an anyone give me some creative, original suggestions on how to decorate the roof of a gingerbread house??

Question

i have been working on my gingerbread house in my culinary arts class for about 2 weeks now. i have seen much creativity that people have come up with. i dont want to copy anyone, i want my house to be original, but i dont even know where to start decorating! i have only put a few pieces of candy on my house. i am not getting any ideas in my head. i just cant start.


what is a very creative, original way i can decorate my gingerbread house, the roof of it especially?? what kind of candy do you suggest i use??

Answer 1

This is a lovely looking house. Flaked Almonds are used for the roof.
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/4900/simple-gingerbread-house.jsp

Answer 2

Why not candy rocks? And for the roof Candy pebbles? Doorknops you could use those jawbreaker black balls! You could also use some pretzels to make unique shaped windows! Oh a friend of mine once made a pretzel log house but it had a gingerbread shingles roof! Another friend I know made a gingerbread house but the roof was made of toffee shingles! Another person I know made a candy doll house made of Gingerbread and Candy hearts with sayings on them!

Answer 3

My suggestion would be , spread icing on the roof parts and arrange chocolate buttons in rows to form roof tiles, when putting the 2 pieces together put more buttons along the top crease.
Then get a chocolate wafer biscuit, cut it at an angle and attach to the roof to make a chimney, adding some cotton wool to make imitation smoke.

Answer 4

Gingerbread house decorations
Here comes the fun part: decoration! Decorations are only limited by your imagination. Try gumdrops, chocolate chips, peppermints, candy swirl sticks, licorice, M&M's®, Snow-Caps®, Red Hots®, silver dragées, nonpareils, sprinkles, colored sugars, Necco's® (good for roof), Frosted Shredded Mini-Wheats® or Wheat Chex® (good for a thatched roof look), candied cherries and fruits, Tootsie Rolls® (good for fences and tree trunks), raisins, nuts, mini-cookies, wafer cookies, popcorn, cranberries, and animal crackers.

Answer 5

Not strictly gingerbread but ........

how about coating the roof in chocolate icing (the very soft variety) then cutting flakes into shorter bits and laying them on top - like little logs. Sort of a log cabin effect??

Answer 6

I have done it several ways. I have used sugar or sugar-less wafer cookies. To cut the weight of the cookie, I separate the wafers and stack them like shingles. Another candy to use is old fashion necco wafers, looks like a tile roof and the candy is light.. Another trick is use pretzel sticks like a log cabin effect. Secure all with little frosting. Have fun

Answer 7

Can ya use Nuts instead (for the roof anyways)...?
if so, what about using Almond slices and then just starting at the bottom, do a row, then do another row above the first one so that they overlap them?....this way it would look like shingles....

Answer 8

This site looks like fun and you should get some good suggestions there:
http://www.graphicality.co.uk/gingerbread/gingerbread_home.htm

Answer 9

I saw on Food Network that someone used orange peel and white frosting.

I also really like this picture: http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_25235,00.html

Another idea is stained glass. Melt different colored lollipops or another hard candy (crushed) all together. Once cooled and hardened, break apart and use these to make a stained glass effect on icing.

Merry Christmas!

Answer 10

i cut up mini marshmallows really small so that it looks like snow has collected on the roof . make sure you use white icing to attach it though so if you make a little mistake no one will notice and they will think it is snow . good luck and God bless.