In Which We Build a Cabin
Over 40 years ago, Kevin's dad built this cabin.
Guess what we did?
Here's how.
First, we mixed and chilled the dough. (We used this recipe at Food52, except using muscle power and eventually hands instead of a mixer. It worked fine.)
The next day, we rolled it flat...
and, using a blueprint Kevin made out of cardboard, cut it into walls and deck...
used a sharp knife to draw the windows and boarded sides (I'm using that box as a straightedge)...
and baked all the pieces. Actually, we slightly overbaked them, on purpose. Gingerbread walls stand up better if they're overbaked.
We gave them a couple days to get good and dry...
and then the silly part began.
We used the hacksaw...
to cut cinnamon sticks into little logs...
for the log pile. We interspersed the cinnamon sticks with salmiac candies to give our log pile more character.
We needed some candy cane joists to hold up the deck. Kevin, doing experiments with heat, discovered that a hot knife slices throug…
Guess what we did?
Here's how.
First, we mixed and chilled the dough. (We used this recipe at Food52, except using muscle power and eventually hands instead of a mixer. It worked fine.)
The next day, we rolled it flat...
and, using a blueprint Kevin made out of cardboard, cut it into walls and deck...
used a sharp knife to draw the windows and boarded sides (I'm using that box as a straightedge)...
and baked all the pieces. Actually, we slightly overbaked them, on purpose. Gingerbread walls stand up better if they're overbaked.
We gave them a couple days to get good and dry...
and then the silly part began.
We used the hacksaw...
to cut cinnamon sticks into little logs...
for the log pile. We interspersed the cinnamon sticks with salmiac candies to give our log pile more character.
We needed some candy cane joists to hold up the deck. Kevin, doing experiments with heat, discovered that a hot knife slices throug…
