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Discussion Forum => Gingerbread Q & A => Topic started by: Bgreenwood on October 31, 2014, 10:50:37 am
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Bgreenwood - I moved your post to the "General" topic, hoping that maybe others would chime in as well. ;D
Yes, I have done both - covering walls in fondant (which I found very time consuming and only did once), and flooding walls with thinned Royal Icing. Hands down, I would choose flooding walls over mixing/buying fondant, rolling fondant, applying RI as smooth as possible, then covering with fondant. Way too tedious for me. :D
Plus, flooding will naturally level off and provide a smooth wall in order to airbrush. In my opinion.
A trick that I do to create sturdy walls, no matter how I am finishing the outside walls (leaving natural/gingerbread, flooding, candy/cracker covered, etc), I always, always, always frost the inside of large walls and roof sections (before building structure) with a thick layer of Royal Icing to provide me extra strength. (see attached pictures)
Hope this helps! I look forward to seeing pictures when completed.
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Great thank you! I live in Utah, it's not really that humid. I am planning on making a gingerbread house and covering it with Fondant so that I can do some airbrushing on it, but I wonder if it would be better to do a flooding technique with royal icing instead to get that smooth finish on the gingerbread house. Have you done either of these things? It is being donated to a Children's hospital benefit and will be on display for a while so I need it to be stable for transport and display. Any tips or ideas would be a great help. I have a long background in cake and cookie decorating and have only made gingerbread houses for display at my house. Oh and by the way I LOVE this site!