Saturday, December 26, 2009

Hansel and Gretel got nothing on this....

The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes. I chose to use the Good Housekeeping recipe. Let me tell you, this recipe was more than enough to make my gingerbread house. I so much dough left over, I made some gingerbread vertically challenged people.

There are many things that go into building a house. First you need the basic foundation...
















Next you need to build your sides...


Then you "nail" your house together with royal icing. Don't forget your shingles!


Once its complete, inspect and make sure the new homeowner is happy about it.

I think Fido is quite happy about his home. Did you know this was my first gingerbread dog house ever? I remember in preschool someone's mom brought in a gingerbread house for us to devour. I recall the kids surrounding the house oohing and ahhing. I was crying because I kept getting pushed to the back as everyone was trying to get a good view of the house. I don't even remember if I even got to taste it? Well guess what?? I don't have to share this house. I get to have front row view of this home and I get to eat this house all by myself.

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holidays!

7 comments:

Lauren said...

Wonderful job! Your house is so cute =D. I love the dog!

Y said...

Haha, very funny, and the dog house is awesome! I'm glad you weren't *too* traumatised by your childhood gingerbread house experience ;)

Francijn Brouwer said...

Haha, a dog house, I love it (and I'm not a dog) :-) I thought about a bird's house, but ended up with a canal house.

Anonymous said...

A dog house? I love it!

Jill @ Jillicious Discoveries said...

Cute gingerbread dog house! I love the tall shape. :)

Angela @ A Spoonful of Sugar said...

A dog house? Fantastic idea! Fido does indeed look very happy and I'm glad that you didn't have to share this house :)

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love this!