Gingerbread

December 18th, 2008

Last week we spent a day with friends Valerie and Evan to make our gingerbread houses together. Valerie provided ready made gingerbread dough and icing, we brought a selection of candy with which to decorate our masterpieces, then the construction process began!

Whenever you do a project with friends, it’s bound to be a new and fun experience. In our case, we sang and danced in the kitchen to the music of VeggieTales and Beach Boys as we built and decorated with goodies! :-) Some of our conversation went like this;

“I still think it needs more color..”

“More candy!”

“No, no, more chocolate!”

(this last exclamation from Mom)

:-D

There were of course, games and a dinner in between the gingerbread and candy. It was a lovely time!

So, have any of you all made gingerbread houses this year?

-Kasie

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  • HAF

    December 18, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    I misunderstood the original phrase “ready made gingerbread” to mean prefab slabs but one look at the photos cleared that up right away.

    That’s not a gingerbread house; that’s a gingerbread mansion. That roof should last 20 years. ;-)

    Both it and the church turned out beautifully.

  • Esther

    December 18, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    WOW Thats nice! very cool and fun! beautiful! ya did a great job! Grand so has it been eaten yet lol

  • Kasie

    December 19, 2008 at 9:11 am

    @HAF
    Oops! Bad writing…thanks for pointing that out. It’s fixed now!

    @Esther
    Thanks Esther! No, it hasn’t been eaten yet – we’re saving it for a Christmas caroling party tomorrow night at our house. This way our friends can see it all complete and beautiful before it gets destroyed! :-) (plus they can help eating it…)

  • Elizabeth

    December 19, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Those are gorgeous!

    Making gingerbread houses is one of my favorite holiday activities! I was blessed to make “gingerbread” houses with a group of friends the last day of school. We didn’t have time to make gingerbread, so we settled for graham crackers instead. We had a great time, and while the houses were smaller than we would have liked, they tasted great =)

  • Justin

    December 19, 2008 at 4:17 pm

    Hmm. Looks nice.

    Did you actually type “you all?” OOOOH. Looks like you’re finally starting to be affected by the lingo down there.

    (Although I shouldn’t be one to talk… after five days in Alabama this summer, I noticed myself getting affected. I still say you all and y’all when I’m being less formal. Hah.)

  • Sheila Delson

    December 19, 2008 at 6:12 pm

    Wow…I am so impressed…they look too good to save, not eat (did you?) ! I now make gingerbread houses with my grand-babies…(ooh-ouch, now that’s a statement that makes me feel O-L-D), and of which I am oh so grateful for!

    Merry Christmas to you all! Lord Bless!
    Sheila

  • Esther

    December 19, 2008 at 8:09 pm

    ah grand send me a piece of you can lol jk

  • Cindy Raatz

    December 21, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    No time for a house this year, but I have a cutter set for making a nativity scene complete with stable. One Christmas I made it for my parents. Sometime in February they informed me they finished eating it…aided by lots of dunking by that time. With blackstrap molasses at least it was high in iron and calcium.


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