Some of my fondest memories of Christmas traditions that I no longer takenthe time to do are of building gingerbread houses. I didn’t just buildnhouses with my kids—we built a castle and a St. Basil’s cathedral and a carousel and a train and even a tree!
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nIt’snso fun to find the perfect candies to create a shingled roof and anpicket fence, stained glass windows and stepping stones, shutters andndoorknobs! We also enjoyed piping colorful icing onto gingerbread tonmake elaborate Victorian or Russian designs, dripping white frostingnicicles from roof eaves, building snowmen out of marshmallows, andnspreading a nice layer of fluffy white frosting snow on the cardboardnbase.
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nTodaynis Gingerbread House Day! If you can’t find the time to make onentoday, you can make your plans for later during the holiday season—ornat least take a peek at some of these great gingerbread concoctions:
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Over-the-Top Gingerbread Housesn (be sure to click the link to the slide show for more!)n
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n20 Gingerbread Houses that Are Too Amazing to Eat (hey,n with that gluey royal icing, please don’t eat ANY gingerbreadn houses!)
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nGingerbread Ninja’s Carousel (This “crafty kitchen warrior” has such a cute name for her blog, I have give her props!)
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nHerenare step-by-step instructions on how to build a gingerbread house…
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n…nand here is a how-to video for basic house construction,
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n…andnhere is a how-to video for house decoration.
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| A quicky way to build small “gingerbread” houses—one per kid, theirs to decorate on their own—is to use graham crackers to create the houses instead of baking your own gingerbread. |
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nAlsonon this date:
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Anniversary of the first trans-Atlantic radio transmission
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nNational Poinsettia Day
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nAnniversary of the opening of the first motel
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