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Gingerbread house

Can anyone please tell me what they use to "glue" there gingerbread house together with, would ordinary icing made a little stiffer work?

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  • picklepick
    picklepick Posts: 4,048 Forumite
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    My gran always used royal icing to stick hers
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  • I always use a paste of iceing sugar and water, a little thicker than normal. This always works fine, though you have to hold the edges you're gluing for a couple of seconds to make sure it sets in the right place.

    A lot of places recommend a sort of caramel / sugar based glue but Ive never found it to work very well, making it is tricky and often lots of burnt fingers in the process - ouch!
  • I made one the other week and used royal icing... it worked really well and stuck everything together perfectly!! :-)
  • I used royal icing for mine, I liked that because it stuck well and was quite shiney too :)
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  • jackomdj
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    Royal icing on mine too!
  • x-Princess-Vikki-x
    x-Princess-Vikki-x Posts: 1,005 Forumite
    edited 20 December 2010 at 8:48PM
    Heres mine :)
    I used:
    • 2 egg whites &
    • 500g icing sugar
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  • SUESMITH_2
    SUESMITH_2 Posts: 2,093 Forumite
    i've used white chocolate
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