Over the past couple of years, I've had this persistent desire to bake a gingerbread house, but somehow, after making mince pies and Christmas cakes, I'd lose motivation halfway through. This year, I wasn't really in the mood for those heavy baked goods, especially since I tend to dive into them too early if I make them. So, I decided it was finally time to try my hand at a gingerbread house. Luckily, we received this beautiful Gingerbread house kit from Lakeland. However, I've never been one for following instructions, so I quickly decided I wanted to do something a bit more creative.
The obvious choice was Rapunzel's tower—it's Charlotte's favorite fairy tale, and we all loved how it came alive during the Disney on Ice show a few weeks back. The challenge, of course, was figuring out how to make it tall and slender without it toppling over. Initially, I tried creating a cardboard version, but it ended up looking nothing like Rapunzel's tower. Cardboard and sticky tape might be easier to work with than gingerbread and royal icing, but it definitely didn't give the same effect.
For the gingerbread structure, I needed to create additional panels, so I traced the shapes from the kit to use as templates. A pizza cutter turned out to be surprisingly effective for achieving clean, straight lines in the gingerbread. While baking, I had a little helper—Rose loved mixing the ingredients and even managed to do a pretty decent job. Unfortunately, she became less helpful during the assembly stage. Every time I stepped away, she'd knock over the panels, and once, an entire piece fell to the floor. Disaster! That's why I ultimately settled on building a three-sided tower instead.
Assembly proved to be far trickier than I anticipated. The design required several adjustments just to keep it standing upright. If only I'd had another pair of hands to steady one side while I worked, it might have been smoother. In the end, I created a triangular prism with the roof attached using copious amounts of icing.
I decorated the roof with white chocolate buttons and Smarties around the windows, adding plenty of icing to mimic falling snow. For Rapunzel's hair, I cut the yellow sections from some rainbow candies. The witch is cleverly hidden around the corner, peeking out from behind the gingerbread tree.
While I aimed for something larger, the final result still resembled Rapunzel's tower enough to excite the kids. Molly suggested turning the gingerbread dog into Pascal, the chameleon from "Tangled," which was such a sweet idea, but I simply ran out of time. All things considered, I think next time I'll stick with the cardboard and sticky tape method—it may not taste as good, but it sure is easier to manage.
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