Harry Potter's "The Burrow" Gingerbread House

   

I couldn't resist creating another Harry Potter Gingerbread House.  I thought it would be fun to try a topsy turvy feel.  I tried to make as many textures as I could.  I created it in October as a Halloween Gingerbread house then converted it into a Christmas gingerbread house.  I donated "The Burrow" Gingerbread House to the the Festival of Trees at the beginning of December.

I started with a fun Pinterest image.

  

A helpful toddler asking every 5 minutes if it's try yet.

 

Fallingwater Gingerbread House Plans

Brenton and I have decided to make our plans for Fallingwater available for PURCHASE!!  We have had several requests over the past year so we decided to let other people have a go at it. Good Luck!



Here are some links to previous posts about the Fallingwater Gingerbread House:
Fallingwater Gingerbread House
A Little More on the Gingerbread House
Fallingwater Gingerbread House EXPLOSION

Fallingwater Gingerbread House EXPLOSION

This post is dedicated to the life and death of mine and Brenton's Falling Water Gingerbread House.  It was built in November of 2011, became famous, then died on June 11, 2011 in a blaze of glory.


The tender memory of the gingerbread house will stay alive through the kind words said by others.  I would like to share a few posts written about our house:

• http://boingboing.net/2010/12/24/wrights-falling-wate.html
• http://blog.craftzine.com/archive/2010/12/gingerbread_fallingwater.html
• http://livemodern.com/designblogs/5c297d99abd7f6b2257d610e599ac3cb/
• http://holykaw.alltop.com/frank-lloyd-wright-gingerbread-house
• http://www.geekologie.com/2010/12/edible_architecture_frank_lloy.php
• http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/gingerbread_falling_water_by_f.html#comment_list_bottom
• http://www.neatorama.com/2010/12/22/frank-lloyd-wrights-gingerbread-fallingwater/
• http://ediblecrafts.craftgossip.com/gingerbread-falling-water-house/2010/12/24/

My personal favorite:  The Blogging Couple! Ha

http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/12/24/couple-makes-frank-lloyd-wrights-fallingwater-gingerbread-house

The most distinguished comment about the house:
Melodie, WELL DONE and entirely deserved FIRST PLACE. Great grandfather, (I'm FLW's great grandaughter and an interior designer) would be proud and looking for royalties! LOL. Your rendition was festive and infinitely more attractive than the "thrown up candied Santa intestines" of your competitor. There is just no accounting for taste. Cheers! Melissa


On June 11, 2011, in a field in Wyoming the Falling Water Gingerbread House was blown to smithereens.  In just a few short minutes hundreds of firecrackers, fountains, roman candles, other explosives and gas undid : 12 hours of design, 40 hours of building and decorating, 164 pieces of gingerbread, 12 square feet of gingerbread dough, 8 bags of powdered sugar for frosting, 40 sleeves of large Smarties used for the stone on the exterior, and three batches of hard candy.

R.I.P

We will always remember you!

Stats about the Falling Water Gingerbread House:
Total views on my blog : 31,184

December 2010 alone : 22,356

Brenton and I have decided to make our plans for Fallingwater available for PURCHASE!!  We have had several requests over the past year so we decided to let other people have a go at it. Good Luck!

Original Posts: Falling Water Gingerbread House, A little more on the gingerbread house

A little more on the gingerbread house

Royal Icing Recipe:
4 C powdered sugar
3 TB meringue powder
1/2-3/4 C warm water
*make sure to not leave uncovered too long*

"Water" Recipe:
2 C sugar
1 C light corn syrup
1 C water
1 1/2 tsp salt
2 TB butter or margarine
In a sauce pan combine sugar, corn syrup, water, and salt. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly till sugar is dissolved. Continue cooking without stirring (mixture should be bubbling over the whole surface). Cook to hardball stage (265 degrees. An easy way to test this is get a cup of cold water and drop a little bit of the mixture into the water.) Remove from heat, stir in the butter and food coloring (we used a sky blue and tiny bit of green).
*For the "water" we cooked it a little past the hardball stage. Before starting line the area with tinfoil and while the candy is super hot pour it into the tinfoil lining.
For the "waterfall" let the candy cool till it is pliable then pull it like taffy and shape. Work fast because it cools very rapidly.



Here is the Original Fallingwater Gingerbread Post.
Want to see what became of the Falling Water Gingerbread House?  Check it out.

More Flowers

I just love flowers. They make me happy. I loved the flowers in this wedding.

Fallingwater Gingerbread House

Model Statistics:
•It took over 12 hours to design
•It took Brenton and I around 40 hours to build and decorate
•There are around 164 different pieces of gingerbread
•It took roughly 12 square feet of gingerbread dough (that’s four large batches) to make all the walls, floors and roof
•Over 8 bags of powdered sugar were used to make all the frosting
•It took over 40 sleeves of large Smarties which are used to simulate dry stack stone on the building exterior
•The river and water fall are made up of three batches of hard candy

Best gingerbread house cookie:
2 C light corn syrup
1 1/2 C packed brown sugar
1 1/4 C margarine
1 tsp salt
9 C flower

Melt together the corn syrup, brown sugar, and margarine. Mix till smooth then add in flour and salt.
Bake for 15 to 20 min at 350
*If the pieces get warped throw them in the microwave for 15 seconds and they will flatten out.


Here's a little more on our gingerbread house!
Check out what became of our Falling Water Gingerbread House!
Click HERE to see last years entry...#12 Grimmaulds Place

My "#12 Grimmauld Place" Gingerbread House

In October at Culinary School we started building gingerbread houses for the competition at Thanksgiving Point. I decided to make #12 Grimmauld Place from Harry Potter.
One of the funnest parts was stamping and painting the gingerbread. I stamped the gingerbread before I baked it then literally painted it with food coloring.
It was easiest to decorate most of it before putting it all together. I used hard candy for the windows and royal icing for all the decorations

After months of work... here I am in my culinary outfit and my finished house!

The next morning I came in (the day before the competition, mind you) and somebody punched in my house! Not a very nice thing to do. To this day I'm not sure who it was. The most I can figure it was a Lord Voldemort supporter... or the Anger Management class.
I thought it was over but my class and teacher encouraged me to try and fix it...

Not as good as the original but for being smashed to pieces, not too bad.

In the end, despite the hate crime, I won 2nd place!! And I won a Blendtec. Not too bad.
I cant wait till next year. I learned my lesson though, to not get mixed up with the Dark Arts and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.