I am making a gingerbread house this year, and I need to know what icing to useI know that royal icing is recommended to hold the walls together, but it dries really hard so it isn't all that fun to eat, and my family guarantees me it must be edible, lolCan I use buttercream to decorate, and royal icing to hold it up? Or is there another option that I can use for both?
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You can make your own paste, as PP suggested, however, it takes a while to set and dries just as hard as royal icingPlus it tends to settle so it would run all to the bottom and dry Honestly, by the time you eat your gingerbread house, it's all hard and dry anyways, so using the royal icing isn't that much of a stretchAll soft candy and gingerbread does get superhard when exposed to air long enoughPersonally, I'd just stick with tried and true recipes, lolButtercream would go grainy, require refridgeration or tight covering to stay softYou could also use aluminum foil as a baseI did a gingerbread water mill complete with spinning water wheel over a a creek and bridge with stone pathsIt was totally awesome to look at, but we didn't eat it as I worked at a restaurant and we used it on several holiday buffets and I wasn't going to eat something 300 ppl had poked at and breathed on lol.
