♥ Making Gingerbread Houses ♥

Like I said in my last post, Carl & I decorated gingerbread houses on Christmas Eve. I made the actual gingerbread the day before, then we just made the icing & had fun decorating them with lots of sweets. I took a few snapshots of the progress which are below. It was my first time making royal icing (what I've been calling royal icing was in fact glace icing, eek!), so I was a bit worried about not making it well enough & the houses just falling apart, haha, but it all went well & they are still standing.

As you can see, I went for a very colourful & girly approach to my house, whereas Carl went for a more muted colour theme, with more chocolate instead of sweets. I really liked his "tiled" roof.

Look at his adorable snowman too! I tried making one, but it did not go well, so I didn't add it to my house (luckily I made it on a separately tray, as not to ruin my house if it did go wrong :p).

What do you think? Did any of you make gingerbread houses this year, I'd love to see! ♥