This recipe from Doyle DeForest of Flour Power Confectionary in Chalmette can be used to make gingerbread cutout cookies, or make it into a house to enter in the NOLA.com ...

This is the traditional icing for glazing cookies, piping decorations, or assembling the walls of a gingerbread house. It's light and fluffy; the more you beat it, the stiffer it becomes. For a ...

If you want your gingerbread house to double as a holiday air freshener, bump up the spices — a lot. Next, plan to make plenty of royal icing — it’s nothing more than a basic combination of ...

Gingerbread Dough Recipe 6 ¾ cups AP flour (29 oz) 1 Tbsp. cinnamon 1 ½ Tsp. ginger ½ Tsp. salt 1 ½ cup light corn syrup […] Your family can feel festival this holiday season building a ...

Use icing as is for gingerbread house mortar. For decorative piping, beat in 1/2 teaspoon water, and for fine-line piping, beat in up to 1 teaspoon water. Originally appeared: December 2004 ...

Make the Gingerbread House Base. You’ll need a rigid base on which to build the gingerbread house. It will need to be at least 12 inches square, but you can make it bigger if you want to add ...

You don't need sloppy globs of icing to make carefully crafted decorations stick to your gingerbread houses. There is a much neater alternative.

My daughter and I made the same gingerbread house, 20 years apart. Here's what we learned Opinion: Sticky icing isn't the only glue holding this Christmas tradition together.

The 2010 gingerbread White House featured President Barack Obama's dog Bo standing guard. In 2019, the scene featured historic landmarks like Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty.

The 2023 gingerbread White House honors ''Twas the Night Before Christmas,' and all of the ... The 2023 Gingerbread White House Took 30 Pounds of Chocolate & 50 Pounds of Royal Icing to Make.