When I agreed to host the Seasonal Gingerbread House link up I decided to persuade Greg to make something with me. If anyone follows him on twitter you will know that he loves his history and so therefore wanted to make a historically accurate structure. At first he wanted to make the Duomo in Florence and I had to explain that,
a) this was completely new to me and I had never made gingerbread houses before
b) this was not the Great British Bake Off
c) I had no idea how to create curved gingerbread
After scaling back his expectations we compromised on Stoneghenge.
a) this was completely new to me and I had never made gingerbread houses before
b) this was not the Great British Bake Off
c) I had no idea how to create curved gingerbread
After scaling back his expectations we compromised on Stoneghenge.
This really is Greg's creation, he made sure that everything was accurate and figured out how many of each piece he would need, you can see his plan in the picture above. All I really did was make the dough and help with sizing the pieces.
For the dough we used the recipe from BBC Good Food website. Be warned the recipe make tons of dough! I also made two other little houses and had lots of dough left over.
We used the inside cover of some Graze boxes for the grass and we trimmed the gingerbread pieces with a sharp knife to give them a flat surface so that they stood upright. We were so pleased with how it turned out and it looks wonderful in the lounge. We have had many compliments from our visitors.
I will be compiling the Seasonal Gingerbread House link up after tomorrow so you have a little more time if you want to link up.
For the dough we used the recipe from BBC Good Food website. Be warned the recipe make tons of dough! I also made two other little houses and had lots of dough left over.
We used the inside cover of some Graze boxes for the grass and we trimmed the gingerbread pieces with a sharp knife to give them a flat surface so that they stood upright. We were so pleased with how it turned out and it looks wonderful in the lounge. We have had many compliments from our visitors.
I will be compiling the Seasonal Gingerbread House link up after tomorrow so you have a little more time if you want to link up.
