Gingerbread house

Well, it sure has been a while since I wrote anything on the blog!

Today we had our second annual gingerbread house making evening at Paul and T's house. This year the theme (chosen by Paul and T) was "Hillbilly house".

To begin with, we were a little unsure what to do for this, but T's Dad told us that as long as we remembered to put a shotgun by the front door then it would be perfectly acceptable as a hillbilly house.

We decided to model ours on a house we saw a few weeks back at the Howick historical village.

For the mud bricks, we made russian fudge and ginger fudge… yes, I know, neither of those are gingerbread. The ceiling diaphragm (to help stabilise the walls), chimney and roof were all made of gingerbread, along with the doors and

windows.

So far we have not actually eaten any of it… but I am sure it will not last long.

The only criticism that there seemed to be of our house is that it isn't quite ramshackle enough. We would like to point out that the windows are not level, and the gaps between the bricks (and the bricks themselves) are not even!

A fun time had by all, and no doubt Paul will have a good blog showing all the houses up soon.