Gingerbread house apparatus

Claim 2

Apparatus for making a gingerbread house comprising, a group of individual molds each including a bottom element and a surrounding upturned rim, the molds being adapted to have dough placed therein, and themselves with the dough therein to be placed in an oven for baking the dough, the dough thus baked forming panels in the respective molds, and the molds being so relatively dimensioned and proportioned that the panels are consequently correspondingly dimensioned and proportioned to form respective bounding surfaces of a house, the molds including one for each of such bounding surfaces, the panels being capable of being fitted together to form such house, one of the molds being a roof mold, and including a pair of rigidly connected parts disposed at an angle to each other corresponding to a gable and the upturned rim being deeper at the ridge of the gable and diminishing toward the edges remote from the ridge, a plurality of cookie cutters each having a surrounding skirt with a lower cutting edge and surrounding an open space, and each cookie cutter having a generally open top, the cookie cutters being capable of being inserted into the dough so placed in the molds with the cutting edges penetrating thereinto and therethrough to the bottom element of the mold, and enabling baking of those portions of the dough within the cookie cutters, and upon removal of the cookie cutters pursuant to baking, the pieces formed by the dough within the cookie cutters are capable of being removed by the removal of the cookie cutters, leaving holes in the panels formed by the molds, the holes forming windows and doors in the house, the cookie cutters being separate and apart from the molds and independent in number thereof from the molds, whereby they can be placed at any selected locations within the outline confines of the molds, and form windows and doors in correspondingly selected locations in the bounding surfaces of the house, the pieces formed in the cookie cutters being of such size as to form chimney construction.

Claim 3

Apparatus according to claim 1 wherein, two of said molds are end wall molds, each having a pair of adjoining peripheral elements disposed at substantially the same angle as that formed by the said hinged parts of the roof mold when those parts are in said angular position, whereby to form wall panels in the end wall molds having angularly shaped top surfaces corresponding to the angle formed by the roof panel and adapted to be complementally butted thereto.

Claim 4

Apparatus for making a gingerbread house comprising, a group of individual molds each including a bottom element and a surrounding upturned rim, the molds being adapted to have dough placed therein, and themselves with the dough therein to be placed in an oven for baking the dough, the dough thus baked forming panels in the respective molds, and the molds being so relatively dimensioned and proportioned that the panels are consequently correspondingly dimensioned and proportioned to form respective bounding surfaces of a house, the molds including one for each of such bounding surfaces, the panels being capable of being fitted together to form such house, one of said molds constituting a roof mold, and including a pair of parts hinged together at a mid-line, enabling the parts to lie in a common plane, and to assume an angular position representing a gable, and the roof mold including a releasable hasp to secure the parts in said angular position, a plurality of cookie cutters each having a surrounding skirt with a lower cutting edge and surrounding an open space, and each cookie cutter having a generally open top, the cookie cutters being capable of being inserted into the dough so placed in the molds with the cutting edges penetrating thereinto and therethrough to the bottom element of the mold, and enabling baking of those portions of the dough within the cookie cutters, and upon removal of the cookie cutters pursuant to baking, the pieces formed by the dough within the cookie cutters are capable of being removed by the removal of the cookie cutters, leaving holes in the panels formed by the molds, the holes forming windows and doors in the house, the cookie cutters being separate and apart from the molds and independent in number thereof from the molds, whereby they can be placed at any selected locations within the outline confines of the molds, and form windows and doors in correspondingly selected locations in the bounding surfaces of the house, the pieces formed in the cookie cutters being of such size as to form chimney construction.

Claim 5

Apparatus for making a gingerbread house comprising, a group of individual molds each including a bottom element and a surrounding upturned rim, the molds being adapted to have dough placed therein, and themselves with the dough therein to be placed in an oven for baking the dough, the dough thus baked forming panels in the respective molds, and the molds being so relatively dimensioned and proportioned that the panels are consequently correspondingly dimensioned and proportioned to form respective bounding surfaces of a house, the molds including one for each of such bounding surfaces, the panels being capable of being fitted together to form such house, one of said molds constituting a roof mold, and including a pair of parts hinged together at a mid-line, enabling the parts to lie in a common plane, and to assume an angular position representing a gable, and the roof mold including a releasable hasp to secure the parts in said angular position, a plurality of cookie cutters each having a surrounding skirt with a lower cutting edge and surrounding an open space, and each cookie cutter having a generally open top, the cookie cutters being capable of being inserted into the dough so placed in the molds with the cutting edges penetrating thereinto and therethrough to the bottom element of the mold, and enabling baking of those portions of the dough within the cookie cutters, and upon removal of the cookie cutters pursuant to baking, the pieces formed by the dough within the cookie cutters are capable of being removed by the removal of the cookie cutters, leaving holes in the panels formed by the molds, the holes forming windows and doors in the house, the cookie cutters being separate and apart from the molds and independent in number thereof from the molds, whereby they can be placed at any selected locations within the outline confines of the molds, and form windows and doors in correspondingly selected locations in the bounding surfaces of the house, the pieces formed in the cookie cutters being of such size as to form chimney construction.