The palette

A sweet-shop palette: oxidized cut copper for the mint ground floor on a chocolate base of brown terracotta, pink terracotta for the upper floor and the gables in a frame of white quartz pillars, smooth quartz for every trim (the icing), and a dark oak roof flecked with spruce for the chocolate. The turret is pink and white concrete, its spire warped planks; the accents are the striped wool awning, warped shutters, coloured glass jars, candles and the lollipop.

Techniques

• Icing trims and drips
• A gingerbread gable
• A curved bow window
• A jettied upper floor in a white frame
• A peppermint turret
• A brick bakehouse and chimney

The steps

1. Chocolate plinth and candy tile floor
2. Ground floor of mint copper
3. Curved bow window
4. Sweets in the window and on the shelves
5. Brick bakehouse
6. Chimney stack with icing bands
7. Bakehouse roof
8. Icing corbels under the jetty
9. Pink upper floor in a white icing frame
10. Peppermint turret, striped in a spiral
11. Turret lantern room above the roof
12. Icing bands and a striped door hood
13. Steep chocolate roof and its gingerbread gables
14. Dormer on the west slope
15. Iced bargeboards and icing drips
16. Mint spire on the turret
17. Giant lollipop on the spire
18. Striped awning over the bow
19. Round candy sign on a bracket

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