A very merry Christmas from our house to yours! ♥
Penny and I have been enjoying trying our hand at making gingerbread houses this year. A new experience for me. Thanks to Google, we found a good recipe and set to work mixing ingredients, kneading lots of flour into the dough to make it very stiff, and then rolling it out to cut into shapes to create our little houses.
I am thankful to have found the tip saying to hot glue the house together, rather than relying on just frosting, and it sounded like a good step to make things simpler. So that’s what I did, with no regrets, though it would not be purely edible. I wasn’t planning on these getting eaten.
You can see here that I drew lines on the roof with a pencil for the “shingle” pattern. Penny and her pets wanted to run in and out to explore the cute little house.
Another tip I learned was to make the candies available in a muffin tray. Good idea! We had red and green M&Ms, white chocolate wafers, gummy candies, little cinnamon drops, pretzels, pecans, and dates. And of course, candy canes. Go easy on the sampling here!!
And now for the little people to begin. I made royal frosting from egg whites and confectionery sugar that is meant to dry quickly. I gave the workers each a sandwich bag with the tip cut off so they could pipe it on as they wished. Here the pencil lines are roughly followed with frosting and M&Ms applied with little fingers.
This is a busy gingerbread house construction site with kids very intent on their labors. So cute!
Someone got carried away with candy cane ridgepoles here, but no fear, there is nothing that a little more frosting can’t fix! How do you like it now, Penny?
First we decorated the fronts, then the sides got candy accessories too – bright little Christmas bushes and white chocolate wafers.
Oh, here is a good idea, a pretzel log sidewalk to the front door.
I added frosting to the roof edges and some dripping icicles to complete this masterpiece.
This home belongs to the gummy snowmen who wonder if you won’t step inside and join them for a cup of cocoa?
After a busy day, here is Penny posing by the finished houses. A big one for the children to take home, and a littler one for their Grandma. Merry Christmas one and all!
In the background is the recently made Christmas banner celebrating “God with us”.
“Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.” Matthew 1:23
And that’s why we celebrate Christmas!!
