Gingerbread House Made Out Of Cake.
Decorating By tawnyachilders Updated 7 Dec 2005 , 2:33pm by gegon
Hi,
I had a request for a cake to look like a gingerbread house. Has anyone ever seen or done a cake like this? I think I can figure it out except, how would I do the eaves of the house?
I would just stack 4 or 5 cakes and then carve out the roof part...then ice and decorate
That's what i thought also, but i wanted the eaves to protude like a gingerbread house.
I was thinking about you using the Wilton stand up house pan and just decorating with brown BC and trimming everything like a gingerbread house?!
http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E3191DF-475A-BAC0-53BA3BD42B6F8C98&fid=3E32B957-475A-BAC0-52A033E22009FA95
i didn't think of that, maybe that will work. thanks
Why not make a square cake and then actually build the gingerbread house on the outside? Live cover the cake in frosting and stick gingerbread to it and decorate as normal?
Ok, so cut out the roof part and then let two peices of fondant that are a little bit bigger than the roof dry really hard. Then, once they are dry and you iced you cake, place the fondant squares on the roof part and (since they are bigger) they will protrude 
I would go with the Wilton stand up house pan but maybe bake 2 of them and make one of them the front and the other one the back. That way you'll have a bigger house. I find that the Wilton pan is somewhat thin. Also you can decorate it with light brown or chocolate BC and cover the roof in gingerbread cookies for them to look like tiles on the roof.
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