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In our home, gingerbread houses (graham cracker houses) are made to be eaten. I mean, who wants to torture kids by asking them to play with cookies, icing and candy and then tell them – “Don’t eat it! It’s just for decoration!”
Try that, and you’ll have some angry monsters on your hands. Besides, I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer not to have food out for days on end. Can you say “welcome home” to all of the ants that need a warm place to stay for winter?
Yeah, no thanks.
When you take out the “decoration” component out of the graham cracker house activity, the pressure for perfection goes with it. The only things left that matter: Taste and FUN!
Which is why this year we turned down the “fancy” gingerbread house kits and went with some of my boys’ favorite ingredients available at at Walmart: Honey Maid Graham Crackers, some Skippy Peanut Butter, and all of their favorite candies. Oh yeah….
I’m not sure these creations even merit a blow-by-blow tutorial, but just in case, here’s what you do:
1- set out your decorating candies in trays to make it easy for peanut butter covered hands to grab
2 – coat a tissue box or shoe box with Skippy Peanut Butter which will act as your glue
3 – slap on some Honey Maid Graham Crackers for your siding
4 – create a lean-to roof, or for simplicity’s sake, go flat-roofed. Gingerbread trailer? 🙂
5 – decorate with candies dipped in peanut butter!
6 – Bon Appetit! Hands not necessary. I mean…. why bother?
To make the dough, you’ll need to pulse about 12 “full sheet” graham crackers in a food processor. When I made them, I pulled off some of the undecorated panels from the graham cracker houses! They had some peanut butter, but who cares?
After you schmoosh 2/3 of the dough into the pan, add in your candies. We used up the chocolate chips, and all of our chocolate flavored candies, then topped with a half cup of warmed peanut butter, and a bag o’ mini marshmallows.
Seal it with your remaining bit of dough (precision not necessary), bake and be sure to bring to room temp before cutting! A great recipe to make post-Gingerbread house building. Mix and match your favorite candies!
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