Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Gingerbreadhouse 2009

Now Christmas can come, since we have finished the gingerbread house. It was very time consuming, especially since Tiny decided today he needed to be fussy. (Just to disprove all the people at the cookie party last weekend who commented on how sweet he was.)

 I made the dough the night before, and it was very easy to work with. (I can't tell you how it tastes baked because I ate too much of it raw to try any cooked cookies.) [Edited to add: I used Elise's recipe and template.]
 


The baker cut out the shapes and then we decorated!



The finished product. (I am not sure if you can read this, but he wanted to write a schedule for the day. The "shower" noted on there would be mine, and yes, I got one.)




2 comments:

Steph said...

His writing looks great! He won't have any trouble with Kindergarten next year between his reading and his writing. He'll be done with it before it starts. :)

Your gingerbread house came out great! Which recipe did you use? I used the one with butterscotch pudding. It's delicious, but our houses all collapsed.

just jenn said...

we have no gingerbread houses here, but i did make chex mix at two am. ;-p
and mel is officially in charge of all cheeseballs.

i appreciate that trains had to happen again because one can never have too much train time in one day.

happy christmas to all there from all of us here!