Making our Annual Gingerbread House

Can I tell you how much my three children love candy? Oops…I included Ammon in that number. Seriously, the the salivating begins as we bring home the gingerbread house kit…usually a Costco buy…this year from Michael’s. I really should probably break down and actually make homemade gingerbread and frosting for this special tradition…though I haven’t come to the point where I feel inclined to spend an entire day baking for an event that we end up putting together the pieces of gingerbread and then let them sit and get stale for a couple of weeks. I am all about eating what I bake…so when I am able to get over that hurdle…I will let you all know.

 

Anyway…here is Ammon overseeing the making of the frosting.

Annie and Nathan then are eager to lick the beaters…beginning their first sugar rush!

Next comes putting together the pieces of the gingerbread house that come all perfectly cut out in our house kit.  However, it takes two adults to ice the pieces together and hold them in place so they don’t topple over while the frosting is setting. Therefore, there are no pictures for this step of our gingerbread construction.

The rest is up to the kids…once start putting frosting on the house they go at it. It’s mostly like this. One candy for the gingerbread house, one candy for me, one candy for the gingerbread house, one candy for me. And on they go till they are out. OH then Daddy finds more candy in the cupboard and they continue till they are finished with Daddy’s secret stash!

Truly, it’s a fun tradition. I enjoy watching them (all three of them)!