Though I've baked actual gingerbread in the past, this time there was no baking involved.
When you're short on time or have tons of other stuff to do, graham crackers are a very convenient substitute. , and though we kept it simple this time around, they can be assembled into very elaborate structures.
To begin, you must have the right kind of icing. Royal Icing dries hard pretty quickly, which is imperative for holding the walls of your structures together. It also securely holds candies to the houses.
Jericho made the Picasso-esque house in the upper left. Cousin S made the one in the upper right. Judah and I assembled the one on the bottom left.
Jericho, our resident artist, said after looking at the three completed houses together, "Everyone is going to think Judah made mine and I made yours", and sure enough, when his friends arrived that evening, they all said that very thing, lol.
And just to clarify, that would be the pointy ice cream cones, not cones of sugar.
We make the trees at our annual Youth Group Christmas parties.
We line a couple of long tables with festive Christmas wrapping paper, give each person a paper plate and a cone, set out bowls of candy and few bags of fresh Royal icing down the length of the tables, and (as HisGirl would say) POW! Super-easy group activity!
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We've done these before and they are so fun! And unlike gingerbread, if you break a cracker you don't have to re bake your whole batch of bread, just pull one out of the package! Cute pictures!
I love using the graham crackers because they are smaller than the gingerbread ones. Then everyone can decorate and eat their own without having to spread it over the course of a week... with me struggling to find a place to store it each night.
LOVE the ice cream cone ideas for the trees!! Never would have thought of that. I might have to steal it from ya. =0)
I'm going to try this this weekend when my two nieces and my nephew are here - it looks like (tasty) fun!
We've done the graham cracker "gingerbread" houses before, too. So much fun!
Those houses turned out very cute!
So wonderful! I want to do gingerbread houses this year with the girls. I haven't done them in the past but I think this year they'd really enjoy it!
EXCELLENT idea! Love it! Thanks for sharing the photos and recipe. I've been wanting to do this with my nieces and nephews! ; )
Those are great, Becky. We've never made ginger bread houses before, but were planning on it this year. I'm glad you did this post because I had no idea that royal icing was the way to go. And... I got quite a chuckle because I thought Judah had made Jericho's too! Thanks for the clarification! LOL!
Look at your professional looking recipe "cards"! Well done, you.
Lurve having the icing recipe on hand b/c we always tend to run out when we make the pre-formed kits.
This looks great. You are the fun mom, I can see.
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