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Day one: bake pieces, prepare base & candy

Make upper base of styrofoam, 10" square, lower base 12"square. The floor area is about 6" square.

Make a batch of Grandma's gingerbread and cut all pieces, using patterns. Roll out the dough as thin as possible to cut pieces for steeple. To make it easy to construct, place cookie sheet containing cut-out pieces in the freezer for five minutes before baking. Do not remove scraps, but bake, then immediately re-cut the pieces with a sharp knife. Prepare the base, using styrofoam for upper base, and attach electric fixture.

To mold the diamond-shaped windows, trace 8 or more window openings on foil. Oil the foil. As soon as hard candy has cooked, spoon a little candy over each traced diamond, letting it spread 1/4" or more beyond tracing. Allow to harden. Mold the "rose window" in a daisy mold.

Day two: construct the church

1. Attach diamond windows to inside of walls by piping a line of royal icing around window opening, then pressing hard candy "glass". Pipe a line of icing around round opening on outside of steeple and press on daisy shape. Use tube 1s to pipe meandering lines of cornelli on diamond window glass. Pipe freehand designs around all windows with tube 1s.
2. Take out a little icing, thin with water, tint red and paint door. When dry, pipe tube 1s beading. Pipe tube 13 shells on wax paper to form cross. Make tree from candy as shown.
3. Assemble steeple peak on steeple cover and set aside to dry. Now construct walls, then roof and prop until set.
4. Hold steeple lower sides against front of church to see if they fit under roof. Trim as necessary. Lay steeple front, face down, on wax paper and attach steeple lower sides. When dry, attach to front of church. Now hold steeple upper sides and back in position on roof to check for fit. Trim as necessary. Now attach steeple upper sides and back to roof and steeple front, attaching sides first.

   Pipe a line of icing on top of steeple and set steeple point in position. Attach door and cross with royal icing. Allow assembled church to dry overnight.

Cover seams with tube 13 shells, using royal icing. Pipe shells and tube 2 dots below steeple cover. Cover roof with candy wafers, working from bottom up and overlapping rows of wafers. Add a jellybean foundation. Now make a batch of boiled icing and stroke over roof, then ground. Sprinkle with edible glitter. Press in candies on ridge of roof. Add candy path and bushes. Set tree in position. With a small spatula, add more snow on bushes, tree and ridge of roof.

Your beautiful little church is complete. Plug it in and watch light stream through the windows.

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