In today’s coordinated Babes in Blogland Blogmas post, we’re all sharing our preferred Christmas recipes… and I’m not qualified because I DON’T cook OR BAKE! So instead of sharing a recipe, today I’m showing you the gingerbread house I got:
Minions! I’ve built a few gingerbread houses in my time – typically I like having a Christmas film playing in the background and I go to town.
When I purchased it at the supermarket, the cashier positively squealed when she found this item, lol. Here’s what the package looks like fresh out of the box:
The instructions aren’t very comprehensive – nowhere did it say that these pieces needed to be cut apart, but I’m one of those people who likes to pre-plan before starting a project, so I knew these pieces looked dodgy!
Starting to glue the base structure:
I wish I could tell you this gingerbread house build went off without a hitch… but the damn icing wouldn’t STICK onto the gingerbread pieces! I put together the base as shown and then proceeded to attached the roof, only for the base to collapse on me! This is pre-roof, pre-collapse:
This is what it looks like after the 2nd attempt, notice the amount of icing I had to slap on the seams:
And because I had to use extra icing, I essentially depleted my decorating glue for the gumdrops and sprinkles… I had to make do. Here it is put together and decorated before I ran out of icing:
Feast on your eyes on this!
(Scroll back up to the top of this post and compare to the photo on the box… )
And less than an hour after it was assembled, one of the side walls caved in – the structure still stands but it’s a 3-walled house… “open concept living quarters” This was such a challenging experience for an adult to do, I can’t think of making this as a kid! Geez.
And that’s how I “bake” for the holidays! have you ever built a gingerbread house before? What’s YOUR favourite Christmas recipe?
Be sure to check out the rest of the Babes in Blogland for their favourite Christmas recipes:
♥ Ingrid of Curly.Spring.Blossom
♥ Sharon of Sharon charm Prime
♥ Kaily of hi Kaily
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