1.    Melt chocolate compound in a double boiler or in a candy melter.  If using the double boiler, be sure that no water or steam gets into the chocolate as it will thicken and harden the chocolate.

2.    Melt white, chocolate compound and fill all but one cavity of a muffin tin (I use the egg muffin tin) with white, melted chocolate.  Use either powder food coloring or an oil-based food coloring and tint the white, melted chocolate colors of choice.  For red:  Make a deep pink color, add a touch of blue and add the red.  Be sure to keep one cavity of white.  Fill the remaining cavity with milk chocolate compound or semi-sweet chocolate compound.  (You can leave 2 cavities empty and fill one with semi-sweet chocolate compound and the other with milk chocolate compound).

3.    To paint the inside of the candy, house mold, bring a bulb of colored, melted chocolate to the cavity where the desired colored chocolate is to be placed.  Use an artist's brush to do this.  Continue doing this is until the cavity, if held up to the light cannot see the light through it.  When all areas of the sections of the house is solidified, full with melted, milk chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate or white chocolate.  If using peanut butter flavored chocolate, do only the roof.  Use milk, semi or white for the front, back and sides because the peanut butter chocolate just is too soft to work well in those sections.

4.    Put the filled candy molds in the freezer to solidify.  When ready, remove from the freezer.  When the candy pieces are at room temperature, assemble the house.

5.    I use santas, snowmen, trees, and any other candy mold of the ideal size for the decorations.  Paint the inside of each cavity with the desired, melted, tinted white chocolate.  When solidified, fill with milk, semi or white chocolate (peanut butter flavored chocolate does work well in these small candy molds).  Put into freezer to solidify.  Remove from molds.  When the candy pieces have reached room temperature, they are ready to be used in the assembly of the house.To assemble the house:

1.    Cover the cardboard with white, melted chocolate compound.  An off-set, metal spatula works well to spread the chocolate.

2.    Put the front of the house on the melted, white chocolate base.  Touch some melted chocolate to sections one of the sides.  Immediately, as shown, below, attach the side to the back section of the front of the house.  Quickly, do this to the other side and put it into place.   Carefully, put the back of the house into place.  Put a surprise chocolate piece or pieces (molded candy pieces) into the center of the house and secure with melted chocolate.  Kids just love to find out there is a surprise inside!  One child called Grandma up immediately after finding the surprise and said, "Grandma, there's a mouse living in my chocolate house"!  (The mouse was a Christmas mouse with a santa hat.)

3.    To sections one and two of the diagram, above, place melted chocolate.   (See second picture on the left, above.)  Carefully and quickly, put the 2 roofs into place.

4.  In the area where the roofs meet, place a line of white, melted chocolate.  (See third picture on the left, above.)

5.  Put the two chimney pieces together with melted chocolate.  Dip the top of the roof into white melted chocolate for the snow and dip the bottom of the chimney into the melted chocolate that is used for the roof.  Put the chimney into place.  Note:  If you are using the house molds that the chimney fits over the section where the roofs meet, it is not necessary to dip the bottom of the chimney into anything as it will automatically adhere to the melted, white chocolate that was place in a line where the roofs met.

6.  Use a large artist's brush dipped into melted, white chocolate to add the snow to the roof edges.

Hint:  I dip the roof edges into the melted white chocolate before I put them on the house to create the snow.
 

7.    While the white, melted chocolate base (snow) is still melted, use a metal spatula or a wide artist's brush to create the paths.  Make the lake and the stream.  Add some snow piles (white, melted chocolate) to the edges of the paths and to the edges of the stream.  Note:  This is the reason for working carefully, and quickly to assemble the house.

Hint:  Put some blue melted, chocolate in some white, melted chocolate and swirl.  Then, use a large, wide artist's brush to make the lake by bringing the melted chocolate over to the snowy base with the artist's brush.  The stream is made in the similar manner, but with a smaller artist's brush.

8.    Add the fences.  Dip the bases of the miniature snowmen, trees, santas, people, etc. into white, melted chocolate and put them into place.  Note:  The tips of the trees may be dipped into the melted, white chocolate before dipping the bases and putting them into place.