The Trials and Errors of Gingerbread

    I am sorry for the lack of blog posts in recent months but I've been quite busy. Last week I completed my first official semester of university!!! Woohoo! :) I can remember starting in September and being so completely nervous. Plus it was sunny at the time, now....... *looks out window* it's snowing. Quite heavily.

    Now that winter break is here I thought I would catch you up on some stuff. Mostly I wanted to talk (more like rant) about all the experiences I have had with gingerbread in the last couple of weeks. Last year we bought a gingerbread kit to make a village of mini gingerbread houses. It failed. Miserably.

    First of all, they didn't stay up. We tried everything we could. There were different methods of stacking involved. As well as a boat load of icing and frowning. Finally we resorted to toothpicks. What were supposed to be cute and festive little houses but turned into haphazard tents. It was very pathetic looking and cleaning up all of the icing afterwards is always a pain.

    So this year we decided to cheat. We bought ourselves a gingerbread kit with an already assembled house. Hooray! No problem, right? Wrong wrong wrong. On the plus side, it was standing. The negative? I cannot pipe very well. So my icicles turned into blobs, and the roof? Um....it doesn't look like any of the sample pictures on the box. Our track record in the past few years has not been very good when it comes to making these houses. Maybe next year, eh?

    Anyways, I thought that would be the end of my gingerbread troubles this year. Well, it turns out that that wasn't the case. My sister had to bake gingerbread for school and I helped her out. It all started with molasses.

   None of us had ever bought molasses but we managed to find it at the store. We were wondering what is in it. Guess what the carton said?

    Ingredients: Molasses

    So helpful.
   
    We brought it home and began the (very) tiring task of making it from scratch. Never again. Try singing that to the tune of Taylor Swift's "We are Never Ever Getting Back Together."

"We are Never Ever Ever Making Gingerbread Again!"

    The smell was so unbelievably horrible. Nasty. I can't even begin to tell you how ill I felt. The cleanup afterwards was the worst part. It would NOT come out of the pot. We ended up soaking it 2 or 3 times. I really don't want to think about gingerbread for a while. Until next year gingerbread!

   So for now I'm just going to say that there are big things coming. Great things, really! I am working on a couple "new" projects and I hope to share them with you all in the next couple of months or so.

    Happy Holidays everyone! I hope your experiences with gingerbread are a million times better than mine!! :)

P.S. unlike last time I really am going to try to blog more.
P.P.S But who knows what will happen when school starts again in January.