Gingerbread Village Cake
Additional Information
Step 1
Assemble mini gingerbread village. Prepare royal icing. Tint blue, green, violet and rose; thin to pouring consistency.
Position gingerbread pieces on cooling grid placed over parchment paper. Pour tinted icing over pieces. Let dry until set.
Assemble mini gingerbread village following kit directions. Use spatula and ready-to-use icing from kit to ice roofs smooth.
Step 2
Decorate mini gingerbread village. Use ready-to-use icing, decorating tip, disposable decorating bags and candy from kit.
For door, use icing to pipe outline and fill in. Use icing to attach jumbo nonpareils around doors and for doorknob. Use rolling pin to roll out candy rounds on granulated sugar-covered parchment paper. Use knife to cut candy into door window; attach with icing.
For windows, use rolling pin to roll out candy rounds on granulated sugar-covered parchment paper. Use knife to cut candy into windows; attach with icing. Use icing to pipe outline panes, windows and pipe icicles. Use icing to attach confetti sprinkles over windows.
For designs on front of houses, use rolling pin to flatten candy rounds on granulated sugar-covered parchment paper. Use icing to attach candy and to pipe dots and scrolls.
For roof, use icing to pipe lines or scallops. Use icing to attach confetti sprinkles. Cut candy rounds in half; use icing to attach to rooftop. Use icing to pipe icicles.
Step 3
Make cake. Bake and cool 2-layer round cake. Place on a foil-wrapped cake circle.
Step 4
Decorate cake. Prepare buttercream icing. Tint portions blue, green, violet and rose; reserve some white.
Use spatula and blue icing to ice cake smooth.
Use tip 47 and white icing to pipe lines on cake sides, 1 3/4 in. apart, with smooth side of tip.
Use spatula and white icing to ice cake top fluffy to resemble snow. Let icing come down sides slightly.
Use tip 7 and white icing to pipe bead border.
Use tip 5 and tinted icing to pipe dots in between lines on cake sides.
Step 5
Assemble cake top. Use ribbon to wrap pillar; secure with tape. Insert pillar into center of cake leaving 4 1/2 in. to 5 in. exposed. Place A-frame house on pillar.
Arrange other houses on cake top.
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