Linking to an old post when I last tried to make the pieces similar to gap's gingerbread ones above - mine turned out no where near as well as his did - https://forums.egullet.org/topic/89489-confections-2006-2012/?do=findComment&comment=1385306
A bunch of us learned this one at the Wybauw course at the French Pastry School in 2007 - his of course were all perfect unlike ours!