Complete the holiday season with a fabulous coastal gingerbread house!
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The basic ingredients and building blocks to create a gingerbread house are the gingerbread dough, sugar and spice, cookies, candy, royal icing as glue, and your imagination!
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Adorable mini gingerbread beach house that sits on a large gingerbread cookie. Seen at Spice Cake House on Facebook.
This little gingerbread beach hut looks like it is constructed with gingerbread cookies only. Easy breezy! Original source unknown.
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Create a festive coastal scene this holiday season with a gingerbread lighthouse! Create the winter look with white icing and powdered sugar. For a glowing effect, place a small LED tea light inside the lighthouse to simulate the actual light from a lighthouse. It will look magical when the lights go down.
Watch it being made!
The basic ingredients and building blocks to create a gingerbread house are the gingerbread dough, sugar and spice, cookies, candy, royal icing as glue, and your imagination!
The cozy little gingerbread beach cottage in the picture above was built with a kit, and lots of cookies. To make the gingerbread cottage sparkly, glittery sprinkles were added to the cookie sand.
Here's how to build a gingerbread cookie house:
To build a mini Gingerbread house you will need gingerbread cookies, royal icing, candy decorations, and a base to build your gingerbread house on.
1. Attach the Walls
Attach the wall by applying icing along the edges of one of the side walls.
Attach it to the base and hold it in place for a few seconds to ensure it sticks.
Repeat the process with the other side wall, front wall, and back wall, piping icing where the walls meet. Let the walls dry for about 10 minutes before continuing.
2. Attach the Roof
Pipe icing along the top edges of the walls.
Place the roof pieces (which can be square or triangular) on top, ensuring they meet in the middle. Hold in place for a few seconds, then allow it to dry for 10-15 minutes.
3. Decorate the House
Once the structure is stable, it's time to decorate. Use the royal icing as glue to attach candy decorations. Pipe icing for windows and doors, and use small candies for the details. You can dust the roof with powdered sugar to resemble snow. Allow the gingerbread house to dry for at least 30 minutes before moving it to a display area. This ensures that the structure stays intact while you admire your mini gingerbread house!
Coastal Living's Gingerbread lighthouse features many delicious details such as a dock constructed with pretzel sticks and candy cane lamp posts. Source no longer available.
The walls of this Gingerbread lighthouse are covered with candy rocks. Pretzels are used for the railing on top of the lighthouse. Source is no longer available.
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Cape Code Gingerbread Lighthouse. The lighthouse is imprinted with a brick pattern. And did you notice the Christmas tree in the window?
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An edible Gingerbread Cookie Lighthouse from Chesapeake Bay that captures the essence of a seaside vacation.
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A gingerbread beach hut along with a gingerbread lighthouse. Source unknown.
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And here is a recipe for an adorable Mini Gingerbread Beach Hut.
The details on these coastal gingerbread houses are simply amazing. But don't try to reach perfection here, just have fun and build your own version of a coastal gingerbread house, be it a gingerbread beach cottage or a gingerbread lighthouse.
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Festive gingerbread lighthouse idea with white icing, giving it a snowy look and feel.
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The details on these coastal gingerbread houses are simply amazing. But don't try to reach perfection here, just have fun and build your own version of a coastal gingerbread house, be it a gingerbread beach cottage or a gingerbread lighthouse.
