Gingerbread Castle

Little Miss K and I do gingerbread houses most Christmases.  When she was younger, we did prebaked kits:

(Yes, that is a cookie cutter stuck to the roof--do you have a point?)

Last year, however, we entered a local Gingerbread House Contest and made our first from-scratch gingerbread house.  Crazy process with frosting everywhere and candy canes flying in all directions, but Little Miss K and I are fans of the madness so we had a lot of fun.

So much fun, in fact, that we decided to do it again!  Little Miss K is the design lead (all design decisions are hers to veto at will) and I take up the engineering.  This is what she came up with:

And this is how it went down:

 

And this is the final result: