Step By Step: Gingerbread Houses story and photography by RENEE KOHLMAN
One of my favourite childhood Christmas memories is going to a good friend’s house for her birthday, just one week before Santa was to arrive. Her mother had planned for us to make gingerbread houses, and their gigantic dining table was arranged with slabs of gingerbread pieces and candy. It was every twelve year-old girl’s dream come true. Well, if Corey Hart had made an appearance, then it really would have been this girl’s dream come true, but I digress... It was an afternoon of creating our little cottages, as we saw fit. Creativity was stirred; royal icing got stuck in the hair, and news of who liked who dominated
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