It's really simple to fix the icing in the box. Just add a little bit of water and it works just as good.

To add to the first tip, making additional icing is good. If you want a snowcaked rooftop of different colors of icing, having extra is good.

I never thought of decorating the sides before putting them together!! Mind blown! ❤

Omg that one on the end is so gorgeous 😍

PUT HIM BACK TOGETHER HE DIDN'T HAVE TO DIE LIKE THIS!!! On a more serious note, this is so beautiful and I never would've thought of this. My ma has been getting more and more into cooking because she watches cooking shows and she loves when I send her these kinds of shorts!

In Sweden it's common to use melted sugar as glue. One just has to be careful since it burns if you get it on your skin. And don't burn it😉

Another tip if making one from scratch. For the last min or last few seconds add crushed up starlight mints to the window openings. They will melt and when the gingerbread walls cool down they will harden and make a stained glass affect. Just make sure on your baking sheet you have a heat resistant silicone baking mat so the candy part doesn't stick to the baking sheet. Learned this tip/trick in my baking class in college working in my culinary class. When I had to make a huge intricate gingerbread house for my final exam.

Какая красота! Вы - большая молодец! Реально - глаз не оторвать- много деталей, очень аккуратно выполнена работа. Красота одним словом.

The whole point for buying the gingerbread house is not to start prepping a separate icing mix. Instead keep a glass of hot water beside you and put the bagged icing they provide in the hot water. This will soften the icing and make it more malleable to apply on your gingerbread house

Thank you so much ❤

Thank you as always for the decorating tips, they're very helpful. At the end of this video, it shows a gray plaid roof. I would love to know how you created it. Do you have a video showing how you did this?

I have no experience with making or using royal icing but the last gingerbread house I made was rock hard and really pretty... when I tell you that thing could've survived a hurricane and we had to demolish it with a surge hammer... this is gorgeous though I'm having fun just watching your work ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I like to prop the gingerbread house with supports, as the icing dries and stabilizes.

Tbh this gingerbread house looks WAY too good to eat it! OMG, HOW CUTE! & I'm not even into celebrating Xmas, but this house just looks fantastic.

My papa always made us fresh icing too! Good times!

Love the tips. Thank you!

You should make the gingerbread too! I used to make houses every year. The recipe is easy and you can architect your own designs.

Your gingerbread house is absolutely amazing! 😊❤

Wow the colours!!

LOVE the idea of each person decorating a piece of the house, and then putting it together!! Brilliant!! 🎅🎄🎅🎄🎅🎄

Going to work on our "castle" gingerbread house tomorrow! I have your royal icing recipe and it's never failed. Merry Christmas!!!

Beautiful design,i love it.😮😊🎉

cutest g-bread house ever!!

For the pre-made icing, if you can’t make your own, or just generally want to use it so you don’t have to make more, then I recommend kneading the bag with your hands until it becomes softer, or putting it near a heater to make it become warmer and softer more quickly.

❤your gingerbread house is stunning!! Love it!

Great tips!!

Thank you.

Wow! So beautiful!

Actually helpful. Wow.

It's so beautiful

I couldn't draw that good with paper and pencil 😮

That plaid icing is gorgeous!!!

Looks good love it

Those are great tips.

Amen I needed this thank you!! God works! God bless you❤

You are incredibly talented! ❤ 👏

this is incredible! Amazing work! LIKED and merry christmas...

Woooooow, i love this house😊

😮holy cow🎉how did I never think of that. Thank you

Beautiful and souch talent. 🤩🎄❄️☃️

Great job girl! Merry Christmas 🎁🎄

Great ideas!!! Thanks!

Love this! ❤ And thanks for the idea decoratinh before building 😂 never would have gotten that idea myself 🙈🫶

GREAT ideas!!! Thank you!

Wow! I saw this after finishing two different days of gingerbread house making-first with my two grandkids (5 and 8) and today with my two special needs bonus kids. I super glue our gingerbread houses together. Let them set for a few hours and then everyone makes their own design. lol. Yours is far more exquisite than ours! Funny side story--after hot gluing four gingerbread houses, I went to move them so my sneaky little mini-Aussie couldn’t get at them. But, I could only find 3 houses!! After looking high and low, I found , my dog had drug one off into a chair. That little stinker. Thank God it didn’t hit the floor and shatter!!

Good ideas ! My granddaughter and I are decorating gingerbread house tomorrow! ❤

You are amazing

Heck with making a gingerbread house, I wanna eat one! I wanna Godzilla my way through a gingerbread village gobbling my way thru...crunch-crunch-gulp-yummmm! 😋

This was the video I needed! I don’t know which gingerbread houses I love more, your Christmas ones or your Halloween ones ❤️❤️❤️😁

God bless❤

Wish i was this a few days ago

I am so glad I stumbled into this video. I felt like such a failure when my granddaughter and I were building a kit house (Barbie van). It kept falling apart. It was a Barbie van instead of a house. I would get three pieces standing and wouldn't you know it, they would fall. I will use your advice next year.

Wish I had seen this before I built my gingerbread house on sunday Well good info for next time

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This house is gorgeous!!!! I would buy this house, but ive tangled with royal icing and ill buy one instead of trying to do it

I’ve found a great sub for royal icing is hot glue.

I love looking at gingerbread houses but it’s just one more thing to my list and I can’t. It’s too much. I’d have to do it like two or three weeks before Christmas.

My family hates these except my mom who wants to watch Rudolph and frosty but I prefer a year without Santa and Santa clause is coming to town. My dvd isn’t working this year for the latter so glad I can get it here this year while I search for another dvd.

Hi you show us how to make the perfect icing for gingerbread house pleasssseee

I would love to know your recipe for flood icing ps. The houses looked stunning 😍

She ate that up

Love these videos, very creative. Do you ever make like a chocolate house? Where the wafer part is chocolate wafer etc...?

Couldn't you either hear or mix the premade icing with some milk or water?

when my friend group and i tried building a gingerbread house from a kit it looked like 5 different natural disasters swept through it 💀

I love this channel and I’m not trying to be rude but personally I wouldn’t make icing from scratch for something that goes hard and stale overnight

This is gingerbread house making on Expert mode

Wish it kept my real house in one piece.

Do you recommend adding decorative candy (and if so, when do you add it to get it to adhere best), or decorating it ALL with icing?

What else can be used instead of meringue powder/egg whites?

Well shit now I’m worried cause I have a kit with the bagged frosting, but no eggs to make icing and no money to go out and buy some

I wouldn’t even build the gingerbread house. I’ll just eat it straight out the box.

😘😃😀👍😊

Or just frosting from the store it's by the cake mix

The thing is, what’s the point of making a gingerbread house so pretty if it’s just going to be eaten?

In my country we don't do this so I'm very curious. Do yall eat it eventually or just toss it? Is it really just for decoration??

How did you make the plaid pattern on the roof?

You sound like Amy Adams!

Did we forget that these are for kids kids don’t know how to fix icing or make their own they just wanna ripe the box and start building and eating so I’m sorry but maybe say that it’s more for adults not trying to be rude in the slightest just wanted to point out that no kid is going to do this or parents cause we get these so we can get a min or 2 to get some work done lol don’t get me wrong tho this house is absolutely amazing

Isn't there a recipe for icing using melted marshmallows and icing sugar, or am I getting mixed up with fondant style icing? I know I've run across an easier recipe than royal icing somewhere, and it works well...

Is there any icing i can use instead of royal icing? Something without raw eggs preferably, I tried finding meringue powder, but it wasn't available and I don't think I'll be able to find either that or corn syrup before Christmas

We deserved architectural degrees when making gingerbread houses.

Mine won’t look like that 😂

Looks like too much of a hassle to me the whole point of getting the bag of icing with the house is to use it plus it’d be much easier without making your own icing 😑

I've never seen a house come with icing before, maybe that's a difference in country thing

What is your Royal Icing recipie?

This is not a fun tip but I wish I’d realized it sooner. If you KNOW with absolutely certainty that no one will break apart the house to eat the walls… you can use hot glue inside the main structure. So much faster, so much sturdier.

My question is can I just come live with you😂😂😂

Can you use store bought icing like pillsbury

Could you just come to my house and do it for us? I’ll even give you all the credit and the kids will love you 😂😂😂 convinced yet?

NAH YOU MAKING BOUGIE GINGERBREAD HOUSES

My gingerbread house was a bust 😅😢

💜🇵🇪🫰😍💜

What is flood icing?

I just made one with my kiddo and I learned if it's not going to be eaten and is just a display. Glue that ish. Whip out that hot glue gun and get crazy. An earthquake couldn't bring our gingerbread house down lol

Can you leave icing recipe?

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My tip for building an amazing gingerbread house: HAVE AMBER COME TO YOUR HOUSE AND DO IT FOR YOU🤣😂🤣😂

Bruh just melt some sugar to make the glue💀 and be godamn careful that shit is hot! But it’s a GREAT glue. I’ve used sugar literally my whole life making gingerbread houses

I decorate the pieces and then put them together with hot glue lol no one ever eats them anyway

Oh yeah sure, because everyone knows how to use royal icing and can actually make this stuff look good...🤦‍♂️