Gingerbread Houses!

So, those that are readers of the cooking blog know that we’ve been making some parts for gingerbread houses….

If you didn’t see how it’s all made.. you can go check that out… but… after it’s all made… it’s time for some assembly. Now, we use that industrial strength frosting that we made earlier to hold everything together… and we invited over a few friends to share in the construction.

Courtney started by laying out all of the parts involved with making the tower….

While Virginia jumped right into making a foundation of frosting and starting to stand up walls.

They continued working for a good bit…. you could tell that they’re not construction professionals… but we won’t hold that against them….

The best thing about working with gingerbread? When the side of your house breaks in half…. you toss some frosting on it and stick it back together… easy as pie…. err…. bread?

After Virginia was working on the house for a while… Victoria showed up, and we put her to work… starting with installing the roof…

She did okay…. although there were a few tense moments….

But… she did pretty good….and Courtney was making good progress on the tower… but she had to leave early…

After several hours of fun and decorating though… the house and the tower both came out rather lovely…

So… that was it for the gingerbread houses…  … .. …. … so far …

But… we’re supposed to have horrible weather this weekend…. Ice… snow.. just general nastiness… so… I think I’m going to build a gingerbread apartment complex… it should be fun. and I’ll be sure to post pictures if I manage to make it work out decently…