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Favorite Candies for Gingerbread Decorating from gingerbreadlane.com and Ginger Lane Kitchens |
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Pretzel sticks, Candy Pebbles (great for chimneys or accent on house front or back)
Hershey's chocolate bars, bread them into sections for shutters, walkways,
etc
Red and black licorice bites, ropes
and twists
large and small (good for fences, log
piles)
Lifesavers, melt them, pour out on wax
paper, let harden and put behind your open windows for accent)
Chocolate chips (use for accent anywhere) Round Ice Cream cones, cover in frosting for trees, use as turrets on the house Round cookies, use as whimsical accent, or as wheels if you have a cart, or
as a round Flat almonds Gum, cut into pieces for shingles Shredded Wheat, good for hay in a barnyard scene or roof material
Wafer cookies, build a porch, steps or walkway, shutters
Silver dragees (these are in the cake decorating aisle of your store) they
are little silver balls, use for accent anywhere
swirled red and white peppermint candies, use
as accent around the house border, stack for a fence post
Crackers, use as walkways or shutters
window accent
or other nuts, good roof material
or roofing material
Gum drops
M & Ms
Red Hots
Chiclets
Wafers Candies (flat, round, old fashioned candies, wrapped
in a wax paper wrapper)
Marshmallows (for snow piles, snowmen, etc.)
Little candy fruits (I've always wanted to do a market scene and use these somehow...)
Add to your design by making a cart, animal cookies (you make and decorate), in a barnyard scene, snowmen, wood piles, a pile of presents in a sleigh.
For more ideas, just walk through the grocery store or a candy store and let your imagination go crazy!
Email Ginger at ginger@gingerbreadlane.com