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Gingerbread House

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Making a gingerbread house is a Christmas tradition for many families. With attention to decorating trees along with houses, spending time with your family, as well as making traditional family recipes. So from time to time I’m quite sure your family and yourself have made a gingerbread house before in your lifetime, but altogether I'm sure you've never put a twist on any of them. A lot of people claim the premade box kits or create everything from scratch. But I will be telling you how to assemble a gingerbread house out of graham crackers. First of all you will need materials and ingredients. For the ingredients, you will need, two egg whites, one teaspoon of lemon juice, one box of powdered sugar, one large box of graham crackers, …show more content…

Then, place the aluminum pie tin upside-down on your surface. Then, combine the egg whites and the lemon juice to prepare royal icing, add the powdered sugar 2 tablespoons at a time until at the consistency of peanut butter. Put the icing in a Ziploc bag, but do not use the thin ones because they will break and not hold the icing. Seal the bags and use the scissors to cut off about 1/4 inch off the icing filled bag. Next, count out 6 unbroken, uncracked, whole graham crackers and set four aside. Cut the two remaining cracker sheets to form end gable pieces. Use a gentle sawing motion with a knife. Use the short end of a cracker to measure the angled line from the center of the long side to the centerline of the cracker. Then repeat to construct another gable. Put icing on the edge of one gable and one full cracker. Now stick the gable and the "wall" to each other. Now repeat for the other two crackers (the other gable and another cracker). Stick the four walls together. Put the remaining two crackers on top to act as the "roof". Make sure you leave alone for fifteen to twenty minutes to set before putting the candy on. Line the roof with icing where you want to put shingles (you can use cereal or candy).Then put on the shingles. Use your imagination to form the house look however you want. It’s up to the creator. In conclusion, if you and your family would think of composing a graham cracker gingerbread house just follow these instructions. Quite a few people don't like doing the exact same stuff every year so maybe you would want to generate something out of different materials than normal. Because things can become boring. So maybe you and your family would want to change up tradition by doing

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