Making Gingerbread Houses: Tribune Editors Take on a Time-Tested Tradition

Gingerbread houses have become a sort of custom for the holiday season, and this year us Tribune editors decided to take place in creating our own version of these sweet little buildings.

To start off, we did not have gingerbread, but we replaced the walls with graham crackers.  We all came in excited to attempt to construct our own gingerbread houses.  What we didn’t realize, however, is that building the sweet treats is harder than it looks.

We took our graham crackers and glued them together with icing to create the walls and roof.  This job was rather frustrating since the icing didn’t hold the crackers together very well.  They were constantly falling and causing more and more frustration by the minute.  

When it became time to put the decorations up, the icing failed us yet again.  It was too weak to hold up the walls and the decorations, but it was perfect for holding the fun treats onto the graham crackers pieces.

Eventually, most of us gave up and ate everything.  But for the few of us that continued working, things continued to fall apart.  We hurried up and took a picture of our “masterpieces” before they all collapsed.

Unfortunately for some, the picture was not taken fast enough and their masterpiece looked like a big mess causing them to completely give up.  All of their hard work was crushed in seconds, which turns out to be the downfall to making gingerbread houses out of graham crackers.

Even though the outcome was not as what most of us hoped, the experience was still fun and exciting.  It allowed us to get in the holiday spirit.  All of the hard effort we put into making the lopsided gingerbread house, did not go to waste.  Many of the other Tribune staff enjoyed eating the final results.