How Do You Design Patterns For A Gingerbread House?
Are you planning to enter a gingerbread house in a contest? Do you have a family tradition of making a gingerbread house? This year, make an original architectural design for your gingerbread project. You can make a gingerbread house in any style as long as you plan ahead and test the design with heavy cardboard and tape. Then, you can use the cardboard pieces as cutting guides for your dough. Just bake it according to your recipe and put it together using an egg-white based frosting. Decorate with little pieces of candy, pretzels, cookies, and nuts. Consider that a gingerbread house is a freestanding structure, so when you design the walls and roofs, you must reduce the picture of the house, cathedral, castle or other building to a series of rectangles, triangles and squares. The outside walls and roofs must have supports on the inside. Usually, the roof is supported by a triangular peak. There may be beams on the inside made from long pretzels or crackers on top of which you can lean
