Decorating – Gingerbread Houses

When I was a kid growing up in South Carolina, I always insisted on making a gingerbread house as the centerpiece of our holiday table. Each year, I did my best to recreate the witch’s house in Hansel & Gretel and inevitably my brother would pick off some of my gumdrops, leaving a hole in the roof and starting a Christmas brouhaha. Gingerbread houses are fun and aren’t that difficult to make… unless you are trying to create what I call a “Gingerbread Mansion”… and that’s a whole other animal! Check these out!