit where it should be - out, napkin on the stand vriva. There is simply no experience.
What do you think is the best way to add greenery to the tree? To make a drawing with a brush or just pour all the greenery?

Aliya83what gorgeous shutters! So neat

houses

What large-scale houses!)

the houses are lovely! the latter reminds me of a hut with a thatched roof
How did you do glass? everything needs to be written, since you exhibit your work, especially the size and from what test

thanks girls! very nice!

[Angelina Pryanikova]

Oh what new interesting houses! I like! Brought another house for consideration. There are many sins, I can see it myself. But I like to do, I will still and not yet bring it to an excellent performance. I can't get icicles out of icing, well, in any way, at first they stretch with some kind of snot (sorry), and then they break off and that's it.

Angelina Pryanikova, beautifully designed! in such tones it looks very advantageous at the expense of icicles - can you make them too thin? Well, in the sense why are they under their own weight and at the same time fragility break, or are they too long?

SO! WHERE AT LEAST THE APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS OF THE HOUSE, AND ALSO FROM WHAT TEST THE HOUSE IS MADE!

Alena, well, I already wrote the dough, I didn't take it from this forum. What should I call him?
100 grams of sugar
50 grams of honey
1 egg
Spices (about a teaspoon), orange peel.
Heat to dissolve sugar, do not boil.
Then there is 0.5 tsp. soda, stir while rising. Then pour in 50 gr. butter. Interfere. And flour - 250-300 gr, I add it by eye until it is soft and does not stick to my hands. And in the refrigerator. On the trail. day you can bake. 180 degrees 9-11 minutes.
House dimensions -10 * 15 * 15 cm, purchased molds

Angelina Pryanikova, here is a real ice hut, thanks for the idea
Can I still size the house?
Oh, everything, I saw

[DaNiSa]

Girls, please tell me, I will have a biscuit house, but I want to decorate it like gingerbread in this style, do you think it is possible to make snow and icicles from wet meringue and not from icing?

Why not? I think you can, will you store it in the refrigerator or what? Is it still a cake or just a house?
from a wet meringue, I twisted cones for roses and they dried out at room temperature and lay for many days. and nothing happened to them

DaNiSa, it will be a composition of houses, Christmas trees, snowmen, etc. I just have a prejudice to icing because of raw eggs, I also think that MB will do, roses are twisted from it, really icicles won't work.

[Alexandra]

Good evening everyone! Today I baked the details of the future house according to Gerda's recipe. I will collect it tomorrow. Now I tried on the parts to each other, and it seemed to me that they were damp, moist in the middle (I baked for 8-9 minutes at a temperature of 170 degrees), for some reason it seems to me that the parts will break during assembly. I am making a house for the first time, and I do not know - it should be so or is it my imperfection? Maybe I didn't finish them? Please tell me what can be done in this case ...

Alexandra, if they are wet, it means that it is definitely not baked, in general the gingerbread cookies from this dough are very dry and hard, they should not be very soft. can dry them in the oven?

I did it like that once, to crackers. Well they seemed damp. So watch your eyes.

[Viya]

Hello gingerbread fairies!
Let me ask three questions to all knowledgeable and experienced, please advise:
1) What do you put or what do you lubricate the baking sheet with when you melt the candy caramel in the windows of the gingerbread houses? I grease baking paper grows. oil and still the windows stick and the paper has to be soaked with water.
2) Is it necessary to glaze all the parts of the gingerbread near the house from the "seamy" side and the clearing-stand including, so that the gingerbread does not dry out in 2 months of standing and admiring. Or we decorate the front sides with painting, and the wrong sides remain, as after baking ...?
3) And in the end, how to revive this delicious gingerbread house for use after aging for 2-3 months so that everyone's teeth remain intact?
I baked blanks for the first small house according to Gerda's recipe, decorated them, and now I will collect them.
Waiting for answers, tips, recommendations :) Thank you.

Viya, I made my first house with candies in the windows. I did not smear the paper with anything and did not pour flour. when the gingerbreads cooled down everything went well. it seems to me that it depends on the quality of the paper. I was making gingerbread the other day and bought cheaper paper, which I regretted a hundred times. because I barely tore off the gingerbread. I only smeared the glaze on the front side for a beautiful shine. on the 5th day my house was eaten, but I read that you need to cut the apple into slices and together with the house in a bag for a couple of hours it will become soft. in short, you need moisture because in a month it will dry out.

Viya, try the foil, it should not stick

).
New batch of my houses) 4 days of work. Tired, but very happy with the result.

just amazing!

[Pluss]

Hello everyone.
Probably it's better to insert a photo here ...

The gazebos are made for a charitable purpose, the money will go to gifts for bedridden patients ... (diapers or disposable sheets and muffins)

Gingerbread "Angel to every home"
gazebo with "Craquelure" coating, Royal icing, isomalt windows, Angel of chocolate.
Base diameter 27 cm
The height of the Arbor with the Angel is 25 cm

Pluss, cool!) and how is this coating done?

Pluss, Ira, beautiful gazebo !! By the way, they showed it to me today as a sample!

Marinusik, merci white gel dye + starch + dye, apply to the gingerbread and warm up with a hot hairdryer

DaNiSa, thank you, you are the third person to write to me today

[Vei]

Girls, thanks for the inspiration and your advice!



This is my first house. Made together with my daughter (6.5 years old) for a New Year's exhibition in a kindergarten. Everything is in a hurry, because the youngest child often woke up exactly when we needed to "build" the house. My daughter helped me measure the food, roll out the dough, cut out the parts herself. It was very convenient to assemble the house with her. She held the parts, and I looked to see if there were any irregularities in the parts at the joints. Then my daughter covered the details with icing, she made the roof from icing and pillows. All this was conceived to spend joint leisure time for a favorite pastime.

The dough was made according to Gerda's recipe. For some reason, it took less flour, but the dough blurred a little when baking. I took the pattern from the site 🔗

The dimensions of the house are 13 * 7.5 cm, the height with the roof is 11.5 cm.The stand is 25 cm in diameter.

I cut the details with a knife and grinded them down with a grater. Ising did according to clear instructions from Elizabeth Vei prescription from Eddie Spence. Aisinga made 38 grams of crude protein. It was enough for minimal decorations.

Yes, this house with a stand took half of the dough according to Gerda's recipe.

Katya, it's a great house. My whole hobby for gingerbread and then cakes also began with a house for an exhibition in a kindergarten))) Now this is my favorite job.
I think that it would be possible to decorate the house with something else colored: marmalade, M & Ms, just colored sprinkles from the supermarket, candies. In general, something that would add color and celebration. My daughter and I sprinkled that very first house with colored sugar balls, decorated with gel crayons, and the roof also with a red ribbon.

Vei,
Elizabeth, thank you! I bought different sprinkles, but my husband said that the two colors match very well and it turned out very stylish. We decided that we would decorate the house brighter, and add Christmas trees, snowmen.

My whole hobby for gingerbread and then cakes also began with a house for an exhibition in a kindergarten))) Now this is my favorite job.

Yes, it so happens that an insignificant event can change something in life.

with the initiative! we have so many newcomers this year! so nice!
Kate, and thank you very much for making your post so exemplary!
girls, well, see for yourself! what dough is indicated, the size of the house is indicated, how much dough it took is indicated, even where the pattern was taken from and what icing and how much it was used is also written!
in general Kate, you are a big plus for this !!!

Thank you! it's so nice to hear that!

Greetings to the gingerbread makers!
I am just another newcomer, three weeks ago, carried away by gingerbread dough and houses, and here are my houses for hansel and Gretel :)


The dough is one version of the dough from Gerda, and the second is from the dough of Larisa Volnitskaya. I liked both, maybe Larisa's recipe is a little tastier.

very fabulous houses turned out! in 2 already the windows are glowing!

The popular Irish hobby chef Donal Skehan recently released a great video about the gingerbread house on YouTube. The link, probably, cannot be written, but you can easily find it by googling
I really want to try, but I'm afraid that my crooked hands will ruin everything already at the stage of building walls)))

you can not only link, you can insert the video itself into the message here and show it. Even necessary))

[ValentinkaB]

My gingerbread houses. I decided this year to give all my relatives a New Year's fairy tale)

ValentinkaBhow I liked the Christmas trees
the houses are alright, and the icicles, oh!

Valya, very beautiful houses! natural fairy tale!

[ValentinkaB]

ValentinkaB,
Viya,
Girls, you've got a real fairy tale! Thanks for the ideas!

here is my first house. dough according to Gerda's recipe, size 9x14x16, stand 15x14 cm
icicles didn't work

pretty house! as if covered with snow! if viewed from this side))
but the icicles did not work, because icing is too liquid for them, so they all merged

[Husky]

Girls, tell me. When you glue the details of a house with icing, what consistency should it be? And how to glue the parts together?

Husky,
Lyudmila, I made icing according to the recipe given by Elizabeth Vei by this link
https://Mcooker-enn.tomathouse.com/index.php@option=com_smf&topic=178044.0
With this icing, I glued the parts right after its preparation. I smeared the wall of the house well and pressed it tightly against the other wall. In this thread, I read advice to prick carnations with tailor's pins and leave them until morning. The pins were not useful to me. Everything was holding up so well.

Husky, Luda, did icing according to the same recipe, squeezed out the strip and glued it, propped it with glasses on the sides. let it stand for 2 hours, then glued the roof, put a bowl under it, otherwise I strove to leave

Girls, thanks. That is, we make a basic recipe and use it to connect the details of the house. Isn't it necessary to thicken icing more?

Lyudochka, I do it with basic icing, but after the connection I fix the details with tailor's pins, it's more convenient for me, after an hour everything grasps tightly and I take out the pins. There are no holes left from them, and the work is facilitated

[pssaha]

Girls, and syudy came .. Straight "got sick" "with these gingerbread)) .. How many daughter is growing, promised her a gingerbread house ... all hands did not reach ... This year we made it !!! Koneno did everything on Christmas Eve, so she didn't decorate much ... What I did, I did)) Accept))
Dough for chocolate cookies with butter and cocoa. Dimensions about 10 * 17 cm ... Icing by eye quickly kneaded with a fork)) Windows balls on the Christmas tree-isomalt, spruce with green mastic covered)




These are my kids))

pssaha, Tan, a good house, well done, made the kids happy! How the kids are alike, just one face! Prettyiiiieeeeee

Nansy, thanks!) Especially for the kids))

pssaha, Tatyana, the house is wonderful !! Natasha, right, kids just like copied eyes so huge!

thanks, Alain!

[Aliya83]

Here is my "mini village". Gerda's dough. It took less than half. Height 10cm

Aliya83, wonderful! New Year's houses !! so smooth, neat! clever !!

You are a carbon copy)) pretty!))

[Happy New Year to you!]

Dear girls! Clever girls and craftswomen!

Happy New Year to you!

I wish you the fulfillment of your desires, a clear sky over your head, great health, and happiness in your families!

Here, prepared for the new year

Happy New Year! With the most magical and joyful holiday! Let this year be fabulous and full of pleasant impressions and surprises. Let it be unforgettable for you! Good luck, patience, love, faith, health and happiness in the coming year!

Girls, do not judge strictly. but I did it this year too. Of course not what I wanted, but oh well. Gerda's dough, width 11cm, 13cm, height 16cm, roof 16cm * 12, stand 25cm * 17cm. unpretentious decorations in our "village" store, nothing was found better

Vera, a very interesting and neat house !!! Such an old one !! I like!

Vera, what is strict there - not strict! the house is beautiful, bright festive New Year's! and around the whole composition is done. smart girl!

thanks girls!

[Lada2014]

Good afternoon, craftswomen. How to make icicles, I won't find something. Realized what to stick separately and then? right.

no no! immediately from top to bottom you pull out an icicle of whatever length you need, icing is basic, everything keeps perfectly!

Lada2014, I immediately do right on the house.

Elena, no, they are pulled down from the icing droplet, that is, as if repeating the process of its natural origin. To get a beautiful icicle, you need to get used to it.

thanks for answers!

[Yulia]

Girls!! First of all, Happy New Year everyone !!
I finally got out of the bushes, the time to unsubscribe appeared just now !!
I will probably write a lot! sorry, it has accumulated
I want to say a huge thank you to EVERYONE in this thread !!! Your information is invaluable and examples are inspiring !!!
In general, after reading, I decided to make houses and cookies for them on NG for the FIRST TIME !!
T. h I just need your assessment, as people who understand this topic, what's what!
I accept any criticism and advice, because I strive for excellence !!!
here are my creations
This is my firstborn - and I forgot to make doors for him




This one came second



for the third, for some reason, on a pink background after drying, it was as if oil stains appeared on icing. It seems not really, but I could see ((
I understand that roses are not a New Year's theme, but I washed the fill in one place and had to get out. They helped out roses from the store, especially since there was a house for grandmother .. and in the inscription the hand trembled ((




finishing the fourth house almost on my knee



in general I planned 7 houses, but mastered only 4
but the truth was still a lot of cookies for them - it took a lot of time for them ..
Hell according to Gerda's recipe
and even more .. if my houses seem familiar to someone, then I will immediately say that I do not claim authorship - I licked ideas off the Internet!

Yulia, the view is awesome.

JuliAnna81, beautiful houses !!!

JuliAnna81, Julia, and you are not fooling us ... girl_pardon: what are they first ???? very beautiful, neat and professionally made !!!!! Smart girl!

I'm not cheating in any way
It's just thanks to you that I decided and probably discovered my talent.
And I want to take into account my mistakes! They are still there! It seems to me that the mesh on the embroidery is not very even. And you probably need to fill it with dots more fully.

And in turquoise it seems to me a little roughly turned out monograms - they ask for thinner.
And one more conclusion made that such gingerbread decorations should be made and given to those who really expect and want it, because not everyone shares such a passion

JuliAnna81, Julia, the houses are very beautiful!)) Tell the truth, what did you fill your hand on?))

Houses are awful! Simply amazing!

I only made about 50 cookies and that's it. All sorts of curls for cakes a little bit ...
It was problematic for me to feel the right icing consistency. Well, it's still not very convenient for me to work from the cornet - the hole does not come out of a round shape when cut, and it gets tousled ((and I still have not all the numbers ...
You should have seen my last year's "list" of cookies - a disgrace

And also, don't fall for my mistake!
I made a hole in the roof by dividing the distance incorrectly. As a result, all roof halves were made according to the same wrong template. And when I folded them in a mirror, I got a displacement of the holes relative to each other. Fortunately, there was a margin in the width of the roof for the cut ... in general, I got screwed up with the roofs
Conclusion - measure seven times !!!

JuliAnna81, fabulous houses !!!

JuliAnna81, Julia, the houses are amazing! a creative person is immediately visible! smart girl!

Kokoschka, Ljna, ledi, pssaha, tuskarora, Merri, DaNiSa
Girls, thank you !! It's a pleasure to get recognition from people who understand this !!

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[Piano]

I have never made a gingerbread house, but I can't show it. Gingerbread University of our city for the exhibition, a group of creative people baked. Photo of the original. Photo of a gingerbread.

big job! the masters are great!

Piano, yeah! Painstaking work!!! How much diligence!

[Maria]

Hello, dear craftswomen, I congratulate everyone on Merry Christmas!
And I bring my Christmas house to your judgment. This is my second attempt, the first was a year ago. Ogrehov, of course, the sea, but maybe someone will find the idea useful:
"The road to the temple"




The Mazeshkalach dough, I love it dearly and I planted all my friends, a wonderful recipe, the whole composition took one and a half servings, icing according to Eddie Spence, a whole portion left and another 1/3, tinted with gel dyes. The size of the house is about 13 * 17 * 19, the wall and the substrate are about A4, a little larger, I tried to fit them well into the candy box.
Now about the mistakes, suddenly someone smart and experienced will tell you how to avoid this:
1. The largest parts (stand and wall) went in bubbles during baking, while the smaller parts came out very well, and even, and smooth, and fluffy.
2. After decorating the wall, not letting it dry, she began to transfer it to another place, so the sky turned out to be a crack, but here it is her own fault, she did not take into account that the gingerbread is soft, and there is nothing to blame on the mirror if there are not enough brains.
3. With icing, too, not everything is as it should, the basic one seemed to be good, but by the end of the decoration it stopped holding its shape, it blurred a little.
Tell me how to avoid all this? Well, if you indicate other errors, I will be very grateful!

Blimey! gingerbread with a 3D picture! smart girl!
about your mistakes
most likely the dough is unevenly mixed, on large parts such flaws and pop out in the form of bubbles
did you decorate for a long time? if everything is in one day and still blurred, then icing is most likely not finished

Blimey! gingerbread with a 3D picture! smart girl!

Thank you for the praise, very nice to hear!

did you decorate for a long time? if everything was on the same day and still blurred, then icing is most likely not finished

Decorated in one day, somewhere from lunch and watch until nine in the evening, probably, I really did not finish it off, I will carefully monitor this.

most likely the dough is unevenly mixed, such flaws will come out on large parts

I will take into account, I will try to knead better.
Thank you so much for your advice!

Maria, the idea with a 3d picture is cool !! I myself recently made a cake with a backdrop-picture of gelatin mastic, but I would never have guessed with a gingerbread! My fantasy is generally tight
But at the expense of icing - I had it for almost a week while I used it all and, of course, it changed. And if it was spreading on the same day, then either the base one was not finished off or it was diluted too much, if it was diluted ... it also changes slightly from the warmth of the hands. The last time I made the base one thicker, and for drawing I put it off and brought it to the desired consistency. It used to be like I looked, everything came out right on the test, I filled in the cornet, I started to draw, and it blurred a little. Then I put it back into the bowl and added the base one. In general, this subtle moment has not yet been worked out to perfection for me, but perhaps you will get such infa

JuliAnna81, Yulia, thanks for the comment! My imagination is also tight, I carry all ideas for a very long time, I spy on the Internet a lot, so I shared. And for the advice on icing, thanks, I have very little experience in this matter.

suvoyka, Maria, Very unusual!! The idea is great !! There are disadvantages. Apparently, from the fact that the plates led the drawing made by icing also walks. It's a shame that not all photos are enlarged. Those shown on the side are difficult to see. But the idea is great. As for bloating, the girls have already discussed this issue. Look HERE
On the second question, you yourself wrote everything correctly. There is no need to rush, you need to let the icing dry well. Especially if large areas.
3. Icing must be constantly mixed. And if it becomes a little softer, then I just add a little powder and mix in icing.

Husky, Ludmila, thanks, for the comment and the link, I will try to dust with flour. I wrote down about icing, I read that you need to mix it up periodically, but as soon as it came down to it I forgot everything. And the drawing walks both from irregularities, and from my lack of experience, I dabble in gingerbread a couple of times a year, always for Christmas, well, sometimes I do it for close friends, this cannot even be called an attempt to learn, just pampering for the joy of my family, of course , I want it to be smoother and more accurate, but there is absolutely not enough time for improvement.

The idea is great !! And about the mistakes, well done, what I wrote) ...

Girls! Merry Christmas!

Christmas is a time of miracles
Christmas is a time of gifts.
Merry Christmas! May from heaven today
The stars shine especially brightly.

May your dreams come true
And adversity will pass by.
May all thoughts be pure
And may the Lord keep all loved ones.

And my second house

And my second house

house fairy tale! backlit! quiet beautiful fairy tale ...

[JuliAnna81]

JuliAnna81, Yulia, great job !! Very neat. I just can't believe that these are the first works of such complexity. I liked the shape of the houses very much. If possible, write down the dimensions of the parts. And if there is a drawing, then it will generally be just a gift for all of us. I looked at your work for a long time and the only thing I noticed was that the hand was not yet full and therefore the straight lines (drawing of windows, doors) were not so clear. But all the rest of the work smooths out these shortcomings. Keep it up!!!!

Piano, Elena, a great job has been done! I wonder how long this work takes?

Cixlida, Natasha, the house with the "light on" looks very nice. How did you make the windows?
I didn't fill the windows with anything this year. Lazy.

[DaNiSa]

DaNiSa, Alena, thank you) I could not even imagine how the painting of the gingerbread, and especially the houses, drags on. I began to use them as decoration on a cake, here is the first one:

Husky, Luda, thanks) As you can see, I am using your Christmas tree master class to the fullest)
Inside the house there is a candle - a tablet in an aluminum case.This year I made gingerbreads and houses for the first time, I'm interested in everything) I bought small candies in Lenta, split some of them, and put some whole and baked all together on parchment Paklan, it does not stick to it. There is no difference between whole and broken candies when baking. Lollipops of different colors behaved differently, for example, the yellow bubbled, and the red just spread gently. And yet - it is better to make windows on both sides, in the first house I have only on the facade, with a lit candle there is little beauty)

[Drawing of a birdhouse]

Drawing of a birdhouse
Natasha, thanks for the caramel tips.
This year I also made three New Year's cakes with houses and gingerbread decorations. They sent me a photo and asked to do something similar. I asked the customer, what if I make all the decorations from gingerbread? She agreed. Imagine, I received gratitude from her on the same day, as soon as the cake got to her house. I called and said that I was terribly happy. And her sister sent poetry as a token of gratitude. So nice !! I made them two identical cakes. It was their desire. Only the houses were painted a little differently. These are the two cakes.



And I made another cake for my niece. This one was done in brown.



I took all the drawings for painting the roofs from the forum, from Natasha Nansy. For which many thanks to her !!
In general, now making cakes and gingerbreads is not the main thing in my life, but you can say so by the residual principle. Grandson, home and then work. Therefore, there is a sorely lack of time for reflection and implementation. Therefore, the houses without illumination (the candles did not fit into the prepared holes, there are no candy windows, and in addition to everything the LEDs purchased for such purposes and specially removed to remember where they lie, I never found) Well, what we have, we have ...
Actually why am I writing all this. This time when I was making houses, I wanted to make them in the form of birdhouses. That is, their shape is in the form of a trapezoid.
I tried to find patterns on the Internet. Did not work out. Strange, I thought that what is what, but this "good" in the network is full, "like shoe polish". Maybe again, due to lack of time, I could not find such drawings.
It seemed to me that there was nothing complicated, and with the help of a drawing of one panel, I would cope with such a house.
oh I was cruelly mistaken.
The first two houses, the ones for the two sisters, were completely ruined due to the incorrect calculation of the roof length. Ate-ate brought the roof to the ends of the walls. There could be no talk of any icicles. They simply had no place to hang from.
For the other two houses I decided to make a full-fledged pattern, taking into account all the mistakes of the previous time.
Yes Yes!!!
Again, I was cruelly mistaken.
The roof was barely long enough for me. The truth is already without such tension, cutting and tightening parts. Just back to back.
I still had to sit down and strain my little head (but there’s no time to think at all) And try to figure out why I didn’t have enough allowances for the roof again. I gave them 1 cm on each side?
Everything turned out to be very simple.
Since the shape of our trapezoid is wider at the top than at the bottom, then the calculation of the roof had to be done based on the width of the top + 2 cm for the allowance.
I did it based on the width of the bottom of the house parts. Here !!!
I will expose here a drawing of my last house, but taking into account ALL my mistakes.



Please note that the floor is smaller than the walls by 0.5 cm on each side.
Also, the side walls are smaller than the front and back by 0.5 cm on each side. This is so that the joint (seam) is on the side, and in the front it is clean, if it is not possible to connect the walls neatly.
Hope my building efforts New Year's mansion drawing, useful to those who also have little time to think over the details !! : girl_wink forgot to write that she made gingerbread from Lera Sahara's dough. She rolled out thinly 2-3 mm. After lifting, it was about 5mm. On average, a house with this size weighs 240g.
Installed on a cake with a diameter of 28 cm.

I began to use them as decoration on a cake, here is the first one:

perfectly performed everything! beautiful New Year's cake! the house is neat!

[Husky]

Husky, Luda, thank you very much for the drawings! I'll go to the link at the beginning of the Temko I'll give you for your calculations!
you have wonderful houses and cakes! seem to be simple and at the same time everything is neat and completely winter-like

my second house

Very dark photo (((But handsome came out, right ?!)

here is the first

Natasha! A beautiful house and trees !! You can do without cake!))

Drawing of a birdhouse

Luda, awesome houses and the work itself has been done! Our workaholic !!! Thank you for sharing with everyone !!!

Very dark photo (((But handsome came out, right ?!)

yeah, it's a little dark, but with a candle inside, you can't see how it glows in the light)

Girls, I congratulate you on the holidays !!!! All good health and good luck in all matters !!!!
And these are my gingerbread houses, an order for the ESTEL company

And this is a photo of a gingerbread box, maybe the wrong topic .... I apologize in advance ..)))