Gingerbread house

This is less of an instructional post and more of a showing off of the gingerbread house that my family and I made over the holidays.

It was a team effort! My little cousins, of course, liked the icing (which they called ‘snow’) the best. My dad helped come up with inventive construction ideas to get the whole thing to stay together. While the icing dried – admittedly, waiting was the hardest part! – we made garlands out of fruit jellies and Christmas trees out of spearmint leaves while the ‘adults’ made chimneys and log porches out of other kinds of Russian candy and little savoury bread snacks. The kids really just stuck whatever candy was around onto the icing but who’s to say that is not how it is done!

Here are the various pictures to prove that we didn’t eat it right away. My grandmother hid a little toy surprise for the kids in the middle – we put a empty tea box in the middle to aid in the construction efforts – but we still convinced them to take their time in eating it. It took them approximately 3 days or thereabouts.