Hi I'm Mary Gavenda from the decorating room here at Wilton if you ever want to decorate
your gingerbread houses with greeneries or
trees an easy way to do it is using your green leaves
jelly candies ruling them out and cutting them into little
slivers little triangular pieces I want to show you how easy it is
all you have to do is take your
jelly candies add a little sugar to your surface
use a rolling pin pressing down
you want to use the sugar because
the jelly might stick otherwise once you start rolling it
you're exposing some of the actual jelly so you want to coat it with sugar
you're going to roll it back and forth until you get the size or the thickness you need
and you can see that leaf
created a large surface for us to work with for doing trees
we're going to cut this I'm using my scissors
we're going to cut it into smaller pieces and
know its specific size and then we're going to cut them into slivers
or small triangles think of how you want to use it
how big of a piece do you need for your wreath or your tree
or your garland if it's garland you want it smaller
but for the trees I'm going to be showing you how to do
I want them a little larger so you roll it out
and then just cut very easy to do
now that you have your pieces cut you're ready to start
adding them to your tree decide what size
of sugar cone you want to use whether you want to use a full-size
or whether you want to cut it down for a shorter tree I'm going to show you on
the shorter tree
but you can see the two sizes right here of the finished tree
first you have to add a little
icing you start at the bottom of your tree
and you know what
I'm going to pick it up you can pick it up to pipe your icing
on it and truthfully as you're working with the tree
put it on a smaller board that way when you want to turn it and work with it
you're not turning your larger board
you can turn it easier and be closer to it
so I've got a small section of icing on here
you're going to start at the bottom and start layering
your little triangle pieces for your tree bells
we're just layering them and I'm going to
only do a small section because it's so repetitious
but the trick here
is you've got to start on the bottom don't start on the top and then you start
layering them
it doesn't matter what size triangle
piece you've got it's going to work in and start
adding it more icing as you go
if by chance as you're working with your icing
if it's too firm too hard to squeeze
you can put the icing bag with the plastic tip
directly in the microwave heat it on high
for only five seconds be careful no longer
it's a sugar product and it will get hot so make sure you only heat it
for five seconds if your microwave
can't take five seconds stand there put it in for the time whether it's
a 10
or 15 second increments that it can do
and stop it at five seconds take it out
and clear the timer and just keep layering it
on top working towards the top
until you completely cover your tree when your tree is done
this is the smaller size the
same size of the cone i've got right here once you have the pieces on it'll be
this tall
because of the thickness of your triangles of the
green leaves or this is a full size tree
and don't forget when you're done you can also add ornaments using mini jaw
breakers
or various candy trims that you might have