Gingerbread house in January

One of the things I didn't get into my suitcase anymore was the 'Gingerbread House Kit' which I thought would be great fun to build with my family in Germany. Unfortunately the 1.2 kg (2.6 pound) of pure sugar were too heavy for my luggage. A pity... so what to do with such a fantastic kit when I got back to Colorado in January?

Well... I think you understand where I try to get with that. Should I let it going stale on me? Sweets? No way! So I revived the 'Ekki cooks...' post series on this blog especially for this project.

Lucky enough all ingredients were in this set so I didn't have to go crazy with the oven. Not that I am capable of doing that :o)

And as you can see... after two hours of hard decoration work where I felt like one of these guys in our neighborhood decorating their houses for Christmas... just a bit smaller of course ;-) after two hours it was done!

And two days later the house was in my housemates and my bellies!

Tasty! And this year I will build the house BEFORE Christmas. Promise ;-)