My Goal
As I mentioned in a post earlier this week, I bought a kit to make a haunted gingerbread house for Halloween. I was excited to get started this morning, so I cleaned the kitchen to make sure I had a lot of surface to work with, I put on some drabby clothes in case I made a mess of myself, and I opened up the box and read the instructions.
I was trying to do everything the way it said, and I thought I was doing well until time came to build the structure of the house. I had one wall and the front of the house put together, and I was doing my best to hold them steady so the black icing would dry. It wouldn't dry. Maybe I am impatient, but it was taking forever. I had one pastry bag of black icing, and one bag of orange, and it was taking nearly all the black icing to get the walls up! I was discouraged, and I wasn't sure what to do.
I decided to take a break and think about some options. I have powdered sugar, eggs and water, and I had the ability to make white icing if I needed it. I decided that the house could be a black structure with white and orange details. Wrong.
I washed my hands and went back to the table to get back to work... and I saw it... the black pastry bag had somehow opened and there was black EVERYWHERE. All over everything. I could have cried. Ugh. It took me a while to clean up the mess. Now my gingerbread pieces are covered in a thick film of black... maybe I can still make it work. It can be an "artsy" house.
I am done with it for the day. What a freaking nightmare!
Andee