Gingerbread house 2024
I completed a last-minute Christmas 3D project on the morning of the 24th. The points of this year's creation are: • Making cakes on stands visible through the windows • Designing a house with an attic Making Tiny Additional Parts First, I made small parts like cakes, stands, gift boxes, wreaths, and other decorations to hang in the window. While it might have been more secure to use fondant or non-edible materials for the cakes and stands, I’m committed to using only icing and cookies as much as possible. So, the cakes and stands were made from cookie dough cut out with a straw and covered with a thin icing and white food colouring. The legs of the stand are made of spaghetti coated with icing. (I hope the gypsophila flowers in the photo help give a sense of scale!) Attaching the stand legs was excruciatingly stressful. For the gift boxes, I coated cookies with icing and added small ribbon transfers. Since everything was made very fragile, I...
