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.

Haunted Halloween Houses 2011

It's been a while since I posted the images on how to glue the gingerbread pieces together with melted brown sugar. But we did finally decorate them.  Some of the candy came in the box with the house such as the pointed spires.  Some of the candy Grandma purchased and the cute little leaves came from Wilton too but in a bottle instead of the box.  I wish I had not put as much of the recommended water in the icing - it was a little runny - that was fine for the green grass but not on the vertical pieces of the house.  I did buy extra color paste - in brown, orange, green, and black.  

 This pumpkin patch is my favorite along with the path to the house.  I added green icing to the tops of the pumpkins to get the leaves to stick.  Fun!

I  hope you had a wonderful and safe Halloween!