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Sweet Treats Gingerbread House

It’s gingerbread house time!

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The inspiration for this one came from an unlikely -or likely, really, 😉 place… This adorable felt gingerbread house through Pinterest, made by BoBo Babushka:

I love the way Irene used cookies as roof tiles and stuck lollipops in the window troughs.

My version is slightly different… smaller heart openings with peek-a-boo red, disco dust and gum paste lollipops on toothpick sticks.

The sweet decorations on each side of the house were essentially mirrorred… large blue gumballs, tiny candy sixlets, and different-sized, hand made mushrooms and cupcakes.

I wanted to create a whimsical, dessert-themed, gingerbread house of sorts.

With donuts to be found all around the house…

slices of cake topped with mini macarons…

and the odd gingerbread man hiding here and there.

The base included a little cut-out circle spot to place a little light (battery operated), for a cosy night.

Won’t you come in for some tea and cookies? 😉

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If you’d like to make a gingerbread house:

If you’d like to use the template I used for this house, you can find it in this post here.

Here are a few videos for you on making royal icing for gingerbread houses and how to put the house together (please reload the page if you can’t see the videos below):

How to Make Gingerbread House Royal Icing:

How to Put a Gingerbread House Together

Sources for Candy

My favorite places to find candy (in no particular order) are:

  • Old Thyme Confections ~ They ship and have an amazing array of candy. Thanks to them for providing some of the candy for my house!
  • Candy.com ~ Another source for an endless variety of candy. Thanks to Sue for this interview on Sweetopia!
  • Bulk Barn (local store)
  • Amazon.com

*You should know that although I have worked with a few of the companies in the examples above, I only recommend what I truly love and stand behind.

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How to Make the Lollipops, Mushrooms, Macaron Cake and Donuts

There are so many talented people on YouTube! I watched polymer clay video tutorials to find out how to make my edible versions of the lollipops, mushrooms, the macaron cake and donuts. I used gum paste instead of course. Click on the words below to find the videos on how to make each item:

… and anything else I’ve forgotten to mention, please feel free to ask in the comment section below.

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Thanks to Ellie of Ellie Kistemaker Photography for coming over on extremely short notice to help me take some photographs of my gingerbread house!

Like the one above which was also used for a group calendar collaboration!

Speaking of which, here’s your chance at winning something!

Thanks to Marlyn of Montreal Confections, who organized a group calendar project where other cookie decorators and myself were in charge of creating cookies for each month of the year (or a gingerbread house for my month, December). The result is so much fun, I love what everyone came up with! And you have the chance to win a copy of the calendar!

Here’s just a taste of what you’ll find:

So cute! Check out the sites of all the cookiers involved (below), you’re going to find beautiful cookie creations!

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Cookie Calendar Giveaway! CLOSED

Prize:

One copy of the Cookie Calendar, pictured above.

 

How to Enter: GIVEAWAY CLOSED

It’s easy. There are 5 possible ways of entering. Pick one, pick all – it’s your choice!

1. Let me know in the comment section below, that you’d like to win!

 

2. Like Sweetopia on Facebook and leave me a separate comment here letting me know you’ve done so (or have already liked on Facebook).

 

3. Tweet the giveaway, including @sweetopia in your tweet, and leave a separate comment here letting me know you’ve done so.

 

4. Share the giveaway on Facebook and leave a separate comment here letting me know you’ve done so.

 

5. Pin a photo from this post, tag @Sweetopia ~ Marian Poirier in your pin, and leave a separate comment here, letting me know you’ve done so.

 

 

 

 

The winners will be chosen randomly at random.org. The contest closes at 7pm EST on Sunday, December 16th, 2012. I will notify the winner via email.
CONGRATS to Heather, comment 170 for winning the calendar!

Thanks to everyone who entered and Happy Holidays!

xo,

Marian

Don’t miss out!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  3. Hi I’d love to know how you made the red “sugar” trees at the front of the gingerbread house? Or do you buy them like this ? Thanks I love the houses they’re all gorgeous!
    Simone

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  23. Beautiful gingerbread house Marian. I love all of the sweet little details, especially the layer cake, lollipops, and the cookie roof. It is fabulous.

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  30. Ohh Marian, I L O V E today’s post!!!
    I love that gingerbread house, it is so so so adorable and full of details (you know how much I love details lol).

    Those polymer clay videos are allllways great eh, and your outcome with gumpaste is just way too cute to be true. Especially the cake, LOVE IT!

    Since I am such a huge fan of lights, it was especially awesome for me to see the house has a little light in it.

    To answer your question:
    I WOULD COME IN for some tea and cookies!

    Thanks so much for sharing, I really have to start making one!

    love, xoxo..
    niner

    🙂

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  37. I am a fan on Facebook, and I would love to win this inspiring calendar! All of these lovely people have inspired me in so many ways…this is my best Cookie Christmas ever! 🙂

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  43. Hi Marian,

    I was wondering what speed specifically you used on your kitchen aid to mix the royal icing…(ie—do you consider low to be speed 2?) Thanks.

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  46. Hi Marian,
    I’d love to win. I’m a fan on Facebook, I pinned, I tweeted and I shared on FB. A bit overzealous perhaps! 🙂 Love your blog! Anna(The Sweetest Tiers)

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  47. @ Michaela: I don’t have a mixer in front of me, but if memory serves me correctly, the lowest setting says ‘Stir’, then the next speed is 2. Either way, the lowest possible setting on your mixer. Hope that helps!

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  48. beautiful cute and very detailed chingerbread house,so much time and effort you put into it. love the shingels on the roof!
    love to win the cookie calendar!
    ML

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