Comments on: Gingerbread Houses http://www.theoldhouseattic.net/gingerbread-houses/ Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:45:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Susan http://www.theoldhouseattic.net/gingerbread-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-2792 Susan Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:45:27 +0000 http://www.theoldhouseattic.net/wordpress/?p=43#comment-2792 It was in her cookbook Entertaining. You can find it there! It was in her cookbook Entertaining. You can find it there!

]]> By: Tim http://www.theoldhouseattic.net/gingerbread-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-2520 Tim Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:03:39 +0000 http://www.theoldhouseattic.net/wordpress/?p=43#comment-2520 Thanks! I never found the issue that particular house came from. It had to be in the mid 90s. I had seen Martha do it on a rerun on Lifetime sometime around 1998 or 1999 which is when I made the pink one. I did the "natural" gingerbread one a couple of years later. I was never able to find plans for it, even in a gingerbread kit that Martha had sold. What I did was construct a mock-up using poster board and tape to get the size and proportions right and then used those pieces as templates to cut the gingerbread. The key thing is to find baking sheets that will fit your oven and scale the house proportionately as large as you can. To make the Second Empire style house in my pics, you'll need 10 pieces. It is quite large and will need TONS of dough. I think I had made the dough into about 5 x 8 x 1 to 2" thick or larger blocks when putting it into plastic wrap to refrigerate so I'd have huge chunks to work with so there would be no seams from piecing dough. I spent a day mixing dough, several days rolling and baking and then several more days assembling and decorating. 4 walls each 13x16" 1 platform 15" square for roof overhang and to build roof on 1 roof top 11-1/2 " 4 side roof pieces 15 x 11-1/2 x 6 I remember rolling the dough directly on parchment paper so the large pieces of dough didn't have to be lifted. A lot of the whole project was trial and error and a little bit of good luck. The first house was held together completely with royal icing, however the second time around I had trouble and cheated with the the hot glue gun since it wasn't going to be eaten! Good luck!!! Thanks! I never found the issue that particular house came from. It had to be in the mid 90s. I had seen Martha do it on a rerun on Lifetime sometime around 1998 or 1999 which is when I made the pink one. I did the “natural” gingerbread one a couple of years later.

I was never able to find plans for it, even in a gingerbread kit that Martha had sold. What I did was construct a mock-up using poster board and tape to get the size and proportions right and then used those pieces as templates to cut the gingerbread. The key thing is to find baking sheets that will fit your oven and scale the house proportionately as large as you can.

To make the Second Empire style house in my pics, you’ll need 10 pieces. It is quite large and will need TONS of dough. I think I had made the dough into about 5 x 8 x 1 to 2″ thick or larger blocks when putting it into plastic wrap to refrigerate so I’d have huge chunks to work with so there would be no seams from piecing dough. I spent a day mixing dough, several days rolling and baking and then several more days assembling and decorating.

4 walls each 13×16″
1 platform 15″ square for roof overhang and to build roof on
1 roof top 11-1/2 ”
4 side roof pieces 15 x 11-1/2 x 6

I remember rolling the dough directly on parchment paper so the large pieces of dough didn’t have to be lifted. A lot of the whole project was trial and error and a little bit of good luck. The first house was held together completely with royal icing, however the second time around I had trouble and cheated with the the hot glue gun since it wasn’t going to be eaten!

Good luck!!!

]]> By: sara dadian http://www.theoldhouseattic.net/gingerbread-houses/comment-page-1/#comment-2519 sara dadian Sun, 21 Nov 2010 19:35:24 +0000 http://www.theoldhouseattic.net/wordpress/?p=43#comment-2519 Hi there! I have been looking for this issue of Martha Stewart Living, where she makes this exact gingerbread house. Do you happen to know what year it was? Or would you have a website where I could find the instructions? I'd like to make this with my brothers and nephews this year for Christmas. Thank you so much! Your house looks fantastic!!! Sara Hi there!
I have been looking for this issue of Martha Stewart Living, where she makes this exact gingerbread house. Do you happen to know what year it was? Or would you have a website where I could find the instructions? I’d like to make this with my brothers and nephews this year for Christmas.
Thank you so much! Your house looks fantastic!!!
Sara

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