Christmas Tradition: Gingerbread!!

I may or may not be a teensy bit competitive.

The truth is, if any prize is involved I want to win it.

So when there was a Gingerbread House Competition at the work holiday party I signed my department up immediately!

A Charlie Brown Christmas!

I don't have any tutorial or recipe, because the truth is I used the gingerbread kit provided to me by the holiday party committee.  I did create Peanuts characters out of rice crispy treats and fondant...but since they turned out looking more like South Park characters you may not want to do whatever I did.

Apparently some people make their own fondant?  I'm creative, not a fricken miracle worker.  I bought that sh*t at Micheal's like a normal person.

The overall creation was the group effort of myself, Cyndi, Brittany, Vanessa, and Kameron.  And it is magnificent if I do say so myself.  A winning piece of edible art!

Snoopy and his house - WINNING!!

Only we didn't win.  But I felt like a winner anyway!!

Gingerbread house making is a time honored Christmas tradition that I have continued since growing up in a small town in Eastern Washington.  Originally, we used graham crackers and hot glued them into houses and then covered them with frosting, gummy bears, and licorice.  Since moving to California I have carried on this tradition, only I have graduated to actual gingerbread now.

For the first time since 2003, I am spending Christmas in my hometown of Wenatchee (it's my husband's first white Christmas - pictures to come)! This meant making gingerbread houses with the original crew of girls (known as TUBFE - don't ask because you won't understand, sorry).

Cara, Kate, Ardith, Tanja, me and Ashley!

I of course spent a lot of time making a gorgeous gingerbread house with hand-piped icicles on the roof and house edges.

A lovely and tasteful house, if I do say so myself (which I do say so).

So, naturally, it needed to be destroyed immediately.

DESTROYED!

I tried to fix it...but there was no saving it from the Apocalypse of Frosting!

Also, rule is that if you abandon your house, it is left out in the snow.  So now the back porch looks like a snowy village for tiny little elves.

Someone needs to shovel their driveway...

So Happy Christmas to all and I hope you are enjoying your Holidays as much as I am!  I know I have provided no recipes or tutorials, but to honest the Doctor Who Christmas Special will be on shortly so I'm going to go watch that.  Stay tuned for my next post, Christmas with The Doctor!

Cheers!!