Adventures in Gingerbread, Fondant and Sugar

I haven’t done a gingerbread house in quite a few years. This year I decided that I wanted to learn to make things with fondant - so what better opportunity to play with it than making and decorating a gingerbread house? This year, I also taught myself to do some sugar art, through casting, pulling and blowing sugar so this would be a good opportunity to use some of those new-found skills as well.

I Donated it to the Golden Apple Theatre for their annual fund raiser and a fellow board member, remarked that it was "Tiny fondant people eating tiny fondant food"! Ha!



























The lamppost and snowman are blown sugar, the windows are cast sugar and the trees, park bench and interior tables are pulled sugar. The Characters, snow, candy canes, signs and interior toys and pastries are fondant. The house “shingles” and greenery are done with royal icing.



























Modeling the characters was not nearly as difficult as I feared it would be - the trick is to use fairly basic shapes with added details to convey the character’s personality. Don’t overcomplicate.




































































































A lot of patience is also required, especially when working on such tiny pieces.












































































The floor in the pastry shop was a bit of a challenge too - making checkerboard from strips of yellow and white fondant probably took me about 20 minutes! (which explains why the toy store was a solid yellow!)



























I was actually pretty proud of the lamppost too since the pole as well sat the light were blown and I’d had trouble blowing hollow even tubes in the past.



































I made the pattern based upon a christmas village house I’d seen in a store and snapped a photo of:



































I didn’t exactly do a faithful replication but I sure had some fun with it!