SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE GINGERBREAD
My inbox has recently been flooded with emails asking for the template and step-by-step instructions ofthis gingerbread house, an old post from December of last year. Regrettably, I do no longer have the templates of any gingerbread houses I made over the years, including those of the London iconic buildings, simply because I give them away after using them. I had no plans of reusing them again as I always make something new every year.
So, my big apologies to anyone who contacted me. Let me just quickly explain how I made the Globe Theatre gingerbread. To start with, and this applies to any gingerbread I wanted to make, I always look for photos of the structure I want to copy, then draw them on a piece of paper — must be precise in dimension — then cut them, make necessary adjustments, and finally transfer them on to a cardboard. I then assemble them together using a washi tape. This is a very important process to make sure that all the pieces perfectly fit together. For the gingerbread itself, I use a recipe I’ve posted here. I prefer to use melted sugar as glue but if that doesn’t work for you then an icing sugar with egg white is a good substitute but it takes several hours to dry. To achieve the brownish colour I simply add cocoa powder to the icing. For the Globe Theatre I used icing sugar because it was a little project I did with my goddaughter Anisa. It is not ideal to use melted sugar with kids around.
I failed to document the whole process but here’s a few photos that will give you an idea how I did it. Please email me if you got any other questions.
![GlobeTheatreGingerBread](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbread2.jpg?w=960&h=1024)
![GlobeTheatreGingerBread1](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbread11.jpg?w=1024&h=664)
![GlobeTheatreGingerBread2](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbread21.jpg?w=1024&h=665)
![GlobeTheatreGingerBread4](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbread4.jpg?w=1024&h=1024)
![GlobeTheatreGingerBread3](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbread3.jpg?w=1024&h=1024)
Candy canes were used as pillars to hold the weight of the roof.
![GlobeTheatreGingerBread6](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbread6.jpg?w=768&h=1024)
We made this back in December of 2012. Anisa came over to our flat and we did it for a few hours in a couple of days.
![GlobeTheatreGingerBreadAnisa&I2012](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbreadanisai2012.jpg?w=1024&h=801)
Little Anisa and I at the Globe Theatre many years ago, long before we made this gingerbread. Now she’s almost as tall as me and I’m afraid she’ll be taller than me in a year or two!
![GlobeTheatreGingerBread14](https://elnasmith.files.wordpress.com/2017/12/globetheatregingerbread14.jpg?w=1024&h=682)
We were happy to showcase the gingerbread at our church’s fellowship hall on Christmas Day 2012.
The Big Ben gingerbread house deserves a post for another day.
Note:
Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to make a mini-gingerbread-village.