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house sections onto prepared base or tray securing bottoms with frosting.
Apply frosting thickly at comers as you join side pieces together. Hold together until set.
Set roof base over top, securing with icing. Use soup or similar sized cans to brace pieces together until dry (1-2 days).
After base is dry, add roof, securing with icing. Let stand several days until dry.
Day 6: Add
decorations and let dry completely
Make up ornamental frosting. Tint with food coloring if desired. Use a pastry bag to pipe decorative trim to hide all raw edges and seams. Let some frosting drip down roof edges for icicles.
Stand gingerbread boys and ponies around barn, securing feet in icing. Add shredded wheat as bales of hay and any other decoration desired. Use frosting as glue. Let dry several days until hard.
Preserving your
gingerbread barn
Some people try to preserve their gingerbread creations from year to year. Other people prefer to nibble away and make a new one each year.
Preserving a gingerbread house can be difficult. If it’s wrapped, the house probably will soften and collapse. If you don’t wrap it, it can get buggy and dusty.
Icing colors can fade. Candies can get sticky.
Some people have good results spraying the house with a clear acrylic craft spray, the way you spray bread dough ornaments. You just have to remember not to eat the gingerbread house if it’s been sprayed.
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