Gingerbread House-Building Time!
Houseplans.com staffer and architecture graduate Monika Strunk developed this gingerbread house from our Signature Plan 479-1 by architect Peter Brachvogel and Stella Carosso. You can build it too, following these plans and instructions. See Monika's tips at the end.
Monika's Tips
-- The gingerbread house is drawn at 1/4"= 1'0" scale, which in real life scale will yield a 0.25" gingerbread wall. (Keeping the gingerbread thickness consistent while rolling out the dough was the biggest challenge for me).
Houseplans.com staffer and architecture graduate Monika Strunk developed this gingerbread house from our Signature Plan 479-1 by architect Peter Brachvogel and Stella Carosso. You can build it too, following these plans and instructions. See Monika's tips at the end.
Monika's Tips
-- The gingerbread house is drawn at 1/4"= 1'0" scale, which in real life scale will yield a 0.25" gingerbread wall. (Keeping the gingerbread thickness consistent while rolling out the dough was the biggest challenge for me).
-- Due to time constraints and lack of proper baking tools, I chose to buy a pre-made frosting that came with two different decorating tips (star shaped and basic).
-- The building took apporximately 2.5 hours to assemble and decorate. The majority of the time was spent cutting and baking.
-- This gingerbread house used about 1.5 batches of the gingerbread dough -- the recipe can be found here: http://www.marthastewart.com/339021/molasses-gingerbread-cookie-dough
