{"id":1084,"date":"2010-09-17T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T12:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2010-09-09T17:43:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T21:43:13","slug":"using-fondant-and-gum-paste-to-decorate-gingerbread-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/?p=1084","title":{"rendered":"Using Fondant and Gum Paste to Decorate Gingerbread Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1084 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/?attachment_id=1085'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/2335395033_c350c12e8c_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/?attachment_id=1086'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/4125070877_2a47e6b3d2_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/?attachment_id=1087'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/4224742608_44f469afc7_m-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\nWe found some really amazing Gingerbread Houses and Gingerbread Cookies that are highly detailed and decorated with fondant and gum paste (<a href=\"http:\/\/fiveprime.org\/hivemind\/Tags\/fondant,gingerbread\" target=\"_blank\">visit here<\/a>). Fondant is made from water and sugar and sometimes lemon is added to flavor the fondant and I have fondant where almond is added.\u00a0 Fondant is used for covering pastries and confections and creating a smooth surface for adding decorations and if you watch any of the popular tv shows like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetv.com\/amazing-wedding-cakes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amazing Wedding Cakes<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetv.com\/my-fair-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\">My Fair Wedding David Tutera<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlosbakery.com\" target=\"_blank\">Cake Boss<\/a>, you see magnificent cakes and nearly every single cake is covered in fondant or has fondant decorations. If you are creative or want to try your hand and creating some super neat Gingerbread Houses this year then why not try working with fondant and seeing just what is possible. Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wetv.com\/my-fair-wedding\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Tutera<\/a> says, \u201cdon\u2019t just dream, but dream BIGGER\u201d! Let your imagination soar!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found some really amazing Gingerbread Houses and Gingerbread Cookies that are highly detailed and decorated with fondant and gum paste (visit here). Fondant is made from water and sugar and sometimes lemon is added to flavor the fondant and I have fondant where almond is added.\u00a0 Fondant is used for covering pastries and confections &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/?p=1084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Using Fondant and Gum Paste to Decorate Gingerbread Houses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3,5,4],"tags":[776,777,778,785,772,781,779,784,782,780,16,124,336,787,788,786,773,774,783,775],"class_list":["post-1084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decorating","category-edibles","category-gingerbread-decorations","category-gingerbread-houses","tag-amazing-wedding-cakes","tag-cake-boss","tag-carlos-bakery","tag-christmas-gingerbread","tag-david-tutera","tag-decorating-fondant-gingerbread","tag-fondant","tag-fondant-christmas-cookies","tag-fondant-gingerbread-cookies","tag-fondant-gingerbread-house","tag-gingerbread","tag-gingerbread-cookie","tag-gingerbread-cookies","tag-gum-paste","tag-gum-paste-gingerbread","tag-gumpaste","tag-my-fair-wedding","tag-my-fair-wedding-david-tutera","tag-royalicing","tag-wedding-cake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gingerbreadfun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}