Last year I made a miniature gingerbread house as a soap decoration to go on top of a soap, it looked like this. It was scented with a fragrance called Hansel and Gretel’s House, which was the inspiration behind it.
So this year I wanted to use the same fragrance but make a larger gingerbread house. I was a bit afraid of things going wrong, as this would be my first time piping with soap. (And my experience piping with icing is quite pathetic). I used a very similar recipe to the main recipe. I used titanium dioxide and mixed the soap batter until It reached a thick consistency. Initially it looked yellow, but I knew that because of the vanillin content, it would turn brown eventually. Only it didn’t. After two months, I only had a dark beige, not the same dark brown as before.
Here is where making videos and documenting my process comes handy. I watched my making of last year soap, and realized I had used milk with it, which had made the mix a darker yellow to begin with. Apparently, that influences the degree of discoloration for the soap. Lesson learned!
I have a new found respect for soap makers who pipe on their soap. It is definitely not as easy as it seems, and I made such a huge mess!
It was fun though, and I might try it again. The bars ended up being huge! I may need to make them in a smaller mold next time.
Here is a link to the recipe:
https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/soap-recipe/5109.gingerbread-house
This was the recipe for the piping (which makes enough for two batches):
https://www.soapmakingfriend.com/soap-recipe/5147.piping-glenda
Soaps by Glenda 
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