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I’ve been remembering more often to take pics as I sculpt, because I loooove seeing artist’s works-in-progress. Maybe you do too?

I recently did a custom order for a candy cottage in 1:12 scale. Let’s take a peek! 👀

I detail how to make this little house in How to Sculpt Miniature Holiday Foods, but in that book I use a slightly different (and easier) method.

Rather than making flat pieces that you then assemble to create the house, like you would when making an edible gingerbread house, you simply cut out a solid block of house-shaped clay.

For something this small, using a solid chunk of clay doesn’t add much weight, and you don’t have to worry about precisely matching up the cookie edges and securing them before baking, as I did here.

Let’s take a closer look at those adorable cookie windows!

If you have my latest tutorial, 12 Days of Christmas Sweets, you can adapt the Festive M&M cookies project by swapping in different clay colors for the red and green.

Below, you can see two white icing lines, which will secure the peppermint stick pillars.

Here’s the finished cottage!

If you want to make the snowman cake, I show you how in 12 Days of Christmas Decorations. That book also outlines how to make a different style of gingerbread house, one with pastel rainbow candy shingles—check out the listing photos to see what I mean.

Happy holiday baking! 🍪🎄