Does this count? Not sure, but sure was fun, and oh so pretty. It has taken me years to get around to this old tradition from my childhood. Mamma made the dough and bakes the pieces, Pappa would put the houses together with melted sugar. And then Pappa and we kids would do the icing. We never used to decorate with smaries etc, just plain white icing in the "good ol' days" but our kids were quite pleased to sample the decorations again. In our version, I designed and baked (repeatedly, while i figured out that 200 meant C not F, and raised the temp to 400F.. boy, that sure helps to cook the ol' gingerbread. Then I put together with melted sugar. Yes, I did burn myself once, but not badly. Murray made up some icing and did the thick stuff, the kids put on smarties etc... and I did the finer stuff after adding another 2dl of icing sugar to firm it all up. And look how lovely all Mamma's wee figurines look around and about!
