How To Support The Roof On Gingerbread House

These shallow cuts allow you to curve the roof.

How to support the roof on gingerbread house.

To start applying your gum tiles squeeze two rows of frosting for every row of tiles. Pipe tip 4 seam on top peak. Long piece of cake board and bend in half. Spray powdered frosting spf foam roofing is the favored frothy roof system for mid century modern gingerbread designs such as eichler homes.

Fold the roof of the gingerbread house and place it on top of the gingerbread house frame. Cut them out land then cut some shallow lines into the roof about 1 4 wide. Then carefully start attaching the gum to the roof allowing the frosting to act as a glue. Print out your paper gingerbread house paper template and transfer the walls and roof to your foam core.

Make beams out of gingerbread and support the roof. You can put them in through the roof or under the back wall your choice. To support roof cut a 2 x 3 1 2 in. Grab a string of christmas lights and drop it into the gingerbread frame then plug in the lights.

Start at the bottom of one side of the roof. With every row that you add let the tile slightly overlap the row of tiles below. 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. Attach roof panels centered on each half of support with icing.

Don t cut all the way through the foam see video.