I'm trying to type this post without laughing, or feeling utter disappointment, but once you read the whole thing and see pictures, you may understand....
Every year my family celebrates Thanksgiving early, because we're all apart on the actual day. We invite friends and neighbors and it's always a lot of fun with 15+ people in the house. My sister Megan and I decided to make a Thanksgiving ginger bread house complete with turkeys, fall leaves, etc. The thing of our dreams was not to be...
Megan printed out the most complicated, entirely insane ginger bread house. The thing was a mansion with a tower, a wrap-around porch, and another porch on the side. Oh you can't begin to imagine....well, she IS an architect major. We went to Shaw's to find stuff to make tiny turkeys, try to find leaf sprinkles too. No luck. Hannaford's. Noooope. Wal-Mart! We found Lindt chocolate in 3-packs for turkeys, bingo! But no sprinkles.
Went home and backed the gingerbread, 3 batches for all the crazy little cut outs necessary. I let Megan put it together with frosting, I didn't want the whole thing to collapse. So I stuck to decorating windows and putting a tree on the back wall. She made little turkeys out of the Lindt truffles, Nilla wafers, some frosting and a few sprinkles. They were adorable.
Walls up, front view
The back with tree, before leaf pile added
Tree with little leaf pile
The turkeys!
And after that it went all wrong!
The roof had been assembled earlier and set aside, we brought it over on a tray, set it down, and the whole the collapsed. The frosting wouldn't hold it together, so Megan put marshmallows in the microwave and stuck them on the roof in huge, disgusting globs. And then she set the roof on the walls....
It was fine for a while, but started to collapse after we tried putting the tower on.
Megan wrote Happy Thanksgiving and we considered it a failed project. At this point there was no saving the thing.
We put it in the garage so it would harden up over night. Hey, it was still edible right?
Well I went out this morning and there was....half of it? A few walls were missing, I brought it in and noticed the FUR all over it, little black and gray hairs!
:shocked EWEWEW! My mom said she went out and the garage door was pushed up and it was on the ground. She thought it was my cat but the cats and dogs were all in last night. Hmmm.....
Well, we spent 5+ hours on that thing yesterday, and we can't eat it, but it was fun and now we have a story! The turkeys are still ok too, they never got put on the house, so we're planning on making some more to put at everyone's place tonight. Hope you all enjoyed that little story, I'm still alternating between disbelief and laughing.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Rebecca
Every year my family celebrates Thanksgiving early, because we're all apart on the actual day. We invite friends and neighbors and it's always a lot of fun with 15+ people in the house. My sister Megan and I decided to make a Thanksgiving ginger bread house complete with turkeys, fall leaves, etc. The thing of our dreams was not to be...
Megan printed out the most complicated, entirely insane ginger bread house. The thing was a mansion with a tower, a wrap-around porch, and another porch on the side. Oh you can't begin to imagine....well, she IS an architect major. We went to Shaw's to find stuff to make tiny turkeys, try to find leaf sprinkles too. No luck. Hannaford's. Noooope. Wal-Mart! We found Lindt chocolate in 3-packs for turkeys, bingo! But no sprinkles.
Went home and backed the gingerbread, 3 batches for all the crazy little cut outs necessary. I let Megan put it together with frosting, I didn't want the whole thing to collapse. So I stuck to decorating windows and putting a tree on the back wall. She made little turkeys out of the Lindt truffles, Nilla wafers, some frosting and a few sprinkles. They were adorable.
Walls up, front view
The back with tree, before leaf pile added
Tree with little leaf pile
The turkeys!
And after that it went all wrong!
It was fine for a while, but started to collapse after we tried putting the tower on.
Megan wrote Happy Thanksgiving and we considered it a failed project. At this point there was no saving the thing.
We put it in the garage so it would harden up over night. Hey, it was still edible right?
Well I went out this morning and there was....half of it? A few walls were missing, I brought it in and noticed the FUR all over it, little black and gray hairs!
Well, we spent 5+ hours on that thing yesterday, and we can't eat it, but it was fun and now we have a story! The turkeys are still ok too, they never got put on the house, so we're planning on making some more to put at everyone's place tonight. Hope you all enjoyed that little story, I'm still alternating between disbelief and laughing.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Rebecca
