Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Do you know the gingerbread man?

For Family Night we made a Gingerbread House Grandma Clarke gave us! The kids were so excited!

The box makes it look soooo easy...Warning: Don't look at our finished product too closely. Make sure to follow all Hints.
Directions:
First, Lay the tray down flat. Hint: Make sure not to have the tray upside down. When you place the house on it, it will be confusing. Once turned over in the correct way, it all makes sense.
Second, Cut the frosting bag so you have a nice small opening. Hint: Don't make a large hole or it'll come out fast, thick and kind of like a huge blob. Don't try to move around with fingers, the frosting will stick to those instead of the gingerbread.
Third, Put up the walls, make sure you start with enough frosting to keep it together so you don't have t keep taking it apart to add more. Hint: Keep the gingerbread pieces away from 3 yr olds, they break them and then want you to put it together again...and it doesn't work.
Fourth, Decorate. Hint: You may think you have a large bag of frosting, but it goes quick if you followed the "don't" on the Second direction. You may use red squeeze bottle too if available.
Fifth, Let Dry. Hint: If your frosting is too gooey and melting off your house try 1. Turning down the heat in your house. 2.Getting a hairdryer that has a cold setting. If doesn't work, go to next step.

Sixth, EAT. When it doesn't stay standing and the roof slides off the side walls because of the massive load of candy, just eat it. Hint: You should have learned by now, the hairdryer is not a good idea.
Seventh, after you all have taken a bite, let go of holding the roof from falling and give one side to each of the kids. Take a few bites yourself, take the good candy from your child's roof and discard.

7 comments:

melanie said...

yummy!!! that looks good. do you know that i have actually NEVER made a gingerbread house??? maybe this year.....the kids would love it.

Tami said...

Looks like fun! Cute idea. I love your holiday blog background!

Very cute pictures of Aidrian with the santa hat on. She is so beautiful!!

The Grush's said...

I love it. It looks like you had so much fun. And Aidrian is the cutest thing I have ever seen with that hat on. I love the last picture.

Meagan said...

Wow! Looks like "fun" I do love that you guys actually ate it while still in house shape. Who knew it was so complicated?!?!

DeAnn said...

We made gingerbread houses last week and I about lost my mind! So I'm glad to see others struggle as well. Once we got them stuck together and let the frosting dry overnight, the kids had a blast decorating the next day.

Angie said...

hmmm. looks like quite a bit of work!!! and mess. but fun to eat, i guess! :) hee hee. i rhymed.

The Schaefer's said...

Looks good to me! That royal frosting can be a bit of a problem. We've used graham crackers and regular frosting before, too, to make individual houses.