Dorian wants a gingerbread house recipe. I’m sure some handy person will help her. But though I have a horror of MDF “lumber” and other such confections in real houses, I’m sold on the pre-fab SIP of culinary architecture.
No, graham crackers do not taste anything like real gingerbread. But are you really going to eat the house after it has been sitting out for ten days? You? No. Your kids, yes. They will pick off the ants if they must, just to get all that hard dried frosting. And they won’t care that the thing looks like it escaped from the mobile gingerbread home park pages of Dwell magazine. Or something.
One tip for the truly crafty: Sugar Cubes. (No I am not that smart. My friend Jen A. told me about it.) Brick-and-mortar construction. The third little pig would be proud. Looks nice. Tons of fun.