The fine print:
The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from Good Housekeeping and from The Great Scandinavian Baking Book as the challenge recipes.
More like a daring mess. Things did not go well. I didn’t have the ingredients when I had time to do it and then I forgot it had to chill so I was in a time crunch and didn’t do half of what I wanted to do.
When I saw the challenge I was excited I wrote out ideas, searched websites and planned out this awesome beach house. And then life intervened. I turned it into a beach shack. I put it together and raced for the camera, hoping it wouldn’t fall apart before I got a snapshot. And surprise of surprises I think the darn thing is indestructible. I’m a bit ashamed, okay a lot ashamed, of the tiny and sad beach house but I’m trying to think of it as a house that would be on such a spectacular beach that the inhabitants would be so bowled over by the beauty of the beach that they wouldn’t even notice what the sad, sad little house looked.
