Gingerbread Showdown Viewing Party
When your friend is competing on the Food Network Gingerbread Showdown, you throw a viewing party. Complete with gingerbread houses and cupcakes. I watch Food Networks holiday food challenges all the time so I was SUPER excited to watch my friend compete. Only the best of the best get to compete on these shows. And my friend Tikkido has some serious gingerbread skills.
I invited a few friends over to watch with me and you know I had to decorate for the theme. I picked up a Wilton boxed ready to make gingerbread house kit. I thought about making my own gingerbread to build a house but since I've never done that before and it was a busy holiday weekend, I saved myself some time and bought a kit.
I had a few issues in frosting the houses. The kit comes with icing, piping bags and tips. I had no problems piping out the frosting for the 'glue' to hold the pieces together. When I went to pipe the doors and windows I was starting to have a little trouble. By the time I got to the roofs the icing did not want to come out of the bag. I squeezed hard and no icing would come out. I didn't want to squeeze too hard though because icing could have exploded every where. So I grabbed a new bag and tip and tried again. Again, it started piping ok and then froze. Sigh. I had some sugar cookie icing on hand so I started spreading it with a knife to get snow on the houses and on the ground around the houses.
You may not be hosting your own viewing party but these cupcakes and gingerbread houses are perfect for a holiday movie watching party, a Christmas open house, gift wrapping party or just cause you want to hang out with your girlfriends.
Get the best gingerbread house recipe and Tikkido's Gingerbread for Beginners book.
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