Decorating the House

Once you have the walls assembled, the roof goes on. This again requires two people, to hold in place until the icing starts hardening. Otherwise, the roof pieces may start slipping off.

After the roof icing had hardened, we started adding the dormers, and putting on the roof tiles. We used Big Red Gum, cut into pieces, for the red roof on this house. There were two advantages to using the gum. One was that it was lighter than using cookie tiles or large candy pieces. And second was that the gum gave off a really great cinnamon aroma, even after a few days.

We also started by decorating the base of the house. We used broken brown Necco wafers and white royal icing. For the fireplace, we used pieces of cut red licorice and icing. The shutters on the windows were made with brown sugar wafer cookies. We cut them to size, then split them down the center (where the filing is), so they were thinner.

The tree in the front yard was made by using 3 waffle cones and icing. We trimmed the bottom one, so it would sit straight.

The rest of the house was decorated with candy canes for the front porch, white icing and gold & silver balls. After most of the house was decorated, then we put down a layer of white "snow" icing over the foil.