How Do You Make Gingerbread Houses Using Graham Crackers?
Gingerbread houses are a fantastic Christmas tradition that the whole family can help make. Some of the work is fiddly, but young hands can definitely add the decorative elements. Make ahead and put it out on the table or in a decorative corner for Christmas Day. • Work space preparation. Collect all of your needed materials into a well lit work area. • Protect any surfaces that you don’t want crushed candy or icing on. Cheap vinyl table cloths work well, as does newspaper. • Set out the various candies into bowls. This saves the hassle of opening bags of candy with sticky fingers later. • Place your pie tin upside down in front of you. • Make the Royal Icing. Aim for a consistency of stiff peanut butter. • Spoon icing onto freezer bags. Place large spoonfuls of the Royal Icing into quart-size zipper style freezer bags. Avoid regular thickness sandwich bags, because the plastic is too thin and will not hold up to the punishment of being used as a pastry tube. Approximately one cup of i
• Work space preparation. Collect all of your needed materials into a well lit work area. • Protect any surfaces that you don’t want crushed candy or icing on. Cheap vinyl table cloths work well, as does newspaper. • Set out the various candies into bowls. This saves the hassle of opening bags of candy with sticky fingers later. • Place your pie tin upside down in front of you. • Make the Royal Icing. Aim for a consistency of stiff peanut butter. • Spoon icing onto freezer bags. Place large spoonfuls of the Royal Icing into quart-size zipper style freezer bags. Avoid regular thickness sandwich bags, because the plastic is too thin and will not hold up to the punishment of being used as a pastry tube. Approximately one cup of icing per bag is sufficient. • Close the bag and squeeze the icing into one corner. Close the bags. Clip the corner. Snip off a 1/4 inch of one corner of the icing filled bag. You now have an “icing tube”. Squeeze the icing toward the snipped corner and use it to d
