best decorations for gingerbread house

welcome to how to cook that i'm annreardon ... merry christmas everyone ðÿž today i'll be attempting to make a minigingerbread house in my teeny weeny kitchen. i had some dough left over inthe fridge from making my big gingerbread house so i thought we'd giveit a go using that. scoop out some of your dough onto some non-stick bakingpaper and roll it out you can add a little bit of flour here to stop itsticking to your rolling pin. then add your template on top and cut around itusing a knife and i'll put the recipe details and the template on thehowtocookthat.net website and there's a link to that below. remove the templateand slide that carefully onto a baking

tray. light your oven and place that in tobake and you want to repeat that process for all of the other pieces there youhave two walls two ends and two roof pieces. while they're baking let's take abreak and open up some presents ... what's inside this little gift bag. oh look atthat it's a cute little owl ornament he can go over there. now what about thisbig present from under the tree, undo the bow take that off what are youhoping to get under the christmas tree this year for yourself? undo the tape ...i'm having a hard time unwrapping this i think i'll just have to rip the prettypaper so that i can get inside. oh my look at that can you see what it is? lookit's a blender with a little blender jug

awesome! that can go over there too - thatmatches my pink mixer perfect. mmm i can smell gingerbread it must be done. lookat that that's looking good a nice golden brown yum! once all the pieces aredone you can put out the oven. phew look at that smoke just as well the mini kitchendoesn't have a miniature smoke alarm. to make the royal icing place egg whitesand icing sugar into the bowl of an electric mixer and whipthat up until it's thick and glossy. place that into a piping bag fitted witha round nozzle and if you fold down the top of the bag it's easier to get thestuff into the bag without making a mess. lay out the gingerbread walls flat oncake board so you can see where the base

of them is going to sit. then you want topipe royal icing around the base and up the sides of the front of the house andalso at the back of the house so we can join it all together. lift up one sidewall and then the other one, then lift up the back wall and the front wall and popthem into place making sure it's all straight. pipe icing around the top andthen add the two roof pieces into place and look at that we have a house but wecan't leave it plain we need to decorate it. i'm gonna pipe lines of icingdiagonally across the roof one way and then back the other way so it has thelittle sort of diamond crisscross pattern on it. now we just need somethingcolorful like m&ms and i want to add

one of those at each of the littleintersections. this icing is so small that's drying so quickly i'm having toadd a little bit more icing onto each one so that they'll stay and then justkeep adding them all over the roof. now i'm gonna use some melted chocolate formy door just piping it on up and down like that. now that's still a bit plainso let's add some jaffas now i know not all countries have jaffas so ifyou don't have them they're like round with a hard crispy shell and thenchocolate on the inside and it's orange flavored i really like them. that workswell just to cover the join at the ridge there. now let's put some candies aroundthe front door just to define that a bit

more and make it a little prettier andthen i think some mints would look good. let's add them i think above the doorjust like that and one on each side. then i think i'llhave to use an m&m for the door handle that looks better. now for some candycanes to make it extra christmassy just tip those out of the packet and then cutthe hook part off using a knife. add some royal icing and then put the candy caneinto place on the side of the house. if you want it to look snowyadd some icing hanging down from the roof. we were chatting in my lastgingerbread house video in the comments about who actually has snow at christmasand it seems for a guaranteed white

christmas we all need to visit daniel inalaska or there was also plenty of snow in the northern parts of sweden, michigan,canada or i guess he could always visit the north pole!add some m&ms for a path and some more snow around the outside to cover thecake board. then sprinkle that with a little bit of edible glitter just tomake it all shine and your miniature teeny weeny gingerbread house is complete.special shout out to leo, ali, popsy dragonsphere, sak,i not so twins andkatie for requesting a miniature gingerbread house. click here to go to mychannel page, here for other teeny-weeny videos and here for full-sizegingerbread houses and here for the

latest video. write all your requests inthe comments below, make it a great week and i'll see you on friday ðÿž„

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