I must say, this practical was the most looked forward too one of the year (so far) for me! I mean I was excited! My group: Ian, Shefali, Nomfundo & I were excited! The ideas were just pouring out of our thinking caps, we wanted to do so much!
However, when we got to the actual day of doing the practical, it was nerve-wrecking. Isn't that always the case? LOL.
So basically last week Wednesday we had to bake the gingerbread & create a template with which we can work with to cut out our house. We had to assemble the house on Wednesday & decorating was too be done on Thursday.
Assembling was fine, but the roof was a catastrophe. Especially Ian's ideas (If only I took a picture of the roof that Ian designed, you'll fall over laughing) - but at the end of it all, we learnt a lot. We also had a balcony (Ian's ideas, of course :/ ) & a chimney which was the Girls' ideas. We had a light too that we were to put inside the house after it was decorated, which we did do, & the light shone through the windows. It was cute.
So basically after assembling on Wednesday (Nomfundo & I had to do some last minute repairs before we left as the one part of the roof fell down, was NOT funny at that time) & after me praying the whole of Wednesday night for the house to still to be standing the next day, it was Thursday & it was time to decorate. The fun part right? Ya. But the tiring part too. VERY tiring.
So we covered the roof in this chocolate biscuit things which were pringle shaped? & then stuck wafer biscuits on the side walls to make it look like bricks? The windows were done out of sparkle sweets that were melted. Ian managed to put his balcony up somehow after it fell down I don't know how many times. The board was covered with white fondant then royal icing then glitter to look like snow. Our idea was basically that the winter season is coming to an end so the snow is melting. We outlined the windows & door frame with jelly tots. Ian created his own lil garden on the side. OH AND he wanted a car, which Shefali molded for him coz his looked bad.
Ya, & jellybabies were the 'people' living in that house. We did the rest of the decorations with royal icing. Everything was edible.
We were & are really proud of our piece. But now when I look at it, I can see SO MANY things I would do differently next time to make it a neater, blolder & much more vibrant house. At the end, even though it was a tiring two days, we all had lots of FUN & the group & I were happy. It was a great group effort & we had a lot of team spirit. Bearing in mind my group were all second year students whilst I was the only first year, it went well. GO TEAM!
Hope you enjoy the before & after pictures! :)
However, when we got to the actual day of doing the practical, it was nerve-wrecking. Isn't that always the case? LOL.
So basically last week Wednesday we had to bake the gingerbread & create a template with which we can work with to cut out our house. We had to assemble the house on Wednesday & decorating was too be done on Thursday.
Assembling was fine, but the roof was a catastrophe. Especially Ian's ideas (If only I took a picture of the roof that Ian designed, you'll fall over laughing) - but at the end of it all, we learnt a lot. We also had a balcony (Ian's ideas, of course :/ ) & a chimney which was the Girls' ideas. We had a light too that we were to put inside the house after it was decorated, which we did do, & the light shone through the windows. It was cute.
So basically after assembling on Wednesday (Nomfundo & I had to do some last minute repairs before we left as the one part of the roof fell down, was NOT funny at that time) & after me praying the whole of Wednesday night for the house to still to be standing the next day, it was Thursday & it was time to decorate. The fun part right? Ya. But the tiring part too. VERY tiring.
So we covered the roof in this chocolate biscuit things which were pringle shaped? & then stuck wafer biscuits on the side walls to make it look like bricks? The windows were done out of sparkle sweets that were melted. Ian managed to put his balcony up somehow after it fell down I don't know how many times. The board was covered with white fondant then royal icing then glitter to look like snow. Our idea was basically that the winter season is coming to an end so the snow is melting. We outlined the windows & door frame with jelly tots. Ian created his own lil garden on the side. OH AND he wanted a car, which Shefali molded for him coz his looked bad.
Ya, & jellybabies were the 'people' living in that house. We did the rest of the decorations with royal icing. Everything was edible.
We were & are really proud of our piece. But now when I look at it, I can see SO MANY things I would do differently next time to make it a neater, blolder & much more vibrant house. At the end, even though it was a tiring two days, we all had lots of FUN & the group & I were happy. It was a great group effort & we had a lot of team spirit. Bearing in mind my group were all second year students whilst I was the only first year, it went well. GO TEAM!
Hope you enjoy the before & after pictures! :)
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| Just when we were done with the assembling on Wednesday. |
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| DONE! Ian's garden gate on the left, our jelly baby people all over having their own lil conversations. Pathway showing the way into the house which was actually milk chocolate buttons. |
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| The side of the house on Wednesday. That long rectangular horizontal piece is Ian's balcony. Yes mind the mess. There was royal icing EVERYWHERE! |
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| The side of the house. How CUTE is the chimney? I love it! & Ian's balcony is standing! Thank you Strawberry Wafer Sticks! & there's Ian's lil cute car made out of fondant haha. |
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| The other side of the house with the windows & the wafer bricks. |
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| A better view of Ian's garden & his garden gate made out of strawberry wafer sticks. |
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| The overall Gingerbread house! Not bad for first timers right? |
Until next time, keep your life frosted! <3
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