How To Support The Roof On Gingerbread House

Grab a string of christmas lights and drop it into the gingerbread frame then plug in the lights.

How to support the roof on gingerbread house.

Then carefully start attaching the gum to the roof allowing the frosting to act as a glue. 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. Spray powdered frosting spf foam roofing is the favored frothy roof system for mid century modern gingerbread designs such as eichler homes. Pipe tip 4 seam on top peak.

Cut them out land then cut some shallow lines into the roof about 1 4 wide. Print out your paper gingerbread house paper template and transfer the walls and roof to your foam core. Don t cut all the way through the foam see video. To start applying your gum tiles squeeze two rows of frosting for every row of tiles.

You can put them in through the roof or under the back wall your choice. Make beams out of gingerbread and support the roof. Start at the bottom of one side of the roof. The sprayed on frosting quickly forms into a solid roofing membrane sealing the gingerbread building envelope.

Fold the roof of the gingerbread house and place it on top of the gingerbread house frame. Position roof on assembled house. With every row that you add let the tile slightly overlap the row of tiles below. These shallow cuts allow you to curve the roof.

Long piece of cake board and bend in half.