Step 5: Assemble the house. Glue the cookie pieces over the craft foam structure using either royal icing or a hot glue gun (use the hot glue gun only if the finished piece will not be eaten).

Use a good gingerbread house glue to hold it together. While Faith and Deborah used a combination of egg whites and meringue powder, they have used recipes in the past that only used one or the other.

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 ...

When making a gingerbread house, the right type of frosting is one of the most important elements of the entire craft. As Doug Orr, says, "A properly made royal icing works as the perfect glue." ...

If you would prefer to have the clean aesthetic of white piping holding up the angled slabs of your gingerbread roof, you can use Tylose glue to place tiny decorations onto your house, instead ...

4. Roll dough to 1/8th inch thick — the dough may be crumbly at first, but should come together when rolled. Cut a front and back for each house, roughly a 1-inch square with a triangle on top ...

More than 10,000 pieces of real gingerbread, 800 pounds of flour, 700 pounds of chocolate and 700 pounds of sugar are needed to make the house at The Grand Floridian.

The recipe says you MUST use a 12 X 18-inch jellyroll pan to cook the gingerbread -- and NO OTHER SIZE. I don’t have a “jellyroll pan.” In fact, I don’t even know what one looks like.