Gingerbread christmas tree, family project

Gingerbread christmas tree, family project by 6 (kids and adults). All scraps, and fun, maybe cute, but certainly a quick afternoon and touchup project.


All this stems from a gingerbread house from 37 years ago when my then 6 year old son said…. “this is the best day of my life”.  It is a tradition that has paused many times, but some grandkids are now participating.  This was the first ever time I have constructed a base looking like a “tree”, more practice is needed.  LOL. Prototypes are a good place for improvement.  And a little more in the way of structural design elements would have helped guide this into a more orderly tree.  Previoius gingerbread houses had rooves and towers and windows which were obvious places for kids and adults to add candy and cookie, this was a pretty much blank slate and therefor shows little coordination in effort.

 

Gingerbread and candy house 2013

These structures were pretty monumental, sometimes more than 2 feet tall. I loved doing these with the kids, miss it so much. I still have a blank candy castle form in my basement, waiting for a time when we can cover it with the containers of candy and cereal (well outdated, maybe 4 years outdated… LOL) that still are in my cupboard.  They were not perfect, but what the kids put, stayed, everyone did their own thing.

large gingerbread cookie candy house