Gingerbread houses
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What’s the point? My kitchen is now completely covered in frigging melted sugar just to glue together 6 pieces of ginger cake that are hard enough to use as an anvil. We’re going to cover it in icing and whipped marshmallow and cover it all with various candies, 2/3 of which nobody eats anymore. Karla says that doesn’t matter if the candy tastes bad since we won’t be eating it anyway. I asked, “then why don’t you let me get the Gorilla Glue? It will work better and easier than the sugar”… She replied “because it still needs to be edible!”
Huh?
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Thursday night I will be one of the judges at the annual gingerbread house contest and dinner at my daughter's place.
This has been going on for several years. With 2 people on each team there are usually 5 or 6 houses.
The builders like it. I mostly just watch, but I'll eat a few pieces of candy.
The point? I don't know.
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Funny timing. We did ours yesterday. We use the Costco pre-built house that comes with a tube of icing and we bring the candy.
I say funny timing because I had some friends on facebook really getting annoyed that their kids weren't focusing, were eating too much candy, etc...
I approach it, a bit as @Mik implied, with the overall fun and experience of it. Sure the house has a whole side without anything, and it's an unorganized mess, but I put the icing on and the kids did their best to place candies on. My 2 year old discovered his love for mini M&Ms and marshmallows in the process.
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Fun and tradition. Good enough for anyone. We really don’t want to look too deeply at the utility of our little pleasures.
@Mik said in Gingerbread houses:
Fun and tradition. Good enough for anyone. We really don’t want to look too deeply at the utility of our little pleasures.
Analysis is the murderer of fun. The crazy mess is most of the point.
We did ours from scratch. Which isn't a brag, the point is not to be able to say that because it still looks like total ass. Point was it was fun.
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@Mik said in Gingerbread houses:
Fun and tradition. Good enough for anyone. We really don’t want to look too deeply at the utility of our little pleasures.
Analysis is the murderer of fun. The crazy mess is most of the point.
We did ours from scratch. Which isn't a brag, the point is not to be able to say that because it still looks like total ass. Point was it was fun.
@Aqua-Letifer said in Gingerbread houses:
@Mik said in Gingerbread houses:
Fun and tradition. Good enough for anyone. We really don’t want to look too deeply at the utility of our little pleasures.
Analysis is the murderer of fun. The crazy mess is most of the point.
We did ours from scratch. Which isn't a brag, the point is not to be able to say that because it still looks like total ass. Point was it was fun.
We did ours from scratch, too. I didn’t find it fun…
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Gingerbread houses:
@Mik said in Gingerbread houses:
Fun and tradition. Good enough for anyone. We really don’t want to look too deeply at the utility of our little pleasures.
Analysis is the murderer of fun. The crazy mess is most of the point.
We did ours from scratch. Which isn't a brag, the point is not to be able to say that because it still looks like total ass. Point was it was fun.
We did ours from scratch, too. I didn’t find it fun…
@LuFins-Dad I got you anew avatar for Christmas.
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I’m firmly with you @LuFins-Dad . Gingerbread houses are a stupid waste of time & ingredients. Not fun. An incredible mess. Edible gingerbread men yes; houses nope
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I’m firmly with you @LuFins-Dad . Gingerbread houses are a stupid waste of time & ingredients. Not fun. An incredible mess. Edible gingerbread men yes; houses nope
@blondie said in Gingerbread houses:
I’m firmly with you @LuFins-Dad . Gingerbread houses are a stupid waste of time & ingredients. Not fun. An incredible mess. Edible gingerbread men yes; houses nope
This… And I enjoy decorating the Gingerbread Men, too. Luke and I are working on our own little scene. It’s really hard to sharpen candy canes into spear points, though.
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@blondie said in Gingerbread houses:
I’m firmly with you @LuFins-Dad . Gingerbread houses are a stupid waste of time & ingredients. Not fun. An incredible mess. Edible gingerbread men yes; houses nope
This… And I enjoy decorating the Gingerbread Men, too. Luke and I are working on our own little scene. It’s really hard to sharpen candy canes into spear points, though.
@LuFins-Dad said in Gingerbread houses:
@blondie said in Gingerbread houses:
I’m firmly with you @LuFins-Dad . Gingerbread houses are a stupid waste of time & ingredients. Not fun. An incredible mess. Edible gingerbread men yes; houses nope
This… And I enjoy decorating the Gingerbread Men, too. Luke and I are working on our own little scene. It’s really hard to sharpen candy canes into spear points, though.
Electric pencil sharpener...
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I love gingerbread houses. Family tradition since my kids were little. Messy, yes, and very time consuming for me (because I bake them from scratch, using a homemade pattern) but the kids loved it, we always invited their friends, even when they got older. The gingerbread is good, the candy was good, and the results were quite edible.
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I love gingerbread houses. Family tradition since my kids were little. Messy, yes, and very time consuming for me (because I bake them from scratch, using a homemade pattern) but the kids loved it, we always invited their friends, even when they got older. The gingerbread is good, the candy was good, and the results were quite edible.
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I love gingerbread houses. Family tradition since my kids were little. Messy, yes, and very time consuming for me (because I bake them from scratch, using a homemade pattern) but the kids loved it, we always invited their friends, even when they got older. The gingerbread is good, the candy was good, and the results were quite edible.
