{"id":9659,"date":"2015-12-23T23:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T07:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=9659"},"modified":"2015-12-23T23:10:07","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T07:10:07","slug":"gingerbread-dollhouse-step-away-from-the-frosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emilymorganti.com\/blog\/?p=9659","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread dollhouse – step away from the frosting!"},"content":{"rendered":"

My gingerbread dollhouse looked pretty good the way I had it<\/a>, but I wanted to finish the roof and front door, and play around a bit with frosting. And… I might have ruined it. I mean, it’s still adorable, and I had fun with it, but I went WAY overboard on frosting — past the point of no return, and then some.<\/p>\n

First, though, I spruced up the front door.<\/p>\n

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I also added Snow-Tex to the porches and roof. This stuff is great. The texture is sort of marshmallow-like and it just looks yummy.<\/p>\n

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I sprinkled glitter on the roofs while the Snow-Tex was wet. It reminds me of a cookie with sprinkles.<\/p>\n

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I used up almost all the Snow-Tex… that’s how I knew it was time to stop!<\/p>\n

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Next I added frosting sashes to the front windows.<\/p>\n

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So, here’s how the house looked before I went totally nuts with the frosting. Pretty tasteful, I could have left it this way.<\/p>\n

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But alas, I did not. Using the fancy tip, I piped around the base of the house.<\/p>\n

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That was fun, so I beefed up the frosting on my roofs, too.<\/p>\n

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Then I figured ‘why not?’ and outlined the back of the house.<\/p>\n

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And hey, while we’re at it, how about some frosting on the sides?<\/p>\n

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And, y’know, those doodads at the top were looking kind of naked…<\/p>\n

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Here’s how the house looked after my frosting rampage. I also tried going down the seams on the bay window but that looked awful so I scraped it off, ending up with some spackle in the cracks.<\/p>\n

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At this point I stepped away from the frosting — literally — and let it dry overnight. When I lifted the house off the wax paper the next day, a bit of the frosting around the base came off with it.<\/p>\n

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So I redid that, and… well… maybe added a little more on the front. <\/p>\n

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I had a very tiny bit of gingerbread paint left, which I used to touch up the seams where I’d scraped the spackle off the day before.<\/p>\n

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Here’s the finished house. I don’t think it looks bad… not quite as elegant as it did before I turned into a frosting maniac, but still good enough to eat!<\/p>\n


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I have it on display next to last year’s Christmas roombox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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