Baking our first gingerbread house!

We decided to bake our first gingerbread house last Sunday. A project which proved to be very challanging as we went along. Kiddos started by tracing the drawing onto baking paper so we could put on our dough later. Then we cut the dough and put the parts into the oven and then.... we kinda forgot about them. So the parts turned out to be a little on the dark side! ^_^ Then my sweet hubby volunteered to put them together because the melted sugar was very very hot and dangerous.



we thought he did a good job.



After all parts were put together (well....most of them were), all of us crowded around to do the fun part - decorating! we managed to do the roofs and a little on the sides and then Julkalender (a kids' program which is shown every year from 1st Dec to 24th Dec, with different stories every year, all related to Christmas)started, so all of us "migrated" to the living room. Leaving this mess...



When Julkalendar was over, Harry Potter started so nobody was interested in decorating the gingerbread house further, so we declared it done!



There was one special feature in our gingerbread house though.... It was missing in one wall!



Lars and I were laughing so hard when he was trying to put all parts together! Jovan tried to make the situation better by saying,"Our pepperkakshus (gingerbread house) has a open garage."

We think that we did a good job for beginners and we feel that we're ready for a more challanging design next year! hahahahaha!