How To Support The Roof On Gingerbread House

Attach roof panels centered on each half of support with icing.

How to support the roof on gingerbread house.

Print out your paper gingerbread house paper template and transfer the walls and roof to your foam core. Grab a string of christmas lights and drop it into the gingerbread frame then plug in the lights. To support roof cut a 2 x 3 1 2 in. Cut them out land then cut some shallow lines into the roof about 1 4 wide.

Make beams out of gingerbread and support the roof. Position roof on assembled house. 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.

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

Long piece of cake board and bend in half.