Ingredients Mini Village Gingerbread 2 3/4 cups Royal Icing 2 3/4 cups Royal Icing 16 cups batter of your Favorite Cake Mix or Recipe White Decorator Icing - 4.5 lb. Meringue Powder, 4 oz. Egg White Substitute Meringue Powder, 4 oz. Egg White Substitute Tools 12-Inch Disposable Decorating Bags, 12-Count 12-Inch Disposable Decorating Bags, 12-Count Standard Coupler Standard Coupler Round Cake Decorating Tip 2 Round Cake Decorating Tip 2 Standard Round Tip 8 Extra Large Round Tip 1A Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 6 x 3-Inch Aluminum Round Cake Pan, 6 x 3-Inch Decorator Preferred Round Cake Pan, 8 x 3-Inch Decorator Preferred Round Cake Pan, 8 x 3-Inch 6-Inch Round Cake Boards, 10-Count 6-Inch Round Cake Boards, 10-Count 8-Inch Cake Circles, 12-Count 8-Inch Cake Circles, 12-Count Plastic Dowel Rods Plastic Dowel Rods Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula Decorator Preferred 9inch Angled Spatula Instructions Click to mark complete - One day in advance, prepare to decorate. Make royal icing. Reserve stiff icing. Thin remaining icing to slightly thicker than typical flow-in icing (add few drops of water at a time; icing will be ready when a small amount dropped into the mixture takes a count of 18 to disappear. Place both icings in separate decorating bags fitted with tip 2. - Decorate unassembled gingerbread house panels. With cookie pieces lying flat, flow in windows and doors on house panels with thinned icing. For side panels and roofs, free hand door and window area to be filled in. Let dry several hours. - Outline decorations. Using stiff icing in decorating bag, outline windows and doors and pipe dots and lines on edges. Let dry several hours. - Make layered cakes. Bake and cool three 6 in. and three 8 in. cake layers. Trim one layer of each size to 1 in high. Level, stack and fill layers on cake boards for 5 in. high cakes. Ice in buttercream and prepare for stacked construction. Stack cakes. - Decorate cakes. Fill one decorating bag with tip 1A with buttercream icing. Fill a second bag with a coupler and tip 8 with buttercream icing. Attach one decorated house piece to top of 6 in. cake. On cake sides, attach house pieces to sides of cake with icing. Pipe tip 8 bead trees. Pipe tip 1A snow mounds on cake tops and around bottom of houses, using spatula to form drifts. Pipe tip 2 dots on tiers.
