Comments on: Awesome Gingerbread Houses

By: artukat

artukat — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:59:07 +0000

look tasty,, can i eat it... hehehehe... make me hungry...

By: Dean Pomerleau

Dean Pomerleau — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:26:21 +0000

Sorry - here is the link to the foolproof gingerbread house construction technique:

http://picasaweb.google.com/deanpomerleau/FoolproofGingerbreadHouse?fe at=directlink

By: Dean Pomerleau

Dean Pomerleau — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:25:13 +0000

Making a gingerbread house can be frustrating if it falls apart before the frosting dries. But it is easy to build a really strong gingerbread house using a cardboard box to reinforce the sides and roof. The cardboard is invisible once decorated, and best of all, the house is ready to decorate within 15 minutes!

This link gives instructions (with pictures).

--Dean

By: Sir Sean's baby girl

Sir Sean's baby girl — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 03:01:03 +0000

Shoot! I bought a kit last year. I have been told that I'm a pretty artistic person - I make new ornaments for everyone as stocking stuffers and homemade treats for presents for the special people in my life. But, I am here to tell you, both my husband AND I tried to put that booger together and it came out looking a lot like Mt. Rainier without meaning to!
So, I took the chicken route and tossed the gingerbread 'glop', baked up some pumkin-rum cake, cut out cubes and thin(1" thick)squares for the roofs, trimmed off some of the cubes so the two sides of the roof would fit, frosted and decorated each "gingerbread" house with different candies.
They were a hit! So, I made them agin, this year. Hmm...tradition starting to bloom?

By: splatman

splatman — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:55:05 +0000

That looks like something I'll have to do sometime.
Mount Rainier is definitely outside-the-box.
Ha ha Poptarts. I used to eat those. Great idea. Some even are already frosted!
Now, I wonder what happens in the end; when display time is up? Everyone gets to "eat house"? Demolition with a giant Gobstopper wrecking ball?
Just give it a Splat!

By: masterwit

masterwit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:55:45 +0000

Dugg.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 23:41:41 +0000

if you want a quick and easy way to make a house - use Poptarts. Nice ready made squares and glue together with frosting.

By: Alan Cordova

Alan Cordova — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:50:48 +0000

Sorry - here are the links:
http://www.jdrfnorthwest.org/gingerbread/
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=gingerbread&w=45206671%40N00

By: Alan Cordova

Alan Cordova — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:26:47 +0000

The Seattle gingerbreads are an annual tradition - designed by local architects and hosted at the Sheraton Hotel, the displays raise money for the Northwest Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation . Photos from past displays:

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:53:58 +0000

Ah, I feel the holiday spirit swell when I look at these cool pictures.

By: ted

ted — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:04:23 +0000

I was kinda turned off by the gingerbread serial killer house. The prison one was just sad.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 03:29:51 +0000

A serial killer house is "highly entertaining"? Ditto for prison rape and stabbing? Does anything become entertaining if done in gingerbread or does one of the victims have to be a prostitute and/or a convict?

By: liphttam1

liphttam1 — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:18:00 +0000

I want to be the gaint to eat, I mean destroy those houses.

By: Galatae

Galatae — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:26:04 +0000

Here are the photos from the 2008 Competition:

http://peakdefinition.smugmug.com/Events/652711

By: Galatae

Galatae — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:23:34 +0000

The Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC holds the National Gingerbread House Competition annually:

http://www.romanticasheville.com/gingerbread.htm

If you are anywhere in the area between November and January it is worth your time.

By: Frau

Frau — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:32:52 +0000

Yes! I remember making a house" for Holiday Houses for Homecare. And the "competition" was fierce. I was up against people who had the previous year did a scene out of Dinotopia. And people who made quality like that White House. I was a beginner and thrown into it because of the baking course I was in.
I ended up doing Angkor Wat. It took a little over a month, and in the end, I did not win any sort of ribbon, nor did anyone have a clue as to what Angkor Wat was. :/

By: mdreyer

mdreyer — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:29:37 +0000

Here are some hot, spicy tips for making g'bread houses:
1. make a big sheet of gingerbread-- roll it out right on wax paper or parchment the size of the cookie sheet. then when it comes out of the oven, quickly cut out the pieces using the paper pattern pieces you have ready. (the g'bread is soft at this point-- gets hard as it cools)
2. stick the pieces together with toothpicks.
3. Use royal icing. it is basically uncooked meringue; has eggwhites. It is super sticky and dries hard as a rock, almost. It is more an engineering material than a food. It also holds the decorations on tight.
4. new geeky idea-- make lego guy gingerbread men to go with. Heck, make a gingerbread laptop with only m's and s's for keys. (m&m's and sprints or whatever they are called)

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:00:28 +0000

I've seen the life-size gingerbread house at the Grand Floridian. It was incredibly detailed!

By: sw

sw — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:07:18 +0000

loved the gingerbread ghetto! i'm all about the cookie whores

By: Dougie

Dougie — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 19:41:08 +0000

FIRST! I would'nt be able to bring myself to eat these, I'd feel guilty for months