The Gingerbread House (Luisa)

A week before Christmas Ashanti told us she wanted to make a gingerbread house. We had never made a gingerbread house from scratch, we had always bought a pre-made gingerbread house from the farmer's market and just decorated it. But we decided it would be fun to try. We found a recipe on line but thought that it was too small to share with everybody so we decided to do a one and a half recipe. So we went to the store and bought the stuff to make it. 

The Sunday before Christmas we made the dough and then put it in the fridge to set. And then on Wednesday, Christmas Eve, we rolled out the dough, cut the pieces and put it in the oven. As we took the pieces out of the oven and set them out to cool some of the bigger pieces broke but we knew that we could just use frosting to fix them later. Then we made the frosting. We put in the eggs and powdered sugar and mixed it up. But we decided it was too hard. So we put in a few more eggs but then it was too soft so we put in some more sugar also. Then we put it in baggies and put it in the fridge. 

On Christmas Day we decided the gingerbread walls weren't dry enough and Ashanti decided she didn't want to work on the project anymore so Magdalena and I used frosting on a few to glue them together. Later that day we decided that they weren't going to harden just sitting out so we put them back in the oven. We took them out of the oven and they were harder so we thought it was going to be fine. We let them set again until Friday and we went to glue them together and one of the roof parts broke. So we glued the roof back together and put together the walls. They stayed up fine. But later that day as we were getting ready to put the roof on we realized that the walls were starting to fall over. So we put a wooden skewer to hold them up. We decided that the roof was too big and heavy and wasn't going to stay on the house so we decided to decorate it separately and not put it on. We decorated the house with the help of our friend Diana and set it out for people to see and to eat. And we figured out why people usually make houses in a smaller size rather than bigger.