Haunted Gingerbread Houses for Children

The most frustrating part of making a gingerbread house of any kind is assembling the pieces together.  Because I do this with melted brown sugar, I don't allow little hands the opportunity to get burned.  This way, it gets done quickly and the kids get to do the FUN part - DECORATING!!!

My daughter filled her chimney with all sorts of sprinkles.

My son filled the chimney with orange icing snakes -rattle snakes.

My daughter loved the Wilton Black Sparkle Gel and her fondant bat.

A pumpkin patch is a must with a haunted gingerbread house.

I made the spiderweb ahead of time by using royal icing made from the Wilton Meringue Powder and creating the web on wax paper along with the black candy balls (as my kids referred to them, cannon balls from the USS Constitution they're building too)

My son loved his fondant grass. 

The Wilton Bone Sprinkles were a favorite.

Haunted Gingerbread House

Maybe you know it or not but the inspiration for this house is from a place in town.  Of course I didn't stick with the same colors because I wanted it to be a little brighter.  It's getting so dark so early now.  We need a little bit of brightness around here.

Here it is with the grass down. Learned a lot here.  

I will add a ribbon around the foam core base.

Haunted Gingerbread house - PROGRESS!

I changed the roof.  After looking at the photos of the house I realized the roof was not right.  So now it's peaked. 

Roof for mine.  Walls for the children's houses.

I used paste dyes to add color to the Royal Icing and the fondant.

I added crushed jolly ranchers to create the stained glass windows.

You can add them when baking or you can add them later and bake them into place. 375 degrees for 8 or 10 minutes.

And that front porch piece down on first is why I messed up the front area and ended up with a very tipped roof.

All sorts of sprinkles (and a syringe of cough medicine). 

Candy, candy, and more candy...

6 types of sprinkles - because we used fondant we didn't need the sugar color sprinkles.

 Dots and Candy Corn

I used the melted brown sugar to glue it together.