Season's Greetings Gingerbread Cottage #1

This gingerbread house kit welcomes you with two cute designs—just choose your favorite and decorate with four different types of candy, plus fondant and icing. Family and friends will have fun as you gather together to celebrate the holidays decorating a gingerbread house!

Skill LevelBeginner

Ingredients & Tools
Instructions

Instructions

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Make front door. Use icing to fill in arched door. Pat smooth. Cut candy in half and attach for doorknob and at top of door.
Make front windows. Roll out fondant 1/16 in. thick. Cut into two 1 ½ x ¾ in. windows. Attach to sides of door. Use icing to outline windows and windowpanes.
Decorate house front. Attach candy under eaves, alternating colors. Use icing to pipe scallops under candy, positioning points between candy pieces.
Make side and back windows. Roll out fondant 1/16 in. thick. Cut into seven ½ in. squares for windows. Attach. Use icing to outline windows and windowpanes.
Outline house. Use icing to pipe zigzags at corners of house and lines under eaves. Cut candy in half and attach to corners.
Decorate roof. Use icing to pipe three rows of e-motion across each roof panel. Pipe reverse e-motion below each row. Pipe dots between loops. Attach candy. Pipe zigzags on roof peak and attach candy. Pipe icicles on eaves.
Decorate base. Use spatula and icing to ice base. Attach candy for pathway and at corners of house.
Gingerbread Kit used: Gingerbread House Kit 2104-5392