As I at some point was an engineering-student, I still find matters up that alley interesting, and when I found that the Norwegian Bureau for Buildings- and safety published instructions on how to construct the purrfect gingerbread-house (found here http://www.sintef.no/Byggforsk/Nyheter/Unnga-byggskader--bak-pepperkakehus-etter-forskriftene/), I simply HAD to see how it would hold up in practice..
Of course, I engaged my so-often accomplice in this matter and we scheduled the erection of the structure to be this weekend.
As she is actually an engineer, buildings are even her speciality, I thought she'd be fit for the task.
I followed the instructions on how to make the dough to perfection. Or not exactly. I doubled it. Expecting, after many previous attempts, failure.
My accomplice claims she did so too, but for some reason, hers ended up way to dry.. So dry, in fact, it crumbled.. Cookies are supposed to crumble, not the cookie dough..However.. It turned out, that since I'd been lucky with my doug AND made a double batch, it was no crisis..
With only half the dough spend, we'd managed to build 2 houses.. Or managed to perfectly and meticulously cut out perfect pieces of house, and then bake them to perfection.
Assembly was done fearfully, as hot,melted sugar is something like edible Napalm - sticky and burning..Unfortunately, the measuring, meticulousness or other attempts to be accurate did not pay of... the chimney still didn't fit in the end. Despite the fact that we followed the instructions to every last point.
Im disappointed! what has the world come to?Why publish inaccurate gingerbread house building instructions?! Imma gonna let them know at SINTEF!
Nevertheless, we managed to assemble the structure, and when it was done, we had a massive amount of dough left.. "What to do?" we thought.. what to do indeed..
See what we ended up doing ;)
