GingerBread House

Last year Ross and I's small group had a gingerbread house contest and we loved making one. I spent all day on the one last year and here's how it turned out.

Us and our house.

The beach and front.

The side.

The side.

The back.

Well this year they didn't have that contest but I wanted to make one anyways. So Renee, Christian, Ross, mom, and I sent out to make one. It didn't work out to well. It ended up caving in on us because we didn't make the gingerbread thin enough or bake it long enough. Next year we know to make it thinner and bake it longer. But here are some picture of us making it.

Cutting everything out

Baking everything.

Putting the house together. It was 1ft 4 inches long, 1 ft deep and 1 ft tall.

Roof construction

Putting the porch on.

Ross and Christian making windows, notice the torch Ross uses!

Window installation crew.

Freezing the windows.

Windows in and half the porch on.

All parts of the roofs are on and chimneys.

Putting the shingles on.

The chimneys and gable done.

What the house looked like right before the cave in.

Then this happened, complete cave out I should say, not even near done and well no amount of icing was gonna fix this, the gingerbread wasn't hard enough. We'll know for next year.