Gingerbread House

Dear Santa:

I've made a gingerbread house. Do you like it? I promise to be good and not eat it all in one go.

So, can I have a real house for Christmas? Pretty please?

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Have a great week and Merry Christmas! You can see below step by step of how I made it =)

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And here is how I made it - I used the recipe from BBC Good Food - you can find it here.

1) Make the recipe mixture in a suitably large bowl. Yes, I did use a wok. Woks are the best thing EVER.

2) Using the template on the recipe, cut out house sections and bake. They burn quite easily - so be careful to watch the timing carefully.

3) Stick the parts of the house together using icing sugar paste (icing sugar + egg whites). You may need some mugs for propping up the sides whilst it dries. (Did you notice my elephant mug??? I love my elephant mug).

4) Keep on sticking.

5) Don't give up now!

6) Decorate! I used peanut m&m's for the roof, white chocolate fingers for the door and glace cherries for the door frame. White marshmallows make up the side windows and the rest is writing icing =)

Soooo....I hope I've shown you it's not too hard to make a gingerbread house - this is my first time and I think it turned out okay! So try it try it try it =)

I wish you all a very merry Christmas and Happy New Year.