"glue" For Gingerbread Houses?

Decorating By sunshine4U Updated 29 Nov 2006 , 3:45am by moydear77

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sunshine4U Posted 28 Nov 2006 , 10:15pm
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I'm making a bunch of gingerbread houses for our school bazaar on Saturday and I was planning to make Royal Icing for the "glue" but at the moment I don't have any cream of tartar in the house (and the roads are in pretty bad winter driving condition so I'm trying to avoid going out -- esp. with the kids! LOL)

Can I make Royal Icing without the cream of tartar? Would it still hold? OR is there some other way of making "glue" that will work for these houses??? These houses are relatively small --- somewhere between 6" - 12" tall at the most.

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Momof4luvscakes Posted 28 Nov 2006 , 10:21pm
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Do you have any merainge powder?? That should work.

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nglez09 Posted 28 Nov 2006 , 10:21pm
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Of course you can!

Cream of tartar is for Martha Stewart's icings! icon_biggrin.gif

3 Tablespoons Wilton Meringue Powder
1 lb. (4 cups) confectioners' sugar (about 1lb.)
6 Tablespoons warm water*

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7yyrt Posted 28 Nov 2006 , 10:36pm
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You could use sugar syrup like making lollipops. Be careful around those kids, though!
Sugar burns are BAD!!!

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sunshine4U Posted 28 Nov 2006 , 11:26pm
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No, I don't have merange powder -- but it definately is going on my shopping list! Guess I've always been making the royal icing the "hard" way! LOL

7yyrt, thanks for the tip about sugar syrup. I will give that a try!

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moydear77 Posted 29 Nov 2006 , 3:45am
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Melted chocolate.

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