The Finishing Touch

So now it’s decorating time! I had bought tons of candies and assorted cookies to decorate the buildings. Now of course you need frosting. The frosting is not only makes it look pretty, but it covers up all of the sugared joints between buildings. Also if you make a boo boo you can disguise it with the frosting too.




All the roofs are done in some sort of cookie shingle. The bakery has yellow and pink wafer cookies. The flower shop is tiled in chocolate dipping graham crackers. The bank is done in chocolate wafer cookies and the shop at the end is in Nilla Wafers. You’ll notice that the toyshop (the building on the far left) is not shingled in cookies, but instead is done in Necco wafers. It’s kind of my signature thing. I always manage to get some Necco wafer tiling in. I just think they are so colorful and cute.





The rest of the candy decorations consist of traditional gum drops, starlight mints, mint pillows and red hots. Also present are Christmas gobstoppers, mini M&ms, Nerds (courtesy of Lilly), Twizzlers, 2 gummy bears (again courtesy of Lilly), Peep’s Christmas trees and Christmas sprinkles. And no gingerbread house is complete without a final dusting of powdered sugar snow.







So there you have it. The “I didn’t cuss, burn myself, or drop a piece” gingerbread house of Christmas 2006. See Brian…not Amateur Hour.