Gingerbread House

This year, I finally bought one of those gingerbread house kits. It came with instructions for making gingerbread and icing and how to put it all together. It also had all the cutters needed. Last night I cut and baked all the pieces so the kids could put together the house and decorate it this morning. It was lots of fun! I would give them several ideas, and they would choose how to place the candies. I had to help a lot, but they did a lot of the work themselves. I think it turned out cute. It's a surprise for Daddy when he gets home today. As a daddy, he is going to be pleased. As a structural engineer, however, I am afraid he might find some fault with our joints. They did not all fit together perfectly, so we had to use lots of icing at every corner. They don't use icing much in his line of work, so maybe he won't notice.

please try to ignore the super mess in the floor behind the action. darn, that probably made your eyes go straight to it.

note the concentration. gingerbread house building is not for the faint of heart.

I've got to say that making a gingerbread house is harder than I imagined. Preparing, rolling, and cutting the dough was tricky. I think I would improve with practice, though. And I think I'm going to get it because I can see this becoming a yearly tradition.