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Step 31 Use the gold dusting powder and the soft bristled brush to dust all 3 pieces with the gold powder until they are well covered . It ’ s best to do this as soon as they come out the mold so they ’ re still a tiny bit sticky .
Step 32 Use a little gold icing to glue each piece in place .
Step 33 Set aside these pieces until you ’ re sure everything has dried completely .
Step 34
Once dried , you will need to ‘ glue ’ everything together with your brown and red glue consistency icing . Once glued , you don ’ t want to move it for at least a few hours , so if needed , complete the next step on a chopping board or something else that you can pick up and move around without jolting your drying masterpiece ! Place your pieces as shown in the picture ( the placement of the floor is important as all the other pieces fit from here ) and make sure it ' s all sitting right . Then pick up each piece one at a time ( starting with the floor ) and pipe a thick line of icing along the left side raw cookie edge and ‘ glue ’ it to the left side of the sleigh ( it should look like it ’ s lying on its side with one side piece missing , as it does in the picture ), then pipe ‘ glue ’ along all the right side raw edges now facing you and pop the right hand side sleigh piece on top .