How to Decorate Graham Cracker Gingerbread Roof & Walls

Video Transcript

"In this segment we're gonna talk about decorating. This is the best part, the candy part. Usually I just give kids a bowl like this with a plastic spoon, because they want to just slather as much of it on as they want, especially when you come to doing something like the roof. We just cover it like this and you can use anything. But I'm gonna show you how you can use these little wafers. Starting at the bottom (you can even let it extend a little bit) let's try to mix up the colors here. You know, we start tiling our roof. The kids will go to town with this. As soon as I get this one side done, I'm gonna show you how you can do overpiping. You don't really need directions to do this step, this is the fun part. Anything goes, it's like art. It's fun to use these little Smarties too. They make for real little tiles. I need some more glue over here. I wanted to show you, back with the small star tip, you can just add accents on there to put some of your little pops of color. Like I said, this is the part you let the kids go to town. Put some gum drops on the top here. When I said I'd show you the over piping, and what I meant by that is you know....and kids can do this too. There's no right or wrong way to this. This is all the fun art; just adds a dimension. Just a few decorating ideas for you in this clip, and in our next clip I'm gonna show you how, using these same wafers, you can create a paved path. "