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allergic reactions  What allergic reactions are affiliated to gingerbread cookies?

candy  what types of candy should i use?

gingerbread  How long does gingerbread dough last in the fridge

GINGERBREAD COOKIES  FOR GINGERBREAD COOKIES, MY DOUGH IS DRIED OUT AND HARD. ANY SUGESTIONS ?

The icing is hard in my GB house kit, how do i soften it?  I have a GB house kit and its a little over a year old. :O but how can i soften the icing when its already hard? (its only in the corners where it is hard,...

What's the point ?  What's the point Of ginger bread Houses

bake before or after you decorate the men?  Does anyone know what works best? To make the gingerbread before or after you decorate. Many icing recipes call for egg white but I don't feel great about ...

have a lot to bake  i have to bake 15 gingerbread houses does anyone know if i would have to bake them all in one day or would i be able to bake a few a day for a week.

Making a tube?  HI, Thinking about making a train, or maybe a barn with silo, but at any rate, wondering how to make a tube of gingerbread. I was thinking I could form ...

Freezing gingerbread dough before cooking.  In the recipe im using it says to freeze the dough for 15 minutes and then cook it for 15 minutes. I did it and everything worked great. But im just wondering ...

temperature  what temperature do you cook gingerbread dough?

eatable glitter  Hi, I have read that there is a recipe for eatable glitter, Has anyone got the recipe ?
Thanks

how do i get it to stay up?  I bought this mold for ginger bread house. It's so cute and I'm having a party for kids. It will be an activity for them but I can't find an easy way ...

Trees  How do i make gingerbread trees to go with my victorian style gingerbread house?...and how to i make a bridge to go over my river? and how do i make the ...

decorating sides first  I'm about to make my first ginger bread house from a pre-baked kit. Can I decorate the sides first then stand them up. I think I would be a better decorator ...

Chimney smoke  What can I use to make smoke coming out of my chimney?

WANTING TO MAKE A GLOBE OUT OF GINGERBREAD  HOW CAN I MAKE A ROUND PIECE OF GINGERBREAD FOR A GINGERBREAD GLOBE? i THOUGHT I COULD COOK IT OVER A GLOBE AND BAKE IT?

Gingerbread mountain  how do you make a mountain out of gingerbread?

soft gingerbread???  I have been having trouble with my Gingerbread, I keep it in a room with no heat after i bake it, My last batch of gingerbread has been getting soft. I ...

The icing  Is there an easy way to make icing

Castle  What are the dimensions of the castle?

Thanks
Allen

Dough for making a gingerbread house (non-edible)  Can I use a basic salt dough recipe and dye it brown to make my gingerbread house? Will the royal icing stick to it? The kids are not eating the dough ...

silicone?  i never used a silcone mat for the cookie dough. does it really work that well?

How to pipe with Gingerbread Dough  How do you pipe with gingerbread dough? Do you heat up the dough? Is there a special recipe for piping gingerbread? I want to add piping details to my ...

edible mountain  I need to make an edible mountain with a cave opening and would like to get ideas for supporting the structure. I will be working with 4th graders so I ...

baked gingerbread  What is the best way to store baked gingerbread house pieces before the house is put together?

Texturing the house  Does anyone have ideas on how to texture the house. I just ordered some fondant texturing mats and thought to use them on dough. Will it retain texture ...

molasses substitute?  Hi! I'm babysitting my sister and she's got her heart set on making a ginger bread house. I've got everything we need except for molasses. I was wondering ...

clay tools  Can I use gum paste tools to cut out and form fondant flowers and such?

How do I find out where all the gingerbread contests are in Florida?  I will be unable to enter the Grove Park Inn Gingerbread contest this year and wondered if anyone knew if there are any in Florida?

Furniture  How do you make or where do you purchase furniture for the houses.

Tragacanth  Do you sell Tragacanth?

marshmallow cream  is there a substitute for this?

Marshmallow fondant figures  I like to make figures with marshmallow fondant, but they tend to bend, get flat. It's like you can't make them too big because the weight makes them ...

how long  how long do you need to keep the gingerbread dough before using it

Can shortening be a substitute for butter  Is it possible to attain the same results using crisco rather than butter in your gingerbread recipe for building houses? I don't plan to eat this house ...

Storage of icing  I'd like to assemble our gingerbread house in the evening, to allow the structure to harden before my kids decorate it. Will the royal icing (2 egg whites/...

HELP! My icing stinks!  We are making gb houses at work & have made our own icing....with shortening & powdered sugar. It looks & tastes great...but is not getting hard. What ...

better/alternative "glue" for gingerbread house  I find it difficult to build a sturdy gingerbread house using the royal icing (egg white+icing). Any suggestions/tips? What about melted chocolate?

egg and dairy free icing recipe for gingerbread house  Do you have an egg and dairy free icing recipe for the glue of gingerbread house as my son is allergic to these?

Icing without egg  I have a child who is highly allergic to eggs(although can have it baked if at high enough temperature) and need a icing recipe without egg or powdered ...

Gingerbread Dome  How would one construct a dome shape on top of a flat gingerbread house? For example the dome on the U.S capitol.

"Glue"  What's the best "glue" to use for sticking small pieces together (ie. little gum paste eyes on little gum paste faces)? Royal icing is too thick and chunky ...

houses falling apart  What would cause the royal icing on gingerbread houses to not hold it together. We put together 20 houses and 3 days later they all started to fall apart....

Subsitute Ingredients  I was wondering what are the subsitute ingredients for:
Confectioners' sugar
and Tylose powder
Newly married to someone from a different religion ...

Templates  How do you keep your templates from sticking to the dough?

looking for ship and mountain pattern  I am looking for pattern/template for a cruise ship and for a mountain. We would like to depict our trip to Alaska in gingerbread. We need a replica of ...

Need Advice 4 Gingerbread House Library  Hi:
I am making a gingerbread house for our school. The house will have a library with library books (I hope!). We would like to make books and bookcases ...

What's the best base?  Does anyone have an opinion on the best material to make a gingerbread house base from? Is wood covered in foil best? Is there anything better that maybe ...

gingerbread cave  somewhere there are directions for making a dome shape with an oven-proof bowl...does anyone know where these directions might be?

Windows  At what point should the windows & door be cut out? before or after baking?

Why?  What is the reason behind making gingerbread houses?

windows  Hi Guys,
Just wondering how do you make the glass windows for the gingerbread houses?

Gingerbread house from recycle things  Do you have an idea how to make a gingerbread house form recycle products? I'm thinking of the whole thing being recycled materials that end up just looking ...

How to get pieces to exact shapes  I've always had a thing for building complex gingerbread houses, but a problem that has plagued me for years is getting the pieces to the right shape without ...

History  what is the history of gingerbread houses?

Looking for a globe outline  Hi,

Here is a picture from the 2007 National Gingerbread House Festival. I am looking for the plastic piece that forms the outline for the snowglobe....

Competitions  I have never competed in a gingerbread competition before. How can I find out where they are going to be held and when ??

How to make gingerbread animals  How do you make gingerbread animals?

Can you eat a gingerbread house?  Can you eat a gingerbread house? How long can it sit out in the open? Or is it just considered a decoration after it is made?

photos  how do I reduce my photos to under 1000 mb

ginger bread in microwave  Can you make ginger bread in the microwave?

decorator  I am looking for someone to decorate a gingerbread house for me. The house is a wooden house that we are decorating for a show. The house can be decorated ...

storing hard candy for next year  Hi all,
Does anybody know if and how to store hard candy for decorating gingerbread houses? I save it from one year to the next, adding to my supply every ...

Life long Ginger bread house  I would like to petrify my ginger bread house so that I can use it each year. What process must I follow in order to cherish it so that I can pass it ...

What do I add to gingerbread that has dried out?  I made gingerbread twice, both times I divided the bread in half and by the time I finished rolling out and cutting out the 1st half, the second half is ...

SUGAR!!!!!!  Can you use normal icing sugar instead of "Confectioners sugar"?

problems with dough  I want a sturdy gingerbread house recipe; does not need to be tasty but should be edible. My dough is sticky and flimsy and difficult (impossible) to ...

preventing the pieces from breaking when you put them together   how do you prevent the pieces of gingerbread from breaking when you go to put them together

Non-Ginger Gingerbread House  Is it possible to make a gingerbread house without using ginger?

gingerbread dough  How long does gingerbread dough last in the fridge before you can't use it anymore? Also if it forms a water kind of base on the dough what does this ...

Icing???  Can you use Icing instead of gum paste to stick the walls together and to stick lollies on?

Gingerbread House Christmas Tradition  What is the reason gingerbread houses are decorated during Christmas? What started this tradition?

Shrunken Gingerbread  I am using a recipe from a book that uses all vegetable shorting in the recipe. It seemed very soft to me, so I added more flour. After rolling out and ...

window problems  We poured our sugar windows and for some reason they turned white. When we stood the walls up, the windows started leaking. What is the problem and can ...

Making a snow globe from hard candy  Have any of you ever attempted to make a snow globe from the processed used to make hard candy windows? I have seen many hard candy molds online, but ...

How do you cook gingerbread for a long time?  I was watching a food network challenge and a competitor and judge both remarked that gingerbread cooked a long time (days, they said) is harder, drier,...

making the gingerbread ahead of time  Is there any way I can bake gingerbread by the pan full and have the kids cut them out afterwards once it's baked? I have a class coming up for engineering ...

ski lodge  I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A GINGERBREAD SKI LODGE, ANY IDEAS WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. MANY THANKS, JEAN

Help....  Is there anything I can put into my gingerbread to keep it hard? Anything some sort of preservative? I live in a humid climate and they tend to collapse ...

ginger bread houses  where did they come from and why

where did gingerbread houses originate?  What's the history of the gingerbread house?

freezing dough  Has anyone frozen Pampered Chef's Gingerbread House Mold Dough?

hard gingerbread  How do you make the kind of gingerbread that goes hard and can be used for tree decorations.

The Victorian House Roof  What kind of candy was used to make the victorian house roof? I really like how it looks so real.
Thank you,
Denise Rich

gingerbread carousel horses  Does anyone have a template for 3 dimensional carousel horses?

Freezing gingerbread house  Could you tell me if you can freeze a gingerbread house as I would like to make it now and freeze it. I would then assemble it and decorate it Christmas ...

ginger bread goof  My recipe didn't have enough ginger. Now that it's baked, could I cut and sprinkle more between layers and maybe spread butter over to try to savage it?...

Gingerbread house  Hi,

i want to make an elaborate gingerbread house for christmas, but i don't know when i should start or how long it will take, and i don't know how ...

pillars columns  Building a castle and can't make pillars from soft dough without it cracking? There must be a way. Any tips or suggestions? Thanks

Storage of Gingerbread House  How long before eating it will a gingerbread house last?

Storing edible clay figures  How far ahead can I make the figures for the gingerbread house, and what is the best way to store? Probably using fondant or marzipan....

Non-edible gengerbread recipe  I want to make a gingerbread cookie house from Wilton's gingerbread cookie pan. I plan on making these into ornaments and will decorate. I need to make ...

Does gingerbread absolutely have to sit before using?  Me and my friend were making a gingerbread house... We need to make it right away...

Does it have to sit before we roll it out and bake it? Please ...

where do they come from?  where did the idea for Gingerbread Houses come from?

Table top Decorations  Good Morning,I am looking for a real nice gingerbread tablecloth for my round table that I use for my gingerbread house and the train that goes with this....

Hungarian gingerbread  How do you "paint" gingerbread with edible splashes of color? I bought some at a Hungarian souvenir stand that looked lovely and tasted delicious!

Where to buy gingerbread in bulk.  HI, I am starting a gingerbread house business and need a place to purchase the baked pieces. Any ideas?

Gale

Edible Clays  Is the "salt clay", often used by children, considered "legal" in Gingerbread contests that must be totally edible? My grandkids are entering the Grove ...

Where to purchase "Tylo" glue for fondant  On your site, you mention using "Tylo (CMC) glue" for assembling/attaching fondant. What is CMC, and where can I purchase this? I cannot find it anywhere ...

Would like alternate recipe without molasses  Has anyone used a recipe successfully to build a house or barn without using traditional gingerbread? Thanks.

Fondant, on the Oregon Coast...  Is there a trick to making fondant when it is raining all the time?

Are you a gingerbread baker near St. Louis, MO?  One of our site visitors has requested contacts near St. Louis who might be interested (and talented enough) to create a large gingerbread display in a ...

powdered sugar alternatives  What can you use for cookies instead of powdered sugar?

Baking gingerbread in microwave  Can you cook gingerbread in a microwave?

Contest rules  Mercy Medical Center in Dubuque Iowa is hosting its first Gingerbread Contest as part of our 26th annual Festival of Trees. Do you have a set of suggested ...

Amusement Park Gingerbread House with ferris wheel  My daughter and I have done gingerbread houses for years and this year as her final project she would like to complete a replica of our county fair, we ...

do you have an info on gingerbread houses  do you have any more info on gingerbread houses

problem with shrinking gingerbread house dough  I wonder if anyone could possibly help me with a problem I have had when making a ginger bread house.


This is something I have done every year since ...

Liquid Gold  I am having trouble finding the beautiful, shiny edible gold that is used to paint fondant with. Petal dust, mixed with vodka is glittery, but not the ...

Molded form  Is it OK to spray the mold for gingerbread house walls and roof with cooking spray? How long should gingerbread bake? My recipe includes: whipping cream,...

Recipe for stamped gingerbread?  I've heard, but have not found, a recipe for gingerbread that is composed in part of crumbled gingerbread and gum arabic with another unknown ingredient....

Fresh Bread?  How long dose gingerbread stay fresh?

storing/sending to school  Hi,
I just baked 60 gbm! What's the best way to store them and then to send them to school for a decorating party?

Need to know quickly
!
Many ...

baking   How long do you bake gingerbread men?

painting on marzipan or fondant like a picture  How do I paint on marzipan or fondant like an artist so I can make a picture or come up with beautiful colors that are consistent?

When poring melted ...

how long  how long can u keep a gingerbread house before it becomes spoiled

Gingerbread goes soft  I am making gingerbread stars that stack on top of each other to form a tree. I then ice and add lollies. The recipe I used (not from your site) goes ...

icing  what is the recipe for making the icing, for ginger bred cookies?

Eating a Gingerbread House  How long can you keep a gingerbread house before eating it?

contests  I read an article in the paper about a contest in my area and was under the impression that the photos would be posted here but I can't seem to find them....

stiff gingerbread pieces?  I have decided to use a different dough recipe this year, that everyone claims is "the best".
But, it is absorbing moisture and getting soft. What do ...

Shipping to Canada  Hello,
I cannot quite find where you are located and am wondering if you ship to Canada. If so, how long would it take to arrive? Many thanks.
B.Wright...

Egg Free Recipie?  THANK YOU for your gluten free recipe, I will be trying that one out ASAP! ( I was just diagnosed a celiac) -- I have a friend who is allergic to eggs,...