If you've been saving gingerbread houses for the December holidays, your world is about to change—for the spookier, of course.
Of course, the gingerbread can just be baked, plain and simple, but if you're up to the challenge, you can become a full-fledged gingerbread mason by making the house walls look like they're made of bricks—the technique isn't difficult at all. Start by wrapping a bench scraper in plastic to dull its edge, then lightly stamp horizontal stripes into the dough and mark each brick end with the blunt handle of a dinner spoon.
There's no real rhyme or reason to my technique; I just brush the gingerbread with a bit of this and that until it looks sufficiently spooky and old. For "mortar," I roughly pipe light-gray royal icing between the bricks, then cover the gingerbread piece with plastic so I can smush it down into the cracks.
Another trick is to thin leftover dough into a gingerbread paste to pipe"planks" with a basketweave tip. After they're baked to a deep, dark brown, they can be secured over the windows with dabs of royal icing, plus a few black dots on the surface for"nails."The archetypal haunted house has a roof that's black as sin, but candy shingles tend to look less creepy than cute. As far as I'm concerned, a pitch-black coating ofis the way to go.
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