The Beginning of This Year's Gingerbread House

So here is a gigantic batch of gingerbread. It has 6 cups of flour in it! And, it wasn’t enough. I think I still need another half batch to finish all the pieces I need to make for my gingerbread house. Actually it’s not a house; it’s more of a village. It's supposed to be a shopping village. I got the plans on-line. The site has lots of nice patterns and ideas, so it saved me the time of having to come up with the architectural plans. Icould just start working on the house.

On top of my plans it says “for advanced gingerbread makers” of course every time I start a gingerbread house Brian thinks it is “amateur hour”. Anyway, I am almost done making all the pieces. The town is a series of 5 buildings and I have all the pieces except for the last building and one of the interior walls (and I don’t know if you can tell from the picture but I slightly over-baked the bank front. I think of it as more of a brownstone building, but I’ll probably re-do it.) The last building contains a curved corner piece, which must be baked on a round candy tin to achieve the curve.

To make my last batch of gingerbread I’ll need to go to the store to get more molasses, but something about frozen roads will keep me inside tonight. But I hope to be in the assembly phase this weekend. Look for more updates.

P.S. Staci, I know your favorite part is when they drop the big display, but please don’t be too ecstatic if it happens to me. Wish me luck.