Gingerbread House Tip!

We are decorating gingerbread houses this weekend! Yay! Last year we attempted to assemble the typical store bought gingerbread houses and failed miserably. The kit comes with royal icing to hold everything together and I didn’t realize it takes a long time for the icing to dry and actually hold together. Our houses fell apart in a matter of minutes...ugh. This year I had a different plan and it worked so well. I ditched the royal icing for assembly purposes and instead I used white chocolate melting wafers from Ghirardelli. It worked amazingly well. I simply melted the wafers per the instructions on the package in a small glass bowl and used a popsicle stick to spread the chocolate where it was needed. I was also able to dip some sides directly into the bowl to make it even easier. The chocolate set within a minute so that the house would stand well enough on its own and completely dried in about 5 mins. I will do this every year now! Let me know if you try it.