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| Sweetheart Sugar Shack |
Tools and materials you’ll need:
- Small pre-baked Gingerbread House (SKU:5001-GH-SM-1)
- Vintage Valentine wafer paper (SKU:3601-WP-VP-1)
- Jumbo Heart Sprinkles (SKU:5950-LG-HT-1)
- Sturdy cardboard, a foam core board, or an extra cookie sheet for the house’s base
- Royal icing and food coloring (SKU:6750-IC-RI-1)
- Pastry bags and #22 star tip or 8 oz. squeeze bottles
- Small spatulas, spreaders, or butter knives
- Tweezers and toothpicks (optional)
- Light corn syrup
- White Fondant
Assembly:
1. Cover house base with parchment, foil, or brown paper. Make royal icing and keep
bowls covered with damp cloths.
2. Ice two sides of the house with royal icing and let dry completely.
3. Roll out fondant into a thin layer (1/8”) and use the wafer paper figures as a template
to cut the fondant to the appropriately sized piece. Allow the fondant to harden. To
apply the figures to the fondant, use corn syrup as a “glue.” Apply a small layer to the
back of the wafer paper. Adhere to hardened fondant. Flip the piece up-side down onto
wax paper to dry, for about 30 minutes. This will help the wafer paper dry flat. Flip back
over, wafer paper side up, and allow to dry completely.
4. To attach the figures to the front and back
panels of the house, simply apply a small drop
of royal icing and adhere to the gingerbread.
Allow to dry.
5. To decorate the sides of the house with
wafer paper valentine figures, carefully cut
out figures with craft scissors. Wafer paper is
fragile! Using corn syrup as a “glue”, apply
a small layer to the back of the wafer paper.
Adhere to hardened icing. Flip the piece
up-side down onto wax paper to dry, for about
30 minutes. This will help the wafer paper dry
flat. Flip back over, wafer paper side up, and
allow to dry completely.
6. Attach large heart sprinkles to each roof
piece in a pattern of your choice. We used
corn syrup to attach the candy to the roof.
Allow to dry overnight
7. Attach walls to the front and back of
the house using royal icing as the “glue”
and let dry until icing is hard. Position your
house on the base.
8. Attach roof, propping up eaves with cans
or books until icing is dry and hard, about
six hours or overnight.
Finishing Touches:
Pipe a decorative border around the edges
of the house and top the roof.
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