As a Christmas lover, it may shock you to hear that I've never made a Gingerbread House. I know right? What the hell are you playing at I hear you cry! So on the weekend I made it my mission to find a gingerbread house...
Now I'll admit, I know it's slightly cheating to use a premade kit but I do have a number of excuses. Firstly, I can't eat wheat so to actually made gingerbread that I can't eat anyway seemed a bit pointless to me. Secondly, I was starting to come down with a cold and didn't feel like spending the whole day slaving over, again, something I can't eat. And finally, I'm lazy AF.
So let us begin.
I picked up this Make Your Own Gingerbread House from Tesco for just £4. What a freaking bargain. It comes with all the essentials you'll need including base, gingerbread, icing and sweeties decorations. May I add at this point - I bought another packet of smarties to add to the house but they gave enough sweets to decorte it with that I didn't need them!
Somehow they managed to find their way into my tummy... whoops!
I started by using the icing to stick the front of the house to the base and put two strips of icing up each side to make the walls stick to each other. As per the instructions, this is the way to do it. However, I wish at this point I'd done the icing on the windows as it was so difficult to pipe flat onto the walls and make it stick... hence the excess of drop down icing to hide my mistakes. We can't all be perfect.
Next up I added all the icing and decorations to make the house look super cute and festive and like something out of a frigging Hanz Christian Anderson novel. Beautiful.
Finally just to make it super duper cute I sprinkled icing sugar over the top to make it look like snow. I love it.
I couldn't be happier with my first attempt at a Gingerbread House and I simply cannot wait to take it into work and have everyone omomnomnonm on it.
Yum.
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