I hope you were successful in your making a sphere. Last year I took a 10 or 11 inch globe and took it apart.there is seam where the equator is..I used an exacto knife..very carefully.I took one of the spheres and covered it with foil and usded scotch tape to secure it.I greased the foil, all over the hemisphere.i took a lot of gingerbread and rolled it out into a huge piece on a big plastic bag that I cut open to make larger.I then draped the plastic and gingerbread over the globe 1/2.I cut off the extras at the bottom edge.I placed it into the oven at 350F.After 12 0r so minutes I took some oven mittens and pushed up the "sagging"gingerbread. i let it cook another if min. and repeated the pushing up act.(otherwise you will end up with a hole at the poles. I placed a large mixing bowl on one of the hemispheres to make it flat on the bottom half.It made it easy to work with later when I placed it on the board..i ended up using a belt sander to smooth up the outside of the ball...I use a humidity proof dough..Ihad some sanding down to do to make the edges even when i put the two 1/2 globes together..check out the picture.You can find it in the section with the contests. It's called santa's favorite ornament.Hope that helps.Ami
Dec 09, 2009
Pastillage by: Kelly
I once saw a gingerbread house inside a globe made of pastillage (there's a photo somewhere on this site). Basically, the person covered a globe with aluminum foil (I believe) and then laid strips of pastillage across the globe until they dried hard (pastillage dried harder than fondant or gum paste so it will hold it's shape longer). This is tricky work, but turns out beautiful.
By the way, you could use this same approach with gingerbread but you'd have to find a very round ovenproof bowl to lay the strips of gingerbread over to cook and then you'd have to figure out how to connect the pieces to form circles rather than domes.
Nov 29, 2009
A possible solution by: Anonymous
The only way you are going to manage this is to get hold of two metal half spheres (mixing bowls perhaps) then stick the two halves together with icing.
The problem is, you don't tend to get bowls which are a perfect half sphere, they need to have a flat bit or things would end up very messy every time you used them! Although, if you're making a gingerbread planet this isn't the end of the world, as the flatter bits become the poles, and the icing is the equator. A bit of well applied royal icing 'polar cap' and the flattened North Pole is disguised!
Nov 29, 2009
A possible solution by: Anonymous
The only way you are going to manage this is to get hold of two metal half spheres (mixing bowls perhaps) then stick the two halves together with icing.
The problem is, you don't tend to get bowls which are a perfect half sphere, they need to have a flat bit or things would end up very messy every time you used them! Although, if you're making a gingerbread planet this isn't the end of the world, as the flatter bits become the poles, and the icing is the equator. A bit of well applied royal icing 'polar cap' and the flattened North Pole is disguised!
